[HotHunt]

Bull-pucky. It is our civic duty to vote, one way or the other. Not voting at all is a lazy, cop-out. It’s like telling someone what you can’t do instead of what you can do. Nothing is accomplished by doing nothing except more nothing.

Maybe you forget the Preamble to the US Constitution begins with “WE” the people, not “ME” the candidate. Maybe it’s a cliche to some people, but Lincoln claimed this is a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” It is our responsibility to vote for our representatives in this republic. The responsibility does not lie with the candidates.

On the contrary, by your comments, you seem to follow Christopher Morley’s (American journalist & novelist) claim from his book, “inward Ho!”, that America “...is still a government for the naive, by the naive.”

[rodguy911]

Bull-pucky. It is our civic duty to vote, one way or the other. Not voting at all is a lazy, cop-out. It’s like telling someone what you can’t do instead of what you can do. Nothing is accomplished by doing nothing except more nothing.

Great stuff needs to be repeated.

So many crybabies here so little in the way of ideas to get rid of the RINOS.

Lots of complaints though.....typical.

[Cboldt]

The issue of whether or not voting is a civic duty doesn't touch on my primary point, which was "which way" a non-vote goes. You say it ALWAYS goes effectively to the DEM. I say it goes effectively to whoever the winner of the contest was.

-- by your comments, you seem to follow Christopher Morley's (American journalist & novelist) claim from his book, "inward Ho!", that America "...is still a government for the naive, by the naive." --

I see the government as "by the cronies, for the cronies;" and the cohort of business/political cronies is far from naive. Voters, on the other hand, half of them think the "speaker of the house" is part of a sound system.