RE: (1) Gary Johnson, former New Mexico governor, ran Libertarian and got 1% of the popular vote.
(2) Vergil Goode, Constitution party.
(3) Tom Hoefling, America’s Party.
And you honestly believe these people can get more than 3% total even when you add all of their votes up?
I might like some of them better than Romney, but I’m not going to waste my vote on them.
RE: In short, there is absolutely nothing I can think of that a Romney presidency would have over a Johnson presidency...
I voted for Santorum over Romney, Unfortunately, he did not win. so, the real practical choice in November was Romney vs Obama.
RE: I never said “do nothing.”
OK, you voted for Gary Johnson. I’m sure Obama’s team will appreciate all the help he got.
>> RE: I never said “do nothing.”
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> OK, you voted for Gary Johnson. I’m sure Obama’s team will appreciate all the help he got.
Ah, so we’re back to “he lost, so your vote doesn’t matter”? Well, Romney lost, therefore you vote didn’t matter either.
So, who is better off here? Me who did not compromise with evil, or you who did?
>> RE: (1) Gary Johnson, former New Mexico governor, ran Libertarian and got 1% of the popular vote.
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> And you honestly believe these people can get more than 3% total even when you add all of their votes up?
That depends on if the people buy into the “you’re wasting your vote if you vote third-party”-idea — and, honestly, what better way to change that in America than to vote 3rd party? [The only other option involves bloodshed.]
> I might like some of them better than Romney, but I’m not going to waste my vote on them.
And there’s your problem: you think that a vote for someone that doesn’t win is wasted. — If that is the case than anyone who voted for the loser, no matter how close, also doesn’t count.
> RE: In short, there is absolutely nothing I can think of that a Romney presidency would have over a Johnson presidency...
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> I voted for Santorum over Romney, Unfortunately, he did not win. so, the real practical choice in November was Romney vs Obama.
And? How’d that work out? Did you get your guy in? Does the Republican party have any incentive to tun a better (less-socialist or less-statist) candidate? Of course not, they can *ALWAYS* count on your vote because there is, apparently, no point where you’ll say “I won’t vote foe X because he is Y” (X being the candidate, and Y being some philosophy), because there is no Y that you find repugnant enough to declare unacceptable.
You’ve said that, very nearly explicitly, and keep saying it.
I disagree, saying there are things which are not acceptable.
But there is one other point that differentiates us: I accept your authority to vote as you see fit... you do not accept that same authority in me — “OK, you voted for Gary Johnson. I’m sure Obama’s team will appreciate all the help he got.”
So — let me ask... how are you different from the liberals who blast anyone who doesn’t agree with them? Or is there something about me, specially, that invalidates my right to vote the way I see fit?