Code Neon Blue!

But the steam must have deleted my mental files. Dang.

I remember the basic stuff, of course. I was taking an opening bang or two on a drum I will probably be pounding quite a lot as I blog along: are we so sucked in by the idea of “winning” to beat our “enemies” in the GOP that we don’t care at all what kind of candidate we end up backing?

Later on, as I was looking through my Firefox bookmarks, I ran across one with a similar theme. What if Gore hadn’t been shafted by the Supreme Court and had taken office in 2000, but then something had happened to him? Do the words “President Lieberman” make your blood run cold? If I’d thought about that while I was still in the bath, the water probably would have iced over!

Obviously we DO have to win elections if we want to have a say in creating a decent future for everyone. But it’s just as obvious to me that if we adopt the “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing” mentality too fully, well…we might score a lot of points. But we won’t win much worth having.

So that was basically it. Tell me what you think. Maybe I will write it up better on my next try. In the meantime, I’m going to go check eBay for a waterproof notepad.