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To: antonico

If Obama wins the Supreme Court will allow year-round voting.


44 posted on 10/30/2008 6:01:43 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine
If it's like that - people voting constantly - then our elected government is reduced to the result of a fickle junior high popularity contest.

I remember school. Please indulge me. Like Rush, I hated it. My ideas about liberalism and conservatism, about exploiting the meek and protecting them, about good versus evil were formed in the sixth and seventh grades. Earlier (3rd grade), I was teased mercilessly. I wasn't a weakling (gave out my share of bloody noses), just wierd. I didn't "get it" by their standards. I took piano lessons and listened to records of the Chopin Waltzes. I didn't do "normal boy" things. Later, I trained myself in computer programming (and eventually computer science). Never in my life did I go to a "party". Never until I met my sweet wife did I sleep with a girl. I loved girls, their delicate features, their feminine wiles, but viewed a girl as an unattainable goal, only for "normal guys".

So with that unorthodox background, I have little pity for those who claim (for example) that we "need" abortion on demand. I identified, as the pariah mocked and belittled, more with the fetus who is ignored and misunderstood, than with his fretting mother. Empathy toward the latter had to be learned by rote. I did not feel I owed any help to those who through foolish indiscretion put themselves into untenable positions.

I went through a brief period, age 13-15, where I tried to fit in, tried to be popular, tried to be a liberal. But in the end, I was a rock solid conservative by age 17. That foundation has only been bolstered and built on since.

So Supreme Court year-round voting would make the experience of seventh graders the national experience.

121 posted on 10/31/2008 1:03:51 AM PDT by Lexinom (They fight for ideology. We fight for our families.)
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