If my candidate (HoHo) doesn't win or score a close tie, I hope that he will at least have the decency to lose badly - scoring in the single digits, say.
Why?
- I could go out and spend the money I would otherwise donate to him every bat to purchase rare vinyl in dusty used record stores.
- I could take down the 'Indiana for Dean' sign from the driver's side back-seat window of my car, thus making my left turns into heavy traffic that much safer.
- I could trash the files in my laptop's journal that have titles like 'The North IS The New South!' 'Why we WILL win all 51 states! (Puerto Rico for Dean!)'
- I will be that much closer to answering a question that has always fascinated me: what was it like to actually BE a Perot supporter? What could such a person have been THINKING?
- I can tell my beloved grandmother that no, I'm not really getting involved politics. It is her considered view (so she has told me) that when people get involved in politics it damages their character, and she's afraid that, supporting Dean, the same could happen to me. The oh-so-sad thing is that she is a huge Bush fan; I guess he is somehow not a politician.
- Caring less about what goes on in the world, I will know less about it; and knowing less, I will find that NPR once again offers a rich and thoughtful take on our national politics.
- I Won't Worry; I will just, Be Happy.
- I Won't Worry; I will just, Be Happy.
- I Won't Worry; I will just, Be Happy.
- In particular, I will stop sitting here hitting 'Daily Kos' every few minutes waiting breathlessly for the latest news on the bizarre political contra-dance that is about to take place in Iowa.
Yet maybe the loss of distraction wouldn't be so bad: my productivity could rise 6, even 8 percent this quarter!
I'd be just like the economy!
Go weak candidates! Down with Dean!