{"id":6446,"date":"2010-07-03T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2010-07-03T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T19:27:03","slug":"running-rand-paul-sharron-angle-and-michael-steele-through-a-proposed-voters-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/07\/03\/running-rand-paul-sharron-angle-and-michael-steele-through-a-proposed-voters-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and Michael Steele through a proposed Voter’s Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have pondered this idea of a voter’s guide for these United States.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit depressing, but Rand Paul puts its usefulness in stark relief — and he is not the first politician I’ve seen have trouble with this issue<\/a>.
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna pass on the age of the earth. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just gonna have to pass on that one.<\/em><\/p>\n

My voters’ guide idea starts with the base-line question “How old is the Earth?”\u00c2\u00a0 The candidate who answers 4 and a half billion years, and I am not a stickler for exactitude, will get the endorsement over the candidate who answers 6,000 years.\u00c2\u00a0 If they both answer 6,000 years, nobody gets the endorsement.\u00c2\u00a0 If they both answer 4 billion years, we go on to the next answer with a smidgeon of satisfaction.<\/p>\n

I am not sure what the next question would be.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I’ll ask to guage a level of outrage at efforts to remove “under God” from the Constitution, but that feels like a bit too much like a trick question<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I do think I need a bridge question of some sort to get to my next Voter’s Guide item: a rapid fire succession of queries about whether various scenarios fall under “God’s Will<\/a>“, an idea prompted by Sharron Angle and her exchange?\u00c2\u00a0 The endorsement goes to the person who answers “yes” the fewest number of times.<\/p>\n

Then again, for overall Party Choice to fill out the ballot beyond the reach of politicians I can’t finangle to answer this voter’s guide questioneer, I can go to the Chair Person of the Party and see how he (she, theoretically) defines the Afghanistan mission.<\/p>\n

But the thing about Michael Steele<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0—<\/p>\n

I remember seeing this tv show, a cheap Summer temporary replacement deal, with the premise of having two contestants given a retail job, the goal of which was to get fired as close to the end of the workday as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a premise that sets up some interesting dynamics — you can’t get fired too early, but have to start collecting negative chits toward the direction of being fired, against co-workers and management who are prone to be patient for a launch.\u00c2\u00a0 I think Michael Steele just may be on a show like that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have pondered this idea of a voter’s guide for these United States.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit depressing, but Rand Paul puts its usefulness in stark relief — and he is not the first politician I’ve seen have trouble with this issue. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna pass on the age of the earth. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}