One Brick Short

“I appreciate the best, but I’m settling for less: I’m looking for the next-best thing...” Warren Zevon

With the big primary Primaries coming up, I’m still lost for a candidate for which to vote.

Yes, I vote in the Virginia party primaries although I cannot guarantee for which party I’ll vote. A few years ago, I voted for John McCain in the state’s GOP run off. A few years later, I voted for Howard Dean in the state Democratic contest. Neither, of course, won the election and I wound up casting ballots for people I didn’t like and later grew to hate.

So, for whom do I vote this coming primary?

Barrack Obama? I don’t know. I heard him talking about pulling the troops out of Iraq as soon as he got in office and that makes me think he doesn’t have a strong grip on how immersed and enmeshed we are in Iraq. We’ve created a sink hole for ourselves and to get out too soon, I believe, will result in the crumbling of Iraq into factional warfare and butchery followed by the rise of a powerful terrorist group and the creation of a Disney Land for Terrorism with the primary export to the U.S. being exploding shopping malls.

Hillary Clinton? I didn’t like her husband and I don’t like her, although she’s significantly smarter and unlikely to get us into any sex scandals.

Is Edwards still running? Why?

I can’t remember any other Democrats running for office (no, I didn’t do any research. This is all from what I’ve gleaned off of TV coverage. I’m trying to be just like the average American, uninformed.)

On the GOP side—I have no loyalty in politics—I don’t see voting for Mitt Romney because, well, I like the way he did things in Massachusetts and he seems to be talking as far away from his governorship as possible.

McCain got my vote once. I don’t see anything new there, so he won’t get it again.

Guilliani, Gulianni, Julie Onnie—however you spell his name—appeals to me on several levels from his views on illegal immigration to his stance on Iraq and the military. Still, there’s something so, I don’t know, New York about him. That makes me suspicious.

Mike Huckabee tells me on his website that his faith defines his life. His faith, however, does not define mine. He’s out.

I’ve voted for third parties before (John Anderson, The Natural Law Party candidate and Ralph Nader) but I can’t see anyone I like. In fact, as soon as a politician’s lips move I distrist him/her immediately. The best way to decide my vote is word-of-mouth and a Sunday newspaper so, if anyone can give me some good reasons to ballot a certain way, I’m willing to listen.