Probably the most-watched race nationally this election day is Virginia's gubernatorial race between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore. While I generally trend about 60/40 Republican in my chad-punching (sadly just replaced in our county with touch screens), I'm relatively enthusiastically voting for Kaine: He's nearly as conservative as Kilgore on the issues I'm conservative on, he's much more liberal than Kilgore on the issues I'm liberal on, and he's about 10 times more competent for the job of our governor than the other guy. And to help matters, Kaine's likeable and funny, even if his attempts at being humorous in a campaign ad failed miserably. (Click on "Dad.")
I mention this only because President Bush came to Richmond yesterday to stump for Kilgore, and the AP article about Election Day printed these two sentences (and only these two sentences) from Bush's endorsement of the Republican candidate, which gives what seems to be the two most important reasons he thinks Kilgore should be governor: "The thing I like about this fellow is he grew up on a farm. He doesn't have a lot of fancy airs." Based on those qualifications, my Dad should be the next governor of Virginia.
For every other spot on the ballot, I'm writing someone in (and I haven't yet decided who): The two Lt. Governor candidates are so ultra-conservative and ultra-liberal respectively that I can't bear to vote for either of them, the Attorney General candidates are yutzes who spent weeks of commercial time arguing who gave more plea bargains to more sexual predators, and our House of Delegates candidate is running unopposed (and I nearly always write someone in if a candidate is unopposed). I am sure you are all more interested in this than what is happening with our baby.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
