Third-Party Candidates: Worth Your Vote?

Ethereal · Jun 2, 2009

obvious Child said:
Your vote is statistically insignificant period.

Yes, I know. I didn't think I had to specify that a third party vote was such as it is pretty much implied.

jamesrage · Jun 2, 2009

Scarecrow Akhbar said:
Oh, I didn't mean vote for a liberal Republican. There are the few that still believe in the Republic, you know. There's no difference between a liberal Republican and a Democrat, they're both socialist traitors intent on the destruction of the Repubic.

When you vote for a liberal republican like McCain,Guliani, Romney or some other liberal then you intentionally voted for a liberal republican. How are you going to bash liberals all day and then openly admit to voting for one just because he has a "R" next to his name? You say one thing and do another. "Liberals suck,liberals are going to destroy the country, ****en liberals, Hey I am going to vote for McCain because a "R" is much better than a "D".

That's better, vent it all out. It doesn't have to make any sense, so long as you feel better when it's over. Remember, there's tissues in a box on the table at the end of the couch.

I voted to prevent the worst threat to the Republic ever seen in history from taking over the Oval Office.

When you grow up you'll learn that sometimes it's necessary to hold your nose to do what must be done at the time, especially when all options lead to some harm somewhere.

How are you going to accuse anyone of being immature when you have the republican good democrat evil mentality just like all the other fools who run to the polls and vote straight party ticket? Perhaps when you grow up you will realize that is the kind of mentality that got the democrat party where they are now and are getting the republicans on that same boat. Uneducated voters have the "one party is evil and their party can do not wrong" mentality.

So you're saying that The Messiah and McCain were 100.0000% equal?

the "0000" after that period are meaningless. Wasn't McCain running around calling Obama a socialist while supporting bailouts?

When you are running around calling Obama The Messiah you only make yourself look like one of the Bush stole the elections, Bush Lied, Obama is really a Kenyan or some other nutjob.

What did you accomplish with your vote? Did anyone pay you any attention?

I along with everyone else who refused to vote for liberal republican helped delayed the further liberalization of the republican party.Politicians just like children and pets will think bad behavior is acceptable if you reward them for it. Perhaps one day people will wake up and a 3rd party candidate will win.

Jerry · Jun 2, 2009

Mc.Cain would have been easer to controle, that's why I supported him over Obama.

But yes, they're both liberals.

Scarecrow Akhbar · Jun 2, 2009

jamesrage said:
When you vote for a liberal republican like McCain,Guliani, Romney or some other liberal then you intentionally voted for a liberal republican.

Actually, I intentionally voted against The Messiah, hoping that since Proposition 8 was so close to passing that the RINO had a slight chance of winning. How was I to know that so many Messiah supporters were such complete bigots? (Actually, I did know that, I just didn't know they hated queers, too)

jamesrage said:
How are you going to bash liberals all day and then openly admit to voting for one just because he has a "R" next to his name?

Easy. Watch this:

Liberals suck the wrong end of the alimentary canal.

Liberals are traitors.

Liberals like being slaves.

I can do this all day, really.

That doesn't mean we would not have been better served if we'd managed to dump The Messiah.

A vote is a strategica tool, I don't waste a lot of emotion on them. When California liberals wrongs forced open primaries on the state, I properly voted for all the Democrats I could find, so long as they were second tier Democrats who couldn't win an election otherwise.

jamesrage said:
How are you going to accuse anyone of being immature when you have the republican good democrat evil mentality just like all the other fools who run to the polls and vote straight party ticket?

Because I have the mentality that knows how to use words to elicit irrational emotional responses from irrational emotional liberals as well as irrational emotion third party voters who think a single vote makes a difference anywhere.

jamesrage said:
Wasn't McCain running around calling Obama a socialist while supporting bailouts?

See? I wasn't the only one to notice that The Messiah was a socialist.

jamesrage said:
When you are running around calling Obama The Messiah you only make yourself look like one of the Bush stole the elections, Bush Lied, Obama is really a Kenyan or some other nutjob.

