- I do see the importance of voting, I just don't care this time because it's between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich.

- Don't you see, it's always between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich, those are the only people who suck up enough to make it that far in politics.

South Park started their new season last week. I just got around to watching it last night, and it was spectacular. I didn't know where they were going at first, but they ended up doing some good satire on our current political process.

Now it's election eve, and this has been a tough year for me. Like a lot of people I know, I believe Bush has been nothing short of a disaster. And during most of this campaign I didn't feel so hot about Kerry either. Kerry really pulled it together for me in the debates, and I feel much better about him now. But I've always been very picky about my vote. I try to vote for the candidate that I believe most embodies my positions and cares about fixing the things that I think are broken in our society.

In the past this has led to a lot of votes for third party candidates. I really dislike the two party system. I believe it reduces the level of debate in our country and causes large segments of the population to have no significant representation in their government. I believe that without this representation people get unengaged in the system, causing the low voter turnout we hear so much about as well as some of the wacko's in survivalist camps with lots of guns that we hear about from time to time when something tragic happens.

I have been dedicated to casting votes to candidates out of the mainstream to show my support for these ideas. I understand we have a huge system, and change is slow, but little bits like casting my vote for what I believe in helps. It's that classic third party line: Vote your conscience, not your fears.

This year is different for me. My fears are too large, another Bush term is too much. This makes me angry. I feel like I need to compromise my principles in the voting booth tomorrow because this time it's not the single party with two heads you often hear about, it's not the lesser of two evils, it's absolutely horrible vs at least he'll be better.

Most of the time I can live with either major candidate, which frees me up to vote my hopes instead of my fears. This year the fear is too much, and I can't stand it. I guess until today I really was one of those undecided voters you hear so much about. But no more, I've made my piece with compromising my principles for the greater good, but having to do that makes me that much angrier at Bush.

On a lighter note, I have two tidbits to share.

I was at a Halloween party Saturday night and met a woman who had perhaps my favorite anti-Bush piece of kitsch yet. A wallet that read: If Bush weren't white, he'd be in jail by now.

If you're looking for a good game to play tomorrow at your Election Party I've got one for you. Every time Bush wins a swing state, down a drink! That way by the end of the night you'll either be buzzed and happy if Kerry is winning, or depressed and hammered if we have four more years of this clown (you could of course easily modify if you're a Bush supporter, but I doubt your still reading if you are.) Define "swing state" by how much you feel like drinking.

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