The notion that voting for a third party candidate is good for your conscience is naive. You might as well vote for Obama. This country is in real trouble right now with the radical liberals in charge. We don’t have the luxury of having this guy in office another four years if we can help it. Now is not the time, right before the election, to think about voting for a third party candidate. A viable third party will take years, if not decades, to build up and get the support it needs to be competitive with the two major parties.
Elections are almost always about holding your nose and voting for someone who is not your perfect candidate. The same will be true in this election.
ABO. Anybody But Obama. ANYBODY!
“A viable third party will take years, if not decades, to build up...”
I’m not disagreeing with you, but what happened in the whig/republican metamorphoses?
Didn’t the whigs basically collapse and then sort of immediately re-emerge as republicans?
Why am I asking you to explain this to me? I should do some research!
I want the Tea Party to take over the Republican party, but it is true this must be done from the ground up.
I worked on a (losing-sigh) congressional campaign last year. The infrastructure that the Rs and I’m sure the Ds have is very immense. It takes a lot of time, money and effort to build and maintain such enterprises.
Even former president and beloved American icon Teddy Roosevelt didn’t win 3rd party. And that got us the racist Democrat Woodrow Wilson, possibly the most destructive president we’ve ever had (voting is still open).
Our problem, this time around, lies not in our stars (or even Mitt Romney) but in ourselves. We did not rally around a “not Romney” and so we may be stuck with him.
Personally I blame Mike Pence, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Perry (in chronological order).