A Call for Dumb Reasons for Voting for Somebody.
I am collecting a list of stupid reasons for voting for somebody. I will start with some and ask for others.
1: I'm voting for him because he's such a nice man, with such a sunny disposition.
2: I'm voting for him because I want a President I can have a beer with.
3: I'm voting for him because he's a family man.
4: I'm voting for her because I like the way she walks.
5: I'm voting for him because I want a President who served in World War 2.
6: I'm voting for him because I like his smile.
7: I'm voting for him because he has a wink just like a little boy's.
8: I'm voting for him because he can play the piano.
9: I'm voting for him because he says he's a good Christian.
Anybody else have some?
Wolf
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Well, not really.
--imm
Some things never change, or repeat themselves as farce. Such as: right-wing characterization of "dumb reasons for voting for somebody" as presented in an 1860 anti-Lincoln political cartoon. Recall that in 1860 the young Republican Party was the "far left" party.
Be careful in making this a drinking game. One shot for every meme that could come straight off FOX will put most people under in short order.
Here Lincoln, sitting astride a wooden rail borne by Horace Greeley, leads his followers toward a lunatic asylum. Greeley instructs him, "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people." Lincoln exhorts his followers, "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted." At the head of the group is a bearded man, arm-in-arm with a woman and a Mormon. He claims to "represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles." The woman looks at Lincoln, saying "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face." The Mormon (how's that for irony? -- JHB) adds, "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality." They are followed by a dandified free black, who announces, "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood." Behind him an aging suffragette says, "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority." Next a ragged socialist or Fourierist, holding a liquor bottle, asserts, "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property." At the end of the group are three hooligans, one demanding "a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco." The second, a thief, wants "the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen." The last, an Irish street tough, says, "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."
