You can vote for anybody you want to. It's still a free country last time I checked.
My point was that by voting for a third party, which at the Presidential level doesn't have a chance in Hades to win, you are essentially giving a free vote to the Hillary's of the world.
By not voting period you are giving a free vote to the Hillary's of the world. It's a fact. Deal with it.
The dems do enough vote manufacturing without us helping them by voting for people like Perot.
Unless you get a third party candidate, (like we did here in MN with Jesse), who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal and can capture about 40% of the centrist vote a third party candidate is not going to win. The left here still voted for Skippy Humphrey and the right voted for Norm Coleman. The middle voted for Jesse and voila, we have Jesse the Mind running our state.
A third party candidate that is either far left or far right is NEVER going to get enough of the vote to win. Sure, you're still entitled to vote for whoever you want to, but I stand by my statement that a vote for a third party is a vote for the other major party on the left/right scale.
Didn't mean to yell my answer; I stand by my point that if you settle for less, less is all you'll ever get. Jesse won by talking like a Libertarian but has governed like a big spending Democrat/Republican. My party should have run a candidate against him then and I hope we'll run someone this time. I don't like his typical politician act of late and I'd love to see him tumble from the good graces of the media that first ignored him then tripped all over themselves to embrace him as the Next Big Thing.
You may be, but you have to look at the other side. Who killed the Reagan revolution? Who did the most damage to the conservative cause - George Bush or Bill Clinton? My answer is George Bush. He told the people we don't care what you vote for, we will do as we please. He destroyed the faith people had in Republicans to do the right thing. He told conservatives you will vote Republican and take the crumbs we give you and if you don't like it, you can lump it, you have nowhere to go.
Well I for one have a little more pride in myself to serve as a lackey for someone like that. I therefore stayed home. And guess what, in just 2 years the Republicans were back roaring and would have changed the political landscape of this country if it had not been that Newt Gingrich betrayed them for a little sex on the side.
This is an erroneous belief held by many. It is meant to lay a guilt trip on people in order to get them to vote a certain way.