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Posted: 11/1/2006 12:00:30 PM EST
OK, here's my general voting philosophy:

I'm going to grab my ankles and vote for not-very-RKBA-friendly Republicans 90+% of the time because, on the whole, the Dems are [still] anti-gun.

I do believe in the protest vote, but for pragmatic reasons/purposes, I'm not going to vote for a Libertarian (or any other 3rd party candidate) if it'll draw enough votes away that a pro-gun Republican will lose to an anti-gun Democrat.

Now, off to the races.......

I. Atty General:
  • REP: Greg Abbot

  • DEM: David Van Os

  • LIB: Jon Roland

Here's the thing with the AG race.  More than anything, I don't want to vote against Abbot (and probably won't), as he's "A+" rated by TSRA ("A" is a candidate who answered a questionnarie perfectly or an incumbent who has no votes against RKBA; "A+" is reserved for incumbents who have "carried the torch" for TSRA, so to speak).

That said, I would probably prefer a libertarian (small "l") approach to the AG's office.  I like a lot of the stuff Jon Roland's written, especially on the Second Amendment (example from his website: "Intent of the Fourteenth Amendment was to Protect All Rights, 2000.").

And, if I go "all in" on Roland, who ends up leeching too many votes from Abbott, and Van Os gets elected, I'm not exactly going to wind up with a dead man's hand because, well, Van Os is a TSRA "A" candidate himself......  I probably won't like his DEM approach to a lot of other traditional lib DEM shit, but *sometimes* "them's the breaks".  If you can't make a damned omlet without breaking a few eggs, just how many eggs will it take to fix a Republic?




II. Almost all of the judiciary candidates......

In my districts, a lot of the races are between REPs and LIBs, so I can "protest vote" for the LIB to send a message to the REPs, and there are no real losers........

or are there?

I certainly don't want to vote against a pro-gun REP, as that might send the *wrong* message.




III. State Rep

So far, I am voting for one DEM.  And in a race I never thought I'd vote for a DEM....... State Rep.  Delwin Jones is currently my rep, and I've voted for him every time prior.  That said, even with the incumbent's advantage, he's only managed to get a "B" rating by TSRA.  His challenger, John E. Miller is a DEM (profile at PVS).  Also a "B" rating by TSRA.  But he's also an NRA Life Member (1968-), and a retired LTC, USAR.

I have talked to the Jones office about 10 times in the last 2-3 years regarding 2A/RKBA legislation, and I've always gotten a very lukewarm reception.  They never seemed to think gun issues were as important as I did (although in his defense, he voted the way I wanted him to about 1/2 to 3/4 of the time).

I haven't pulled the lever (so to speak) yet, but it's what I'm ready to do.  I've been working on my sample ballot for the past three days.  If I shouldn't do it, talk me out of it.  I know the main reason not to do it is that, no matter how RKBA-friendly *he* may be, he doesn't represent the party, and a vote for him is a vote toward giving the Sheila Jackson Lee types the majority.
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