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Retreat or Surrender?

08/13/2012

In the face of overwhelming odds, the smart tactician knows when to retreat, and eventually, when to surrender. He weighs the benefits of counter attack or falling back to a fortified position. Basically, the idea is cut losses in order and maximize what can be gotten.

 

Today, I feel like a company commander under siege after the announcement of Paul Ryan for VP. Every media site and social media is filled “informed” punditry blabbing about how this affects the race. Worse yet, every moron (re: far-left or far-right wingnut) with a computer is trying to tell me how their viewpoint is now valid. It isn’t that they have anything new to say, rather that they now feel justified in recycling old stories and explaining how it is now relevant.

 

Enough! I surrender.

 

When it comes to national politics, probably the only perk of living in Hawaii is that I can ignore the presidential contest. Here are the reasons:
  1. I don’t have any national following as a blogger so I’m not going to be swaying voters in a battleground state.
  2. Unlike some people I know, I understand that social media rants don’t sway voters.
  3. Regardless of how I vote, President Obama will win in a landslide in Hawaii.
  4. Even if I’m wrong about #3, the 4 electoral votes that can be won from our state will never make a difference.

Here are the benefits:

  1. I can concentrate on races and issues that actually affect my life.
  2. I get to speak to an audience that is more likely to listen to my reasoning.
  3. I don’t have to read another biased article about or rambling transcript of Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachman, or that lunatic Congressman from Texas. I left that one intentionally vague due to the large number of people who can fit the category.
  4. I can stop pretending that Obama is a native son instead of the product of a snobby, elitist prep school who turned his back on the state he grew up in. (but that’s just my opinion)

Don’t get me wrong. I won’t be able to swing a dead cat without catching something appalling on the news, internet, or Facebook. I just know that I can safely ignore it without any guilt.

I’m not suggesting that any of you do the same thing but, to paraphrase those wise Oompah Loompahs:

Oompa Loompa do-ba-dee-da,
Listen to me and you will go far.
You will live in happiness too,
Like the oompa loompa do-ba-dee-doo.

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