Who Should I Vote For

Political parties make me crazy. What if I don't want to be affiliated with a party? If I don't affiliate myself, I can't vote in the primaries. This seems utterly unfair to me. I think I should have the right to look at ALL candidates equally and decide who I would like to have the opportunity to run for office. Mind you, I could still only vote for one person to run for each office but at least I could have my pick from any ticket.

Parties divide people. They're like cliques. If you're in one you can't be in another. I'm sorry, I just want to be a friend to everyone. Can't we all just get along? No. But I still like to have options. I want to make my own decision about who I think can best do the job up for grabs in this election and that could be an Independent, Democrat or Republican.

Wouldn't it just be better if we could look at all the candidates without any party association and see what they stand for, making our decisions based on compatibility. I think we should put the candidates on an E-Harmony type system. We'll call it P (for political) Harmony. All the candidates would sign up and complete a profile, being utterly and completely honest about what they believe and stand for. In fact, anybody could sign up - every Joe Schmuck in the Universe could run for office. Of course they would have to pass muster - there would be a test that a person would have to take to qualify to be sure they were up to date on current events, foreign policy, expectations, etc. Then we the people could go to the P-Harmony website and put in our profile. The system would match us to the best candidate for our vote.

Now here's the way cool thing. No stinking political ads on TV. No months of poly talk on television, radio and newspapers. No party or candidate bashing. They could even do their debates on YouTube. Each one would have certain questions to answer and they would give their answers on a video feed. In fact, it could be set up so people could post their own questions for the candidates to answer. Everything is done online in a person's own time.

Instead of an election day, there could be an election week. Each person in their own time would investigate the issues and candidates, and then input their own data for the match. At the end of the week, the guy with the most compatibility matches wins.

This system would truly bring out the best person for the job - the individual the majority of the people participating would like to see run our country. People would still have to register to vote but instead of checking in at the voting booth, each person would be assigned a random CG log in code with their name so no one could steal their vote and those with no right to vote couldn't get in.

Don't fret, I have a plan for those who don't own computers! Not to worry. There would public stations set up at various locations open 24 hours where folks could go do their research, log in and participate.

Who would I vote for? McCain/Palin of course. A couple of non-conformists just like me :-)