Posted by
Steve on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:38:06 PM
Today is Super Tuesday. We are voting here in Arizona. Our ballot is very long because of a silly law that says that anyone that fills out an application and turns it in can be on the ballot. There are about 20 names on the Republican ballot. It is difficult to find the candidate that you want to vote for on the ballot because the serious candidates are mixed with the silly ones. They should split the candidates into two categories, one for candidates with votes in other states and one without. That would make it easier to find the candidate of your choice.
My daughter stopped by this morning, to have me take her to the polling place. Usually the polling place is nearly empty. Today there was a line. There must have been 10-15 people in front of us. By the time she got to the front, the line was about 8 people long. That does show that there is some interest in this race. My daughter was excited to place her first vote. The poll worker noticed that she was bouncing and that I was with her and did not vote. She asked if this was my daughter’s first vote. I said yes. She then said it was good to see young people take an interest in voting. My daughter voted for Ron Paul. She picked him for precisely the same reason that I did not pick him, the war.
My hope in Arizona is that John McCain does not make it to 50%. If he cannot take a majority in his home state, with really only two candidates, he is in trouble. That John McCain will win is not even in question. All the polls have him winning with a 40-23 margin. That is an easy victory, but in your home state, where you are still a sitting Senator, it is a poor showing.
Running down my family: my wife is an Independent, My oldest son and his wife will vote for Romney, my next oldest son will vote for Ron Paul, the next three are not registered and my youngest voted for Ron Paul. I like Ron Paul’s positions on many issues. The only one I disagree on is his stand on the war. He believes that if the US ignores Islamo-Fascists, they will stay where they are. I believe that if we ignore them, they will come here and start killing us in our streets. It is better to kill Islamo-Fascists in their countries, than killing them in ours. The other thing with Ron Paul is there is a kook factor that kicks in when he talks.
Nationally, things are looking good for Romney. Yesterday, McCain tried to pull another dirty trick. He got Bob Dole to write a letter to Rush Limbaugh. Then McCain’s people leaked it to the media and spun it that Bob Dole rebuked Rush and endorsed John McCain. That is not what was in the letter at all. Rush talked about it today on his show. I did not get to hear the letter read, but I heard most of Rush’s commentary. McCain is also trying to say that Romney is attacking Bob Dole’s patriotism when Romney said that Bob Dole ran a poor campaign for the Presidency. Both are poor attempts at making Romney and Rush look bad. In the end, the both make McCain look bad on the one issue that most people were giving him a pass, his integrity. McCain is acting more and more like the Clinton’s. That is not a good comparison, especially when one is coming from the Republican ranks.