You know an election stinks when you go into it with the attitude that you’re voting for someone because they’re not someone else.  The last couple of presidential elections have been like that for me and now this mid-term election has turned into a nose-holder.  I honestly don’t know squat about Roger Sharpe, who’s running against incumbent Virginia Foxx in North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District.  Perhaps I don’t know much about Sharpe because he raised about $4 for his campaign and thus has aired maybe one commercial at 6 a.m. on public access TV and his website isn’t that informative (although it’s better than Foxx’s), but to be honest I don’t need to know that much about him for one very repugnant reason: he can’t possibly be worse than Foxx.  Here’s why I really don’t like the job my Representative has done:

• She was dumb enough to go to Iraq this summer and come back and say to the local paper that based on her extensive discussions with soldiers during her day or two spent in the Green Zone things were going swimmingly in Iraq.
• She was petty enough to freeze out the local paper on all campaign-related coverage because they reported what she said.  If she’s going to act like this she really isn’t ready for the big leagues of politics.
• She voted against Katrina funding, saying that there needed to be more oversight of the spending.  She was probably right about the need for more oversight but she lost her legitimacy about this particular argument when she didn’t make the same argument for war funding.
• On immigration she wants to bake her cake and eat it too.  She says she wants no amnesty for illegal immigrants and wants to build a wall, but she also says that we need to help businesses that depend on immigration. I haven’t seen anything where she’s said we should show no amnesty for those companies that employ illegal immigrants.  Wait, those would be her campaign contributors so I guess that wouldn’t be a good position.

There are more, but that’s enough for me.  Actually there’s one last reason I won’t be voting for her: someone at GOP HQ thought it would be a good idea to have a Rush Limbaugh recording with a tired "Nancy Pelosi is going to kill your children" message tele-spammed to my house. If they’re using that Oxy-addled, limp-***ed, blow hard for a lock election then they’re worse off than I imagined.

If you need to find me tomorrow I’ll be the guy with the gas mask on at the polls.