GET OUT THE VOTE!

[TaraJo]

I'm starting to see that old meme of "both candidates are pretty much the same" come up. Personally, I disagree with it. The last time I remember this many people trying to claim that both candidates were basically the same was in 2000. Because of that meme, Dubya was elected and look what he did: ran a budget surplus into a record budget deficit, stated two wars, one unnecessary the other avoidable if he had paid better attention to his intelligence briefings, alienating most of our foreign allies, high ranking government positions given exclusively to cronies even if they're incompetent (like Mike Brown), laisse Faire capitalism combined with big government bailouts...... As much as I'm not fond of centrist Obama, I'm well aware that Romney can make things much worse.

Although, in a long-term sense, part of me hopes Romney wins though. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with anything on the Republican platform, but Romney is a centrist, too. If him winning the election can bring the Republican party back from the brink of insanity and turn them from the crazy party that's talking about legitimate rape into a reasonable party that I may still disagree with, I'm all for it. I worry that if Romney looses, which seems pretty likely according to most polls, in the next election the Republicans will nominate some far right whack-job, he'll win and he'll drag the Republican party even further to the right.