I guess I'm a liberal of a different colour (yellow in the UK) but I don't see why you can't speak your mind in your own lj. You are entitled to your opinion as much as anyone and it would be a pretty boring place if we all agreed with each other all the time, we wouldn't need elections all the time either.

The only thing I have never figured out is why you have to spend a whole year campaigning, over here you vote for your memebers of parliment and which ever party gets the most seats that's who your prime minister is, I think for a general election (every 5 years) the campiagning goes on for around 6 weeks and that's it, though as far as I'm concerned that's about 5 weeks too many. :)