There’s a local State Senate race between Democrat Ira Ruskin and Republican Steve Poizner (which has been the clear winner in political mailings in these here parts). Ceej summarizes many of my feelings

A few words about the Poizner, Bereuter, et al.

And in Doonesbury we read about retiring GOP Congressman Doug Bereuter, who has broken ranks and bitterly condemns the justification for and the handling of the invasion of Iraq.

I have two words for these guys: “Fuck off”.

They both are self-identified Republicans. No one made them claim alliance with the devil, no one made them pronounce their one-ness with unspeakable evil, and no one stopped them from renouncing their party when their party was taken over by bat-shit loon-ball Neo-Conservatives. They have chosen to stand where they stand and they should not imagine that man nor God will be confused about what that ultimately represents.

Especially Bereuter’s death-bed confession should come in for a thorough drumming. If he thinks mistakes were made, and he knows that he made them (he was on the intelligence committee), he should be a mensch and step up to redress them.

I’m beginning to think I’m one step beyond Yellow Dog at this point. I’m beginning to think I’m a Dead Girl Democrat. Edwin Edwards, the “colorful” (read: corrupt as all get out, but with a folksy style) Louisiana Governor was quoted as saying, “I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.” Well, fuck ’em: at this point I’ll vote for the Democrat who gets caught in the bed with the dead girl, because this is no longer about one race for one little pissant position, be it local dog catcher or State Senate or what.

This is about getting Nancy Pelosi elected Speaker of the House. This is about putting the brakes on the runaway train of corruption and cronyism of the Republican party. This is about reintroducing some damn social values to our country, rather than the mantra of “I want mine, I got mine, fuck you!”

(And you know what’s truly amazing? I forgot to sign up as a Democrat the last time I registered to vote. I won’t forget that again.)

So, I’m doing my part as a loyal little card-carrying (yes! I got a card in the mail today!) DNC foot soldier to go out and there and valiantly freep* the online polls to the benefit of My Candidate. I did it for all three debates, despite not being able to watch a one of them (for a variety of reasons—I have all of them on TiVo though!).

And guess what? Sayonara, online polls: Of the 20 or so sites I’ve clicked on, only one asked who won tonight’s debate. Instead i found instant polls asking me if the debates changed my mind, or if I think domestic affairs or foreign affairs will play more heavily in this election.

I think the answer to who won was a foregone conclusion.

(*Freep comes from “Free Republic,” a truly abhorrent online society of ‘wingers who make the John Birch Society look like the Young Campus Communists. They are notorious for voicing such delightful sentiments as that anyone who doesn’t goosestep with them should be shot as a traitor. They also are fond of voting in online polls en masse—that damn Frenchy talk again—because Wolf Blitzer or whoever would always announce the results of the completely meaningless online poll as though it were handed down from the Mount. So now online polls get “freeped” by both sides. Although Kerry won by gigantic margins in the previous online polls, so maybe there aren’t enough Freepers out there…)

Go RIGHT NOW to FOX News and look at the picture of Kerry and Bush.

That’s the picture of the two of them on FOX’s site.

If Bush has lost FOX, he’s lost.

(My entry about Simon’s EEG will follow soon.)