(via Instapundit)  Rather than posting a long tirade about who I'm voting for & why, I thought it would be more prescriptive to follow the lead of Glenn, Dean Esmay, Megan McArdle & others and post my "pledge" for blog behavior regardless of who wins the election -

Megan -

I will not proclaim that the president is incompetent for failing to magically resolve some tough geopolitical situation, such as North Korea's nukes or the Israel/Palestine problem, unless I can propose something with stronger logic to recommend it than the fact that the president isn't doing it right now.

I will not obsess about trivial details of the president's demeanor, speech patterns, or long-past personal history.

I will not attribute magical powers to the president to heal the economy, large-scale social problems... I will neither praise the president for improvement in these situations, nor criticise him for failing to mend them.

I will not point out all the bad news, or all the good news, while hoping no one notices the other sort.

I will assume, until proven otherwise, that the president, like most politicians, is making stupid laws because he wants to appease key interest groups (a.k.a. The American People), not because He Is Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil.

I will not write anything containing the sentence "The administration has hit a new low . . . "

Michael Totten -

People who vote for the other guy aren’t stupid, brainwashed, or evil. They are your friends and family. Someone you love will almost certainly cancel your vote. (My wife cancels out mine.)

If, by some chance, everyone you know votes for the loser it won’t mean the election was stolen. It will only show that you live in a bubble.  [VV - or that your friends of opp. persuasion simply don't feel like picking a fight in public with you]

If the election doesn’t go your way, don’t pop off as though America were Guatemala under the generals. You’ll get lots of attention, but it won’t be the kind you want. People will laugh, not near you but at you.

Dean Esmay -

I will refuse to call him traitor, loser, liar, incompetent. He will be my President, my Commander In Chief, the Chief Executive of a great nation, elected by the will of a majority of the electors in these 50 great united States.

And a few of my own -

• I will recognize the tremendous difference between "being wrong" and "lying" in policy prescriptions & their outcomes
• I will recognize that in all conflicts, your opponent "gets a vote" in how things turn out.   
• I will ask "compared to what?" when someone tries to argue that some project is a massive failure just cuz they've found a wrench in the works.   I'll particularly keep historical models in mind and maintain a realistic mental model for how good things can actually be.
• I will recognize that some problems take TIME to solve and will never declare the pregnancy a "quagmire" after 3 months.
• I will recognize that the government & military are big, diverse organizations and that weird, crazy stuff that happens in one corner of it isn't necessarily the result of the President's directive.
• I won't assume that the Christian Coalition speaks for all Republicans nor will I assume that Michael Moore / Arundhati Roy speak for all Democrats.
• Perhaps most importantly, while my criticism will be aggressive it will always recognize that we're fundamentally both on the same team and that we, like it or not, share an opponent whose strategy is almost entirely predicated on first exacerbating our internal differences.

It's a long ass list but I think it conveys a lot.