Re: lesser of two evils.
Given a binary choice, greater or lesser evil, which would YOU choose?
Vote for the lesser evil.
Vote for the greater evil.
Don’t vote and have no influence on the outcome. I’m really curious.
I hope you remember that Obama’s election was at least partially due to conservatives on this forum posting about how they’d never vote for McCain because he was insufficiently conservative. If enough people refuse to vote for the lesser evil it is the functional equivalent of voting for the greater evil. Is that somehow an improvement?
First of all there's never only a "binary" choice. (There's ALWAYS a third-party vote if the GOP slits its own throat...or aren't you aware that the Whigs are no longer around & a new party called the GOP arose in the mid-1850s?)
We need peripheral vision...elsewise, if we're only beholden to the current campaign, people would vote for a Hitler type in a nanosecond if a worst evil candidate was running vs. him.
Take the biggest "loser" of a GOP candidate...say a pro-abort, pro-national healthcare, pro-homosexual candidate. Guess what? If you vote for such a candidate, you've wasted your vote. He will lose. Voting for a losing candidate -- even by people who think in your terms -- is indeed a wasted vote...which I thought was anathema to you.
So why would you waste your vote on a candidate you know will lose -- and taint your convictions & conscience in the process? And stab the GOP party in the back at the same time?
Vote for the lesser evil. Vote for the greater evil. Don’t vote and have no influence on the outcome. I’m really curious.
No. I wouldn't vote for Hitler in the 1930s Germany even if he were running vs. the anti-Christ.
Let me repeat what I wrote last Friday:
...there's a clear line in the sand. When the wife of a 40-yo marriage no longer sits in the middle portion of the seat of a pick-up truck, who moved?
We're not pushing the exit button; if the GOP decides to do that by electing Romney, they've exited and are threatening the entire party with Whigism.
At that point, should it occur, the GOP needs to clearly understand the true meaning of a "wasted vote." Too many GOPers in that circumstance would be tempted to think voting Third Party is a "wasted vote."
Allow me to be clear: Voting for Romney or a RINO is not only a wasted vote, but it's a vote for implosion of the GOP. It would be like planting extinction yeast in its very midst!
The GOP's already been guilty of tolerating too much moral erosion under the guise of "Big Tentism"; it's on a perilous course of implosion if it thinks its base will tolerate this.
We're not going to stand idly by when the RINOs attempts its GOP coups.
I was in that boat......until he introduced us to Sarah. I pulled that lever for her and her alone.
You only answer to God for your decisions. Eternity is a long time to have to sweep floors.