Reasons I'd Write in My Dog's Name Before Voting for Gore
October 25, 2000
1. Gore's signature on a memo to the Russian Prime Minister, agreeing to ignore U.S. Law so
the Russians can sell arms to Iran -- arms that may well be used against Americans, or
against our allies in Israel or elsewhere. I know it's harsh, but I keep thinking of the T-word.
1a. The Russian Prime Minister's request that Gore break another law and not
tell Congress, a request that Gore granted.
1b. The refusal of Gore or the White House to provide the memo to Congress,
spinning it as "old news" even though this is patently false.
1c. The fact that the press is so fanatically supportive of Gore that they haven't
even treated this obvious Constitutional crisis as news. Instead, they
treat it as a Republican ploy to embarrass Gore right before the election.
What they forget is that even if the timing is partisan, Gore signed the
memo and hid it from Congress and the people. This tells us what we
can expect from the press during a Gore presidency -- Gore could
commit any crime, and neither we nor Congress would ever hear about
it from the press.
2. Gore thinks he's smart, when in fact he is so functionally dim that it hurts. He has given
himself over to manipulation by the American intellectual elite, a group that has
institutionalized political correctness, without question and without evidence. Even in
Congress he manipulated hearings in order to suppress facts that might bring
politically correct bushwah into question. Nothing is more dangerous than people
who have all the answers without ever asking any questions.
3. Gore's fibbing whenever he spots a chance to make himself look good. After eight years of
meticulous, nit-picking lies from one "president," now we get one who just sprays 'em
out like spit? No thanks.
4. "No controlling authority." Gore apparently believes that laws are only binding when
there's someone to punish you if you're caught. So his oath of office is meaningless to
him.
5. Gore's lack of a core. There's no "him" inside him. Whatever it did to him, growing up as
his father's son, he is trying endlessly to invent a self that will be good enough. But he
doesn't believe in any of them. That's why he's so wooden and stiff. He uses his body
like a puppet as he flails around, trying one script after another. I hope someday he
finds out who he really is -- and being out of office for a while may be his only chance.
6. He has learned too much from Clinton. He knows how to "triangulate" his opponents, and
he knows the press will go along with the scam. No one who stuck with Clinton after
he betrayed his oath of office deserves the trust of anyone in America ever again. It's
obvious that they all place their personal ambition higher than their duty to the nation
they pretend to serve. Gore is one of many who fit that description ... but he is the
one running for president.
7. Gore as commander-in-chief. Clinton has weakened our military in every way it can be
weakened: Morale, materiele, overcommitment, loss of prestige, and criminal misuse
without regard for the cost in foreign lives. Gore's ventures into foreign policy suggest
he has learned Clinton's law: Foreign policy is just a tool in the toolbox of domestic
politics. Do whatever will play well at home, regardless of law, regardless of decency,
regardless of consequences down the line. With luck, someone else will be president
when the bills come due. All that matters is the next election.
8. It's time to break the power of the American press and show them that they can't fool all
the people, all the time. We've had an aristocracy long enough -- especially
considering how credulous, how useless, how shortsighted that power elite has proven
itself to be. Let's try the democracy thing again for a while, where the people are told
the truth and make up their own minds, instead of having all the self-appointed smart
people decide for them and then lie about it so the people don't find out what's being
done in their name, with their money, to their futures, to their children.
Any one of these reasons would be enough to tempt me to vote for a Republican, especially
when the Republican is a decent guy who is in the process of transforming his party into
something that an ornery American can live with.
But when I look at all these reasons in combination, all I know is that in all conscience I can't
vote for Gore under any circumstances. To me, he's as impossible a choice as, say, Buchanan.
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