Long, boring anti-Orrin Hatch post
When I moved to Utah in 1995 I was a Republican.
Those of you who just figured out that politics matter and who have chosen the Democrats, don’t get your panties in a knot over this. The Republican party of the early to mid 1990s was not the same Republican party that you see today. In fact, that era of the Republican party more closely resembles today’s Democratic party. Back then, Democrats were suing Dead Kennedys for the poster in their Frankenchrist album, banning non-PC books from schools, knocking gasses off of the Greenhouse Gas lists and defining marriage as being between a man and a woman.
The latter two, by the way, were brought to us by Bill Clinton. Don’t believe me? Look it up. The whole parental warning label and objectionable content hubbub a la Frankenchrist was Tipper Gore’s brain child. I’m not sure who started banning books, but it was definitely being spearheaded by the Dems.
So naturally, when there was a chance to change the guard I did what I felt at the time was the right thing to do: I voted for Bush in 2000.
The story goes downhill from here. I won’t bore you with it, don’t worry.
Love him or hate him, Bush is out of here in 2008 and I hope he will be the last of his kind to live in the White House. Knowing how lazy your average Democrat is, I’m sure this wish will only result in disappointment. (People, by taking the lazy way out and not voting in 2004 YOU VOTED FOR BUSH. NOW do you understand why people are so intent on getting you to vote?) Regardless, one can wish.
Barring the unlikely event that Democrats get off their lazy asses and elect a Democrat in 2008, the most effective action we can take against out of control neoCons is firing their poster-boys. This won’t be easy.
In Utah, Orrin Hatch is almost automatically elected to the Senate. No matter how much the guy sucks (and he DOES suck) he manages to be re-elected every time without breaking a sweat. However, in the mid-term elections later this year, if we’re lucky we can at least make him sweat a little.
Pete Ashdown, local Internet entrepreneur and funny looking guy, is running as a Democrat against Hatch in the 2006 mid-term election. He won’t win. I don’t say that because I don’t want him to win — I do — but he won’t. What he will do, hopefully, is send Hatch and the rest of Utah a message: nobody is so entrenched that they can’t be (eventually) toppled. The fact that Ashdown isn’t a career politician, rich lawyer, close relation to an existing entrenched politician, or any other kind of insider will be icing on the cake.
Not that anyone gives a rat’s ass, but I’m endorsing Pete Ashdown for the Senate. Take that however you want.
And for the record, I have no more love in my heart for today’s career Democrats than I do for Republicans. Don’t kid yourself, they all suck, they’re all too connected and entrenched to give a damn about you, and they all need to leave. I just feel a more urgent need to slap the neoCons at the moment.
