Do you "regret" voting for someone?

[TX_1824]

Jimmy Carter 1976.

It was the first time I was old enough to vote. A truly sad chapter in my life.

[TX_1824]

Jimmy Carter 1976.

It was the first time I was old enough to vote. A truly sad chapter in my life.

Luckily, I was saved from the indignity of voting for Carter in 1976 by the fact that I was too young to vote.  I'm not sure whom I would have voted for that year, but I would surely have regretted it if I had voted for the arrogant, naive, self-righteous and incompetent old scold.

By 1980, when I voted for the first time, we had been through four years of Carter, and I couldn't wait to vote against him.  That started me on a Republican voting streak that continues to this day.

I took the same path. I couldn't wait to vote for Reagan in 1980. Sometimes I look at our current president and I think to myself, "what on earth are you doing?" Then I remember the alternative and I find some comfort in that.

[TX_1824]

Voting for Bush the first time he ran for governor.

it's okay, I voted for Ann Richards. 

Ugh! However, considering who she ran against in 1990, Clayton Williams, I can understand.