In the real world :
G H W Bush was better than Dukakis
and would have been better than Bill Clinton
GW Bush was better than Gore and John Kerry
Anybody would be better than Hillary
Anybody would be better than Biden
You sound as if you are stuck on stupid
Really, why choose a lesser evil, Vote Cthulhu.
You sound as if you can only spout cliches.
Let me get this straight; If I don’t agree with you, it’s because I’m stupid.
Does that about sum it up?
"In the real world :G H W Bush was better than Dukakis
and would have been better than Bill Clinton
GW Bush was better than Gore and John Kerry
Anybody would be better than Hillary
Anybody would be better than Biden
You sound as if you are stuck on stupid"
Something tells me that you can't quite bring yourself to just say "You must vote for Bush or any other (R)INO to save the country" as they do every four years ( or sometimes two ).
That 'Lesser of Two Evils' argument sure sounds rational on the surface, or does it? Well for starters, it accomplishes one thing with absolute certainty - history will repeat again and again as the (R)epublicrats continue to serve up a plate of sh!t and compare it to the (D)ummycrat plate of diarrhea and say to us: Now pick one!. Yum. In essence we become enablers, keeping these (R)epublicrat schmucks in power forever.
No it's not really rational or logical thinking at all, it's quite the opposite. And before you go off on a lecture let me say that I *have* made this same stupid 'Lesser of Two Evils' selection as well, in all the elections up until 2012. Back in 1992 which you kind of mention, I set aside my cognitive dissonance and pulled the lever for Bush41 for a 2nd time, even though that was not the same man that ran against Dukakis, not by a longshot. Furthermore, this required me to ignore the substantial arguments that Perot made: jobs leaving the country ( 'sucking sound ) from NAFTA, the empty Socialist Security lockbox full of IOU's, his pressing of the Vietnam MIA's. It was a mistake to vote for Bush41 for a huge list of reasons but none moreso than the fact that the illegal alien invasion was then underway.
Now let me try a creative argument and offer an alternative to this endless cycle of kabuki political theater ( I promise that there is a point to this so please hang in there ). All these past elections what we should have been doing instead was 'Thinking Outside The Box'. You see, all along we were doing something in electoral politics that we would never do in our real lives. We were willing to entrust the 'nuclear button' to the lesser evil but at home we would never get boxed in to that choice. Try these on ...
POINT#1 ... Now imagine someone is looking over your shoulder and reminding you that these things are out of your control and insisting you must choose the drug addict or whomever in order to save your relationship with your daughter. THAT is exactly what the (R)epublicrats have been doing to us every election since 1984. And it is why I suspect that so far in this cycle there is a lot less of that peer pressure around here. People are realizing the argument is wearing thin.
POINT#2 ... But, the real point here is that the 'Lesser of Two Evils' is a false dilemma. The young Captain Kirk showed us the way with the Kobayashi Maru when he reprogrammed the computer. The solution is merely 'Thinking Outside The Box'. With my son or daughter I would grab the druggie or drunk and escort them out the door with extreme prejudice ( e.g., Al Bundy style ), and on the deck of the Titanic I would reach into the lifeboat and toss off two of the least deserving passengers and tell the crewman: "Now there's room for all three of us". It's a harsh world.
Rather than enabling these (R)ats all these years we should have been defying them. Now we have a serious chance of taking them out of the picture once and for all, and the unlikely catalyst is Trump. I ask you, is it really logical to continue down that same path as before or grab the machete and hack a new one of our own? Keep in mind that the path we are on truly means oblivion with another amnesty that will surely erase all our votes for every election after this one.
We are literally witnessing the reprogramming of the Kobayashi Maru computer scenario right before our eyes. The evidence is found in the vitriol and apoplectic hysteria flowing out the mouthes of every one of these talking heads. The good news IMHO is that while not perfect, Trump is the most likely candidate to siphon off some of the (D)ummycrat voters, and this is valuable because each such crossover is essentially worth TWO votes ( decreasing the enemy and increasing the good guy by one each ). As Obama most recently netted +5 million total in 2012, it is absolutely crucial that the (R) candidate can recreate the Reagan Democrat phenomenon and persuade 3 or 4 million to come over.
The icing on the cake would be for us to finally being able to turn the tables back on them and force the (R)epublicrat shills to have to face the 'Lesser of Two Evils' dilemma.