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Roy Kim
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February 4, 2008

random thoughts

Best analysis of the MSFT-YHOO merger:

The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster.

Read the whole thing - sums up my feelings perfectly.

. . .

I really hope McCain and Hillary don't win tomorrow. That would really suck if I had to choose between those two (good thing Fred Thompson and Rudy aren't contenders anymore... now if that pesky Huckabee would drop out...). Since I'm a registered Republican (Aaron is gonna skewer me for that comment), I already logged my vote for a certain crazy-uncle for tomorrow's primaries.

Sadly, there's a snowball's chance in hell that Ron Paul will register anything more than a blip; it feels nice to know I don't matter.

Posted by roy on February 4, 2008 at 03:34 PM in Ramblings | 5 Comments

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spaceinthewho
Comment posted on February 5th, 2008 at 11:47 PM
If you already believe that your vote doesn't "matter" when you vote for Ron Paul, then why not vote for someone else?
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roy
Comment posted on February 5th, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Principle. Just because I know Ron Paul won't win the primaries doesn't mean I can't make a statement (albeit a small one) about the issues I think matter.

In any case, I don't like any of the other Republican candidates, so I wouldn't vote for any of them.

McCain is an authoritarian, which is the last thing we need after the expansion of the executive branch under Bush. Huckabee is a religious fanatic who will have trouble keeping that Constitutional separation of state and religion. And Romney is too anti-immigration and pro-business for my tastes.

For all the crazy things Ron Paul says (he doesn't believe in evolution, see all the racist things in the link), I agree with his core tenet: small government. He'd be the most ineffective President since Hoover, but somehow I doubt that'd be a horrible thing (the gridlock between Clinton and the Republican Congress wasn't *so* bad, was it?)
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spaceinthewho
Comment posted on February 6th, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Are people allowed to vote in both Republican and Democrat primaries?

I learned some really fascinating things about US gov't yesterday... but its all very complicated :)
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roy
Comment posted on February 6th, 2008 at 12:17 PM
In the primaries, you can only vote if you are registered to that party (since they are internal elections within each party to select its leader).
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Pete_E (guest)
Comment posted on February 5th, 2008 at 12:39 AM
screw Aaron...if you're voting for Ron Paul I don't care if you're a registered republican or not. :) I too will be throwing (away) my vote to Ron Paul. It's too bad Nader isn't running again...hehehe.
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