Around this time of year people often ask me who I’m voting for. There’s even more to discuss this year after those legal filings regarding the Donald’s scurrilous behavior on Jan. 6, 2021, were released last week.
But that’s the wrong question. The real question is what I’m voting for. Or to put it another way, the question is what I’m voting against.
In that regard let me offer this exercise: Make a list of all the government policies you dislike. Then go down that list and put a check next to the name of the candidate most likely to curtail them. On Election Day, pull the lever for that candidate.
No need to tell anybody who you voted for; that’s why they pull that curtain around the voting machine. But don’t vote based on such silly concepts as integrity and character. A candidate with those qualities has no chance of making it through the nominating process.
I offer Ron Paul as Exhibit A for that thesis. The Texas congressman was as honest a politician as I’ve ever met . But in 2012 the Republican Party machinery swept him aside in favor of Mitt Romney.
Remember him? He was the guy who as Massachusetts governor pioneered the approach to health care that formed the template for Obamacare - and then ran against his own program when Barack Obama took it up. And whatever you do, don’t vote based on personality. It was often said of George W.
Bush that he was the type of guy you could sit down a have a beer with. But he didn’t drink. If he’d spent his .
