LAST DITCH APPEAL TO BUSHBOTS:
Realize that Bush and Repubs are NOT conservatives!! You will NEVER get a conservative government if you keep voting for the same old liers!
VOTE Libertarian/Constitution for a CONSERVATIVE in '08!
I vote my conscience, not a party.
"A third party vote is a vote for Democrats", "or Republicans".
BS!
If more people would vote for who they believe, whether Republican, Democrat, Constitutional, Libertarian, whatever, we wouldn't have a "Two Party System" where people feel that they have to vote for the lesser of two evils.
A third party vote is not throwing away your vote, not voting for the other party, and not voting for the, "lesser of two evils".
If you want to vote for President Bush - fine. If you want to vote for Kerry - fine. If you want to vote for a third party - fine.
VOTE! THAT'S the thing. in the words of the Nike commercial, "Just do it."
As a staunch Conservative, I have been more than unhappy with President Bush on many levels. However, I am not a fool either. To me, there is but one choice here. John Kerry is the antithesis of everything I believe in and hold sacred.
If this country elects Kerry to the Presidency, I believe we will never be the same as a country or as a people. In my opinion, we barely survived Clinton and we are still feeling the affects of his 8 years of folly and Liberalism.
It is nice to have a idealistic, philosophical view when times are stable, when we aren't at war or when the enemies of this country, both foreign and domestic, aren't at our gates. But, unfortunately, we aren't in those times. This election is critical to this Country's survival.
I am proudly going to the polls tommorrow and vote for President Bush. I consider it my way of thumbing my nose at the Socialists, Liberals, Moveon.org, George Soros, France, Germany,(all the Eurosocialists), UN, Clintons, and the known liar and traitor John Kerry.
I will also pray for the USA and silently remember those who gave me the opportunity to vote once again in a free society. I suggest we all give thanks for our many Blessings of Liberty.
Every time a liberal is elected as President, the country moves farther to the left. Subsequently, so does the Republican party. For every one step forward for conservatism, there is two steps backward for liberalism. A Kerry victory would only continue the country down a far more liberal course, no matter how much you believe a Bush victory would do the same.
The country can not become more conservative with a liberal as President. The courts are already flooded with liberals. Our social values have collapsed. Our moral values as a collective are beginning to rival those of European countries. In other words, we are on track to become that which we fought against.
Any thoughts of the emergence of a third party to 'teach Republicans a lesson' is nothing more than tomfoolery since it virtually guarantees liberals a victory every time. The only realistic way to get America on the conservative track is to elect George W. Bush to office for another four years.
Even though I don't think President Bush is a conservative, I'm voting for him largely because of the WOT and social issues (homosexual marriage and abortion).
If voting for the person I want is throwing my vote away, then voting for the person I don't want is an even bigger waste of my vote.
Your post reminds me of the old joke that was told about the 1964 election...somebody was quoting a voter who said "they told me that if I voted for Goldwater in '64,there would be 500,000 troops in Vietnam and rioting in the streets...damned if they weren't right!!"Bush is NO conservative....He has NOT earned re-election and even if Kerry wins, there is no reason why a SUPPOSEDLY "conservative" GOP who controls the house and senate could not keep him at bay...The Republican Party will NEVER learn to be conservative unless it is punished into doing so....
I remember vividly the attacks on conservatives by the main-stream Republicans before Primary time, and at party conventions. Trying to get a conservative nominated or a conservative platform amendment passed was like getting flamed and Zotted on Free Republic.
No, the time for "compromise" and "unity" was a long time ago. Some of us will just have to try to protect and defend the Constitution as best we can without your help, and I suggest you make your appeal for support to the "undecideds" - the ignoramuses who haven't a clue.
I refer specifically to the assault on the First Amendment via the CFR, the incredibly insane growth of Big Government and Big Government spending, and his cozying up to Ted Kennedy and other leftists, resulting in more government pork?
Will he squash Bud Shuster-types in Congress and their grandiose schemes?
Has he promised to do anything that Republicans used to be committed to doing?
I'm no longer a supporter of the LP, but consider myself a civil libertarian. I was going to sit this one out, knowing Bush will carry my state by large margin, but I'm voting Bush this time just to cancel out the Kerry vote by the Yankee woman across the street from me.
If Bush loses, it will not be because any third party "drained" votes from him.
90 million people didn't vote in the last election. Compare that to the 1 million Libertarian voters. If Bush pushed Libertarian ideals, or took any third party issue and made it his own...If he had a genuine interest in reducing government power (rather than growing government at 13% a year), he would blow Kerry out of the water. People who loathe the big government we've been getting under democrats and republicans would finally have a reason to vote FOR him...and they would.
The sad fact is Bush hasn't demonstrated any interest in reducing the size of government. On the campaign trail, he has actually bragging about how much he has increased it's with his new $600 billion medicare entitlement and other massive spending bills.
If a principled conservative can't vote for Bush this year, it really hasn't cost Bush anything. Bush has simply failed to EARN that person's vote, and never really had it in the first place.
This time.....my answer is Here...."Confessions of a"Bush-Basher"---"The Neccesity of Re-Electing the President"
redrock
He's talking about throwing away our legal system as we know it now (common law + Constitutional interpretation) and replacing it with his whims and his interpretation of the Bible, which he says is the real source of the law. Do you really want to cast a vote for a theocrat? Don't be a friggin' moron. Don't vote for Peroutka. Have a little respect for the Constitution (even if it means you don't get to cast the purest pro-life vote possible).
Hey, I voted Libertarian...for County Coroner!
Go Bush and Cheney!