Yes, I did vote for Romney as I voted for both Bushes, McCain, Dole, Reagan, Ford, and to re-elect Nixon. This time, however, you are wrong. The only pity I have is for my country and my eyes are wide open this time around. I will vote for the best conservative candidate still standing by the time the Pa. primary comes around. If, as in recent times, the GOPe candidate gets the nomination, I will not participate. I vowed after the Romney fiasco, never again. I will concede that my voting for yet another faux Republican was “dumb” but I believe that at the age of 70 I can still learn from my mistakes.
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If, as in recent times, the GOPe candidate gets the nomination, I will not participate.
As long as I am informed politically, I have a moral duty to vote because people have fought and died for my right to do so. I have a duty to vote FOR what will help my nation; if there's zero way my vote can do that (in California, for example, where there were only two candidates, R and D, for governor, and both were equally leftist), then I have a duty to withhold my vote from both.
On the other hand, if in a presidential race I have a third party option, even one with zip chance of winning, I have a DUTY to use my vote to weaken the big government Republican or the big government Democrat who does win. If an "Independent" candidate can split the winner's margin into a plurality, where a clear majority opposed that candidate in the voting booth, as Perot did to Clinton, then that is MY DUTY to vote for that, to vote for weakening the leftist tyranny.
A plurality status makes a president WEAK. I can only use my vote to vote FOR something; voting "against" is wholly imaginary. So in 2012, I voted FOR a plurality, and if in 2016 we face the same situation, I will again vote FOR a plurality, hopefully in the guise of a true Independent third Second party candidate who might even pull off a win (albeit plurality, as well), so absolutely disgusted are MOST productive, legal, average Americans with both Democrats and Republicans and their Uniparty, not to mention a leftist-biased MSM -- on the ground, in real people, far more Americans distrust the media and the Uniparty, than the MSM projects.