Despite what amounts to cautionary advice from my buddy Seamus, I went ahead and took a candidate matching poll. My love matches are, inexplicably, Mike Gravel, John McCain and Dennis Kucinich. Hunh?
Okay, I admit there was a time in my young democratic socialist days when I defended the boy genius of Wherever, Ohio. But who is Mike Gravel? Why can't I be matched to someone cute, like Edwards or Obama? Or at least Richardson? He's not really my type, but he has his Bill-Clinton-swaggering-excesses way about him. I'd have a beer, act a little goofy. John McCain? I once admitted to a friend of my mom's, a veteran of the Korean War, that my boyfriend had made me a quilt for Christmas, and I got 45-minutes of gay-bashing, Army recruitment love advice. I sort of imagine that sort of conversation with McCain, even though I admire his fake evenkeeledness. So much what you think Kurtz might be if he came out of the jungle.
Fortunately, I was able to get what I wanted over at Select Smart (yeah, I don't know what it is either). Phew. My top three are DK, Barack and someone named Alan Auguston, whose campaign has already been suspended. That sounds about right for my success rate, candidate-wise.
4 comments:
what kind of secret Republican leanings do you have? Has exposure to the BPN beaten you down? Too much time with unions? Scorn for Burning man seeping into your politics?
I took the USA today poll and got DK, Bill Richardson and your honey Barrack. Yeah, that's about right.
My belief for both socialized medicine and the free movement of labor apparently aligns me closest to ... Mike Gravel! More horrifying, however, is the appearance of Giuliani 3rd on my particular table; the only political figures I like less than Giuliani are Pol Pot and Nancy Pelosi. Egad.
I'm from the same Wherever, Ohio as Kucinich. It's Cleveland, btw. He is my Mom's rep. Which makes me so happy. Let me explain why. Cleveland is a vast wasteland of depressing grayness and decline. The folks who used to hold good union jobs and once paid their tax dollars into the public treasury (and the manufacturers they worked for) are gone or work at Steak and Shake for minimum wage. So the public infrastructure is crumbling. The local government is corrupt and unreliable. And why not, since there isn't a single public policy option that can pull Cleveland out of the abyss it has fallen into. Still, we have a portion of the population still willing to vote for a UFO-seeing, vegan-eating, government-is-the-solution eccentric like Kucinich. The West side district he represents isn't Berkeley, yet folks there vote for a guy who is, with a change in attire, more Berkeley than Rustbelt. And I think he'll win there as long as he wants to run. It tells me that hopeful rebellion still lives in the heart of America's saddest, poorest urban wasteland. Sorry about the Lord of the Rings reference, but I think Kucinich is Cleveland's Frodo. A rusting city's little furry-footed champion, taking on a hopeless mission, carrying the hopes of a beset people, who fear the fall of an eternal darkness.
Listen, I like and admire Kucinich as a state representative, and I agree that its amazing that he keeps getting reelected (I also think its amazing that a 6 foot redhead is in love with him). But WHY IS HE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?
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