Current Annoyance: Political Lawn Stakes

Ah yes: it's political blog time. I know, I know, if you wanted to read a blog about the upcoming election, you'd go look for one, right? But honestly, until November 4th rolls around, you are going to be inundated by this drek, no matter how far you run away from it. (Unless of course you are going all "Castaway" on us for the next 2 weeks.)

Anyway, my current annoyance right now with this whole election thing are lawn signs that support or oppose propositions, mayoral candidates or political parties. I'm all for freedom of speech, expression and tacky lawn decor, but why combine them all at once? Because here in Natomas, no one believes in just putting ONE lawn sign out. No, to really get the point across, you need 3 or more. Sometimes even 20. I drove around my neighborhood today... and a couple days ago and discovered the following:

• You aren't a real Kevin Johnson supporter unless you have 3 lawn stakes poked next to each other on the same property. Not one on each corner of the lot; not one by the door and one in the planter box. Nope! They all need to be sitting next to each other. Sometimes forming geometric shapes. Up next, crop circles in Iowa...
  
  
• Heather Fargo signs for "Progress" can be found on the Richards Blvd corridor, which has been sitting "under construction" for as long as I've lived here.
  
  
• Yes on 8 signs often come in multiples. But seriously, if you are going to put 20 of these signs on your lawn (gosh I wish I had a picture of the house that did this), and NOT expect to get your signs destroyed, you really are out of touch with reality. Sadly, I really wanted to get a photo of this house that had all of these signs up. But I drove by today and they had scaled back to 3 signs. However, there was some dude on the side of the house fixing MORE signs. Maybe I'll get lucky this afternoon. I know HOA regulations call for conservative lawn decor, but I don't think this is what they meant.
  
  
• A McCain/Palin lawn sign + a For Sale/Pre-Foreclosure sign = irony.
  
  
• Neighbors with A McCain/Palin sign next to an Obama/Biden sign: wow, guess those two won't be lending sugar any time soon.

Anyway, where do I stand? I'm non-partisian. And we don't have signs like all our crazy neighbors do. Because even if you have 12 zillion signs on your lawn, you still only have one vote.

Choose wisely kids!