Let the invective commence!

[muckefuck]

Top 13 Reasons Why I Voted for George W. Bush

• 13. Tony Blair isn't eligible.
• 12. I kind of like the sound of "nucular".
• 11. The only way I can see of ever getting bipartisan support for electoral reform is to put the Republican Party in the position of the Democratic Party of 2000, i.e. with its candidate winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College. (Fellow blue-state liberals, give it a thought!)
• 10. I'm tired of this intermittent trickle of deFriendings; what I want is a MASS EXODUS!
• 9. Teresa Heinz makes Hilary Clinton look like Dolly Madison.
• 8. The Republicans have figured out that they can win with policies that only benefit a minority because they see to it that that minority gets out and votes. Maybe four more years of Republican control of both Executive and Legislative branches will prompt more apathetic whiners to get a FUCKING CLUE, get off their PLUSH BOTTOMS, and--quite literally--fulfil the very LEAST of their duties as a United States citizen.
• 7. I get a kick out of a subordinate calling me an "imbecile" to my face (even though unknowingly).
• 6. Vicente Fox deserves a break.
• 5. I believe in divided government, but the demographics of my city and the current pathetic disorganised excuse (Judy, I am so voting against you next chance I get!) for a statewide Republican organisation make electing local non-Democrats a lost cause.
• 4. I wish even more US celebrities lived in Canada.
• 3. It was the right war in the right place at the right time, Senator Dumbass!
• 2. Nothing livens up political discussions around the dinner table like cancelling out your boyfriend's votes.
• 1. Everyone talks about Armageddon, but no one does anything to bring it ONE STEP CLOSER!

Comments

[iberianbear.livejournal.com]

did you seriously vote for Bush?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Don't worry--I live in a blue state. My vote couldn't shift the election even if Lake Michigan rose 30 metres the night before election day.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

11. The only way I can see of ever getting bipartisan support for electoral reform is to put the Republican Party in the position of the Democratic Party of 2000, i.e. with its candidate winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College. (Fellow blue-state liberals, give it a thought!)

So, are you putting your money where your mouth is in mollpeartree's betting pool? Then you can say you voted for George Bush before you bet against him.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That would be hilarious! But I really feel I have no chance against the obsessive political junkies who check www.electoral-vote.com for updates like twenty times a day.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

10. I'm tired of this intermittent trickle of deFriendings; what I want is a MASS EXODUS!

I was sort of mildly curious about what would happen to my friendslist if I posted a real stem-winding endorsement of Dubya in the past week or so. I ended up not having the time or energy to write anything much about the election so I'll never know; by tomorrow (assuming a decisive outcome) it will be either unnecessarily cruel triumphalism or pointless axe-grinding ...

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

So far, only one bailer. But that's just in the first half-hour!

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I love you, but I also hate you. Especially for no. 12.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I put that in there just for you, pumpkin!

Heh

[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

I don't grok #6, unless you mean how Fox can run against Shrubco's broken promises to Mexico and the Lation community. Much punditry goes to that, on this side of the country.

And #3? Surely you jest- you can't possibly still beleive this- err, can you? If so, pray, how? I mean, not to be intnetionally snarky or anything, but I've not seen a single legitimate arguement for the Iraqi war that holds water these days, outside of ousting Saddam, and if thats the deal, we got a hell of a bad bargain out of it....

Otherwise, s'the best damned why I voted note I've seen all day

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I'm vainly hoping that the personal friendship between Shrub and Fox (along with another terrorism-free year) will allow them to salvage something of their ambitious plans before Fox' term ends. It's a long shot, but not as long as hoping for Kerry to do anything constructive with Mexico.

Not to start up that old flame war again, but I do think that reducing Saddam to an impotent, shaggy-headed POW was worth going to war for. At the same time, I really, really, really wish the planners of that war had thought, like, 15 minutes beyond the fall of Baghdad.

[my-tallest.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda hoping to see #8 today.

And man oh man after seeing Tony Blair take Questions did I wish for a simple time-burp to rewrite the State of the Union Address into the State of the Union Defense. Why is our tradition a bunch of clapping and trotting out famous faces when the Motherland has a tradition of snarky vitriol?

[alfaboy.livejournal.com]

well, if more people follow your example, democracy may still have a chance in afghanistan and iraq. And maybe elsewhere, too.

Did you see jim treacher's "Ten reasons I'm not voting for you, Mr. George W. Bush" in yesterday's opinionjournal? Pretty funny... tho i fear those exact reasons are why some people *did* cast their ballots for kerry.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005808

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

#6 seems perilously close to some 'logic' that other people have posted, that boils down to 'liberals should vote for Bush because after another four years of this, there will be truly immense backlash against conservative policies and it'll be easier to win Congress and pass liberal legislation.'

