{"id":32217,"date":"2012-01-05T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=32217"},"modified":"2014-12-30T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:11:07","slug":"gotta-love-simcha-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/01\/gotta-love-simcha-fisher.html","title":{"rendered":"Gotta love Simcha Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/simchafisher.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/05\/why-im-voting-for-romney\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Support Mitt Romney!  Because he will only do a little bit of harm!<\/a>  You really should read everything Simcha writes.  She\u2019s fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>She captures perfectly the \u201cMan, this guy sucks but he\u2019s the least sucky of a sucky field of suckish candidates\u201d mood of the electorate.  With the exception of true believer Paulites, I seen nobody talking about their candidate (even Obama) as though they support him.  They merely talk as though he might act as a barrier against the still more terrible other candidates their party has on display, or against the unthinkably awful alternative of the Other Party winning.  As I say, people no longer vote *for* candidates.  They vote <em>against <\/em>all the other people they fear even more.  Could there be a more damning assessment of the detritus our Ruling Classes cough up for us to rubber stamp?<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to vote for candidates who, at the very least, do not ask me to support grave moral evil.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/a-reader-asks-about-the-act-of-voting\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Since my vote will have absolutely no effect on the election, but a huge effect on me, I think this the prudent thing to do.  <\/a>You should too.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support Mitt Romney! Because he will only do a little bit of harm! You really should read everything Simcha writes. She\u2019s fantastic. She captures perfectly the \u201cMan, this guy sucks but he\u2019s the least sucky of a sucky field of suckish candidates\u201d mood of the electorate. With the exception of true believer Paulites, I seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gotta love Simcha Fisher<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Support Mitt Romney! Because he will only do a little bit of harm! You really should read everything Simcha writes. She&#039;s fantastic. 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