mrv3000 | (no subject)

The company network was down for a little while today, and so there was some news reading.

There was a time I liked John McCain. It was even as close as a few months back. Oh, I was never planning on voting for him in November, but I thought I wouldn't be all that irked if he wound up as President.

But things have been going downhill, and my respect for him has been steadily dropping. Today, I pretty much have no respect for the man. He and Palin have gone completely negative, whipping crowds into actual frenzies of hate. Do they actually think that bile will sway a voter? I'm not undecided, but I'm telling you that kind of bullshit would immediately turn me off if I was. It seems the only thing it's doing is working the already-loyal base into a froth. A really ugly froth. The kind I'm ashamed to share a country with. Yes, it's exactly that bad.

In politics I expect a certain amount of idiocy and snipping. And I don't believe that Obama wears a halo of perfection and innocence. But in my book, McCain and Palin aren't even registering a pulse on the integrity meter right now. Why would I want people like that leading and representing this country?

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I know I didn't vote in the primaries, I'm not sure if they were open at the time or not. At the time, I was too busy dealing with a really rough pregnancy to consider myself informed enough to vote on anything. I did know I wasn't going to vote for Bush though, and since MD was a total lock for Gore (I don't think it's ever gone red for President) I didn't bother voting at all. Bad, I know.

I really don't blame you. I'd have done the same.

It does, but I'm hoping that people are looking at what's happening and becoming as disgusted with McCain and Palin as we are. Perhaps this is the dying gasp of attitudes like this prevailing in this country.

One can really only hope.