Financial Shakeup this weekend

[AMoore]

Anyone who votes for someone, or against someone, because they are a woman is dumb.  Anyone who votes for someone, or against someone, because of the color of their skin is dumb. 

Anyone who votes for someone just becuase they are a former first lady is dumb.  Would they vote for Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, or Laura Bush.  I think not . . . unless, of course they are doing so because those former first ladies are women. (Note: Clinton has been a Senator only slightly longer than Obama).

Anyone who casts a vote at all, without knowing where their candidate stands on the issues is dumb.

Anyone who casts their vote based on only a sampling of their candidates positions is dumb.  (I'm amazed at how many people choose a candidate based on the abortion / right to life issue, when such a relatively small number of American's are ever confronted with that issue, while we are all confronted with issues such as taxes, war, health care, education, etc.)

This is of course the price we pay for democracy.  If only the learned were permitted to vote, we would have an oligarchy, or an aristocracy.  Such a small electorate would actually be more likely to screw things up than when uninformed (m)asses vote.