Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little subby.

tuffsnake: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little subby.

and cynics

GAT_00: In other news, the voters are stupid.

I don't think they're stupid, it's just our politics has come to reflect our consumerist culture -- with numerous candidate 'brands' for essentially identical products.

I don't have any doubt we were better off when parties picked candidates in closed door conventions.

Kazan: GAT_00: In other news, the voters are stupid.

Remember the intelligence of the average American. Then remember you're in rural Iowa and heavily religious. Then remember these stupid people vote and because of an arbitrary process, they are really important.

Then fear for our country.

idiot. don't talk about iowa when you know nothing about the state. even the rural areas are heavily liberal in the eastern third of the state. the state only voted republican for president once in the last 30 years.


3:5 Democrats in the last 30 years.

You forgot coin flippers.

/don't blame me. I voted for Kodos

the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads

...people whose heads get stuck in jars when they eat pickles, people who lose arguments to babies, people who jump up and down on frozen lakes to check if the ice is strong enough to hold them, shaved gorillas who somehow acquired driving licenses...

/still one of the all-time great Daily Show bits. Seems to be unavailable in Canada now.

Dancin_In_Anson: You forgot rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shiat-kickers and Methodists.

...and FARK Conservatives.

/Let us not forget those noble torch bearers of Liberty.

If you had half a brain, you wouldn't be an "undecided voter."

Truly the most passive-aggressive demographic of our society.

Dancin_In_Anson: You forgot rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shiat-kickers and Methodists.

What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

I hope you all realize undecided voters are the only thing that keeps our voting system from being a pure numbers game. At least with undecided voters it's a numbers game where X% of people don't have a dedicated stake in a specific result.

Barakku: I hope you all realize undecided voters are the only thing that keeps our voting system from being a pure numbers game. At least with undecided voters it's a numbers game where X% of people don't have a dedicated stake in a specific result.

Then they shouldn't vote. Period.

"Undecided voter" is a nice way of saying someone who is too lazy to do any research on a candidate but still feels obligated to vote.

I have zero respect for or comprehension of how someone can take a 16 month campaign process and still decide on the last day. I realize the vast majority of people aren't reading FARK every day of the week, but to be as oblivious as your average undecided voter takes effort.

American voters have passed through the propaganda version of a mechanical meat separator. They come out with an opinion, they don't understand how or why. They can't defend it. They can't speak on it past a few well crafted PR memes. But goddamn it if you try to change their mind they'll dig in and start sounding like someone who belongs in a place to keep the general population safe from them.

This is the perfection of propaganda that is orders of magnitude stronger than the self respect the average person can muster to form their own opinion. It's sewn up on the voter side. Sure you get to pick between two corporate puppets in the end, but that's all just part of the machine.

I probably won't bother voting, does that make me decided as in I've decided not to bother, or undecided cause I don't give a rat's ass.

I seriously don't understand how anyone can be "undecided." The two parties are so radically different that I can't fathom how anyone could have trouble deciding between the two. I kinda, just barely, understand how someone can vote Republican (though I don't understand how anyone can actually buy into that ideology and still tie their own shoes), but being undecided?

Do I vote for the establishment party that will maintain the system of government that has brought us relative peace and prosperity for a century? Or do I vote for the zealotic ideologues who hate everything about the 20th century and desperately desire to turn America into JE$U$LAND?

I dunno. More than 50% of Democrats would have to endorse mandatory baby eating and forced sodomy before I'd consider voting for anyone else...and I'd leave the country before voting for a Republican. It's not a choice between the lesser of two evils, its a choice between politicians, with all that entails*, and complete farking wackadoodle maniacs. The Democrats could be ten times as corrupt as they are right now (which is pretty corrupt) and I'd still consider them infinitely less dangerous to the future of America than Republicans.

*politics: from the latin, poly meaning "many" and "ticks" meaning blood-sucking parasites.

"Know Nothing" is the new PC term for "functionally retarded" , amirite?

DarnoKonrad: tuffsnake: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little subby.

and cynics

Cynics? Sounds like orc mischief to me!

So a year away from the election and people who have not swallowed the party bullshiat are called derogatory names? How about a name for the people who have already decided: sheep.

skepticultist: I seriously don't understand how anyone can be "undecided." The two parties are so radically different that I can't fathom how anyone could have trouble deciding between the two. I kinda, just barely, understand how someone can vote Republican (though I don't understand how anyone can actually buy into that ideology and still tie their own shoes), but being undecided?

Do I vote for the establishment party that will maintain the system of government that has brought us relative peace and prosperity for a century? Or do I vote for the zealotic ideologues who hate everything about the 20th century and desperately desire to turn America into JE$U$LAND?



These are the people going undecided into caucauses/primaries, not the general election....where it's not the more binary choice, but a veritable rainbow of whackjobs to choose from in the Republican race. A smorgasbord of clowns.

OgreMagi: So a year away from the election and people who have not swallowed the party bullshiat are called derogatory names? How about a name for the people who have already decided: sheep.

Actually, those who have decided have weighed the issues carefully and have made the best decision.

Undecideds need a slap for being such egotistical attention whores who keep pretending they can't make up their minds.

whidbey: OgreMagi: So a year away from the election and people who have not swallowed the party bullshiat are called derogatory names? How about a name for the people who have already decided: sheep.

Actually, those who have decided have weighed the issues carefully and have made the best decision.

Undecideds need a slap for being such egotistical attention whores who keep pretending they can't make up their minds.

You can't weigh the issues carefully since the candidates haven't even been picked. It's entirely possible (though unlikely) that the GOP will choose a moderate who is preferable to the voters in the middle (the bulk of the undecided) over Obama.

ultraholland: the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads

OgreMagi: whidbey: OgreMagi: So a year away from the election and people who have not swallowed the party bullshiat are called derogatory names? How about a name for the people who have already decided: sheep.

Actually, those who have decided have weighed the issues carefully and have made the best decision.

Undecideds need a slap for being such egotistical attention whores who keep pretending they can't make up their minds.

You can't weigh the issues carefully since the candidates haven't even been picked. It's entirely possible (though unlikely) that the GOP will choose a moderate who is preferable to the voters in the middle (the bulk of the undecided) over Obama.

I'm not talking about now, I'm referring to the idiocy we're going to hear next year if what you're saying comes to pass.

They still do not earn any respect by pretending they can't make up their minds. If you can't handle Obama, and the Republicans are still too weird, STAY HOME. No, your write-in or "protest vote" means nothing but a waste of resources.

The only time a politician is interested in a regular, non-one-percenter is right before he votes. These folk are just trying to milk it a bit. Can you blame them?

FloydA: OgreMagi:
You can't weigh the issues carefully since the candidates haven't even been picked. It's entirely possible (though unlikely) that the GOP will choose a moderate who is preferable to the voters in the middle (the bulk of the undecided) over Obama.

It's too late for any new Republicans to enter the race. That moderate would have to run as an independent or third party.

He must mean Romney or something.

The only reason I vote anymore is so that I can actually voice my opinion on politics without some self important smarmy jackhole pulling the old "Well, you didn't even vote so you're part of the problem" argument out of their ass. It's a self preservation thing. See, I don't want to go to jail after I put my foot up their ass for saying such a monumentally retarded thing. You took five minutes out of your day to take part in a broken and corrupt system wherein you chose between millionaire sociopath #1 and millionaire sociopath #2. Stop acting like it makes a bit of damn difference or that you're somehow better than someone who's sick of the whole circus and who'd just rather not be arsed.