Derailing your own candidate

There's a documentary called Can John Smith Get to Washington Anymore? where a young man appropriately named John Smith is running against a man from a strong political family for congress. In the end, John Smith loses the race, but his career as a politician actually gets jumpstarted during the next election because of his previous run. Anyway, during the movie, Smith is calling people about voting for him and one person states: "If I get another call from a politician, I'm voting for the other guy." To this, Smith quips something about calling this guy back AS the other guy.

That's what I want to talk about today. I have a friend of mine who is OVER enamored with Obama, so he's made it his personal mission to get the guy elected. Rather than just work on his campaign, he's made it so much of an issue that you can't even speak to him without Obama becoming the majority of the conversation.

Now, I sleep with my cell phone on for two reasons. One, I use the alarm function to wake up on time, and two, some people do need to get in contact with me quickly sometimes, and I have no problem with that. But 6:30am begins the text messages of "Vote Obama for change!" from this "friend". Yes, a text message wakes me up just like a phone call. That's one thing about my prior service in the Army. I wake up to a pin dropping.

So, do people even realize they're jeopardizing their candidates by pissing off everyone around them? I'm half tempted to vote for Hillary, even though I have vowed never to vote for her. I won't, but at least you get the point. If I was on the fence, I certainly would have fallen over to the wrong side of what was desired by the person trying to garner my vote.

Stumble It!