Never been much of a joiner...

I've never been much of a joiner in my life. Closest thing I've ever come to a real, honest-to-gosh team is either my driver's ed class or the 3 jobs I've had. I'm one of those guys who prefers to hang with my back to the wall at the far edge of the crowd and just watch.

Today marks 60 days until the midterm elections. Thus, all support given to any political candidate is strictly prohibited, even in print or on the internet. Voicing your opinion favoring one candidate over another is considered the same as a campaign contribution, and in order to make the electoral process more fair, those two *expletives* John McCain and Russ Feingold authored a bill to prevent such horrible exercizing of one's rights. A majority of both houses of Congress voted to pass this bill. Then President George Bush Jr. signed this bill into law. Then 5 Supreme Court Justices upheld this law.

According to McCain-Feingold, exercizing my God/Nature/Other-given right to say whatever I damn well please on a blog of my creation is illegal. If I post anything indicating a preference for one candidate over another, I'm a criminal.

Well screw that.

I'm here to tell you I prefer Libertarians over Republicans, and Republicans over Democrats. I'd rather see Mark Green elected governer of my benighted state than see Jim Doyle remain in office. I'd rather see John Gard take his place than Steve Kagen, the retarded looking Nancy Nusbaum, or that spineless whiner Jamie Wall.

It is my absolute, inalienable, un-infringeable right to say that, and I will NOT brook any interference in my exercise of that right.

And furthermore, I believe anyone involved in the passage and upholding of the McCain-Feingold finance reform bill should be convicted of treason, and summarily hung within 48 hours of the prouncement of guilt.

It's my right to say that as well.

So yeah, I've never been a joiner. But today, I join ranks with the other bloggers who stand in defiance of tyranny - those souls calling themselves the McCain-Feingold Insurrection.

To those who would act in total contradiction of +200 years of Constitutional protections on human rights, y'all can take your McCain-Feingold bill, shove it where the sun doesn't shine, and set fire to it.