News From Crawford (Sorry)

Randall Hugh Crawford had this to say in an e-mail to me today:

http://tampatrib.com/News/MGBU3UEHF0E.html

The traditionally conservative newspaper the Tampa Tribune, which has
endorsed the Republican presidential candiate in every election in the
post WWII era (except for 1964, when they endorsed neither Goldwater or
Johnson), has arrived at and announced the decision to endorse neither
candidate in the 2004 race.

They devote a great amount of column space to Bush's mishandling of the
Iraq war, his deficit and the other major issues of the race. They wrap
up in the matter of a paragraph or two the fact that they have certain
reservations about Kerry as well.

First Bush's Crawford county hometown paper choses not to back him, now
a major conservative paper in Brother Jeb's state (which help shoehorn
Dubya into office in '00 ) has nothing good to say abut the President*.

Somehow pollsters keep finding groups of people in which nearly equal
numbers of voters support the Shrub and his opponent. I don't know where
they keep finding these people, who seem to still be wrapped up in the
post 9/11 patriotic fervor that allows them to support anything our
former President's son says or does. But clearly the people who think
for a living, and now including the ones that do not support Kerry,
clearly do not support Bush Junior.

-- Randall Hugh Crawford

To which I add that this is indeed a strange election. Millions hate Bush, millions more strongly distrust him, nobody cares about Kerry. This ought to be a perfect opportunity for Badnarik, Peroutka or Cobb, but alas, you probably can't even assign those three guys to the correct political parties (I could only name all three because I Googled them).

With ballot access difficult for alternative parties and our ballots themselves imperilled, our electoral system is broken, and it needs a major fix. That was obvious in 2000 and we did nothing. I fear it's going to become PAINFULLY obvious next month. Will we do anything about it?