A vote for any third party candidate is a vote for Obama.
So then my vote in actuality means nothing.
If that be the case, then you shouldn't be concerned about it.
A vote for Romney in the following states: * Hawaii * CA * OR * WA * IL * MN * NY * NJ * VT * Maine * CT * Delaware * MD * DC (district) * MA
= a sanction for a pro-abortion, big govt, socialist healthcare pioneer candidate and a sanction for RINOism and a vote vs. conservative principles.
Even from a pragmatic utilitarian post-modern political relativist angle -- which many FREEPERs have bought into -- a vote FOR Romney in ANY of the above states would not help Romney win. We live in an electoral system; second place in those states only helps on horseracing bets.
Also...at least as far as FREEPERs go...if you subtract 100% of FREEPER votes (& give them to Virgil Goode) in the conservative states noted in the chart below, Romney would still win those states. Your pro-Romney vote -- unlike what Moonshot has said -- won't matter...in those states. The most that Romney moonbeam utilitarian arguments could even count is within swing states listed below:
SWING STATES |
OBAMA STATES |
ROMNEY STATES |
| UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER STATES | UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER STATES | UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER STATES |
| Iowa | Illinois | Missouri |
| Wisconsin | Minnesota | Arkansas |
| MID-AMERICA (East of Upper Mississippi) | MID-AMERICA (East of Upper Mississippi) | MID-AMERICA (East of Upper Mississippi) |
| Ohio | -- | Kentucky |
| Pennsylvania | -- | West Virginia |
| Michigan | -- | Indiana |
| NORTHWEST/ROCKIES | NORTHWEST/ROCKIES | NORTHWEST/ROCKIES |
| Colorado | Washington State | Utah |
| New Mexico | Oregon | Idaho, Wyoming, Montana |
| SUN-SATURATED WEST | SUN-SATURATED WEST | SUN-SATURATED WEST |
| Nevada | California | Arizona |
| OFF-MAINLAND | OFF-MAINLAND | OFF-MAINLAND |
| -- | Hawaii | Alaska |
| EAST COAST | EAST COAST | EAST COAST |
| Virginia | Maryland, (+ D.C.) | Georgia |
| North Carolina | Delaware | South Carolina |
| Florida | New York, New Jersey | -- |
| -- | Connecticut, Rhode Island | -- |
| NEW ENGLAND | NEW ENGLAND | NEW ENGLAND |
| New Hampshire | Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts | -- |
| MIDWEST | MIDWEST | MIDWEST/Texas |
| -- | -- | North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas |
| DEEP SOUTH | DEEP SOUTH | DEEP SOUTH |
| -- | -- | Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennesee |
Seriously folks, Romney has a natural 22% draw from the Republican base ~ that's all he's got. That's his class of people.
The rest of the factions in the Republican party just don't like the guy ~ mostly because he's a cultural and political failure, obnoxious, and has a really bad record on the issues that count to the greater part of the party.
Just because you could use money to leverage him in doesn't mean you should run him.
Romney is a guaranteed loss ~ not just the least likely candidate to beat Obama, but should he win by accident, it'd be just like having another four years of Obama anyway!
“A vote for any third party candidate is a vote for Obama.”
And I add yet another name to the list of morons who don’t understand how it works.