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My wife and I were leaving the polls this evening, having just voted, and I stopped to talk to a Cruz campaigner to see if she had heard any results yet. She was talking to a friend who was there working the democrat side for one of their candidates. I was wearing a tan NRA instructor's cap, which he noted and he started in on me about how I should be supporting Obama because I can carry a gun in the national parks, thanks to his signing that bill into law. I countered, "you know as well as I do that he signed that bill because it had a bunch of credit card stuff he wanted passed, and he wasn't going to get it without that rider, and if he'd had the choice, he'd have rather that not be in the bill." His answer was, "he didn't have to sign it, but he did." I said, "you're right. He didn't have to sign it, but you know as well as I do that he didn't sign it because he supports gun rights. He signed it because of the other things. He got outmaneuvered because he's an idiot. Sure, he could have refused to sign it, and then he'd have to deal with his base, and hades hath no fury like the liberal base denied." He started to rebut, and I just said, "Don't. Don't bother. Your guy is a scalawag. I will NEVER vote for him, or for any of your other candidates. I don't trust your party, the party of race-baiting, class warfare, the nanny state, and statist big government. I regard it all as treasonous."

He looked shocked that I would put it that way, but I was serious. I was not smiling or friendly about it. He left. I don't care if he was offended. He's the one who started in on me, not the other way around. I wasn't speaking to him. He interrupted a conversation I was having and started giving me the business. His party's lies, broken morality, fiscal incompetence, and all their other many sins offend me. People who vote that way, or try to urge others to vote that way deserve not one iota of my good will.