Is Chris Christie too fat to run for President?

       I had heard this questioned being seriously punted around in the media, so I will present a multiple choice test here, with this as the only question.


1)  Is Chris Christie too fat to run for President?

   a) Yes.
   b) No.
   c) What does his weight have to do with anything?
   d) What kind of person would even think to ask that?
   e) Is that really what our political process has devolved into?
   f) He's too fat to run for anything.


How did you do?  Lets see by examining the possible answers.

a)  If this was your answer you are an unthinking moron who's voting rights should be removed.  I hope you die in a fire, while sitting in a filthy bathroom stall, with the most painful food poising you have ever experienced, causing explosive diarrhea.

b)  You might not be as big of an idiot as the person who answered a), but probably should have read further.

c)  Partial credit for having some sense.

d)  Partial credit for appropriate moral outrage.

e)  Full credit.  being disappointed with the whole process is the only intelligent response to such an asinine question.

f)  Partial credit for having a sense of humor about such a farcical process as our Presidential races.

A last minute plea for civil disobedience.

       What I am proposing is a little ridiculous, but if you are someone I have ever met, this will not be surprising.  See, being a "Third Party Voter" most of my life, in a solidly blue state (Illinois), I have come to despise the electoral college.  In Illinois, unless you vote democrat, you may as well stay home.
       The problems are legion with our current, electoral, approach, but let's recap.  Electors are not required to vote as instructed.  Districts are drawn by the party currently in control of the state.  (gerrymandered).  The two major parties have everything so figured out with polling, that they already know where to bother throwing money.
       It all adds up the same.  Your vote does not count.  Not directly.  Not even if your state or district votes your way.   
       So What I am suggesting is this:  If you are in a state that is "in play", vote your conscience.  Sleep the sleep of the just.  But if you are in a very red state, vote for Obama.  If you are in a solid blue, Romney.  Even if you are voting against your conscience.  Even if it will make no difference.  (It won't)
       Even states that "split their electorate" can participate.  In those states just apply the same rule at a district level.  (Blue districts vote red; red votes blue).
       The idea is for as many states as possible to have the slimmest possible margin of victory.  So that no matter who wins, the popular vote will not be the same as the electoral vote.  Maybe, if we do this enough, things will change.
       Maybe I'll win the lottery.  Maybe the tides will stop because I say so.  Maybe, in the long run, if you look at voting records rather than rhetoric, the two major party candidates are so similar it won't make a difference anyway.
       So get out and vote.  If you are in Ohio it might even mean something.