I remember exactly where I was when I decided I couldn't support Gavin's run for Governor of California. It was June 29, 2009, and I was sitting in my living room watching MSNBC. Does that date mean anything to you? Well, that's the day South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford told the world he wasn't actually hiking the Appalachian Trail over the National Nude Hiking Day weekend, instead he'd been in Argentina just cold kickin' it with his special lady-friend.
That's when I decided I was sick of it. I supported John Edwards as VP nominee, and in his 2008 run for the presidency. I supported Gavin Newsom (not in his election, but in nearly everything since then) in running the city & county of SF. I thought Elliot Spitzer was really smart and knew how to kick "bad-guy" butt on Wall St. I was only a kid, but I was a big fan of Bill Clinton back in the day.
And I'm sick of it all. I'm a huge dork, but I get really into the political debate in this country. And while this is a democracy and we the citizenry get to voice our opinions every so often, the rest of the time our elected officials are supposed to be our champions, our chosen defenders in all the things we care about in this great country. So I'm sick of our chosen national (and local) defenders taking our trust and dashing it.
Now, as long as no laws were broken, these folks should of course remain in office. Hell, you know what, if somehow, these people (can I just say "men"? They're always men.) actually aren't in any way doing something wrong (like FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt's set-up), then I don't care. But if these people are lying and crushing their best friends and dying wives and what have you, then I want no part of it.
If someone gets elected and then makes a mistake or whatever, I'm willing to accept that. But I don't want to see it coming and just go along with it. It's crap, and I'm out.
Alright, getting off this soapbox now, thanks for reading.
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