Whhhaaaa...I can't have my pot so I won't vote for Obama.

[TheKentuckian]

23. Voting for Obama is a holding action in hopes of making a bad situation less crappy as

the options allow in many areas. Same goes for a sad number of legislators.

Whatever one is vexed by Obama or even many of the Turd Way about, the odds are Rmoney and especially the down ticket nutjobs will be worse be it marginally worse in some spots or orders of magnitude worse in others. That does not mean that situations won't grow less tolerable with another term but the hope is they will get "less worse" in comparison to the state of decay the TeaPubliKlans bring to the table.

The poster needs to grasp that and so do his/her detractors who would reel more back in if they could stand to bring some realism to their sales pitches. Zippitydodah is completely ineffective on and quite repulsive to the cynical and probably generates anger to people who feel burned that isn't helping anybody.

The reality is that many folks may feel pretty well fucked over and unrepresented in a number of areas that are very important to them. It easy and less troublesome to the heart to write people off as single issue when that last straw hits the pile. Especially when you are discussing an area with no serious opposing pressure from the public.
Let's not even pretend like the barbarians where even eying the gates on medical marijuana. There was no campaign in the media on the issue and not a single misspelled sign was attempting to bring the heat even among the teabaggers, not even the crazies in the House were making a peep.

There really is no excuse, it is a straight sellout move and a dick one at that, which doesn't inspire much respect or trust which carries over to other areas. Especially those that are paths of much greater resistance.

The "magic move" was there to be played, doing nothing and maybe quietly reallocating resources is all that needed to be done. Just let the wave roll on and let the states do just what they were doing but no and for no sound reason which indicates no real intent to do anything approximating the right thing here. No since in even woolgathering about a sensible reschedule.
A TeaPubliKlan would be willing to let big pharma replicate some bullshit pill and continue to feed the prison system with young folks and minorities and let the sick and dying suffer on until the chemist got something that would make a tidy profit for the drug companies.
The difference is that is probably the most you can hope for from a TeaPubliKlan and the least you can expect from a Democrat. The problem is we are stuck on the least, by and large. Where and how can pressure be firmly and steadily applied to move the dial?