So we have two weeks until the 2012 US Election and here’s the presidential choices:

In the blue corner we have a moderate who got elected four years ago by campaigning as a lot more of a liberal than he’s turned out to be and he has been all but a disappointment to all. However, he’s moderate and will do a fine job of maintaining the status quo for another four years while making just a little bit of progress.

In the red corner we have a moderate who has spent a year trying to convince the religious right that he’s conservative enough to be the GOP nominee and ever since he secured that spot he’s been trying to convince everyone else that he’s moderate enough to be president. He seems to be a huge fan quantum mechanics, but fails to realize that they don’t apply to politics. He takes superpositions, being simultaneously for and against any given issue. He’s also a lot like an ink blot where a lot of people see what ever they want, while the rest of us just see a blob…as it turns out Romney is Rorschach.

With Obama we know what we’re getting and that’s not too bad. With Romney, we have no fucking idea what we’re getting. What we can expect is that Romney would spend his first term doing everything possible to get re-elected and that never works out well. We need a president that has some principle and that’s Obama.

One thing that’s really quite interesting is how much Romney was trying to pin the deficit on Obama in the second debate, while most of Obama’s presidency has been under continuations of Bush’s budget thanks to Congress being unable to pass anything and when Obama finally got a budget passed he reduced spending.

Yes there are more candidates than just the two, but none of them have even the slightest chance of getting a single electoral vote, so don’t waste your vote, unless you’re in a state that leans so far to one side or the other that your vote doesn’t matter (at least in the presidential election) in which case I couldn’t care in the least how you vote.

In local politics, make sure you know the issues and become familiar with your candidates. There’s a decent chance that you’ll have more than one good choice who can represent you well in local affairs.