Boston Goobernatorial Race...

[LMNO]

There was a debate last night...

Deval Patrick (D) - Incumbent.  Hasn't done enough to make any sort of difference, but is trying to convince everyone he has.

Charles Baker (R) - Thinks cutting taxes and trying to eliminate $100M from the budget will boost jobs and eliminate a $1B deficit.  Doesn't seem to realize that a billion is a THOUSAND million, and slashing the budget will create unemployment.

Tim Cahill (I) - Really likes Arizona's immigrant civil rights abuses laws, and wants to implement them here.  'Nuff said.

Jill Stein (G) - Thinks that there is too much focus on big buisness and not enough on the root causes of youth violence and poverty.  She was completely unprepared to answer the majority of questions thrown at her.


So, there you have it.  Another election year, and four useless choices.

[Suu]

...Do we live in the same state?

Wait...nm...THAT'S a stupid question.

[LMNO]

   Feels like it though, don'it?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Stein did a better job at the debates in 2002. But that might have been due to the fact that O'Brien ignored her, Howell, and Johnson completely, so that she could get into a nasty shouting match with Romney (who, to his credit, at least acknowledged the third party candidates once)

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I also think that it's interesting the way you can spin something. Like last night Patrick and Baker were talking about the need to eliminate positions.
Wait- like, creating more unemployed people? I thought you guys were trying to ease unemployment.

Oh right, people don't like to pay taxes, and it's more important to not pay taxes than have an income. X% of zero is still zero.

[Suu]

LET'S COMPARE.

John Robitaille (R) - One of the Rhode Island's handful of Republicans. Never heard of him, he apparently has no credentials because I can't find anything. He's also, you know, Republican, and after 8 years of Don Carcieri, I don't see us having another one anytime soon.

Frank Caprio (D) - State Treasurer. You know, the guy that signs our income tax checks and somehow managed to put our state into near-bankruptcy.

Lincoln Chafee (I) - Former US Senator. Former Republican and a general waffler.    Whatever. We're doomed anyway.

We also have like 6 other independents running.  

[Nephew Twiddleton]

LET'S COMPARE.

John Robitaille (R) - One of the Rhode Island's handful of Republicans. Never heard of him, he apparently has no credentials because I can't find anything. He's also, you know, Republican, and after 8 years of Don Carcieri, I don't see us having another one anytime soon.

Frank Caprio (D) - State Treasurer. You know, the guy that signs our income tax checks and somehow managed to put our state into near-bankruptcy.

Lincoln Chafee (I) - Former US Senator. Former Republican and a general waffler.    Whatever. We're doomed anyway.

We also have like 6 other independents running.  

Write in Toyama Koichi?

[AFK]

There was a debate last night...

Deval Patrick (D) - Incumbent.  Hasn't done enough to make any sort of difference, but is trying to convince everyone he has.

Charles Baker (R) - Thinks cutting taxes and trying to eliminate $100M from the budget will boost jobs and eliminate a $1B deficit.  Doesn't seem to realize that a billion is a THOUSAND million, and slashing the budget will create unemployment.

Tim Cahill (I) - Really likes Arizona's immigrant civil rights abuses laws, and wants to implement them here.  'Nuff said.

Jill Stein (G) - Thinks that there is too much focus on big buisness and not enough on the root causes of youth violence and poverty.  She was completely unprepared to answer the majority of questions thrown at her.


So, there you have it.  Another election year, and four useless choices.

Are there any tea party groups backing any of the candidates?  I would assume it is the (R) or the (I). 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

There was a debate last night...

Deval Patrick (D) - Incumbent.  Hasn't done enough to make any sort of difference, but is trying to convince everyone he has.

Charles Baker (R) - Thinks cutting taxes and trying to eliminate $100M from the budget will boost jobs and eliminate a $1B deficit.  Doesn't seem to realize that a billion is a THOUSAND million, and slashing the budget will create unemployment.

Tim Cahill (I) - Really likes Arizona's immigrant civil rights abuses laws, and wants to implement them here.  'Nuff said.

Jill Stein (G) - Thinks that there is too much focus on big buisness and not enough on the root causes of youth violence and poverty.  She was completely unprepared to answer the majority of questions thrown at her.


So, there you have it.  Another election year, and four useless choices.

Are there any tea party groups backing any of the candidates?  I would assume it is the (R) or the (I).  

No. All of them are Beacon Hill insiders except for Dr. Stein.

ETA- Gov Patrick is the Governor, obviously, Cahill is the Treasurer and recently left the Democratic party, Baker worked for Govs. Weld and Cellucci, and the Green Party is too socialist for the Tea Party.

[AFK]

Well, if it's any consolation, the picks for Governor in Maine this year suck too.  We have a flakey Dem who seems to want to focus on environmental issues instead of our unemployment issues.  We have a GOP who definitely is from the tea party mold who seems to me a full-time resident of crazy-town.  Then there are some Independents who are about as thrilling and interesting as a wet mackerel.  No offense to wet mackerels.  I didn't think it was possible for us to have a worse Governor than Baldacci but I think I'm about to be proven wrong. 

Maine, The Way Life Used To Be - Get Out, Get Out While You Can!!!!

[Jenne]

  I'll trade you any of those for Gerry Brown and Meg Whitman...

[Nephew Twiddleton]

  I'll trade you any of those for Gerry Brown and Meg Whitman...

Hell, I'll take Jimmy Carter. At this point at the very worst, he'll at least be entertaining.

[East Coast Hustle]

Well, if it's any consolation, the picks for Governor in Maine this year suck too.  We have a flakey Dem who seems to want to focus on environmental issues instead of our unemployment issues.  We have a GOP who definitely is from the tea party mold who seems to me a full-time resident of crazy-town.  Then there are some Independents who are about as thrilling and interesting as a wet mackerel.  No offense to wet mackerels.  I didn't think it was possible for us to have a worse Governor than Baldacci but I think I'm about to be proven wrong. 

Maine, The Way Life Used To Be - Get Out, Get Out While You Can!!!!

I dunno, Cutler does kind of come off as a dead fish but he also seems to have a reasonable grasp of the economic issues and isn't a raging retard on the social stuff like LePage is. At this point I'm voting for him unless he gives me a reason not to. In which case I won't vote for anyone.

[Juana]

  I'll trade you any of those for Gerry Brown and Meg Whitman...

Meg Whitman makes me want to kill things. Jerry Brown is a silly man. I'm going to write in the goddamn Prince.

[Suu]

What does New Hampshire look like? Maybe it's time we give up fighting with Connecticut over borders and join NH like the state constitution says. At least we won't be taxed on anything.