Voting on Principle
 

I'm not going to vote for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama.

Before someone attempts to convince me that not voting for either of the two is a waste of my vote, let me spare you the effort by letting you know up front that I've heard every argument why voting for a third party candidate is actually a vote for either Romney or Obama. It's an argument I disagree with, because I vote on principle and conviction.

I do not vote for the lesser of two evils, because it's still a vote for evil.

Neither of the candidates represent what I believe.

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And tell me Dante is this the first time you've noticed that the election is a hell or the deep blue sea choice? I am in my fifth decade and can not remember an election I did not feel this way about... It just seems to be getting more and more clear each time the polls open.

That's all I heard.

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“Always vote your conscience, though you vote alone; for then you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” – John Quincy Adams

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“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” - John Adams

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The problem is that a large number of people in the US have figured out that it is quite profitable to not have to work, and live off the American welfare system, being paid for by the middle class taxpayers. We have several close, and distant family members who have learned how to make the "system" work for them. They are perfectly able to work, but they have learned how to make the system work for them.... on disability when they can still work... it is absolute craziness!

My husband's cousin's daughter has three children out of wedlock now... claims she doesn't know who the daddy is (although she does)... and each year, doesn't pay a dime in income tax, but receives a check from the government, last year it was 6000 dollars! HOW can this be?

Romney and Ryan hope to get America back to work... unfortunately, there is going to be a mass uproar when people on the "dole" are told... get to work or else.... because when you are used to getting something for free, and then all of a sudden, you now have to work for it.... in this "me, me, me" world, what do you think is going to happen?

We are going to have millions of people out rioting, and burning, and protesting, and carrying on about having their "dole" cut off, and being told to get up and work. Many of them don't want to work! They've been living with free government handouts for so long, that they have no desire to change that!

So what you have here about to happen is flat out disaster! To stop the direction our country is going in, the only way to do it is to cut the funding for people who could get up and work and won't. I'm not an advocate of cutting programs for the elderly, and truly disabled, but the rest of the country living on the welfare programs when their "income" from the government is cut... what do you think is going to happen?

It's not going to be pretty.... but it is going to happen... one day all these folks are going to wake up and their food stamps are done, and there is no more money for their welfare... what then?

Do you really think your vote in this election is going to make a difference in the direction our country is headed?

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So, your husband's cousin's daughter with three children...and no father to support them...if she were suddenly cut off support to feed her and her children...and told to "go get a job"...what kind of job would she qualify for? What kind of education does she have? Supposing she got a job, who would take care of her three children? How would she pay for daycare?

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She's young, only 20. She has family members who would help with the kids. She had several jobs, fired from all of them, because she would show up late, not do her job, texting/playing on her phone on the job.... etc. etc. She just didn't want to work. She didn't have to. Because she knew that she could qualify for a low income apartment, which the gov. paid for, that her children's food and medical needs were paid for.

She had it made in the shade... knew it... didn't want to work, won't, and has figured out that having kids is profitable for her to continue not having to work....

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I am voting for Mitt because I believe he is vastly better than the other guy.

I mean like the difference between the Empire State building and a hole in the ground.


Mitt is not going to give me every single thing I want. But in my view, it is far better to get a guy who will give me 75% to 80% of what I want. Vs 0% of what i want.

you folks can stand on principle all you want and feel super proud of what you are doing. good for you. I dont even know what it is you want from government.

As for me and my house, Mitt is the good guy and Obama is the bad guy.