Mr. And Mrs. OS Do Super Tuesday In Tennessee

Os admits he didn't visit the mailbox in the past few days, so the card announcing the change of the precinct location likely awaits him later today. We wandered into the wrong precinct, and the very helpful poll workers sent us off to the correct location. Some idiot had posted a Santorum campaign sign illegally inside the 'no signage' zone, and we reported it to them. The gent running the precinct thanked us, and promptly removed the sign. His irritation at the violation of the rules was evident. OS remarked, 'They don't read', and he remarked, 'They don't listen, either.'

Fundamentalists, of any stripe, always think that rules are for other people, and that their inherent righteousness gives them license to do whatever they please. This little incident, multiplied by another few hundred over the years, will help explain why Santorum was never on OS's list of possible votes. His followers never seem to have gotten the memo that they live in a civil society, full of other sorts of people, and election day rules.

In any case, we found our little precinct. Turnout has been light so far today in our little precinct.

Mrs. OS and Mr. OS don't talk about politics much, except to note how utterly horrified we are by what has transpired in this beautiful country. We talked a bit on the way over about how unhappy our choices are betwixt Romney, Gingrich, and Paul. No one really seems up to the job ahead, frankly.

The Tennessee GOP primary is a three-part affair: Presidential preference, election of 14 delegates, most pledged to a candidate, and election of 3 delegates chosen from the Congressional district.
In the end, her preference vote was Romney, and OS voted for Newt. We split our delegate choices between Paul, Romney and Newt, in hopes that we will contribute to a deadlocked GOP convention. It's time the GOP have a long and loud discussion about real life, bankers, politicians, moralizers, the Fed, and how best to get rid not just of Obama but all he stands for.

We both sense that the freedoms that allowed us to create our lives and educate our children are rapidly slipping away, and that our children and their will be crushed by the debts this generation has run up with reckless disregard. That is the real moral issue facing us, not contraception or what Rush Limbaugh has to say about some dingbat law student.

We both happily voted for our beloved Winfield Dunn, the great GOP governor of Tennessee from the early 1970's, our first GOP governor in over fifty years at the time. A finer, kinder gentleman than Winfield is hard to locate, and he has our good wishes and regards.