Politics: From the greek “poly”, meaning “many”, and “ticks”, meaning “blood-sucking insects”

So, in general I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the race for Massachusetts Governor. I figure that the governor doesn’t really have much power anyway, since Romney vetoed a bunch of stuff during his administration, which is really the most you could hope a governor would do, and they pretty much all got overridden anyway. So, I think that the governor here is primarily just a ceremonial position that can try to set direction, but doesn’t really have much power. (I could be wrong on this, but it’s just how it looks from where I’m sitting.)

So I didn’t really pay attention to the primary race. Now that the final candidates are selected, I’ve started taking a closer look. As far as I can tell, they’re all trying to cut taxes, and they’re all socially liberal. Now, perhaps they’re all fiscally conservative and socially liberal to different degrees, but right now to me, it looks like all the candidates, *all* *four* of them, are *libertarians*! Or at least, they’re all much more socially liberal than I want. I just don’t get what exactly is the choice I’m supposed to be making?!

Voting for someone who believes that it’s okay for babies still in wombs to get killed by their parents just goes against every fiber of my being. (And that’s not the only issue, it’s just the one that sticks in my mind the most.) Should I try to find a candidate who may be better than the others on some issues, and vote for them, in the hopes that maybe my vote might make a difference somewhere? Or do I just write “None of the above” on the ballot and thereby throw away my vote in disgust?

It just makes me very sad and angry.

But at least, as I started out saying, hopefully the governor doesn’t have much power anyway.