Politics

i can never recall hearing so much about a presidential election this far in advance in years past. maybe i just haven't paid attention. i am forced to pay attention this time because darling roommate is working on the local howard dean campaign. and man, is he amped for dean! i went to a single event with him, and i have to admit that howard dean is an extremely charismatic man. i don't think we fall along the same ideologic lines, though.

neal pollack made me laugh when he said:

"I also wish I could go back in time and stop Howard Dean from declaring his Presidential candidacy. The Democratic Leadership Council is right. How dare Dr. Dean attempt drag the party to the left by criticizing the President and declaring the need to adopt modest health-insurance reforms? Is the man insane? Or is he just crazy? I've said it before and I will say it again: The Democrats should disband, just as the Bull Moose Party and the Whigs did before them. I'd buy 1,000 shares in that future."

if only there were a howard dean of the right, who would bring the republicans back to their roots, reminding people that the strength of a country lies with the individual and that free enterprise and individual initiative are the only path to economic success. people implicitly know that the best goverment is the smallest government, the government that interferes the least, that provides for people only the most critical functions which cannot reasonably be performed by individuals themselves or by private enterprise. this is the essence of the republican party, and it has been hijacked by the religious zealots who have made it about all about intolerance and interference. as it is, i think it is time for the republican party as we know it to disband, as well. it really is time for something new. every four years it's the best of a lot of bad choices.

Friday 01-Aug-03