I'm voting FOR weakening the mandate of whichever liberal wins -- every third party vote reduces the popular mandate percentage of the winner. You're voting FOR making liberalism more powerful in both parties, whether you mean to or not.
This is Realville, where you only get to vote "for" and where voting for a liberal guarantees a bad outcome. I'm voting to WEAKEN liberalism. You're voting to make it stronger.
thanks finny, ive been searching my ballot to find that 'against' option for my entire voting life...
now comes the terrified screams of how it will only 'help' bambam...
... which of course, is as much a figment of the imagination as voting "against" Obama. A third party vote favors NEITHER major party candidate. It is entirely neutral -- except in that it weakens both major party candidates when it comes down to computing the percentage of their total popular vote.
Obama is in big trouble in the polls; millions who voted for him last time will reject him this time. There is virtually zero risk that he could get a majority of the vote, so declining to vote for Romney and instead voting FOR a plurality via third party, is a darned good gamble for protecting America from a Romney "mandate" at the risk of re-electing a weak, embattled, despised, majority-opposed Obama.
Entitlement thinking -- that the Republican party is entitled to any conservative's vote and always has been -- is the ONLY rationale for thinking "a vote for anyone other than Romney is a vote for Obama." And it is a false rationale engaged in by people who need to demonize those of us who refuse to vote the way they want us to.
I am watching Republicans closely not just repeating their talking points as on FNC and what I see I don’t like. GWB term #3 and many here learned nothing.
Watch them all act ‘surprised’ and say ‘nobody guessed’ and ‘Ryan let us down’ if elected. We have seen it all before.