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To: DustyMoment
When we go into the voting booth in the primaries and in the general election next year, it is incumbent upon each of us to remember that we are hiring the people who will represent us. “Lesser of the two evils” simply doesn’t cut it.

Disagree. This is my 9th presidential election coming up and it's always the lesser of two evils...or weevils if you're in the British Navy :-) People must make hard choices. There isn't an endless flow of candidates and no one exactly matches each one of us. Republican democracy is always about compromise so you make the best choice you can given the circumstances. You also must choose a candidate who can win. Otherwise it's just self-indulgent political masturbation.

20 posted on 08/29/2007 5:22:16 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus
Republican democracy is always about compromise so you make the best choice you can given the circumstances. You also must choose a candidate who can win. Otherwise it's just self-indulgent political masturbation.

Cool, you got to use "masturbation" online! So, by your response, you choose to maintain the status quo, rather than trying to make the change that we, our posterity and our nation deserve.

We don't have to have mediocrity as the standard for our elected representatives but, by accepting that the system is what it is and there just isn't anything you can do about it, you have made the tacit choice for mediocrity and tossed it off as compromise - presumably for "the good of the many".

I've seen one more presidential election than you and I've played the political compromise mind game of voting for "the lesser of the two evils"! It isn't a satisfactory or acceptable option, IMO, and it is a choice between no choice and no choice.

So, let me pose the question again. If you own a company and you are interviewing candidates for a position in your company, why do you want to hire the guy who comes across as "the lesser of the two evils"? Is this an attribute you are seeking for the position? Is it a characteristic in the individual that makes you believe that he/she will be an exceptionally good employee?

Everyday on this forum, we decry taxes, bad laws, incompetence in government, overspending, crappy public education, arrogance and indifference across the spectrum of our elected representatives. The government we have and the bad policies it produces are the result of decades of voting for "the lesser of the two evils".

America is our company and, collectively, we are it's CEO. Our elected representatives are our employees. Check the Constitution again, if you doubt that. When our choice of employees is limited to incompetents, grandstanders, thieves and self-serving liars, we get the type of government that we currently have.

73 posted on 08/29/2007 7:14:10 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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