Every time Clinton and Obama open their mouths, I swear that I will vote for McCain just to make sure they don't have a chance to win the presidency.
Then McCain opens his piehole, and I feel compelled to toss it all away and vote 3rd party because I simply can't stand his arrogance.
Freepers, please help me: Has there ever been a time in this great nation of ours when voters had to choose between such shallow, dangerous, egotistical candidates?
And what did our great nation do?
Write in Ron.
No..
Reagan.
James M. Cox vs Warren G. Harding.
The worst won.
U S Grant vs Horatio Seymour
Bet you don’t know a thing about Horatio Seymour?
Grover Cleveland vs Benjamin Harrison
Wow, there were more elections with bad choices than I first thought.
They revolted! 'bout time for another revoulution, if you ask me.
“And what did our great nation do? “
I do not know, but I am happy that I am not there now and no longer have property in the US. I can be quite content living
in Slovakia, or most anywhere but in the US now.
I can’t stand any of the three candidates. They are all the same. That snotty AH McStain will not get my vote... I will just sit it out till America is shaken back to its senses.
It is like a bad dream.
Can't speak for dangerous or egotistical in '76, but Ford and Carter were close in shallowness. In '96 we had the shallow Dole against the dangerous and egotistical Clinton. And, if we're honest, in 2000, Bush and Gore rivaled '76 in shallowness, as most are seeing now.
But your point is surely correct, I suspect: never such a combination on both sides of the ballot in my lifetime.
The joke I've been telling lately is this one:
Hillary, Obama, and McCain are in a small boat on a stormy ocean. The boat capsizes. Who survives?
America.
Perhaps the election of 1856 which resulted in the election of James Buchanan and finally the rise of the GOP to elected A. Lincoln in 1860.
The historical precedent is there that it's time to form a new conservative party. When the Whigs became too much like the dems in the 1850's, they were replaced by the Republican Party. As the GOP continues to slither into indistinguishability from its democrat counterpart under Bush, the time is right, historically, to begin supporting 3rd party candidates who are still genuinely conservative.
The conservative philosphy is just too important to the future of our nation and to the well-being of mankind to carelessly trash it for comparatively worthless party loyalty.