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>So, in a race between McCain and HRC, you'd vote for HRC instead of a candidate from, say the Constitution Party?

For some reason, your comment has been rolling around in my head for a couple of weeks, so I did a little research on the Constitution Party and I like a fair amount of their platform. I do detest a couple of their planks - Anti-Free trade and Our withdrawal from the war for global freedom, Huge Planks, even so; I now think a vote for this third party would be better than either a "spite" vote for HRC or a stay at home vote.

They were just a convenient example.

I almost said "Libertarian". But that would have just gotten me all kinds of grief from certain other denizens here.

Anyways.... I am a big supporter of third party voting rather than looking at our two party system as a Hobson's choice.

For some reason, your comment has been rolling around in my head for a couple of weeks, so I did a little research on the Constitution Party and I like a fair amount of their platform. I do detest a couple of their planks - Anti-Free trade and Our withdrawal from the war for global freedom, Huge Planks, even so; I now think a vote for this third party would be better than either a "spite" vote for HRC or a stay at home vote.

Well. I'm glad the two of you have made up your mind how you intend to vote in 2008, however, just don't spend four years whining and moaning on FR because your guy didn't make it, and the entire country has to suffer through 4 years of Clinton.

As for me, I intend to stay in a holding pattern, because I sincerely loathe Hillary, I detest McCain, and I won't throw away my vote on some third-party clown that is 180 degrees out of phase with my principles on the larger issue of the War On Terror and their anti-free trade/anti-global capitalism point of view.

I'll wait and see how things pan out in the next couple years before I finally decide which way I intend to vote.