"Voting is not a horse race. You're not going there to pick a winner
so you can brag to your friends. Voting is where you vote your heart and your conscience. ... if you don't vote your heart and conscience, you have wasted your vote." -- Jesse Ventura"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -- John Quincy Adams
Are these guys saying don't vote the lessor of two evils if you don't believe that either major party candidate is right for the job? I recently took a online test, BarackObamaTest.com and found that I disagreed with Senator Obama on 42 of 47 questions. This means that I disagreed with the Obama position 89% of the time. More than likely he would not be the person that I would vote for under any circumstance. However, what about John McCain? I looked and there is no similar test for him out there. But I would guess my score would be only 40-50% for McCain where I disagreed with him.
OnTheIssues.com rates McCain as a conservative, but he is a left leaning moderate based in his actions and votes in the senate. At best he is a RINO - Republican in Name Only. After all his position on immigration is onerous, his disloyal compromise in the gang of 14 on the matter of the judiciary nomination is loathsome and his stubborn support of Embryonic Stem Cell Research is puzzling and very troubling.
So based on the above quotes, right now I would be thinking of voting for either Chuck Baldwin or Alan Keyes, both third party candidates, but neither of which has much of a chance winning. Both of these men represent positions where we would disagree maybe 10% on any "test." However, with either of those two I would be voting on principle and it would give me sweet reflection that I did the right thing.
