What is more important to you?

[tbone717]

I do not operate my life or my business based on feelings, so I chose the second answer for obvious reasons.

 

[Smitty]

A "positive" for me is to cast my vote in a manner which will most effectively renounce those who have scuttled Ron Paul's candidacy.

If Ron Paul isn't the GOP nominee, I will vote Democrat

 

[Smitty]

The GOP must be denied *any* victories until its corrupt leadership moves aside and allows freedom minded people to control the party.

At this point, the most effective manner to do that is to vote for its opposition.

 

[sailingaway]

IMHO this entire question is spin because it suggests that an alternate action is 'doing something more positive' at which point you are pushed to believe a counted vote for someone you don't want is more positive, and I reject that notion.

 

[Smitty]

IMHO this entire question is spin because it suggests that an alternate action is 'doing something more positive' at which point you are pushed to believe a counted vote for someone you don't want is more positive, and I reject that notion.

If one accepts the idea that there's no significant difference between the two parties, as I do, then the desirable outcome is to eliminate those parties from contention.

Voting for a candidate which isn't in a position to win the election may make one feel good, but it does absolutely nothing to further *any* agenda.

My agenda is to demonstrate that any action against the principals of liberty has a political price.

The current configuration of the Republican party is vehemently anti liberty.

The best way to make it pay a price for its treatment of Ron Paul (*and* us) is to cast a vote for its most direct opposition.

The GOP must be shown that there *is* no GOP without us.

If they're going to slap the Liberty Movement in the face at every opportunity, they must accept defeat at the polls for it.

 

[sailingaway]

all I'm saying is the OP begs the question because each person feels what they are doing is 'more positive.'

 

[Endthefednow]

I will vote No One But Ron Paul!!!!

 

[liberalnurse]

I will do what is RIGHT. I will vote my conscience and that says vote Ron Paul.

Bingo!! +rep

 

[VIDEODROME]

Well it seems like Ron Paul is out, and here in Michigan Gary Johnson is fighting some sore loser law because he quit the GoP after being on the Michigan Primary.

So I don't think write-ins go far and suppose hypothetically Gary is squeezed out of the Michigan ballot?

I would probably vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party. Seriously.

Yeah I realize the have much more in common with Central Planning, but at least they're for peace and want to end the wars including the Drug War.

I've cast an Anti-Establishment vote before for Ralph Nader.. I'd rather cast a vote against the status quo then a "feel good" vote that goes in the nearest waste basket.

 

[BuddyRey]

It's not that I can only do what makes me "feel good", but that I can't do anything I find morally indefensible and live with myself afterwards. It would make me feel good in a perverse, Schadenfreude kind of way to see Obama get elected and this country to experience the Communist Hell it deserves, but that doesn't mean I want it to happen...and I definitely don't want to cause it to happen.

I'm always telling people to live by their principles and vote their conscience. If I voted for Obamney after saying all of that, I would be the worst kind of hypocrite.

 

[1stAmendguy]

Edit: I see where you didn't imply this.