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And it seems like her new district isn’t so sure about her either. I hope they have better luck than we did.

Mrs. PD

Cynthia McKinney getting thrown out of office would be a good thing. But then, I live up here in Cherokee County now, far away from the corrupt machinery of DeKalb County.

I did not even vote in the primary this time around. The local election is pre-determined. I do not care about the state election either, since the counties around Atlanta are completely out of step with the rest of the state and are overruled on everything and anything they try to accomplish there. Thus at the state and local level, my vote doesn’t count.

On a national level, I no longer care. For the first time in my life, I am planning on skipping the vote entirely. I am disgusted with the Republicans whom I supposedly share the most in common with, but I cannot bring myself to vote for a liberal socialist who’s politics are more reflective of a need for therapy than they are of any rational perspective.

I am now officially an American political refugee. No one cares about or will take action on the issues that mean anything to me. They all want to talk about things I don’t care about instead, leaving me on the sidelines waving “Hey, over here!”

Things I care about:

1. Illegal Immigration. I want it stopped, and I want Mexico held accountable if they do not take immediate action to stop it.

2. Taxes. I want the Fair Tax bill passed – I want to keep my money and not have it redistributed to other people as a reward for not trying.

3. Foreign policy. I was unhappy to see the gloves go on. If terrorists run to a mosque, blow up the mosque. If terrorists run to a school, blow up the school. We can’t fight terrorists and simultaneously refrain from any act that might harm the civilians they are hiding amongst.

4. Energy. I want the liberal enviro wackos overruled and a national policy of building an entire nation of nuclear reactors and electric cars to get us off of a need for foreign oil. We produce enough domestically to make plastics and lubricants. Nuclear is our only viable alternatives. Let’s embrace it while we fight a delaying action in the Middle East, and then let’s get out of there and never deal with them again.

But that isn’t what my Republican friends want to talk about. They have done nothing about any of this, and instead are working on:

1. Keeping alive Terri Schiavo.
2. Banning abortion
3. Banning stem cell research
4. Porn on the internet and in video games
5. Amnesty for illegal immigrants
6. Leaving the tax code as-is and simply amending it indefinitely – occasionally giving me a refund that I will be double taxed on the next year to shut me up
7. Increasing social spending and expanding government in all directions
8. Gay marriage

I am furious. Here we are five and a half years into a solid Republican controlled government, and instead of doing what they were hired to do – kill our enemies, give me back my money, enforce the law, and disassociate us from those nutjobs in the Arab world – they are collectively focused and entirely incapable of thinking of anything other than whether or not gay people should be allowed to be considered legally married and a brain-dead woman should be allowed to die as she requested.

How can I vote for any of them again? I can’t.

But I’m certainly not voting for a liberal – not ever. So, I’m on the sidelines now. No one is my candidate. The Libertarians have no plan for anything except extremism and anti-war, the democrats are in the pockets of unions and bizarre social special interests and anti-war activists, and the republicans are in the pockets of big oil and religious nuts.

I am now in exactly the same position politically I was in Japan: I can’t vote. At least this time it is by choice? Nah. That doesn’t make it any better.

Boy, I do miss enjoying Georgia politics in person. The elections were pretty entertaining. Not that elections here in Alabama aren’t entertaining. Georgia was just funnier at times :)