Tomorrow is Election Day, and I have never been less excited about it. Hell, I was even more excited about 2006 and 2008, and those elections had nothing that didn’t suck. At least those two years I hoped for a positive change afterwards; in 2006 the hope of Democrats taking Congress pushing Bush to the right was worth being excited and in 2008 I was actually excited about the Republican candidate for Congress in my district (Georgia 8 at the time). This year, NOTHING. My Congressional District is a lock for the worthless Democrat rubber stamp Gerry Connolly, the race for Senate features Ed Gillespie, and across the country I see mostly crappy Republican candidates.
First, here in Virginia we have a Democrat in Mark Warner who votes with Obama 97% of the time (including supporting ObamaCare) but has, in the past, campaigned as a “moderate” “bipartisan” Senator. He’s no such thing. He’s a leftist like every other Democrat. On the other side, we get Ed Gillespie. Holy crap what a horrible candidate. I know absolutely nobody who is actually excited about Ed Gillespie. Don’t get me wrong; I’ll vote for him (every Democrat deserves a vote against them from me, plus the faux-Libertarian candidate sounds like a Democrat plant most of the time). But there is absolutely no reason to be excited about a Bush flunky and GOP Establishment hack like Ed Gillespie. He just sucks.
Nationally, look at the races. Who is out there to be excited about? Greg Brannon, Chris McDaniel, Milton Wolf, Matt Bevin…all defeated by the GOP Establishment. There is no Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, or Mike Lee. The GOP Establishment spent millions of dollars to defeat real liberty-minded candidates in favor of senior citizen-held seniority from the barely-alive Pat Roberts and Thad Cochran, plus the power-holder in Mitch McConnell. The closest thing to an exciting candidate is either Joni Ernst in Iowa or Tom Cotton in Arkansas. But even with those two (who I do believe will be decent Senators), the end result is the same: Mitch McConnell will be the Majority Leader in the Senate. John Boehner will still be Speaker of the House. And neither the House nor the Senate will use the power of the purse—the power that is supposed to be wielded to make the Legislative Branch the most powerful in American government—to stop the Obama Administration’s left-wing assault on America. McConnell and Boehner will do absolutely nothing to rein in spending, debt, the welfare state, runaway abuse of Executive power by the Obama administration, or to expand liberty or shrink the size of the regulatory state. They will occasionally issue a press release telling everybody how angry they are, but they don’t have the cojones to actually FIGHT for liberty…primarily because they care more about their own power than about your liberty. They may even work WITH Obama to push for amnesty for illegal immigrants. So no, there’s nothing to be excited about there. Yes, I’ll vote. Yes, I’m pushing my wife to go vote. But I’m not excited. And I see no reason to believe that this election will actually change anything because the Republicans (as usual) don’t have the cojones to fight Obama.
Of course, a year from now I’ll be living in Hoboken, New Jersey, the city rated as the second best city in America for leftists, so it’s not like my own electoral choices get any better. When Chris Christie is as good as it gets, you look to the rest of the country to save the Republic. I’ll probably even be a registered Democrat just so I can pick the least-bad Democrat in their closed primaries. So y’all work on saving America from the folks who will be surrounding me. Plus, the thought of a 2016 Jeb Bush-Hillary Clinton election just makes me want to leave the country anyway.
On a side note, I know that I haven’t done a podcast in a while; my sincerest apologies. With the upcoming move, we are actually in the process of packing, and my basement mancave studio has already been mostly packed. There probably won’t be another podcast for a while. So I’m sorry, but don’t expect to hear another podcast soon. I’ll try to tweet more often to make up for it, and pick it up again after my move in January.
