Well, probably like you, I voted. And to all of you out there who voted early, I say in my best Nelson from The Simpson's voice "Ha-ha." I had neighbors who waited more than an hour to vote. My parents said it took them 45 minutes. I showed up at the Woods Cross City Office building this morning expecting the worst. Guess how long it took me? 0 minutes and 0 seconds. I walked right up to the polling machine with absolutely no wait at all.
I suppose perhaps I would have voted early had I known in advance who I was going to vote for. Even when I got up to the machine, it was more of an eeny, meeny, miny, moe (I have never typed that word before - weird!) situation than anything else. The truth is, in my opinion, we basically had to choose between two not great candidates. For just a minute, I contemplated writing in Stephen Colbert, Ron Paul, or even the Hamburglar, but I thought better of it. I had come all this way (all this way being approximately 1/2 mile) in the pouring rain. I would vote for a real candidate. So I closed my eyes, stuck out my finger, and leaned in and touched the screen - not with only my finger - but with my heart. While leaning my life flashed before my eyes, and I remembered this interview on MNF yesterday...
(fast forward to about 1:20)
John McCain said he would fight steroids. That's like fighting a war on terror - how do you know if you're winning? To give you a hint of who I voted for... I care much more about the Utes (and Cougars for that matter) having a chance to play for a national championship than I do about steroids.
Yep, that's right. When it came down to it, that's what swayed my decision. The candidates were neck and neck. I'm anti-abortion, but anti-war. Even. I'm all for taxing the rich, but I'm also for school vouchers. Still even. Who knows who's health care plan will work better? Not me. Still even. When all the issues were weighed in my mind, there was a tie. I considered both candidates equally bad. But that's when I remembered Obama's promise to implement a college football playoff system. DON'T LET ME DOWN BARACK!
I think it's so funny everyone tries to get out the vote. Did anyone else see or read this story on 20/20 about how it might be your civic duty NOT to vote? Click on it and read it. It makes sense. Why do we have this huge push for everyone to vote? If you're dumb, don't vote. If you let your vote be swayed by something as silly and insignificant as football, maybe you shouldn't vote. And if you vote for Super Dell Schanze because you know he has no chance of winning and think it'd be funny to say you voted for him, maybe you shouldn't vote.
Maybe I shouldn't have voted after all.
3 comments:
You have EVERY right to complain . . . you voted and you KNOW what's going on. That's the biggest part for me. I have work friends that complain and complain, and half the time don't even know what they're talking about, and then they don't vote . . .that bugs. But I see your point, and we can agree with our disagreement.
I agree with almost everything you had to say. However, I have 2 slight differences of opinion. 1. I think we had BETTER choices than we have had for Pres. in a long time. Think about it - way better than Kerry and that Bush guy. Way better than Gore and that Bush guy the first time. Certainly better than Clinton and Dole! This was an election for the ages and I would have been comfortable voting for either man. Rest assured though, you voted for the right guy.
I can't believe you voted for SuperDale though?! Honestly, if it would have been any other Utah celebrity, I would have done it...Wilford Brimley, heck even Lavell Edwards. But I just couldn't bring myself to vote for that moron, Superdale.
You voted for super dell?! You support School Vouchers?! you ARE crazy!
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