Yes, I did vote for Gore, in case it wasn't painfully obvious from the series of entries about the presidential election.
I voted for him in the Democratic primaries in 1998, too, because he was the only candidate on the Dems' side of things that I found at all interesting. This time, I voted for him because I truly believe he'd do less damage than any of his opponents.
Nader's a control freak who doesn't believe in practicing what he preaches (he treats his own employees the same way that, when other employers do it, causes him to scream bloody murder.)
Buchanon? Too dodgy a grasp of history for me to trust him to shepherd our national future.
Browne talks a good game, but I just can't support somebody who wants to abolish as much of the government as he does, especially in light of the way he wants to totally abolish the IRS. I'm not terribly fond of the sheer percentage of my income that gets sucked out of all my checks, but am I the only one outside of high school government class who remembers how the Smoot-Hawley tarriff helped speed our entry into the Great Depression?
Which leaves us with Bush the Younger. This is a man whose success in business has come, not from his own efforts, but from knowing the right people to bankroll him (and in one case, in knowing exactly when to unload the stock that other people had bankrolled him on.) I just don't trust him any further than I could comfortably take his appendix out (with all due apologies to Douglas Adams for the theft of the preceding phrase, along with a quick reminder of Fair Use.) In Texas, a state where the Governor was given as little power as the framers of the State Constitution could get away with, he's still managed to screw up enough of the important stuff on the quality-of-life index. Give the man real power, and I shudder to think what he can do to us all. The way he handwaves questions about exactly how he's going to manage to give the same trillion dollars from social security to the young and old scare me, and while his ability to not quite say what he wants to say (or not say what he wants to say in clear English) gave the press a lot of cute sound bites, the way he lies about things like his record in the National Guard does not give me any faith in his ability to play straight with us on anything that matters.
Of course, if you want to get details on all the above (including the guy I chose to vote for,) you can go to http:www.realchange.org. Just don't eat before you read up on any of the candidates, because some of what's there will doubtless twist your stomach if you care about politics at all.
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