As my father puts it, a Yellow-Dog-Democrat is a democratic voter who is true to the party. No matter who is on the Democratic ticket, you vote for them. In the off-chance that the democrats have run out of possibilities, they put a Yellow Labrador on the ticket. Every democrat that is a TRUE democrat, will vote for yellow-dog. Even if the dog shits on the carpet while accepting the nomination.

So here I sit wondering what would make the “killer” democratic ticket. Why you may ask? Because even though I tend to think republican, I don’t think that the republicans have proven themselves to be worthy of my vote this time around. We saw a lot of rhetoric about what they would do if they held “All” the power. Well for 2 years they did, and what did we get? Not a whole lot.

So now we have the tables turned. The Democrats actually hold the power of the congress. Are they getting anything done that deserves my vote? Nope. So why would I vote for a democratic presidential candidate?

Here is why: The balance of power. If you look back at history in general you will find that when there are HUGE hot button issues, the balance of power is always balanced. So the hot button issue of the day is the war. The president wants it, the dems don’t. The republican congress is keeping themselves VERY noncomital because it is bad mojo to speak against their leader, but also good for public image to speak against him. That makes it bad for them to go either way.

So what does that do to the balance of power? You will see that if you look at history, when you have a democratic president, you tend to get a republican controlled congress. Result: gridlock. When you have a republican president, you have a democratically controlled congress. Result: gridlock. The only time change will occur is if you have an incompetant boob as president and the people come out in droves to balance the power. They did this time, by putting the democrats in almost 60% control of the congress. Enough to hold votes up, but not enough to overturn presidential vetoes.

Welcome to the wonderful world of political gridlock.

So yeah, I am ostracized from political conversations because I don’t vote for old yeller. This year though, I will be watching to see what old yeller drags in from the field. Hope it’s not another dead raccoon.