Comments on: POLITICS: Don’t waste vote on ‘lesser of two evils’ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/ Your views in 250 words or less Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: aislander http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211968 aislander Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:50:08 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211968 alindasue: A third party has NEVER won a national election (or a majority in Congress) in the United States.

Parties have collapsed (as did the Whigs over the issue of abolition) and been replaced by a new second party.

But three parties in competition with each other? No.

]]> By: alindasue http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211915 alindasue Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:54:09 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211915 sozo said, “Voting for a third party candidate is throwing your vote away…”

If you only vote for a candidate because you think he’ll win, rather than the candidate you really want in office, THEN you have thrown your vote away. If “third party” candidates never had a chance of winning, we’d all still be choosing between the Torry and the Whig candidates right now – but we’re not.

]]> By: aislander http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211872 aislander Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:32:17 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211872 …in every contest.

]]> By: aislander http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211871 aislander Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:31:45 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211871 THAT was a breathtaking oversimplification, beerBoy. I’m MUCH happier with those results than with 2008.

Perfect in every way? No, but WAY better in a lot of ways.

These are different times and we are speeding toward a Greek cliff. We need someone to put the brakes on and President Obama and the Democrats show no willingness to do so.

An adult who cares about the country will vote for the most conservative candidate who can win…

]]> By: beerBoy http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211861 beerBoy Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:49:49 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211861 So you were happy with the net results of 2000/2004? Not too many conservatives who say that today.

]]> By: sozo http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211849 sozo Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:42:58 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211849 Sadly, it didn’t work out well at all in 2008. I’m hoping for improvement,though. klueless’ assumption that I only vote for those with an R next to their name is, of course, false but I would not expect him to appreciate the mind of an independent thinker.

]]> By: beerBoy http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211835 beerBoy Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:59:01 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211835 I vote for whichever of the two primary candidates will lead our country in the direction I think it should go.

‘And how has that worked out for ya?

]]> By: kluwer http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211811 kluwer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:19:42 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211811 “I vote for whichever of the two primary candidates will lead our country in the direction I think it should go.”

As long as they an R next to their name.

]]> By: sozo http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211785 sozo Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:06:41 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211785 franken…you need professional help. Your manic commentary is very sad

Voting for a third party candidate is throwing your vote away, so if that’s what you want to do so you can boast about voting your conscience, have at it. I did that the first time I was permitted to vote and thought I was quite superior for having done so.

Then I actually DID grow up and realized that my feelings (don’t tell Oprah!) are a poor guide for deciding how to vote. I vote for whichever of the two primary candidates will lead our country in the direction I think it should go.

Thus, I could never, with good consicence vote for Barack Obama and I can, with a clear and easy consicence vote for the candidate who will take control of this ship and do what he can to set it on a better course.

]]> By: kluwer http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/04/03/dont-waste-your-vote-on-the-lesser-of-two-evils/#comment-211782 kluwer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:47:47 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=43770#comment-211782 c7, you complain about juvenile posts when you are the most guilty of them.

As for mittens, everyone knows he will take us back to the failed bush years and the far right extremism, like the Ryan plan, which as we all know, by history, will be a disaster.

why would a thinking person want to go back to something we KNOW doesn’t work?

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