Third-Rail Voting

Voting Your Conscience

When Mitt Romney dropped out of the race for President, he failed to say if he was endorsing Obama or Clinton. After all, who would vote for a Democrat dishonest enough to run as a Republican? Not all Democrats are weak on external defense, which seems to be McCain's major credential. On the side of realism, given the strongest military in the world, let's see you defend a nation while I have control over the schools, what most people see about the world around them and the borders. Defense is as much about having something to fight for as it is about the actual fighting.

I do not like the candidates available to me. They simply have too much experience. All of the candidates understand how much better politicians are than the people that they rule over. How many of them are worried about keeping their houses warm enough to keep the indoor pipes from freezing? There is no batter way of exterminating the poor than soaking the rich.

My hope is that Huckabee and Ron Paul do very well in the remaining elections. I would be for only having those two candidates receive votes and contributions for the rest of the election. It is not that I am supporting either candidate. What I am saying is that I am tired of being taken for granted and I want to be taken seriously. We can only achieve that goal by showing all of the candidates that we have the real power.

There is an echo throughout the halls of the electorate. Every so often, I hear about how a third party candidate sabotaged the chances of one candidate belonging to a larger party. It does not seem to occur to anybody that, for this to be true, the third party voters would have to have been willing to vote for the losing candidate. Can any of us make that case? Why is it necessary for us to have only two candidates in the race?