Don’t get me wrong, I am looking toward the Obama Presidency “as the watchman waiteth for the dawn.” (Psalm 130) But with Barack up 23% in the Golden State, we can afford to help our third-party brothers stay on the ballot.
Because as we watch the Grand Old Republican Party on its deathbed, trembling, wheezing, hacking up blood, incontinent, and not recognizing its loved ones, we think to ourselves: Do we really trust our own beloved Democrats with one-party rule for decades to come? Do we really want to become America’s PRI?
I vote for helping the good Greens and Libertarians become more competitive and keeping us Dems more honest. Let’s face it, a lot of what they say is true – the Dem party (though not all Dems) is just as awash in dirty corporate money as the Republicans, and nearly as eager to do the bidding of parasites like the credit industry, health insurance and big pharma, big oil, and the military-industrial complex. Dems are maybe 50% as eager as Republicans (that is, way too eager) to wage unnecessary wars, to torture and eavesdrop, and to ignore the Constitution when convenient. And it’s total orthodoxy in both parties to blindly follow the most extreme hawkish, anti-Palestinian views coming out of Israel’s right wing (something McKinney definitely doesn’t go along with.)
So, this year, you should mainly vote Dem down the ticket in the partisan races (especially Debbie Cook!) but use your Presidential vote to help our Green and Libertarian friends to stay on the ballot and build their parties!
Vern, I am stunned. I know you’re a lefty, but you are really going to give your vote to an honest-to-gosh nutjob?
Dude, read again. I’m not really voting for HER, but to help build the Green Party. Just like some of my colleagues are helping the Libertarians. We ALL (almost all of us) want Obama to win though.
Now THAT’s probably hard for you to understand, Matt, as someone who NEVER steps outside his party’s orthodoxy!
Vern, the Repug economic philosophy has been identical w the libertAryans since the 80’s. The Greens are trust fund babies- you remember, the kids at MD who lived up in the WASP ‘hoods? How many leading black LibertAryans, Repugs, or Greens can you find? ONE and that be Cynthia- nice figurehead but a sad comedown for you, Admiral. Think!
Yes Matt and Rintrah, because anyone involved with third party politics is a nutjob right? You’re so predictable.
We join third parties to protest the fact that the major parties seem to be subversively perpetuating their own relevance in part by using attempts to question the sanity of those who DARE walk away from the corrupt power base of the Republicrats. I mean, what can we possibly be thinking? We must be crazy as foxes.
Go back to your own (fascist) blog.
SMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEEyTIVKMI
Judge for yourself if Cynthia McKinney is a raving lunatic or not.
Vern:
I read your post. However you want to rationalize it, you are still voting for Cynthia McKinney.
SMS:
No, because Cynthia McKinney is a nutjob.
You say potato, I say po-tah-to.
Looking forward to eight years of President Obama! And the demise of the GOP and flourishing of Greens and Libs.