Hold your nose and vote…

Yesterday Joe Biden was named winner of the Wisconsin primary and if you missed that bit of news it’s probably not your fault. It wasn’t mentioned in my local newspaper or on their website.

That’s the kind of news coverage that inspired the cartoon above.

Hard to run a political campaign when you can’t hold rallies and if you do manage to do something noteworthy it gets ignored because the news media is busy covering the coronavirus and the last batshit crazy thing Trump said at a news conference.

But that’s not the point I wanted to make and this is:

Despite numerous misgivings, if Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee I’ll probably vote for him. Same way I felt about Hillary Clinton. There are lots of reasons to not like Joe or Hillary and I imagine that’s the way a lot of people feel about the politicians they vote for.

In my mind, a vote for a candidate does not automatically mean I endorse 100 percent of everything that candidate has done or will do, it just means I think Candidate A. is slightly less screwed up than Candidate B.

Even though I know they exist, I don’t understand Kool-Aid drinkers of either party. Believing in a politician so completely that you accept, endorse and defend anything and everything they do takes faith I don’t have.

I believe in a lot of things: politicians ain’t on the list.

So come Election Day I’ll do the same thing most of you will – hold my nose and vote.