[Preechr]

As an habitual Libertarian vote-thrower-awayer, my whole life is Plan B. I screwed around and voted for a Republican Governor once, just because I thought it would be funny to see Georgia with the first one of those in 100 years (though it wasn't funny... bad me) and then voted for a Democrat Congressman to cancel it out. Both of them won, and I gotta say, it was fun to be on the winning team for a minute.

Either way, no matter who's the next Skull-n-Boner to be in charge on November 3, they can't eat us all at once, and most of us will find a way to go on living just fine. On that fine, future Wednesday, I will drag my sad ass out of bed and go to work because neither John F Kerry nor George W Bush will ever feed my dogs. If I don't do it, they will eventually die... or eat me.

I'll check the paper that morning, though, to see if Badnarik got at least 10%. To know that 10% of my fellow Americans voted against the two-party system, against oppressive and invasive government, against legalized discrimination, against the war or against taxation without representation will probably make me smile and possibly a little hopeful for the future.

I called this election a wash months ago, and I still say we're in for FOUR MORE YEARS. ...after the inevitable months ( at least weeks, but I'm thinking months ) of post-election legal wrangling to bring back all those warm and fuzzy memories of 2000. Meh. I'm looking forward to Hillary vs. McCain in '08. Between those events, I suppose a lot will happen overseas and most things will stay the same here. Bush will privatize this and subsidize that and we'll somehow wind up deeper in debt but no one will care because no one can imagine a trillion. Winning the election will surely give him a clear mandate to continue ignoring everything that's going wrong, but hopefully Saddam's trial will save the Iraqi elections.

Sometime before 2008 this country will be attacked by terrorists again, no matter who's in the White House. The simple fact is that terrorism as a tactic is still effective and it is still being used as a weapon... Plus, we are no more secure today than we were 4 years ago, as security is just impossible. There will be no post-9/11 hugging and global warmness after the attack this time, however. It will be a bitter day in America when it happens, and the President will be the guy that let us all down. After all, the one who wins is the one that was most convincing when he promised to protect us all, right? Those that voted for Bush will regret it and the Kerry crowd... do you think they'll still support him or will he go the way of AlGore?... will be right there to say I told you so. Swap their names around and the sentence works both ways. My question is: Who would want that job?