{"id":25465,"date":"2016-05-31T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25465"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:00:57","slug":"i-may-even-vte-this-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/i-may-even-vte-this-november\/","title":{"rendered":"I may even v*te this November!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Now that momentum is building for the one true &#8220;DC outsider&#8221; candidate, an independent who&#8217;s bound to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2016\/05\/31\/i-may-even-vte-this-november\/smodbumpersticker\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SMODBumperSticker-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"SMODBumperSticker\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smod2016?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Meteor O&#8217; Death<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/funny\/comments\/4lq0bb\/finally_figured_out_who_im_voting_for_this\/\" target=\"_blank\">distinct advantages<\/a> over both The Hillary and The Donald. <\/p>\n<p>I was even going to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1r0Jdya\" target=\"_blanK\">bumper sticker<\/a>* for this outstanding write-in candidate. In the end, I quailed at the price and did not order. Yet the price does hint, at the very least, that SMOD is a sincere believer in capitalism &#8212; at least in the &#8220;whatever the market will bear&#8221; wing of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>What? You think Sweet Meteor O&#8217; Death** might even be more unpredictable than Trump, more bloody than never-met-a-war-I-didn&#8217;t-like Clinton? You don&#8217;t want to &#8220;waste your vote&#8221; with a write-in?<\/p>\n<p>Well then, there&#8217;s always the newly minted Libertarian Party ticket. I was sorry to see the colorful John McAfee loose out this weekend (though perhaps just as well; it would be rather inconvenient to have one&#8217;s candidate of choice extradited in the middle of the campaign to face murder charges in a pipsqueak country), Gary Johnson ain&#8217;t bad. <\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Weld\" target=\"_blank\">William Weld<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?extend.7150\" target=\"_blank\"><i>William Weld???<\/i><\/a> &#8212; as VP? Well, at least that might win the ticket some v*tes in Massachusetts. I hear they&#8217;re not too picky about what they consider &#8220;libertarian&#8221; in that desperate corner of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m standing tall with SMOD (until I&#8217;m squished flat <i>by<\/i> SMOD). And will be continuing my search for an affordable bumper sticker or lawn sign until Doomsday. Which, if enough of us v*te for our favorite candidate this November, may come sooner than we think!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>* Don&#8217;t miss the product reviews.<\/p>\n<p>** I have just been informed by alert Commentariat members that SMOD and Giant Meteor are <i>two different meteors<\/i>. I decry this obvious and crude attempt to divide the Killer Meteor v*te. Clearly a craven ploy of some political trickster from the Establishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Now that momentum is building for the one true &#8220;DC outsider&#8221; candidate, an independent who&#8217;s bound to make an impact. Yes, Sweet Meteor O&#8217; Death has distinct advantages over both The Hillary and The Donald. I was even going to buy a bumper sticker* for this outstanding write-in candidate. In the end, I quailed at the price and did not order. Yet the price does hint, at the very least, that SMOD is a sincere believer in capitalism &#8212; at least in the &#8220;whatever the market will bear&#8221; wing of capitalism. &#8212;&#8211; What? You think Sweet Meteor O&#8217; Death**&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/i-may-even-vte-this-november\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I may even v*te this November!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}