Keller's Folly

I exercised one of my more important rights as a citizen yesterday. A primary election in the state of Florida was held, and of course I participated. The thirty-first voter at my polling station, at 4:00pm. Pathetic. It seems that politics is going to intrude into my life on a more regular basis as we draw closer to the November elections.

My primary reason for voting yesterday (no pun intended) was to try to find a Republican to replace Ric Keller, U.S. Congressman from the 8th district, whom I have voted for regularly in the past. He has, however, gone back on a promise to not run for another term. Not unforgivable, as I don't care about term limits and such, but an indicator of your character, that you would make a conspicuous promise and then change your tune when it is politically expedient.

No, what frosted me, and lost Keller my support, was his behavior during Nancy Pelosi's dog and pony show awhile back over the funding for the war in Iraq. Now I do not care what your politics are, I believe, at the bare minimum we owe it to the folks who take on the dirty and dangerous mission of being at the tip of the spear, to not politicize their job. We are there and we must see it to a conclusion, then sort out the political consequences. Congressman Keller, on the other hand saw the wave of opposition building in the halls of the Capitol, and decided to surf it. He turned out to be on the wrong side. Apparently, his conservatism was all for show, not a matter of principal. Unfortunately for Ric Keller, mine is not.

The War in Iraq is not "like mowing your neighbors lawn...", Ric.

Unfortunately, Keller won the primary by a small margin, so what that means for me as that I will leave my ballot blank in that spot in November, even if it means electing his scumbag Democrat opponent, Grayson, whose idea of a well thought out, convincing campaign is to ask voters, "If Ric Keller can't admit to wearing a hairpiece, what else is he lying about?" I think the country might survive.

On another topic, I find it odd that the Obamessiah, chose Joe Biden as his running mate. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Biden get into a little trouble with the racism police in the past year or so, during the primary season for saying that black people finally had a "clean, articulate" black candidate to vote for."
I believe he also said that Obama was too inexperienced for the job.
Strange bedfellows indeed. He must really hate or fear Hillary Clinton to have not chosen her.