Election Day has arrived

One advantage of having a newborn is that I haven’t been able to be completely bombarded by the pre-election insanity. On the Presidential level, issues stopped being discussed after the last debate, and we’ve only been subjected to Palin’s wardrobe, Joe the Plumber, and Obaminfomercials. On the local level, we have pretty much the standard career politician “experience” vs. newcomer “change” or simply following the standard national party line and trying feebly to apply it to the local/state level.

Here are my picks for the races that apply to me.

President of the United States: Bob Barr. I’m a registered Republican so I can have a say in the primaries, and my candidate of choice, Ron Paul, was left at the starting line without a chance. I can’t help but wonder how things might have been different had the Wall Street meltdown happened a few months earlier, and have a real fiscal conservative providing a different viewpoint on bailout being the “only” option. So what’s a conservative in New York to do? Obama’s out of the question. He reminds me of another “rock star” Democrat that everyone fawned over for months – Eliot Spitzer. Since McCain has no chance of winning New York, my vote will go to attempting to let the Republican party know just how out of touch they are. I want Republicans to go back to being the party of small government and lower taxes (for all).

United States Representative; District 27: Daniel Humiston. Let’s face it, Higgins has no chance of losing. So why make him feel too comfortable? I’m hoping to help Humiston crack the 10% barrier.

State Senator; District 59: Kathy Konst. Volker has to go. Career politicians are destroying New York State. I, along with the majority of people in Erie County, voted for DiPietro in the Republican primary, but Volker has his district so gerrymandered that it’s nearly impossible for a newcomer to convince all the people Volker has handed out pork to that they need a change. Volker has run a campaign of old timer thuggery that has no place in the future of this area. We all have a second shot at ousting him now.

State Assembly; District 146: ? There’s a race for Jack Quinn’s seat? Really? If it wasn’t for SmartVoter.org I wouldn’t have ever known.