I woke up at 5:30 AM CST. I checked in on a few websites and watched the second quarter of Monday Night Football from last night while I ate breakfast. I kissed the wife goodbye as she left for work about 6AM. Then, at about 6:15, I got the kids up and got them all dressed for the day. I told them we were going to vote and if they were good I'd buy them some donuts.
They agreed.
I arrived at my precinct polling place at about 6:45AM. There were 5 people standing in line outside of the building. We hurried out of the car and jumped in line. In the next 15 minutes, the line grew behind us by about 20 people.
At about 7:02AM, they opened the doors and we all made our way into large open community center. We formed a single file line. The check in process was slow. It took another 10 minutes to process the 5 people in front of me. I'm so glad I showed up early. (By the time I left it was about 40 people long and this was at 7:15)
I got checked in and made my way to a booth. It was a paper ballot with a pen to fill in your selections in bubbles to the left of the candidate's name. I skipped the first square that gave the option for a straight ticket. I skipped the presidential election box. The next box was for US Senator. I couldn't bring myself to vote for a democrat although I entertained the notion for a few weeks. I couldn't vote for the Republican John Cornyn because he voted for the trillion dollar bailout bill. So, I voted Libertarian.
I voted L's and R's on the state officials. Then it was time to go back and fill in something for President. I couldn't vote for Obama. If anything, because he voted for the bailout bill. I couldn't vote for McCain because he voted for it too. I wasn't inspired by Bob Barr so I didn't want to vote for him by default.
So....
I did what I said I was going to do 6 months ago: I wrote in Ron Paul. (forgive me mother)
BTW, we got donuts on the way home and they ate them up before school started while watching Imagination Movers. 2 glazed and 2 chocolate....gone in 60 seconds.
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I love the fact you took Madi and Grace with you to go vote. I think it will be a lasting memory for Madi and such a good example for her. What a great daddy she has! I couldn't have picked a better man to marry.
~Sharon
You are forgiven for the Ron Paul vote. I was frustrated with John McCain also for dropping everything and running to DC to vote for the porker or all porkers.
Good job on taking the girls with you to vote. Once when I voted I took a toddling little boy with me and the newspaper photographer took a shot of us behind the curtain, my legs and yours. The picture ran in the newspaper. Like Mother like Son...Love ya lots, Mimi
That should say porker OF all porkers. Oops!
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