[afraidfortherepublic]

Just explain to me how I deserved to be saddled with Obama for another term? And look where we are — about to be plunged into WWII and bankrupted, unemployed, and death paneled by Obamacare.

Your high and mighty 3rd party stance is just stupid. Look where it has gotten Raoph Nader and Ross Perot. It is just the folly of dilletantes.

[GeronL]

I didn’t mention a 3rd party.

I would no more vote for a lefty Republican than a lefty Democrat.

[Finny]

Afraidfortherepublic (an appropriate screen name; fear almost always provokes stupid short-sighted decisions, that is true of human nature and life at ALL times) -- Explain to me why I deserved to be asked by my own political party to vote for a candidate whose DEEDS and WORDS (although you obviously were deaf to those words) confirmed a political philosophy diametrically opposed to my own and in fact, diametrically opposed to everything I aimed to vote FOR in the 35-plus years I'd been voting straight Republican?

Stupidity is, again, on YOUR side with regard to "Look where 3rd party got Nader and Perot." HELLO? Because of the third party split both times Clinton got the WH, Clinton was opposed by the majority of American voters, and it was on record for the world to see. AS A RESULT of that very clearly documented lack of popular support, Clinton was steamrolled by the then more-or-less limited-government Republican Revolution in his first term, and he was IMPEACHED during his second term. Neither of those things would have happened if Clinton had won with a majority OR if the Republican opponent had won. Your so-called "folly of dilletantes" served to weaken government tyranny.

Your guy Romney has ONLY EVER served to increase government tyranny. You can vote for more government tyranny and rationalize it any way you want, but your "solution" was as destructive as the problem.