The Fallacy of ‘None of the Above’
Allen January 23rd, 2008
For a long time, I’ve said that I would like for all elections to have a ‘None of the Above’ choice. That way, if ‘None of the Above’ won, all of the candidates would be barred from running for office for 3 or 5 years. They would be told that perhaps they need to get a bit more ‘real world experience’ and to try again in a few years.
While that sounds like a nice way of letting those gas-bloated wind-bags what we really feel about them, a recent essay by the Anchoress has changed by mind.
If Ronald Reagan were alive right now, watching the GOP split into these tantrum-throwing factions (whereby “perfection” is duly defined as “pro-life, pro-gun, pro-free-market, pro-worship, pro-Bush-doctrine, pro-tax-cut, pro-ship-back-all-illegals” and then, as each less-than-perfect candidate’s failure on one or more issues is noted, each are thus deemed unworthy of the support of the pristine and uncompromising “base”) I think he’d be disgusted with the lot of you.
Perhaps that ‘None of the Above’ would be come ‘None of the Perfect’ and we never finish this interminable campaign.
As a note, the Anchoress is ready to leave the Republican party to become an independent again. I’m arriving at the same conclusion from the other side of the mirror. I’ve about decided that the Democratic party is no longer the party for me.
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