Voting for Rick Larsen is a bigger mistake than supporting his opponent. Larsen supports partian-birth abortions, if I'm not mistaken. If the abortion issues is that central to your vote, you should support a third-party pro-lifer or abstain in the Congressionial race.
Not that it makes much difference in this race. Larsen has it locked up now.
It's too bad that Suzanne Sinclair lost her primary. Not only is she pro-life, but she's an accountant, and we need more accountants (and fewer lawyers) in Congress.
WHOOPS! Suzanne Sinclair isn't pro-life? My mistake. But I stand by the rest of the posting.
I'm a very pragmatic republican, and I don't mind voting for republicans I disagree with on almost any issue as long as I agree more often with them more often then their opponents, that said, I would still vote for Larsen.
Kleplinger is pro-abortion, pro-GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE, and a big tax raiser (he plans on creating a national sales tax to pay for his Government Run Health Care).
He's only a Republican because the incumbent was a democrat. Larsen is actually more conservative, which is basically saying, like Scoop Jackson once said, "I'm a liberal, but I'm not a damn fool." He was talking about foreign policy issues, but anyhow, Larsen at the very least isn't pushing for Hillarycare. The state party hasn't even given Kleplinger access to the voter-vault. They basically wrote this district off when Sinclair went flaky and decided to basically not campaign. It's a travesty we don't have a realistic candidate in the most conservative Democratically held district in the state, (Rock-ribbed conservative Jack Metcalf served from 94-00, and term-limited himself, he would easily have won again), but we don't, and honestly, Larsen is more conservative then Kleplinger. Even still, I might vote for Kleplinger if I thought the House majority might be at stake, but it isn't, so I wouldn't.
But it's all a moot point anyway. Larsen will win by 20pts.
Actually, now thinking about it, I might just write-in Norma Smith's name. She lost a fairly close race to Larsen in '02, and is a class act. Hope she comes back sometime.
I may just follow zbigreddogz lead and write in Norma Smith if she's a class act like he says (wasn't living here in '02 to missed that stretch of elections. Also, one of Metcalf's young proteges, Chris Strow, looks promising for the 10th state district for State House. There are still plenty of races to be excited about. I just want to make sure Vance and co. put stronger candidates - ones who aren't ashamed of conservitism - forward for the next cycle, so Klepinger must go.