Which to me is like sitting in an emergency room going 'I bet the doctor will come give me painkillers faster if I stab myself in my other leg!'

As to Nothing livens up political discussions around the dinner table like cancelling out your boyfriend's votes - I bet announcing that you voted as you did just to cancel out his vote livens it up a wee bit more, heh.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to bet good money that the dude loudly stabbing himself in the leg will get sedatives from the kindly ER doctors long before the patients quietly requesting "a little something for the pain".

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Well, I like reading your journal just to spice things up, so sorry, no exodus here. Actually, I linked to it just to bend the minds of others.

Y'all do know that it looks like we are down a Supreme?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3973443.stm

[rollick.livejournal.com]

You are SUCH an uppity bottom.

Sign in Da's window

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

"I voted Bush for the spanking!"

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

But seriously, why did you vote for George Bush? Is it #3, #5, #8 and #11? Or something else?

I continue to be perplexed by your support for the Iraq war. I seem to remember you expressing your position some time ago as "if we don't get foreign policy right, nothing else matters," by which I thought you meant that losing on foreign policy would mean more attacks on the U.S. But it does not seem to me that invading Iraq has made us safer in any meaningful way. So I'm flummoxed.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

I continue to be perplexed by your support for the Iraq war. I seem to remember you expressing your position some time ago as "if we don't get foreign policy right, nothing else matters," by which I thought you meant that losing on foreign policy would mean more attacks on the U.S. But it does not seem to me that invading Iraq has made us safer in any meaningful way. So I'm flummoxed.

There was a discussion of the issues in muckefuck's journal back in April that I added to my LJ memories, since I thought it summed things up pretty well. (I link to it not to imply that anyone should have committed all previous discussions to memory, but to help obviate the need for further repetition.)

Anyway, the die is more or less cast wrt what we'll be doing next-- we're all just waiting to wait for it to stop bouncing and come up 1 or 6. (And to find out what the winner of the toss will actually do-- which, after all, isn't a foregone conclusion for either.)

[pheret1.livejournal.com]

I'm tired of this intermittent trickle of deFriendings; what I want is a MASS EXODUS!

You'll have to try harder for that one. You're interesting, dammit!

[his-regard.livejournal.com]

The over-under race I'd like to see if Kerry wins is "how soon before Theresa pisses off the entire press corps?"

[jovianconsensus.livejournal.com]

I am so with you on #11.

At least you're not a one-issue voter anymore

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

13. You could emigrate
12. now that's a really good reason
11. but instead, you voted for Bush
10. Shouldn't be a problem
9. cheap shot
8. happening as we speak
7. you have staff you refer to as "subordinates." No wonder they refer to you as an imbecile.
6. a deeply serious issue, but for most people, an obscure digression
5. see #8
4. but they won't. No one wants to live in Canada.
3. so was the invasion of Poland in 1939, for starters. Why aren't you blogging from Iraq instead of your comfy chair?
2. he's defriending you, too. Trust me.
1. doing all you can to move the capitol to Jerusalem!

Now there's someone I never expected to see again in my journal!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

13. I could--if I had a powerful hankering for bad food, bad weather, and bad health care.
12. Aesthetics are important.
11. Instead? Given where I live, a vote for Kerry is a vote for a replay of 2000 with the roles unchanged. The GOP has no reason to seek abolition of the Electoral College as long as it keeps delivering them victories.
10. You'd think--yet the trickle remains just that; LJers are just so jaded.
9. I'm allowed at least one--after all, how many has she taken?
8. Yes, the experts are predicting that as much as 58% of the electorate will actually sacrifice an entire hour of their precious free time in order to determine the fate of the free world for a generation or more! I'm positively kvelling!
7. Not to their faces, of course; there's no need for such formality as long as they keep responding to "worm", "underling", and "hey, you".
6. Maybe one of us will live long enough to see an intelligent debate on immigration in this country, but somehow I doubt it.
5. I guarantee you, the Illinois Republican Party is not growing more organised and effective as I write this.
4. But they promised!
3. I still don't understand the logic of making DIY an absolute moral principle.
2. Then he's taking his time about it.
1. Hey--was that a rough beast slouching past just now?

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

9. Teresa Heinz makes Hilary Clinton look like Dolly Madison

Roseanne Barr: "We're your worst nightmare - white trash with money!"

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants the First Lady of Catsup just for the entertainment value and part of me is pleased to have someone in the White House whose outbursts don't make me cringe.

[txbelladonna.livejournal.com]

*claps*

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

I'm tired of this intermittent trickle of deFriendings; what I want is a MASS EXODUS!

Naahh, we gotta keep someone around to complain about... ;)