Tomorrow is election day in this great land of ours and it's everyone's civic duty to get out and vote. While I can't tell you how to vote--or how OFTEN to vote tomorrow--I can at least offer a suggestion.
While I realize our choices for candidates are pretty slim pickins here in California--hell, if Slim Pickens was alive, I might be tempted to vote for him if he was running--and I am a strong believer that anyone--including Barbara Boxer--who has stayed at the Washington DC trough for over 25 years is in urgent need of being replaced, I cannot, in good conscious, recommend anyone vote for the twitchy and evil-looking Carly Fiorina.
Ah, Carly...she of Hewlett-Packard, who laid off 30,000. That's not mere TV commercial rhetoric, that's a fact. She upped and shipped those jobs off to China and India and other parts known. But all you need to do is LOOK at Carly to get that sense of malevolence just lurking under the surface. Like a Disney bad witch, or a mean schoolteacher who has dealt with junior high school age students for far too many years, she just has this evil, smug, sense of entitlement look about her. It's like the first time I saw a photo of George W. Bush on the cover of Time magazine, when he was governor of Texas: His eyes proclaimed a vacuosness larger than the vast land mass of his state. That, sadly, turned out to be more than true for eight years.
I can't tell you not to vote for Carly. You have to decide that for yourself. Everyone should vote their conscious. I could very easily jump on the "they all deserve to be replaced" bandwagon when it comes to both the federal and state represenatives and senators. But you have to consider the replacement first. Anyone seriously thinking Carly Fiorina, Sharon Angle, and Christine O'Donnell are valid replacements for anyone else...well, we don't have a lot to talk about. I myself am not pleased that the lesser of two evils in the case of the California gubernatorial race is a 72-year-old man who already sat in the seat for two terms decades ago--two decades that may as well be eons.
So vote tomorrow. Vote your conscious, not your party ticket.
(Yes, I deliberately picked a photo of Carly that makes her looks mean and judgmental, like she's chaperoning a junior high dance and those damn kids are dancing way too close. This photo is more than likely copyright the Los Angeles Times and used with my apologies...to the LA Times, not Ms. Fiorina.)
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