This and That
Feb. 28th, 2012 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Today is our Presidential primary.
I went because this is a one-party town. Generally the Republican candidates for all the local positions run unopposed in the November election; the only time you get to choose between different people is in the Republican Primary. If then. A lot of the folks are running unopposed even then. Not that I mind too much. A lot of these small town minor positions are just volunteer work with a fancy title. I'm glad we have somebody willing to do them at all.
However, this was ONLY the Presidential primary, as it turns out. We have another primary election in August. Perhaps that was the one I remember, the one with the minor positions.
Well, having gone there, I had a fine choice. I could take the Democratic ballot and vote for our buddy Barack, who was unopposed. Also in this state the Presidential delegates for the Democrats are chosen in a closed caucus anyway. Why, then, we bother having a Democratic primary I do not know. Your vote wouldn't count or be counted, making it even more meaningless than in the usual election-- if that were possible.
On the other hand I could vote in the Republican side, where they do count your vote, where it does (theoretically, the usual electronic hocus pocus and other general fraud aside) choose the delegates. So which do I vote for? Ignorant inSantorum, who wants to force his bigoted and petty version of Jesus down our throats, or the Ghost of the Late Governor George Romney? Tough call. And no comment.
Might have gone for Ron Paul if I could have ignored the overt racism of his prior campaigns for President, but that's a lot to ignore.
-- I spent the day running a Full Administrative Completeness Check on a Renewable Permit. This is every bit as exciting as it sounds.
--On the way home I did some shopping and came up with one of those questions which doth trouble and perplex. Facing the Wall of Paper Towels, I asked the clerk "Which roll is largest, the Big, Giant, or Huge?" To this important philosophical question, he was unable to provide me an answer.
I went because this is a one-party town. Generally the Republican candidates for all the local positions run unopposed in the November election; the only time you get to choose between different people is in the Republican Primary. If then. A lot of the folks are running unopposed even then. Not that I mind too much. A lot of these small town minor positions are just volunteer work with a fancy title. I'm glad we have somebody willing to do them at all.
However, this was ONLY the Presidential primary, as it turns out. We have another primary election in August. Perhaps that was the one I remember, the one with the minor positions.
Well, having gone there, I had a fine choice. I could take the Democratic ballot and vote for our buddy Barack, who was unopposed. Also in this state the Presidential delegates for the Democrats are chosen in a closed caucus anyway. Why, then, we bother having a Democratic primary I do not know. Your vote wouldn't count or be counted, making it even more meaningless than in the usual election-- if that were possible.
On the other hand I could vote in the Republican side, where they do count your vote, where it does (theoretically, the usual electronic hocus pocus and other general fraud aside) choose the delegates. So which do I vote for? Ignorant inSantorum, who wants to force his bigoted and petty version of Jesus down our throats, or the Ghost of the Late Governor George Romney? Tough call. And no comment.
Might have gone for Ron Paul if I could have ignored the overt racism of his prior campaigns for President, but that's a lot to ignore.
-- I spent the day running a Full Administrative Completeness Check on a Renewable Permit. This is every bit as exciting as it sounds.
--On the way home I did some shopping and came up with one of those questions which doth trouble and perplex. Facing the Wall of Paper Towels, I asked the clerk "Which roll is largest, the Big, Giant, or Huge?" To this important philosophical question, he was unable to provide me an answer.
