Today and you

As the masses of people are waking up today, they go off to vote. I admit that even I waited until about 20 minutes ago to actually look through all the candidates on my ballot -- to even the soil conservation districts -- to figure out who to vote for. And as you are all waking up I want you to consider something.

Don't vote.

I seriously believe that if you have not taken the time or due diligence to at least know who you are voting for and why, you belong nowhere near a voting booth. If you can take the time to visit a blog, you can take the time to figure out who every person on your ballot is. If you can't be bothered to find out who they are, why are you being bothered to drive somewhere to cast a vote that you don't care about?

Yes, people bemoan that half of America doesn't vote, and I fail to see why. An uninformed vote is no better than a non-vote, in fact it may harm more in most cases.

For example, many people vote straight party line simply because they believe that a particular party best represents their views. This is why we have people like John McCain and Joe Lieberman. Joe Lieberman was cast out of his party for not falling in line on one issue (which I will blog about as he wins re-election tonight, and tonight folks, it's gonna be a flurry of blogging from me) while people like John McCain, who is a traitor to this country, is still allowed to be considered a Republican. If you vote simply because you can, you are intentionally trying to minimize your greatest civic duty.

To those of you who did pick a candidate based on the issues and how you feel about them, kudos to you. I join you after your grueling decisions and may the best man win.

Today, I, Ken Lee, blogger for The View from the Fence, endorse the following candidates:

Governor: Peter Hutchinson
U.S. Senator: Mark Kennedy
Attorney General: Jeff Johnson
MVST Constitutional Amendment: NO http://www.stopmvst.org/

I hope to see you all tonight as I will be live blogging and comments will be punched through as fast as I can, as I will be attending the Election Night Policy and a Pint event at MPR tonight.

I also wanted to close that it has been an honor to serve on this blog and discuss the issues with many of you. Some of you have had the great pleasure of tickling my wit ever so slightly, while other have outright assailed me, and I hope everyone can have the great pleasure of discussion in a civil manner.