Got any proof that The Messiah isn't a Kenyan national? Then you're the only one.

jamesrage said:
I along with everyone else who refused to vote for liberal republican helped delayed the further liberalization of the republican party.

You did? Amazing. How's that working out for you so far?

Seems to me that what you're saying is that if I, myself, didn't vote for Bush, we'd be in the promised land already, without The Messiah, even.

jamesrage said:
Politicians just like children and pets will think bad behavior is acceptable if you reward them for it. Perhaps one day people will wake up and a 3rd party candidate will win.

I see you never bothered to study the impact third parties have had on the United States.

Goshin · Jun 2, 2009

I'm still registered as a Repub; in the primaries I vote for the actual conservative or conservative/libertarian candidates.

In general elections, I'll vote for a Republican IF he is an actual conservative, or conservative/libertarian. If he's just a RINO, I'll vote Constitution Party, or maybe Libertarian.

When I vote 3rd party, I know full well the guy won't win. It's a protest against a R party that has increasingly forgotten it's base.

G.

ronpaulvoter · Jun 2, 2009

Harry Guerrilla said:
Here election laws and the Presidential debates are tailored to keep everyone else out.

America does not have open and honest elections.

Every legal citizen has a right to run for public office. But the Democrats and Republicans have created draconian ballot access rules to keep out competition from third parties. Some states have fairly easy ballot access, but in others it is nearly impossible for a third party or an independent.

Zyphlin said:
I will only vote for a third party if neither of the two party candidates at least holds a decent majority of the same views as I do that I trust they will uphold and there is a 3rd party member that matches my views almost uniformly

Most of the time, neither the R or D upholds Constitutional principles. I can name only two parties that are worth voting for--Libertarian and Constitution.

jamesrage said:
You're not stopping any horrendous thing from happening by throwing your vote away on a sell out liberal Republican. Ooh he is 2-5% better than Obama--big deal. By voting for sellouts like McCain, Gulliani, Romney and other sellouts pretending to be patriotic conservatives you are encouraging the Republican party to further degenerate. Why would the Republicans ever prop up another viable conservative if you keep voting for liberals; you'll bash libs all day and then turn around and vote for one just because he has an "R" next to his name. A Republican liberal rat is still just as much of a liberal rat as a Democrat liberal. Both parties are taking us to Hell in hand basket; one is just taking us there a little bit slower.

When the Republicans screw up, send them a message, "My vote could have been yours, but I voted (Libertarian or Constitution) because you have NOT upheld basic American freedom."

submarinepainter · Jun 2, 2009

I checked other because I once voted Democrat only , then I was a Republicans for many elections but I have seen that both major parties are destroying us and taking freedoms away they are just doing it in different ways.

jamesrage · Jun 2, 2009

Scarecrow Akhbar said:
Actually, I intentionally voted against The Messiah,

You think McCain wouldn't have agreed to any more bailouts,nominated liberal judges and further sell this country out to illegal immigration?

hoping that since Proposition 8 was so close to passing that the RINO had a slight chance of winning. How was I to know that so many Messiah supporters were such complete bigots? (Actually, I did know that, I just didn't know they hated queers, too)

Being for traditional marriage doesn't make you a hate monger (usually it is liberals who runs around calling the opposition hate mongers or bigots just because they oppose homosexual marriage)

Easy. Watch this:

Liberals suck the wrong end of the alimentary canal.

Liberals are traitors.

Liberals like being slaves.

I can do this all day, really.

That doesn't mean we would not have been better served if we'd managed to dump The Messiah.

What would have McCain done that would have been better than Obama? McCain has a history of confirming liberal judges(Ruth Bader Gesburg), McCain has a history of trying to sell this country out to illegal immigration, McCain has jumped on the *****fist terrorist sympathizing band wagon that simulated water drowning is torture, McCain is not as pro-2nd amendment as he leads people to believe and a couple of other liberal things.

Because I have the mentality that knows how to use words to elicit irrational emotional responses from irrational emotional liberals as well as irrational emotion third party voters who think a single vote makes a difference anywhere.

