Pyat makes a political prediction!

[pyat]

I predict John McCain will probably win the election down south, though perhaps by an inconcievably narrow margin. It strikes me that both sides draw support from very stratified classes of voters, and the numbers don't change much. (I ignore, for now, the possibility of coordinated voting fraud, though I do not think it a zany conspiracy theory. That sort of thing happens around the world, all the time.)

That said, choosing Palin as a veep will at least make the shallower sort of Republican happier about voting for McCain, because she's young(ish) and personable, and has never, ever sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann".

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[zenten.livejournal.com]

I hope you're wrong, but I'm afraid you're not.

[neebs.livejournal.com]

This made me LOL: "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann"

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

And she'll make the anti-science crowd happy, too. So that's something.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Really, REALLY hoping you're wrong. I'm so tired of the GOP and their destructive policies.

I'm also tired of their followers who believe all the doom and gloom bullshit that the talk radio hosts and conservative bloggers put out.

Conservatives by definition are afraid of anything different.

Sigh.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

It'd be funnier if it weren't true. :)
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/04/mccain-sings-bomb-bomb-iran.html

[neebs.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

I thought that was you showing off how clever you are!

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

**noticeably remains quiet** Good kittens!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Naw, you can mew about stuff if you want.

Me, I'd vote for Obama if I lived down there.

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

Okay, seeing as I tend to be more anarchist than anything else, and don't support the way my government is run, and have a willful ignorance of the news (as it's pretty much completely depressing, slanted, and in the end doesn't really have an effect on my life) my opinion might not be worth anything to anyone other than myself.

So saying that, and also prefacing that I think the only way my government will actually "get better" is by a temporary destruction in toto and then a restructuring of it, I think that having McCain and the "more of the same GWB" policies running our government would be a good thing. That way, other countries would get so fed up with the American BS and we'd have to pull our heads out of our asses.

Just this kitten's opinion, though. And, yes, my philosophy is the reason that I don't vote, or, typically, talk politics. Most people don't want to hear what I have to say, and if I don't support the government, then I'm going to try not to influence it. I ignore it, it'll ignore me, pretty much.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Anti-paleobiology. Rocket science still gets lots of funding!

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

I ignore it, it'll ignore me, pretty much.

Do you live in a bucket under the stairs leading to the fallout shelter, or something?

[vandringar.livejournal.com]

I've been really surprised here in Texas; I've only seen one bumper sticker supporing McCain, but about 8 supporting Obama.

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

No, and, yes, I do live pretty close to DC. It just so happens that I also live pretty pragmatically and have a "well, I'm going to die eventually, and have no clue when that time is. Might as well not worry about the future, because as far as I know, there isn't one." If Something Happens that I'd need a fall-out shelter, then chances are, it'll be enough to completely restructure the government. If not, then life pretty much goes on same as today. Either way, I'm either dead and don't have to worry about it, or life is the same and don't have to worry about it.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

There's a pretty big gap between "Doing okay" and "Radiation is making my face melt."

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Or, as is more likely, "Doing okay" and "Unemployed, uinsured."

[mar2nee.livejournal.com]

So, are you excited for the Canadian election that looks like it will be before the American one, then?
For all intents and purposes, we have a 2-party system, too, and need democratic reforms.
The Tommy Douglas video was fun, thanks. Westerners are a super bunch. Nutty reformers.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

"Slowly dying of untreated diabetes" and other suburban plagues...

[mar2nee.livejournal.com]

I mean that very affectionately. I'm from out West, and my mom often starts new political parties - literally.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I am pretty excited, not least because calling an earlier election date would reflect badly on Prime Minister Whatshisname, given his promise to stick to firm election dates.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's only those short-range rockets! I want the ones that go to Mars, or the Moon. They're more interested in the ones that travel halfway around the world, at most.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

You can't run an SUV on moonrocks!

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Because politicians never renege on promises, or are held to task for it. n.n

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

Yes, there is. Which is why I'm really not worried about it. Right now, most would consider America to be "doing okay," compared to "our faces are about to melt." Are there things that could happen that would make it more of melting than okay? Sure. Just as there are things that we could do to prevent it. Chances are, if we're going to go to the "faces melting" stage, it's not going to matter who's voted in - our parties are so similar as to make the distinction pretty much a moot point. If we're not going to get to that point, then McCain is far more likely to get more people pissed off at us, but Obama's bound to do the same. Either way, no matter who wins, the next four years, unless Something Major happens, it's going to be just like the previous four, or the four before that or... well, you get the idea.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

I'm still pretty sure he's a robot. An old one, too, one of those ticking mechanical Bradbury ones...

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

Which might actually make the people in America get up off their collective butts and do something besides pull a ballot to change the way our government is going.