[quote]katzenjammer wrote:
dhickey wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
Fuck. I’d probably rather vote for Wesley Snipes.
We know you and in fact all of us here, when we finally go into the voting booth, are going to pull the lever for McCain. Everyone knows Obama is a criminal, a nut, a Socialist, and an extreme Black Liberationist.
Giving him a 60 Dem Senate and a House in similar straites is like giving him a loaded gun, to assasinate America. Hell, Biden himself as much as said so.
Despite all the ways we want to vote, we’ll all put our country first and vote McCain.
not me.
dhickey, I respect your position and in large part agree - but is the principled stand of voting for a third party candidate really worth risking 4-8 years of Obama?
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I have said this before but will repeat. Just my opinion.
Most of America really doesn’t take much interest in politics. Particularly, the bastardization of the constitution and economic practices that have absolutly no basis in sound economic principal. This is unlikely to change until thing get much worse. I think the sooner it get much worse, the sooner the correction.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is much like the fed playing with the money supply. It may lessen the short term impact of a recession but will not eliminate it. In the end we get a longer drawn out recession where there is greater sacrifice, just spread over time.
The republicans may be slightly better in slowing the growth of gov’t but they are not going to reverse any damage that has been done. They mearly offer a more drawn out collapse.
Part of me wants to vote for Obama (and Franken) just to see us destroy what we can in 8 years rather than 20 or 30 years of gradual decline. 4 or 8 years of Obama and liberal super majority will probably create a big enough catastrophy to ensure a couple decades of republican rule.
The hope is that the republicans no longer have to cater to the left or uneducated (politically speaking) by then, and return to being conservatives.
The hope is that enough people take notice of what is happening and take an interest in politics. If people just took a passing interest in basic economics, no modern democrat (or many republicans) would ever get elected. If people just took a passing interest in understanding the principles this country was founded on, no modern democrat (or many republicans) would get elected.
This is what I want to have happen. This will not happen as long as we continue to limp along as we are. Something very bad need to happen and all Americans need to feel the effects.
Also, state and federal gov’t that is bankrupt is much more likely to start cutting programs and spending in my
opinion.