Except if you're going to vote for the governor who has plans to destroy my university. In that case, stay home. Or change your mind and vote for the other person.
Voted in PA for the first time in 28 years. A Sarah Palin lookalike standing 10 feet from the door of the polling place thrust a list of Republican candidates into my hand and I said, calmly and quietly, "I would rather shoot off both my knees standing here in front of you than vote Republican." She did not blink. Neither did I.
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Except if you're going to vote for the governor who has plans to destroy my university. In that case, stay home. Or change your mind and vote for the other person.
"Except if you're going to vote for the governor who has plans to destroy my university."
-It sounds like you and I are in exactly the same situation.
Let's hope our respective universities survive.
Done.
I voted and now I'm fucken drinkin'!
Done. And I'm with CPP (in spirit, that is).
Voted in PA for the first time in 28 years. A Sarah Palin lookalike standing 10 feet from the door of the polling place thrust a list of Republican candidates into my hand and I said, calmly and quietly, "I would rather shoot off both my knees standing here in front of you than vote Republican." She did not blink. Neither did I.
Governor Toomey? Yecchh ptooey!
Hope and change!
JackDanielsBlack
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