My Presidential Voting Explicated Part II

    As a well-healed Republican and newly married young man in the fall of 2000, I voted for George W. Bush, while being coerced by the California teachers' unions to be part of their groups locally, statewide, and nationally, and perhaps all three endorsed the vice president Al Gore. The vote was incredibly close, which came down to Florida. They counted and re-counted, and George won and won again. Al conceded, and the country took back a Republican after eight years of Bill and Co.

    The terrorists brought down the towers and hit us hard, and George took us to Afghanistan and Iraq. He won again in 2004, as I voted for him again, and he beat John Kerry, a Vietnam vet who criticized that war decades before. I was glad Bush stayed in office. Despite heavy criticism about the Iraq War, I was convinced that it was right. Faulty and painful, with so many errors, but the correct thing. But then came a big recession. Kerry and Clinton, both Senators, voted for the Iraq War in 2002, by the way. 

    I voted for John McCain, who beat out my favorite Mitt Romney, but I knew that Barack Obama would win. He was the golden child, and he went on for the next eight years. In 2012 I was able to vote for Mitt Romney from Afghanistan, but he would not overcome the Hawai'i-born president. Mitt missed a lot of opportunities, and I thought I knew how I would have done better. He started too late; he did not campaign smart enough.

    That set up Hillary and Donald in 2016. I voted for Evan McMullin, who actually had a ticket and a place on the ballot. Hillary lost! The Donald won. Wow. 

    2020, I think that Biden was favored by circumstances. J.D. Vance now is one of the smartest complete fools in the world to think that the election was "stolen" from Trump. His Ivy league graduate degree is very cheapened. As is Obama's by his alleged autobiography. It contains fiction. Oh, well. Harvard and Yale cannot be perfect, right?

    This fall I will vote for Evan McMullin again as a write-in, like I did in 2020.

    My, how the time flies! 

    Any questions?