Looking Forward to Voting on Tuesday

[XLFD]

After having been shut down from voting at the November 2011 city of Ludington elections by the City Manager and his illegitimate Workplace Safety Policy that can ban anyone from City Hall without any sort of due process by a Letter of Trespass or give any indication of its relief, I look forward to finally being allowed to vote in the Michigan Republican Primary.  Pending the written permission I hope to be receiving by the end of voting on Tuesday by the City Manager to be able to enter the City Hall, which also doubles as my polling place. 

The recent (pitiful) investigation by the Mason County Prosecutor and the MSP into the banishment will be looked at in more detail in the coming months, but now that they realize it's a problem, I can't see CM Shay not sending me the permission I need to enter and cast that ballot, a fundamental right of all Americans.  Even though the City Manager himself has never been elected to office, or took an oath to his office.

I don't see it as a difficult decision in figuring out who to vote for.  There are some interesting choices beyond the 4 actively running, and I might have chosen one of them, if there wasn't such a good choice among the four.  I am of the mind that there is no wasted vote; in fact, if a candidate only gets a dozen votes, and yours was one of them, I would feel more empowered and enfranchised by my vote than if I jumped on the bandwagon of the leader.

 

Reviewing the four, as I have been able to do over the last few months, I see that three of them (Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich) are inconsistent and often arbitrary.  The three of them have some insufferable weaknesses in their background as per fiscal conservatism.  Romneycare in MA, freespending by Santorum in the congress, and Pelosi-partnerships with Gingrich.  All have gone after public money in the past; Freddie Mac, earmarks, and consulting

In social issues, they are either indeterminant or hypocritical to the public at large.  But there is one candidate who shows himself as consistent, patriotic, and non-hypocritical. 

That candidate is Ron Paul.  The only main candidate who has served in the armed forces, has been in the House of Representatives for many years, and has ran a couple other times, has been consistent throughout, and almost always a visionary among his peers.  He would cut a trillion dollars his first year if he had his way, and with a mandate gained through his election, he just might be able to do it, despite all the kicking and screaming babies in the congress.  He would scale back international policing, and use the armed forces as our Constitution permits, not by his fiat.  He can bridge the gap into independents and liberals alike with his classical libertarian stance on non-fiscal issues. 

Can he win?  Can we afford to not let someone like him not win?  Obama will just get worse, since he won't be in campaign mode afterwards, either of the three Republicans are not firm enough in their beliefs to steer this country right, even Gingrich.  In the end, vote for who you like, not for who you think has a chance of winning.  I will vote for Ron Paul, Shay willing.

 

[Marty Redman]

You ever get any indication that the Shayster is going to actually give you the vote this time?  It's a shame you have to ask your mommy permission to vote or run the risk of getting arrested.

[XLFD]

Here it is the middle of election day, and I'm still looking at an empty E-mailbox with my personal invite from the City manager to come to the City Hall and vote.  Apparently, he's too busy preparing his testimony at the FOIA hearing explaining why he continues to change his mind about whether my FOIA request has been complied with.