If, within 8 seconds of someone giving you something, you turn and toss it into the wastebasket, what kind of message do you think that sends to the giver? Answer: That you didn't like it and you don't want it. That's the message I wish to send to the Republican party.
We who compromise our convictions on election day (because we don't want to throw away our vote) forfeit any just cause for criticism when the lesser-of-the-two-evil politicians follows suit.
When we think that the next 4 - 8 years are more important than the next 30 or the last 30, we are too short-sighted.
When we say that our elected officials are representatives "of the people," and when those representatives stink, what are we saying about ourselves? (At least in this, we -- and they -- speak the truth.)
My guess is that, of all of us who are self-proclaimed conservatives, there were more of you who will wish that certain third party or independent candidates could hold office but won't vote for them than there are of us who will wish it and declare those wishes by our vote. In such a case, which group is really letting the other down -- the compromising majority, or the conscientious minority?
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I agree completely :) I'm definitely one of the conscientious minority who will be throwing away my vote this November.
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