RoyGBiv wrote:Longest wait I've had early voting (about 15 minutes from entering the building to exit). They had every booth open. Early voting has usually been only a dozen or so booths open here, with a 5 minute start-finish time. Today they had about 35 booths and a short wait.
After voting, I had to take an antacid, several rounds of tic-tacs and when I got home I brushed my teeth. Still tastes bad.
While I respect anyone's choice not to vote for any candidate, I don't agree with it. Having gone through the process since the Goldwater days I am not always enthralled with the candidates offered up. I consider myself a very principled person with values that in many area are antithetical to Donald Trump as he is portrayed. I do share many of his views on the state of our country and his plan to improve it. My choice is, like I believe many others, based on voting against a known quantity with a proven track record (or lack thereof) in the political world and corruption. Not the way I would liked to decide who I vote for, but for what I believe is the better choice and for the good of our country I willingly voted.
As for the other choice, I have a leg up in having spent a lot of time with a federal government employee based in and from Arkansas whom I met when Bill Clinton was running for his first term as POTUS. What he described to me reminded me of an infamous doctor in Pasadena, Tx ,who, per my best friend's father who was also an MD, said would do anything for a dollar. Such as perform plastic surgery that he was in no way trained to do among other things. This particular doctor had his partner, who complained about him bringing his race horse into the OR for a procedure,
murdered as he walked to the parking lot of the hospital they jointly owned. Though convicted, it was later overturned on appeal and a retrial ended up in a hung jury I believe. The men he hired were convicted. He didn't mend his ways, though, and later kidnapped his ex-wife, then hired an assailant for an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate her husband. He was convicted for that. In the words of my friend's father he told them to include him "out" when they offered him a partnership. When the guy I knew from Arkansas described the Clintons I immediately thought of the situation I have described.
