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Post by wulf on Mar 8, 2012 14:24:13 GMT -5
If Romney wins the nomination then I'll be abstaining for the first time since I've been of voting age. If Santorum somehow gets it then I'll have no choice but to vote for Obama. That man must not be president, if you value your freedom you should be very afraid of him.
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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 8, 2012 17:03:18 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, I think , THINK, former Governor Casey of Colorado will be the Libertarian candidate. More Ron Paul than I believe Ron Paul might be at the moment with his chumminess with his pal Mitt, and his setting up a political base for his son Rand to inherit. I am losing faith in Old Ron.
You can always vote third party. I have in 1994, 2000, and 2004. And I might, MIGHT, this year if I choose not to forget that Obama re-signed the Patriot Act into law with a "magic" electronic pen while flying outside of the U.S. border. I believe he was over Europe at the time.
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Post by wulf on Mar 8, 2012 22:05:00 GMT -5
The patriot act is a wholly bipartisan nightmare. Obama even said he had great reservation about signing it this time. To me it's incomprehensible you would sign something that effects an entire nation if you have any reservations. Both of my Congressmen backed it and I'm likely now on a watch list for my posts and emails to their various social media outlets describing my opinion of their ability to do their jobs. Sadly, voting 3rd party would not help to block a Santorum win, I feel he would be too destructive to this country as a whole and to individual freedom to be allowed to become president. I don't like Obama's politics but he at least isn't evil.
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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 9, 2012 2:21:02 GMT -5
Too bad we don't have the popular vote in our national elections. Your voice can make a difference, a big difference in New Hampshire and beyond, but not as big as a voice as in Ohio or Florida (and thus beyond).
My voice is null and void inside my home. Except in adding a small but ever growing vision that a national third party is somewhere over the horizon. I actually have the luxury of always voting my conscience in Texas. You can set the the political clock to it, every four years the Republican wins handily.
That said, my suggestion was voting third party in NH if it is Mitt against the current POTUS. If it is Mr. Bat-Shit Fucking Nuts instead of Mitt, I beg you to vote for our incumbent candidate!
Drinking Murphy's Irish Stout. It is after all things Irish month. Cheers laddies! Oh, Wulf for President! I know you'd get my vote!
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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 9, 2012 2:34:32 GMT -5
Oh and Wulf, after my Leonard Peltier and Jonathan Pollard clemency calls to the switchboard of Clinton's White House (numerous calls over a few weeks in 1999-2000 stating my name, age, occupation, and my residency in Austin), well I beat you noble sir onto any national watchlists. Plus marching against the coming war in Iraq, and wearing a FUCK BUSH t-shirt every month from the end of 2001 until the inauguration of Obama, I KNOW, I FEEL IT, I gotta be on a list in D.C.
In the immortal words of Fredrick Douglas, "Agitate, agitate, agitate".
That said, watch "Waco, the Rules of Engagement", Wulf for Prez, and a hearty Irish Cheers!
Oh yeah. Go vote you bastiches! In the primaries! Rush Limbaugh created Operation Chaos four years ago, and from here on out anybody can play the game any presidential year, whatever your political stripe.
And I'm voting Newt in my primary. My vote will have more heft in the GOP primary here than in the national election. Really. Newt. I'm gonna pull that lever, I tell you what!
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