Republican

February 29, 2004

My friend pleads, "Please join us in wishing a very abbreviated political life for Dubya, otherwise known as Satan in cowboy boots. Stupid, stupid, stupid, evil, dumb bastard and his wall-eyed henchmen. You can't possibly dig the dude, can you?"

As for Dubya, I couldn't agree more. A horrible person, an evil dictator, a shill for anti-constitutional, anti-democratic, anti-American, anti-human forces which, I'm afraid, have captured control of our nation. If, we have an election in 2004, I'll be much relieved, if the election is clean and honest, I'll be overjoyed, even if Bush is elected (it seems too much to hope for a Kerry victory). My fear is that American democracy is over.

I supported the first Bush in '80 primary against Reagan, then cast my vote for Carter in the General Election. I supported, but did not vote for Dubya's dad in '90.

I was raised a Southern California labor-left Democrat, spent years as a pro civil-rights, anti-capital student communist, was anti-Reagan since his speech at the Goldwater 1964 Rebulican Convention. I first registered as a Republican in '65 hoping to vote against Reaganites in Republican primaries (I learned that Republicans don't often have competitive primaries, so that strategy didn't prove useful).

I've maintained my Republican registration with the hope that someday I'd be able to have some influence on this most dangerous collection of corrupt misanthropes, but, I've not had time to devote to that project. I often say that, since I always live in Democratic areas, I'm happy to be a Republican because I get less political mail.

The only political thoughts I have in common with big-tent Republicans are on the libertarian end of things - this wing of the party is not in favor within the GOP, does not kowtow to the fundamentalist or the segregationists (who are really dixie-crats anyway and do not belong in the party of Lincoln).

The libertarian wing is the only part of the political spectrum which has useful ideas on how to keep the government from attempting inappropriate control of personal behavior. I am strongly against prohibition and governmental support for religion. In 1954, I was in the third or 4th grade and disliked the addition of "under God" to the Pledge Of Allegiance*, then realized that I was against the Pledge itself. My only Republican political thoughts are that the Democrats don't have all the answers.

My personal political view is, I think, original. I often advocate inventive solutions which are not platforms in any party's campaigns.

My friend informs, "My assistant _ snorted coke and laid some pipe with the boy back in his Harvard days..."

Just another example of there being worse things than drug use. As a drunk, crack-head frat boy, I have no problem with him - I'd just keep my distance. As a born-again-Christian President willing to subvert our democracy to make his pathetic opinions national policy, I have a big problem.