The end of the world is well and truly nigh.

If I hadn’t given up voting as a bad job all around, I’d no doubt find myself supporting McCain as the least bad of the lot.  Hear that?  That’s the sound of the ice in hell crackling as it forms.

*sigh*

And yes, I know, Fred, Fred, Fred.  But even after I’ve frozen hell by endorsing admitting the relative non-suck of McCain (remembering, please, that I think every last one of them is a horror for wanting the job at all, never mind the tactics used to get it), his snowball?  Passed right by while he was sitting around contemplating the run.  Besides, the problem with being repeatedly compared to the Great Conservative God is that nobody can live up to it.

Not that any one of the GOP contenders would recognize true conservatism if it bit them on the ass.

Fred’s problem is that the idea of Fred is awesome.  Fred, though?  Maybe not so much.  Which isn’t entirely his fault: I don’t think there are very many actual conservatives left in America, though there are an awful lot of people who think they are conservatives around. 

Mitt?  Makes John Kerry look like a possessor of strong convictions.  Besides, I *hate* perfect candidate hair.  But really?  What I hold against him most is that now that purchasing health insurance is mandatory, my premium?  Went up 20 percent this year.  And since we chose to prioritize this month and pay the rent, we are now not just temporarily uninsured, we’re also criminals.  Because, you know, feeding your kids is a bad thing.  And if you have an off month or two, you should be subject to mandatory receipt of government benefits and all of the baggage that implies.  Because being in job flux is such a rare thing these days, which makes it immoral, right?

I never, never thought that within my lifetime it would be considered wrong NOT to take a government benefit.  Because it’s stealing to take the risk of having a hospital bill you can’t pay, but it’s not stealing to take government healthcare money to cover that risk.  Because government healthcare money comes from where?  The magic money tree they’ve been growing on the dark side of the moon?

Er, yeah.

Wasn’t there somebody else in the race, too?  Some guy from New York?  Do I even have to go there?  His authoritarian impulses make McCain & Co.’s attempts to rewrite the first amendment look like certifiable good-guy-ism in comparison. 

So yeah, McCain.  And I’m going to go shower now, because even the thought makes me feel dirty.  Good thing I’m not a Republican.  And if you’ve made it this far, you’re probably glad by now that I don’t vote any more.  Maybe I’ll tell you about that sometime.  For now, though, just let me chime in with a “thank the FSM that New Hampshire is over next week and I won’t have to watch campaign commercials for a couple of months.”

See ya.

1. You are tired of it all?!?  My parents recently moved to Indianola, Iowa. They have had the campaign LITERALLY at their doorstep since the summer.  They can’t get groceries without having to dodge press, secret service, and general gawkers.  Yeah, we all can’t wait until the madness ends.....

   Posted by  on  01/03  at  11:06 AM  from  too close to DC

2. quick, call brooke shields.  the last naval academy
   grad did so well.

   Posted by  on  01/03  at  12:23 PM  from 

3. the brooke shields comment is exactly the sort of sexist remark that should drive you to hillary to teach boys a lesson.

   Posted by  on  01/03  at  12:27 PM  from 
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