One vote may not make a difference but a whole bunch of angry voters does make a difference.

See? I wasn't the only one to notice that The Messiah was a socialist.

You seem to think McCain wasn't with this support for the bailouts.

Got any proof that The Messiah isn't a Kenyan national? Then you're the only one.

A certified copy of a birth certificate is more proof than any claims made by nuts. Do you have any real proof he is a Kenyan? Is there a born in Kenya birth certificate?

You did? Amazing. How's that working out for you so far?

McCain isn't in office. Perhaps republicans will quit trying to be democrats or democrat light after losing enough elections.

Seems to me that what you're saying is that if I, myself, didn't vote for Bush, we'd be in the promised land already, without The Messiah, even.

I was on that same democrats evil republicans good band wagon that you are on now when Bush ran for office twice. There is no shame in admitting that. Hopefully you'll jump off that band wagon to.

I see you never bothered to study the impact third parties have had on the United States.

I see you never bothered to look up party histories.The republican party was founded in 1854 and replaced the whig party as opposition to the democrat party.

Scarecrow Akhbar · Jun 2, 2009

jamesrage said:
You think McCain wouldn't have agreed to any more bailouts,nominated liberal judges and further sell this country out to illegal immigration?

I think McCain would not have nominated racist judges.

Oh. You forgot that, huh?

jamesrage said:
Being for traditional marriage doesn't make you a hate monger (usually it is liberals who runs around calling the opposition hate mongers or bigots just because they oppose homosexual marriage)

At barest minimum it makes one a busy-body, from which all the evils of government can find their roots.

jamesrage said:
What would have McCain done that would have been better than Obama? McCain has a history of confirming liberal judges(Ruth Bader Gesburg), McCain has a history of trying to sell this country out to illegal immigration, McCain has jumped on the *****fist terrorist sympathizing band wagon that simulated water drowning is torture, McCain is not as pro-2nd amendment as he leads people to believe and a couple of other liberal things.

Everyone votes for judges in the Senate.

Nominating them is different. Chances are 100% that The Messiah is going to saddle us with the worst sort of activist liberal/socialist trash judges he can find. Chances are less that McCain would have.

jamesrage said:
One vote may not make a difference but a whole bunch of angry voters does make a difference.

Yeah, you and your friends sure turned things around, didn't they?

jamesrage said:
You seem to think McCain wasn't with this support for the bailouts.

You seem to think you know what I think.

At the most, you can see what I write, which offers nothing more than a silhouette of my thoughts.

jamesrage said:
A certified copy of a birth certificate is more proof than any claims made by nuts. Do you have any real proof he is a Kenyan? Is there a born in Kenya birth certificate?

You've never seen a certified copy of The Kenyan's birth certificate.

jamesrage said:
McCain isn't in office.

I noticed.

jamesrage said:
Perhaps republicans will quit trying to be democrats or democrat light after losing enough elections.

Don't count on that.

jamesrage said:
I was on that same democrats evil republicans good band wagon that you are on now when Bush ran for office twice. There is no shame in admitting that. Hopefully you'll jump off that band wagon to.

That's nice. I can't recall saying "Republicans good". In fact, I can't ever recall saying "Republicans are good", even.

I'm a Libertarian. Been one for a long time now.

jamesrage said:
I see you never bothered to look up party histories.The republican party was founded in 1854 and replaced the whig party as opposition to the democrat party.

Wow. Who'd have thought of looking up history? What a concept. Did you notice that the new GOP had a large following supporting them? Which third party today has a large following? Answer: not a one.

Look up Teddy Roosevelt. His interference as a third party candidate enabled the worst president ever to assume his throne.

FlappyTheKinkajou · Jun 2, 2009

submarinepainter said:
I checked other because I once voted Democrat only , then I was a Republicans for many elections but I have seen that both major parties are destroying us and taking freedoms away they are just doing it in different ways.

And then you had your epiphany last year! You are coming up on your one year anniversary! Congratulations!

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