I've seen interviews with her before and I like how she takes on people in either party. She has to get past this ethics charge but she was saying earlier "Bring it on."
I normally don't post political things here because I don't feel I'm going to change any minds and people (especially in the last few years) seem to be batshit crazy about their choices. But you are dead on about the lesser of two evils. This was just the tipping point for me. I wasn't sure I was even voting this year (first time in over 30 years).
It really doesn't matter to me if it's a woman or not. I keep hearing the media talk about how its a ploy to get HClinton voters but that's just divisive talk designed to inflame people. For my candidates, I want problem solvers in office, not cronies (of either party).

Did you ever get the smokey smell out of Cocoa?

Edited at 2008-08-30 12:31 am (UTC)

I agree with that wholeheartedly. I love good debate.
I amended my entry because I said Biden was a dumbass. That sounds like something I've seen a lot of lately coming from the left. But both sides indulge in name calling and I shouldn't have expressed an opinion that wasn't relevant to the issues (besides, I don't have all day after all).
Any more, I liken politics to the state of baseball. Time was (back when the Big Red Machine was around), that I could tell you every player's name and stats and trivia. Now I don't know who 3/4 of the players are and I bet they aren't even sure where their home team's city is. Both politics and baseball are a bunch of nameless faces in it for whatever they can get and then they get out and leave the messes for others to clean up. The accept their positions knowing that the fans/citizens give them that position with full faith they will do their best. Instead, we get people who just show up to get the check. It's certainly the government we deserve.
None of the Rep. candidates were my choice. My vote comes down to who will do the least damage in the next four years.

I disagree with that assessment (it's not a flattering term either) because I'm voting for who will do the least damage to the country (at least as I see it). A yellow dog Democrat (the original version of the phrase) or Republican would vote for a yellow dog before voting for an opposing party candidate. That's not true of me. If I really believe Obama meant half the things he said (I don't) and could get one-quarter of it done (ambitious for any candidate), I would consider it but he won't. Biden was the nail in his coffin for independent voters. Biden is as much about "change" as Cheney is. To quote Joe Hill, Obama's promising "pie in the sky" to too many people (although he's backed down from his initial far left rhetoric) and, if he wins, the results will be unpleasant for working people, especially small business owners. These candidates don't want to lift people up, they want to create even MORE dependence on the government, to add to their power. They don't want to create self-reliance, they want to turn our countrymen into something like the Matrix, where our lives are an illusion, letting us believe everything is just so, when in fact they are leeching our lives away for their gain. They don't want to build anyone up. They want to tear us all down to the same level. While I believe that's true of both parties, with the announcement of Sarah Palin, I have a little hope again.
My family historically voted Republican (except for those troublemaker Dems who married into the family :) My family were small business people and ran a farm as their sole means of support but as little as they had, they couldn't support a democrat agenda (and back then, hard core Dems (think Harry Truman) were like middle of the road Republicans today, nothing like the freak show we see on the news). They believed that less government was essential for their success (this was before many of the subsidies that encourage farmers NOT to grow crops). They believed in paying taxes but not excessively, they believed in voting and in taking part in the local community. I wish I could be half the citizen they were.
Now back to your "yellow dog Republican" comment...I haven't voted along party lines since the mid 80s and after the last eight to ten years, I won't ever again. The blown opportunities, the grandiose self-serving people we've had in office disgust me (all parties). The fawning and the payoffs aren't serving the country, they are serving self-interest, retirement funds and cronyism. Never again.
My sister Elaine was a hard core conservative for years (she lives not far from Washington), but she recently changed her voting registration to Independent (I think I've already done that, I should check I guess).
I've several books documenting the "shenanigans" of Congress through the last six or seven administrations and it sickens me. McCain is an ok guy but he and I have very little in common. I have even less in common with the other side.

Edited at 2008-08-31 07:22 pm (UTC)

Aw heck Dave, I knew that. I just meant that when that term was first used, it wasn't meant to be flattering. It's because of voters like that though, that we have the mess we have in Washingtong. My sister used to write me and tell me that we (meaning outside of the beltway) never heard half the stuff that goes on there. Now I can believe it. I'm especially disappointed in our local representatives. Whenever I listen to Brian Thomas, who I can't stand, I feel he goes easy on our reps like Chabot, Schmidt etc. especially local government people too (like city council and county reps, who are Dems). I'm cool with him asking the hard questions to Democrats (except for the Gov, not many in office right now) but I expect Chabot to get hard questions too (and he never does on that program). Brian Thomas is Jerry Thomas' son and got his job there because of his dad. He proclaims to be a Libertarian but I'm closer to Libertarian than he'll ever be. Now, to be fair, he WILL talk about the bad things our reps do, but when they are on the air, it's kid gloves time
I'm with you on "after the primaries." This is too exhausting and I'm just an onlooker!