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Yeah, I said it. All because some people see it prudent to vote for John McCain.
You know, I've been fighting this fight since last spring, and have committed my life to this movement in my state. I've postponed school, quit my job for sporadic work, sacrificed time with my family, let enjoyable but not crucial friends, become financially unstable, and allowed my relationship to become unstable. Compared to many, these are but trifling inconveniences, but nonetheless I've seen it all as worth it if I can make even the slightest difference in sustaining this movement.
I will not be voting voting for John McCain, but only because he has no chance of winning here. If it were close, I would.
I hate him. I see him as dangerous to our country and the lives of many Americans and foreigners, and potentially fatal for all that is good about the Republican Party.
But Barack Obama is Satan... just kidding.
However, Obama is the most dangerous politician who has ever actually had a chance of winning the presidency. You scoff, you who repeat slogans regarding the lesser of two evils. Your inanities allow you to mislead yourselves.
No cute and rallying bromide can reverse the fact that Obama, a committed Marxist-Leninist since his youth, may take the presidency with super-majorities in both houses of Congress. Three Supreme Court judges are just waiting to retire and would likely finally feel safe in doing so. Probably only Harry Truman could boast entering the Presidency with a larger, more invasive government. No, wait - the technology at the disposal of today's Federal state makes the forties look like the stone age.
Obama is Castro, Ben Bella, Chavez at least. A worst case scenario could conjure a likeness to history's other totalitarian narcissists who were the centers of personality cults.
McCain is dangerous because he has no underlying political philosophy, is a pawn of whomever would control him, is independent only in his bursts of irrational anger, and he's a populist. But he's maligned by most in his party, he'd be in power with the opposition party controlling the rest of the government, and best of all he would be easier to remove in two years than Obama - if he were to make it that long.
Again, Obama is a committed Marxist-Leninist. He is at the center of a personality cult. He, and other leaders in his party which will have total control, are advocating a "New New Deal," the likes of which the original will pale in comparison to. He is already going after private citizens who mock him. He and his controlling party will bring in the i-Patriot Act, or the fairness doctrine plus.
Obama will make George Bush look like a saint, like T. Jefferson himself. And you purists who shoot down those who admit that, while there is no good choice to be made this time around, their patriotism shows them that in good conscience they can still protect their country from something - instead of merely encouraging third parties to siphon off good patriots from political parties in which they could actually make a difference to this country.
And all because some of us can't handle the fact we got slapped around at some conventions, or because there is simply no obvious easy choice this time.
Your vote doesn't matter... but especially so if you waste it on a third party. That's right, I don't see how futility is good for one's conscience.
That said, here in WA I think I'm leaving the President slot blank, even though I could vote for Baldwin. Nice guy, very Ron Paul-esque. But to vote third party is to encourage them.
I agree with Mike Rothfeld of the Real Politics Training School (yes I represented my CD in Minneapolis): all a third party is good for is using them to cause pain. I would add: Not for making you feel better about yourself.
My advice (let the attacks come!) - if you're in a swing state, be a patriot, swallow your pride, still your nerves, and pull the lever for McCain. Then wake up the next morning and commit yourself to remaking the GOP.
Commence the abuse...
You know, I've been fighting this fight since last spring, and have committed my life to this movement in my state. I've postponed school, quit my job for sporadic work, sacrificed time with my family, let enjoyable but not crucial friends, become financially unstable, and allowed my relationship to become unstable. Compared to many, these are but trifling inconveniences, but nonetheless I've seen it all as worth it if I can make even the slightest difference in sustaining this movement.
I will not be voting voting for John McCain, but only because he has no chance of winning here. If it were close, I would.
I hate him. I see him as dangerous to our country and the lives of many Americans and foreigners, and potentially fatal for all that is good about the Republican Party.
But Barack Obama is Satan... just kidding.
However, Obama is the most dangerous politician who has ever actually had a chance of winning the presidency. You scoff, you who repeat slogans regarding the lesser of two evils. Your inanities allow you to mislead yourselves.
No cute and rallying bromide can reverse the fact that Obama, a committed Marxist-Leninist since his youth, may take the presidency with super-majorities in both houses of Congress. Three Supreme Court judges are just waiting to retire and would likely finally feel safe in doing so. Probably only Harry Truman could boast entering the Presidency with a larger, more invasive government. No, wait - the technology at the disposal of today's Federal state makes the forties look like the stone age.
Obama is Castro, Ben Bella, Chavez at least. A worst case scenario could conjure a likeness to history's other totalitarian narcissists who were the centers of personality cults.
McCain is dangerous because he has no underlying political philosophy, is a pawn of whomever would control him, is independent only in his bursts of irrational anger, and he's a populist. But he's maligned by most in his party, he'd be in power with the opposition party controlling the rest of the government, and best of all he would be easier to remove in two years than Obama - if he were to make it that long.
Again, Obama is a committed Marxist-Leninist. He is at the center of a personality cult. He, and other leaders in his party which will have total control, are advocating a "New New Deal," the likes of which the original will pale in comparison to. He is already going after private citizens who mock him. He and his controlling party will bring in the i-Patriot Act, or the fairness doctrine plus.
Obama will make George Bush look like a saint, like T. Jefferson himself. And you purists who shoot down those who admit that, while there is no good choice to be made this time around, their patriotism shows them that in good conscience they can still protect their country from something - instead of merely encouraging third parties to siphon off good patriots from political parties in which they could actually make a difference to this country.
And all because some of us can't handle the fact we got slapped around at some conventions, or because there is simply no obvious easy choice this time.
Your vote doesn't matter... but especially so if you waste it on a third party. That's right, I don't see how futility is good for one's conscience.
That said, here in WA I think I'm leaving the President slot blank, even though I could vote for Baldwin. Nice guy, very Ron Paul-esque. But to vote third party is to encourage them.
I agree with Mike Rothfeld of the Real Politics Training School (yes I represented my CD in Minneapolis): all a third party is good for is using them to cause pain. I would add: Not for making you feel better about yourself.
My advice (let the attacks come!) - if you're in a swing state, be a patriot, swallow your pride, still your nerves, and pull the lever for McCain. Then wake up the next morning and commit yourself to remaking the GOP.
Commence the abuse...
