Torture

MasterDoc has come up with a new way to torture me – getting me to register republican. Now, in all fairness he didn’t force me to do this. There was never a command or demand made. But there was reasoned arguments and persuasion (and perhaps a little nagging). The whole point is to support a particular candidate in the primaries – Ron Paul. He’s a libertarian, running on the republican ticket and I have to admit that I like a lot of what he has to say about getting out of Iraq. (And MasterDoc had me read this piece the other day. He said it was seemingly written for me.)

Now, I’m sure that hell has now frozen over with my mailing out the voter registration form with “republican” ticked off as my party. I’m so far left that for me, on a conservative day I registered with the green party. I usually consider myself a libertarian socialist. I’ve only ever been registered to vote as independent or green.

It’s funny, I have a republican ex-boyfriend who would LOVE to hear this story. I’m half tempted to call him. Ha ha. He shocked me once by saying he might actually register democrat. This would shock him to no end but then he’d probably say something like “you’ve finally seen reason.” Funny thing is, I’m registering republican to vote for a fairly radical candidate. So perhaps my doing so is a somewhat radical move, not entirely out of line with my ideals. I dunno. You can rest assured that at the first possible moment after the primaries I’m getting switched back to green or independent.