“Just because I have said I am not supporting Romney in no way means I am staying home, it is a some weird conclusion of rabid Romney supporters. If either of these men are the nominees, for the first time in my life I will not vote for president, I will vote for all other offices.”
Same here. I will vote for all other offices. After much thought and after consulting the Scriptures, I do not believe I can cast a vote for Romney in good conscience, but not merely because he’s Mormon, though that is certainly a problem. When I look at the biblical qualifications for overseers he falls way short. In my view his greatest failing is one of character and integrity. He’s a fundamentally dishonest man. A case can be made that we know as little about him as we do Obama. Sure we know his biography, but we do not know what he really believes about much of anything.
In the end my hope is in the Lord. He’s sovereign over all the little princes of this world.
Bingo!
I thought exactly this about John McCain and voted for him anyway.
This was because he was running against a dull-witted, inexperienced, wrong-headed narcissist who hated white people and hated America.
I urge you -- please vote at the top of the ticket. Register your franchise. VOTE for a third-party candidate not because you think he'll win, but because your vote will help weaken the victory of whichever statist, Obama or Romney, does win. A president who "wins" even when the majority of Americans are on record as opposing him at the ballot box -- i.e. Bill Clinton in 1992 -- is defensive and vulnerable, and is DENIED a mandate.
Your third party vote will count toware DENYING a mandate to the winner. Clinton got slammed in the mid-terms with the Republican Revolution; it probably would not have happened if he'd won with a majority or if HW had been re-elected. And Clinton was a relatively popular figure -- Obama, on the other hand, is increasingly held in contempt by Democrats who voted for him last time. Your third party vote won't favor either Obama or Romney, but it WILL count in the popular tally, and if Obama was re-elected on such a plurality that as many as two in three rejected him at the ballot box, he would be humiliated, he would be a mockery, conservatism would be empowered, and your vote would have HELPED conservatism.
I urge you please to re-think your decision not to vote at the top of the ticket. Your third party vote would work to DENY a mandate to the winner, and that would empower the conservatives you'll have voted for down-ticket when it comes to opposing that president.