D'oh

Spotted in The Onion:

You might think it's funny, but it's disrespectful to submit write-in candidates like "Don Knotts," "Mickey Mouse," or "Michael Badnarik."

And in the funny-but-sorta-awful-and-sad-because-it's-true category, a story headlined "Republicans Urge Minorities to Get Out and Vote On Nov. 3." That's likely inspired by these flyers, which circulated during the 2002 midterm elections.

Comments

[Jayne]

I am fairly certain the fine people of Minnesota learned this lesson the hard way. How else do you think Jessie Ventura was elected?

[Akria MacKenzie]

"If you live in Florida, for Christ's sake, look at the ballot very, very carefully this time."

Amen.

[Jason Bourne]

Akria MacKenzie,

Another sound bit of advice would be this: Punch Harder!!!!

[joe]

"If you are black and a resident of Florida, work out two or three alternate routes to your polling place to avoid police checkpoints."

Almost as funny as the New Republic's blurb about Florida's elections - "The people of Iraq face many serious challenges as they try to organize an election. But at least they don't have to contend with Jeb Bush."

[SR]

The line about alternate routes might not be far off, given this BBC report:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm

[al]

This one is much funnier:

"Keep in mind that the name of every person who votes against George Bush is going to be read aloud on television the next time we're attacked by terrorists."

[joe]

BTW, no one wants to watch that sweaty bald guy flex his ass.

[dhex]

sounds like someone's not ready to master his own bodyweight, eh? 🙂

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Is that bald guy one of the Reason editors??

[thoreau]

I like this one:

Remember to vote, or P. Diddy will kill you.

[thoreau]

SR-

That article was interesting, but Salon.com (hardly a fan of Bush) did its own investigation and concluded that the "caging" reference is to a marketing term, and that the list was of addresses where mail was sent by the GOP and then returned.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

[SR]

thoreau, I don't particularly care about the situation in Florida, I was merely pointing out a news story that seemed somewhat relevant to the joke.

[Isaac Bartram]

"The people of Iraq face many serious challenges as they try to organize an election. But at least they don't have to contend with Jeb Bush."

Hopefully they won't have incompetents like the Supervisors of Elections in Palm Beach, Broward and Dade Counties.

[Mo]

The new electronic voting machines are complicated. But don't worry: Octogenarians will be on hand to troubleshoot any technological problems that might arise.

Hey, that's the same system Reason uses for their comments.

I kid, they're much better now.

[Akria MacKenzie]

Speaking of Florida, someone tried to run down Katherine Harris today:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=11&u=/nm/20041027/us_nm/campaign_florida_harris_dc_3&sid=96378800

[joe]

Is that under "entertainment" or "sports?"

[JDM]

'Is that under "entertainment" or "sports?"'

What happened to "ideas have consequences?"