Posted on 08/12/2012 11:08:56 AM PDT by Yardstick
Romney/Ryan to save and take our country back.
Obama/Biden to send our country to hell.
No other tickets can save it our place it in peril Will you vote to save our country? If you write-in a candidate or ticket, then you send our country to Hell!!!
I’ve moved from “liberal” NY to purple PA. It’s blue enough here that it’s probably impossible that a Republican victory here (tho possible) would be the margin of victory. So I suppose that I could take that same attitude that was applicable in NY and CA - vote conservative in all seasons. But we both know that we’re not casting a real vote in that case, we’re just participating in a sort of straw poll with no possible consequences. But I sure don’t want people taking that attitude in FL and OH, or the remnants of the republic are pretty much obliterated.I started advocating a “Draft Palin” movement shortly after the midterm election, but it turned out that there was hardly any support for that, even here. I still think that was our main chance of preventing a Romney nomination, but obviously wishes and horses, and all that.
At my age I’m not sure I’ll ever vote for a candidate instead of against his opponent ever again. Only time I really felt that way was Reagan. But that’s life in the big city - in principle there are many scores of millions of people who are natural born citizens over the age of 35 who could be elected POTUS, and a simple first-past-the-pole election can’t possibly reduce that down to the mythical “single best person for the job."
So how would you vote if your vote mattered?
My situation is the opposite of yours — regardless of how I vote, Alabama will go for Romney. But I’m going to vote Romney nevertheless. I’ve been a purist in the past but feel strongly now that best thing for the country is to vote the Marxist out of office. Choosing the lesser of two evils is something grownups have to do from time to time.
In a spirit of religious tolerance and non-partisanship, an alien craft and D.C. - as in the movie, Independence Day, would be all I need.
90% of the evil in this country resides in D.C.
There’s absolutely no way I could ever vote for an abortionist/homosexualist/statist etch-a-sketch liar like Romney, even if I lived in a swing state. I’d have to hang up my spurs and retire if I did and I’m nowhere ready to do that yet. Too many battles left to fight.
Well that’s fine. You vote according to your personal hangups. The rest of us will suck it up and vote to save the country from a Marxist disaster.
I’d settle on just impeaching the usurper.
I'm glad you noticed the color change too.
And like I said before, my California vote for the presidency doesn’t matter anyway so why should I perjure myself?
bwahahahah...i just had a starwars flashback...
...the makers and the takers?
But that’s pure fantasy. Life on planet Earth, even in America, is a mess, but it’s an influenceable mess. We’re not so off track that we can’t swing it back if we keep a level head. The left would love for us to cripple ourselves with perfectionism. We shouldn’t make it easy for them.
Because your vote wouldn’t be perjury, that’s why. You’d just be saying “Romney sucks but he’s not a Marxist disaster”, and that would be the truth. There’s no dishonor in that.
I’m not going to vote for an abortionist, nor a homosexualist, nor a statist. Give it a rest.
Just a thought here... each vote matters in the popular vote total. Before the everybody starts jumping on me, I KNOW the popular vote doesn’t matter constitutionally, only the electoral college does.
But do we really want a repeat of 2000, when Bush won the electoral vote and Gore won the popular vote?
I would prefer NOT to have a victory tained that way, so even though I’m in a blue state I will add to Romney’s total.
People keep telling me I should vote my conscience because I’m in a blue state and my vote won’t help give the state to Romney. My conscience tells me Obama and his lawless posse must go, so for me it’s ABOWHASCIH (Anybody But Obama Who Has a Snowball’s Chance in Hell.) That leaves out third party long shots.
I’m not attemting to convice you, or the steadfast NO ROMNEY/NO WAY people here. Just sharing my view. I cannot be swayed, just as you cannot be swayed. We’ll just have to agree to disagree. Fair?
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