I see the "blame the voter" mentality is still alive.
The problem is not with individual voters but with the Republican Party and its cavalier attitude that conservatives will vote for anything and anyone so long as it's tagged with an R. As for McCain, if I wanted to vote for a Socialist, why vote for McCain when you could vote for Obama and get the real thing?
I voted third party, and I will do so again and again until Republicans wake up and start acting like conservatives again instead of like the Democrats.
As far as that goes—and I know I’m getting back on topic here but, `Democratic investigations of the Bush administration’ ... I won’t hold their coats, but I’m not picking up my guns either.
The only people who listened to third party protest voters are the Dems and boy, are they happy.
Truthfully, John McCain was the last person I wanted to see as a nominee. As a matter of fact, I swore I would never cast a ballot for him.
But times change. I voted for McCain, but in doing so I voted to preserve the Supreme Court and to avoid this push towards a socialistic government. I voted against the Dems winning the Trifecta.
More importantly, I voted against a man who has been described as believing:
"....a shift in constitutional thinking from a rights-based discourse to one that centered [on] responsibility and duties ... would be a good thing,"..." Politico, June, '08
You are free to vote you conscience as am I. Don't fool yourself into thinking the GOP will learn some profound lesson from this. They did not in 2006, why should they today? The lessons will be learned from the bottom up, not the top down. I try to pick my battles wisely. IMHO, a third party vote was not a wasted vote, it a vote to destroy what little individual liberty we have left.