what is this supposed to say?

I think the guy I've been corresponding with at the Toyota dealership may actually be 14. Or just not a good speller.

Today he sent an email that said, among other things:

please come by and see the scions, they have been selling beisk

I don't have the slightest clue what "beisk" might be, but I do agree the Scion seems a cute and relatively reasonably priced carthing.

here's a radical notion.

Maybe I should vote for Bush.

It would be a dangerous bet, of course, but I'm thinking that in four additional years, assuming we're all so focused on him that we forget to vote reasonable folk into the legislative branch, he might really succeed in turning the country into something resembling a military theocracy. At which point everyone will feel dangerously and radically liberal, both in comparison and response to the government.

In other words, things will have gone so dramatically to hell that middle of the road Americans will find themselves wondering why gay people and women and people of any non-white color are still such second-class citizens. Why they themselves still feel like second-class citizens. And then, maybe, we'll have a brilliant groundswell of liberalism.

Alternately, nothing dramatic at all will happen, because liberals will be so pissed they actually start turning out to run for and vote for state-level positions and legislators, who then block every idiot idea W releases.

Meanwhile one of the left-leaning candidates from this year's Democrat pool will have had additional time to build a grassroots liberal organization with even a tenth of the lobbying power of the Christian Coalition in the early 1990's. And either that candidate or Hillary Clinton (who, let's face it, is totally running for president as soon as she reasonably can) will win in 2008. So the country will swing to the left-of-center position (or lefter) that reflects the true feeling of most people who can vote, and we might have the added bonus of a chick president and a return of the eight year party that was the Clinton I regime.

Look. It's pretty clear that the country swings left to right and back every four to eight years. So, if the choice is either Kerry, followed by a Bush-like clone, or Bush again, followed by someone truly liberal - or at least interesting - the risk of the latter option might just be outweighed by its rewards.

That said, I'd still have an easier time staying home in November than casting a vote for Bush.

yet more reasons to vote for bush

Since posting my last bit on Bush v. Kerry, I've thought of a couple more reasons to abstain from voting for Kerry (assuming that's what the competition came down to).

For one, it would keep the other happy activist liberals more engaged if they had a truly crappy president to deal with. We'd keep a better eye on Georgie than on a Democrat. And I think there's something to this city-wide civil disobedience thing we're seeing in San Francisco. We may be on the verge of something big, and I don't want complacency over a halfsies Democrat to wreck it.

For another, given that people tend to vote liberal legislators into power when we have a conservative president and vice versa, it would set the 2008 Democratic president up with some other lefties (who couldn't be voted off the island for a couple of years) to work with. That would make it reasonably easy to quickly eliminate all the ass-nutty things Bush will have set in motion during his tenure (many of which won't have even come to fruition yet).

But seriously, I wonder if it's really a good idea to vote for Kerry if it comes down to him v. Bush. What do you think?

emily's list

I'm refocusing my election year efforts on the Congress. I gave my first candidate donation via EMILY's list today (to pro-choice South Carolina education superintendent and Senate candidate Inez Tenenbaum). EMILY's list supports pro-choice and women candidates for a variety of offices, does voting drives & educates people on how to run campaigns. People they back tend to win, as far as I've seen.

I figure, if there isn't anyone running locally, the least I could do is send some money elsewhere to make the House and Senate a little more liberal.

So, if you're looking for a way to productively channel your Bush-hating, contribute to a campaign in your state or use EMILY's list to find someone you support elsewhere.