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Why Third Party Voters Should Not Be Blamed For McCain's Upcoming Defeat
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| 5/10/08
| levotb
Posted on 05/10/2008 4:07:27 PM PDT by levotb
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:07:27 PM PDT
by
levotb
To: levotb
As I wrote you on another thread, it’s a free country: You are certainly welcome to go into the sanctity of the voting booth and vote third party or write-in Daffy Duck or even Ron Paul. But don’t come crying to me a year from now because of your taxes going up to pay for reparations, Muslim indoctrination in your kid’s schools, and the martial law that President Obama declared after the gun confiscation riots.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:09:40 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
To: levotb
...as McCain is very simply a pro-war liberal, someone who is diametrically opposed to everything they stand for. True. Would those same people vote for Lieberman?
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:09:53 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
To: levotb
CYA, my friend.
Has it occurred to you that if you do vote for a third party candidiate, and should McCain win, both you and your third party will have been reduced to political insignificance?
To: levotb
For President GHW Bush to win in 1992, he would have needed 2/3 of the Perot votes. A lot of those votes were from angry Democrats instead of angry Republicans. Even if they had split 65% Bush/35% Clinton then Clinton would have won.
However, the 2000 election was decided by the third party vote. The Naderites would have voted for Gore over Bush if they had to choose between the two and there were more than enough of them in Florida alone to push Gore over the edge.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:12:57 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
To: levotb
Which loser are you going to waste your vote on?
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:16:25 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: KarlInOhio
The Naderites are, for all practical purposes, a rump party left over from the Nazi movement of the 1930s.
Without a candidate they simply don't vote.
Frankly, they'll be out this time to vote for Obama so you might take that into consideration.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:17:59 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: levotb
hey, you forgot to mention the democrat voting machines!
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:19:36 PM PDT
by
ripley
To: levotb
A vote for a third party candidate is a vote for Obama" Yes - it is. Vote for a third and it's a vote for Obama.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:19:59 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(A vote for a third party candidate is a vote for Obama)
To: levotb
You pathetic piece of sh*t, you should be ashamed of yourself for spouting off something like AND YET ANOTHER OLD BILLIONAIRE RINO (this one, with one arm)
referring to Bob Dole.
Dole may have been a poor candidate, he may not have been right on all the issues, and some might say he wasn't all that conservative but the fact is, he damn near lost that arm (he actually has two, and one is barely functional) defending America and Freedom in World War II, and you, ya pipsqueak have no business making snide remarks about it.
If you have any self-respect at all, you'll have the mods nuke this abysmal excuse for a thread before they do it for you.
Shame on you.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:20:39 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American history.)
To: curmudgeonII
Has it occurred to you that if you do vote for a third party candidate, and should McCain win, both you and your third party will have been reduced to political insignificance? And how would that would be different than McCain treats conservatives now?
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:20:50 PM PDT
by
RJL
To: levotb
****But, don’t let “logic” get in the way of any preconceived notions!*****
I admire a person who follows his/her own advice. Well done sir/madam.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:20:58 PM PDT
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
To: levotb
A case could be made for REGISTERED REPUBLICANS who vote third party in this election having betrayed McCain, but no one else.BUMPed for simple (and wholly irrefutable) logic. Superb in every particular.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:21:55 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
To: levotb
Hmmmm....I’m sure in the end, you’ll do whats best for America and your fellow Americans...even if it does’nt make you “feel” all that good....
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:24:01 PM PDT
by
mo
To: levotb
And even some of them--the more conservative registered Republicans--shouldn't be blamed for voting for a third party candidate as McCain is very simply a pro-war liberal, someone who is diametrically opposed to everything they stand for. In ordinary times I may agree with you (probably Not though) but something in that last sentence should jump out at you and that is the word war.
We are at war with a determined enemy whos only goal is to kill us at any and all cost.
One of the Democrat partys primary campaign planks is to get us out of the one of the wars main theaters.
To cast a vote not supporting the only candidate that has a chance of winning who supports the continued aggressive prosecution of the war is not only illogical but suicidal.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:26:31 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: curmudgeonII
Has it occurred to you that if you do vote for a third party candidiate, and should McCain win, both you and your third party will have been reduced to political insignificance? Is six a half of a dozen, are is one half of twelve????
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:26:37 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: levotb
"Remember how they blamed Pat Buchanan instead of Bob Dole in 1996 for handing Clinton another 4 years?"
Nope, I don't recall that at all. I recall Clinton being an very popular incumbant, in a good economy, universally expected to sail to re-election. Most considered Dole as the sacrificial lamb who was put up mostly for long years of service who did not have a chance. At least that's how I remember it.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:27:16 PM PDT
by
joebuck
(Finitum non capax infinitum!)
To: North Coast Conservative
You may want to weigh in on this.
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:28:36 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
82nd Abn...No one can say it better than you!
To: mkjessup
Well said and amen.
I look forward to the first Obama State of the Union when he will propose that all citizens over the age of 6 obtain a Federal (FCC) license to blog. It might not be all bad!
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posted on
05/10/2008 4:32:06 PM PDT
by
sodpoodle
(Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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