Twenty years ago this blog began, in large part, as a place for me to post my Republican beliefs. For those twenty years, as I did in the 12 years of adulthood prior, I have consistently voted Red.
This year, for the first - and hopefully last - time, I voted for a Democrat.
When I went to vote early, back on October 22nd, I wasn't sure who was getting my vote.
I think Trump was an effective President, whatever his personal faults. He easily earned my vote back in 2020. In the intevening four years however, the Jan 6th debacle, the politically motivated legal charges levied against him in NY and Georgia . . . they just broke him.
Now that might have been the "goal" of his opponents, but not only did it start a dangerous precendent, it also kept Trump's name in the spotlight. It reinforced the idea that he stood alone against the Media and the Left and all but ensured his name would be on the ballot again. A Pyrrhic victory at best.
But whatever the cause of the problem, I can't give my vote to a guy who no longer seems to be fully fuctioning.
Believe me, I didn't WANT to vote for Kamala. There are a bevy of reasons. I don't think prosecutors deserve my vote. I remember her absymal intellectual performance against Biden in 2020. Her ads are a juvenille appeal to free money. She'll fix grocery prices and give 100 million people a tax break - just don't ask her how.
Lastly, I'm not overlooking the fact that her campaign is feasting on the bones of a now forgotten Joe Biden, who - aside from his early gaffe in Afghanistan and his inabiltiy to check inflation - didn't do that bad of a job, all things considered. This was a planned end-around, intentionally delayed until after the primary season, and it still sits sour in my belly. It treads too closely to the phrase "legal coup" for my liking.
Looking up and down the ballot here in Wisconsin, who else could get my vote?
Not Jill Stein, perennial vote sucker of the Democratic ticket.
Not RFK Jr, who reluctantly held my vote for much of the year, until he revealed himself to be a stooge for Trump. Naw, you lost me sir.
The rest? Nobodies and never will be's.
So Kamala it was.
I felt ill submitting my ballot.
But better to feel sick to my stomach, than sicken the country with a leader that is no longer in control of his anger and faculties
