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Posted on 07/03/2008 5:59:32 AM PDT by FNU LNU
We don't have just two choices
Hordes of Democrats and Republicans are unimpressed by their choices for president this year. Many on both sides are willing to crawl across broken glass, this time to avoid voting for their party's candidate. The two major parties, neither one of which are even mentioned in the Constitution, think they have us in a corner where we must vote for either Barack Obama or John McCain, or the other guy will win.
But it isn't true; especially in states where it's already a foregone conclusion who will win?
Everyone knows McCain will win Texas' electoral votes, with or without your help. In California, everyone knows Obama will win.
In such a state, would you like to accomplish something besides just voting for the lesser of two evils? Here's how: Vote for another candidate, even a write-in. The party doesn't even matter, and it doesn't involve starting a third party. It won't affect the outcome in the Electoral College nor Supreme Court nominations nor shift the balance of the Court, but the two major parties will certainly notice the great disgust with the candidates they've given us and perhaps do better next time.
You don't have just two choices. Your vote can count even if you're not impressed with either candidate.
Samuel G. Dawson
This soothsayer is trying to divide McCain’s vote so Obie gets elected.
Might as well — if Obama is competitive in VA at election time, it’s all over anyway.
Oops, makes sense to me and that’s a bit scary! I’ll just sit back here and wait for the responses to roll in. If there’s a downside to this plan I don’t see it, but I’m sure the people around here who are practically anal about such things will give it a good shakedown.
This might not be the answer. I haven’t spent the night at a Holiday Inn Express lately and my ability to analyze and forecast the future is really rusty, but if this isn’t it, then let’s move on to something else.
The election of 2008 simply MUST be one that goes down as the point the people of this great nation put a stop to what’s been coming on for 50 years.
And....
Constitutionally, she’s right. However, the political parties don’t care if they get a majority or a plurality... as long as they win.
I’m not going to vote against a candidate this time, or ever again. I’m going to vote for someone. I haven’t yet decided whom, but it won’t be that scary bastard chosen by the party. And any RINO who doesn’t like it can kiss my backside.
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Go ahead and vote for Captain Amnesty.....and you’ll get a liberal Court, and more Amnesty.
“And any RINO who doesn't like it can kiss my backside”
Move your nose over, I don't like to work in the shade.
"Conservatives? We don't need no steenking conservatives!"
No The RNC did that all by itself, and is doing it to you again. The poster is absolutely correct. in California M cCain has zero chance of being the winner, so I am writing in Ronald Reagan, thanks to auntB
It absolutely CAN count.... for NOTHING.
A vote for 3rd candidates gave us Clinton = twice. He never received a majority - he was president by default...thanks to the blind 'third party' voters.
the question now is: Which candidate is this writer REALLY shilling for?
BINGO
In the beginning there was Ronald Reagan, and the party found him good. Afterward, the party couldn’t decide whether or not President Bush, the SR, should keep his promises, “Read my lips, no new taxes!”, and so William Jefferson Clinton was inaugurated as President, and the party found him bad.
Then the party decided that a “Contract with America” was needed, and the public found it good.
But apparently the party learned nothing from this because then the party decided to let the senior members have turns on the ballot as candidate for POTUS, Senator Dole, instead of advancing someone that stood for the same type of principles, and the public found him uninspiring and left William Jefferson Clinton as POTUS.
Then the party found someone that was liked, barely, more than Vice-President Gore, and the party thought it was good.
9-11 happened and the topography of the political world changed in less than 24 hours. President Bush took action and like in many instances, action of any type is preferable to inaction.
President Bush was reelected because, basically, people did not want to switch Presidents in the middle of a “war”. It didn’t help the Democratic party that they had selected, as their candidate, someone that had a history of taking action against the military of the USA, was married to a multi million dollar heiress, and someone that would not release to the public certain military documents that it was in his power to release.
In the meantime a Senator by the name of John McCain, one of the more liberal Republican Senators, tried for the nomination in the year 2000, believing that it was HIS turn to be the candidate. The party rejected him then. During the era of George Bush, the JR, as President, John McCain left little doubt as to his mindset.
Now the party has selected this same man, John McCain, as the candidate for POTUS. He has not changed his mindset, as seen by the shamnesty debacle, so what HAS changed?
Why is the party tearing the conservative movement apart, right from center? Why has the party chosen this man at this time to carry the “conservative” standard?
Even on conservative forums the rift is seen, and is seen time after time. Some say that they will support WHOMEVER the GOP nominee is, some say they will hold their nose long enough to pull the lever for him, and some say, “Hell No!”, that they will NOT vote for Senator McCain.
I will speak to each of these groups in their turn.
To those who say they will support WHOMEVER the GOP nominee is – I ask you, if Obama had switched parties and the GOP had nominated him as their standard bearer, would you support him?
I don’t say this is even in the realm of possibility in this election cycle, but I ask this question because, at some point in time, I believe that something of this nature could happen.
To those who say they will hold their nose long enough to cast their vote for Senator McCain – I ask you, what does it take to make it so that you no longer can hold your nose? How far left does a candidate have to be before you will NOT hold your nose? What type of action does it take before you say no?
To those who say they will NEVER vote for Senator McCain – I ask you, if Senator McCain was running against Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin, would you still say the same thing? Some things are relative, some things are not. Be mindful of absolutes, they typically are wrongheaded thinking.
To all these groups – I ask you, be respectful of the other groups. All conservatives should not be asked to think in lockstep. That’s what the Democratic party does.
All the other groups deserve your thoughts, not accusations. Accusing someone makes them defensive, or offensive, and will not gain your group any converts.
Tell them why you are taking the stand that you do, suggest that they may want to look at certain items in another way, give them a reason to join you, not a reason to oppose you.
In closing, I haven’t decided how I will vote yet myself. I put nothing out of the realm of possibility though. I invite you to show me why I should join your group, but please be civil, to me and to others that may be trying to persuade me to their groups.
This election cycle may truly be one of the tipping points of the new millennia. Don’t let it tear apart the movement that brought us to this new millennia.
Let it be known that I believe McCain is probably the worst candidate the GOP has fielded in my lifetime. However, he's a much better a choice than B.Hussein.O.
There will be only one winner and that person will be the ultra-leftist supported by the leftist MSM, bent on destroying marriage, forcing the military to take open homosexuals, revoking Bush tax cuts and adding more taxes of his own - or the winner will be McCain. There will be no Paul, no Badnarik, etc.
Who will you help to win?
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