Election Results

The lazy one will admit one thing right now - before I go off the deep end. I did not vote on Tuesday. The powers that are would not let me vote. Most of Miami-Dade County had nothing to vote for. As far as I am aware, the only things up for a vote in Miami was some lame crap about forming more cities and stuff. Since I do not live in any area that wants to incorporate, there was nothing for me to vote on.

I would vote NO for any measure that would turn my area into a city, as opposed to just part of Dade County at large. This city movement, started by wealthy folks who did not want to share their tax money with poor people who smell like department store perfume and cologne, invariably end up the same.

A bunch of old fart condo commandos take over, then start to tell people like ME that my boat is ugly and hurting property value and that I should keep it behind a tall fence that I can not build unless I file 500,000 permits and promise to only paint the fence one of 4 approved colors and then when my permit applications are not approved I have to pay out my ass to keep the boat at a marina and I can not afford that so I have to sell it then I go postal at a town hall meeting and end up on the 11 PM news.

The city movement has spread from the snooty upper crust areas, like a foot fungus spreads from one toe jam to another. Now, the cool thing to do is form a city so you can say "I live in the city of Royal Palm Stuffed Up My Ass". And so that some condo commandos can harass innocent boat owners with all their new code enforcement crap they pull out of somewhere the sun never shines.

Anyway, the post results for the rest of the nation is in. And here is my expert commentary.

1. New Jersey GOOBERner race: The Democrat won. The previous GOOBERner is also a Democrat. Yet, somehow it is being hailed as a major victory for the party. But is it? Did the guy win because people are backlashing against the neo-consertive movement, or just because New Jersey is slightly to the left. I think that the answer lies in who ran. The winner ran on a very middle ground platform - in other words, he is a moderate. Most people in the USA are also moderate. So he won. Go figure.

2. Virginia. Once again, a moderate democrat won. Now this race is far more important than New Jersey. Why? His Royal Highness, The Baron Of Oil, Bush made a last minute stop to stump for the republican guy. And the republican guy STILL lost. Virginia is part of the south, Robert E. Lee himself was from there. In 2000 and 2004 it was a red state. Like China, only without the yellow commie star.

Of coruse, in this case the former gooberner was a democrat, just as in New Jersey. But in this case, Bush obviously thought that his stumping would help push his guy over the top. Polls had the race at a dead heat. But the results handed a fairly solid victory to the democrat guy. If this is not evidence that Bush is damaged goods, with his war based on BS and his oil companies writing our energy policy and stuff - I do not know what is evidence. To go from a dead heat, to a solid victory for the other guy AFTER the president stumps for you is not exactly good news for the republicans.

But I think they key here is MODERATES. If the democrat party learns anything, it will be to run moderates in 2008. The consertive movement is over-run by people far to the right. Very far. And voters seem to not be very happy about the results.

3. Texas votes to ban any form of gay unions, no matter what they are called. No marriage, no civil unions, and so forth. This does not shock me at all. Not even a little bit. It was TEXAS we were talking about here. Marriage is holy! It is a pact before God! Till death do you part!

Meanwhile, at least 50% of these holy pacts before God end in divorce. And where do all the church going folks go to get their divorces? To the court house. What is "made before God" can be ended in a totally un-religous civil proceeding far away from any church. How can this be? Is this possible? Can the laws of man undo what is made by God? Apparently it can - but ONLY when a marriage between a man and a woman is what we are talking about!

I still say that marriage is a legal contract. You can have all the church weddings you want, you can have the Pope himself fly from Rome and marry you, but without the license from the STATE it does not mean beans legally. People get married all the time in a court house, skipping the whole church thing. And these man-woman marriages are just as valid, until someone files for divorce.

Why so many people feel like gay marriage is a threat to them is a mystery to me. Maybe all the manly Texas voters think that if gays can get married, they will decide to be gay and divorce their wife for some guy named Ted.

And what would happen if gay marriage had a lower divorce rate than normal man-woman made before God marriages? Why, that would be terrible!

4. Califirnia. They voted for something. Actually, they voted against something. Arnold "The Governator" wanted the things passed - voters said no. And nobody outside of California cares. It is unlikely Arnold will win re-election if he runs.

So there you go. My personal take on election day 2005. A little late, but then again I am lazy.