Yeah, I hear you. My guess is that most people with intelligence and character
would rather not subject themselves to the gruelling scrutiny of the media and
its tabloid-journalism tendencies (i.e. not whether you can lead, but whether
you smoked weed in college 30 years ago).
I'm reminded of a quite from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, saying in
effect that anyone who can manage to get themselves elected President should on
no account be allowed to do the job. :)
Most of our recent high-profile political candidates illustrate that quite
nicely!
-=Chris
Chris King - cbking@alum.rpi.edu
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kvcbk/
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From "Tracey Converse" <tconverse at centurytel.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:48:32 -0600
>Don't you wonder sometimes where the losing party find their candidates? I
>swear, sometimes I wonder...is THAT all you could find to run for office?
>Tracey
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <RBHouston@aol.com>
>To: <cbking@alum.rpi.edu>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>; <DLancer7676@cs.com>
>Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:34 AM
>Subject: Re: [midgetsprite] NO LBC
>
>
>> In a message dated 03/07/2003 6:29:10 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>> cbking@alum.rpi.edu writes:
>>
>> > Hey, I vote, but when your choices are limited, what do you do? "idiot 1
>or
>> > idiot 2, hmmm?" ;)
>> >
>> > Actually, in the last election, there were some county and boro spots
>that
>> > only had one name on the ballot. Not much of a choice, huh? :)
>> >
>> > -=Chris
>> >
>>
>> This was part of the reason I was a registered Democrat for so many years.
>> In Texas in the 60 and 70's most elections were decided in the Democratic
>> primary.
>>
>> Republicans were so few and far between that most local choices and even
>some
>> state races were unopposed. Actually that has not changed much in El
>Paso,
>> TX, but I vote in NM.
>>
>> Robert Houston
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