Author Topic: Rest easy, lazs :) (Read 493 times)

culero · « **on:** November 07, 2006, 07:47:48 PM »

Texas isn't gonna elect a hippy indie governor. Looks like Perry (the Republican) wins big. Damn shame IMO, but of course I'm not surprised.

The good news is the Republican senator wins big too, and I like that.

Kinky's registering about 11% so far, protest vote effectively. Just like my mostly Libertarian votes

I respect where you're coming from. Our votes are our way of memorializing our opinions. We should vote how we "feel". In this one, my purpose was to emphasize my opinion that both the current political parties are broken. I'm happy.

culero

john9001 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 07, 2006, 08:47:18 PM »

Perry sent the taxas guard down to the border, crime dropped 50% in the border towns.

culero · « **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2006, 10:03:59 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
Perry sent the taxas guard down to the border, crime dropped 50% in the border towns.

Who fed you that, and why couldn't you tell by the taste it was a load of crap?

culero (lives in one of those border towns)

lazs2 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 08, 2006, 08:44:26 AM »

Ya know... I sympathize... I voted for the libertarian for kalifornia governor..

I belive that my vote sent a message that we want less government and taxes in our lives...

I still don't understand the kinky vote tho... was there no libertarian? It just seems to me that a vote for kinky means that you are unhappy with the government because you feel that they aren't involved in your life enough... that they don't help the poor with your money enough and that they are not socialist enough.

I would not like to send that message. I know he got slaughtered... but still... RPM and his socialist ilk won.. the next guy will see that 11% of texans want commie government and will cater a little to that.

lazs

culero · « **Reply #4 on:** November 08, 2006, 07:17:56 PM »

Well lazs, yes there was a Libertarian gubernatorial candidate.

However, your opinions about Kinky's agenda notwithstanding, the way I read the gist of his approach was that "The politicians have been in control and things are screwed up because of it. Let's throw the bums out."

I believe that's the message that 11% of Texans endorsed and that I want the politicians to hear. I think it was more effective than the miniscule amount of votes for the Lib candidate attracted, even with one more from me.

Plus, I don't let people's politics poison my mind against them. Liberal or not, I like Kinky, always have. I like him because he's a renegade in public, and a decent guy in private.

culero

lazs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 09, 2006, 09:21:43 AM »

that makes no sense... there are a few people that I like that I would have to kill if they ever got power over me. I certainly would never want them to get in that position.

I like kinkies recordings... he would be fun to talk to but... In order to have his way he would trample all over my rights if he was in power... it would not bother him a whit to send the ninjas to my house in the middle of the night to kill me because I didn't want to obey his socialist plan for humanity.

Sooooo... huge difference from him being eccentric and having no power to him being eccentric and having power over my life.

I think mormons are nice people... I don't want em to have power over me tho.

I don't ever want to send any message that I even entertain the thought of giving some socialist power... that is what you did.

Your new set of friends is a prety unsavory lot. You jumped in bed with kinky cause you think he is attractive and clever as a human... no worse than us bikers in the 70's jumping into bed with all the hippie chicks I guess but at least we admitted what we were doing and why.

lazs

culero · « **Reply #6 on:** November 09, 2006, 10:50:31 AM »

The thing is, lazs, we disagree in our "read" on the man. I understand what you're saying, but I think you are wrong about him in terms of degree. Left of center, yeah, but not so far he's actually dangerous like you're making him out.

But it really doesn't matter to me. As I said, its the "not affiliated with a party" aspect of his candidacy I liked. Since I didn't expect he had a chance to be elected, his political orientation seemed irrelevant.

Labels IMO hold us back. I know it sounds odd, but personal like or dislike is more important to me in any candidate than what party or "side" that candidate is aligned with. Left, right, Democrat, Republican, blah, I don't give a ****.

culero

Gunslinger · « **Reply #7 on:** November 09, 2006, 11:20:03 AM »

IIRC Henry Bonilla (R) has to do a run off election because he didn't get 50% of the vote.

lazs2 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 09, 2006, 02:39:33 PM »

and my point is that.... personal like or dislike for a candidate has nothing to do with it for me... it is personal like or dislike for how he is gonna vote.

We are a representitive democracy... You need to make sure that who you vote for is most in tune with how you want the votes in your name to go.

lazs

rpm · « **Reply #9 on:** November 09, 2006, 07:41:01 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
RPM and his socialist ilk won.

lazs

If I'm a socialist, you're Kim Jong-il.