Voting Blues

[FieryMaid]

Okay, this is a rant and people are more than welcome to join in or rant against me:


First, a disclaimer: I love this country and I feel we have the best system around regarding government.

BUT IS STILL FEEL THERE COULD BE SOME MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS!!!

1. I am SICK of the mud slinging. Tell me what YOU are doing, not what the other guy is doing.

2. I am SICK of the phone calls. It's not your buisness who I'm going to vote for! STOP CALLING.

3. I am SICK of the phone calls. If you can't call me yourself, then tell your lackeys to leave me alone. STOP CALLING.

4. I am SICK of the phone calls. I will not vote on party lines. I actually believe in voting for the best canditate. STOP CALLING telling me to vote my "registered party line." If my registered party line candiate sucks, I WON'T VOTE FOR HIM.

5. I am SICK of the junk mail. ESPECIALLY if it's just mud slinging junk mail.

6. I am SICK of avoiding the issues. Tell me what you are doing to do, SPECIFICALLY AND IN DETAIL. Tell me what you believe, SPECIFICALLY AND IN DETAIL. I am SICK of the nice sounding politic words: "I will fight for better schools. I wil work hard to ease traffic problems. " Yeah, you and every politician. If you don't have specifics, I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

There. Rant done. Now I have to go to work. Oh, and I voted and so should everyone.

[Laslo Hollyfeld]

Best. Post. Ever.

[tangentgirl]

I'll add to FM's rant.... I am on the 'no call list' and haven't received phone calls;however, yesterday I was hit with a barage of TEXT MESSAGES to my cell phone w/ messages to get out and vote; vote for so-and-so, etc...

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? Guess someone found the loop hole... technically no one CALLED me. It is so annoying. Sure it is only 10 cents a pop, but I can think of better ways to spend my spare change... believe me.

I won't even get into my feelings of negative campaigns and mudslinging and trying to imply connections when there aren't any, etc...

Like FM said, tell me what you stand for, how you have proven this in the past through actions and not merely words. Tell me your vision and then your plan on how to achieve said vision. That's all I want really. Is it too much to ask? Oh... and no more text messages or phone calls.

[FieryMaid]

Thanks LH.

TG, oh my word! Txt messages? WOW. Just wow. Thankfully I didn't get any of that. Geez.