Saturday, October 30, 2004
The Case for Undecided and Third Party Voters
America the beautiful has three days before a critical evaluation. Electoral College and popular vote polling data all suggest a tight race in these final days. If a composite view of most polls used in this calculus can be assumed reasonably accurate, than the race between Bush and Kerry will be determined upon the behavior of the undecided and third party vote (sigh - just like last time). So it’s to these people I write this post.
You may like Ralph Nader of the Reform Party, Gene Amondso of the Prohibition Party, Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party, David Cobb of the Green Party, or Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party. For all we know, these or any of the third party guys could make better Presidents than either Kerry or Bush. Please understand that it’s important to respect how different voters draw from his or her own autonomous evaluation system, but also note that however romantic your political aspirations, or indignant towards Bush or Kerry you are, it stands indisputable that one of these two men will be President after Nov 2. That’s just the way it is.
Ok? Either George Bush or John Kerry will be President. Which one are you willing to live with?
To Third Party Voters
“Yeah - Kerry scares me - but I can’t in good conscience vote for Bush because ______ (fill in the blank)”
What is a vote? Is it an expression, or an activity designed for effect? For whatever rational, if you vote for a third party candidate you know will loose, your vote is an expression. It may give you relief today, but tomorrow it won’t have anymore effect than talking to your doberman. However, your children will feel the effects of your voter withdrawal. In reality, a vote is an action that does - and should - shape the country. Letters to your Congressmen are designed for expression, but votes are designed for effect, that’s how they should be used when the stakes are this high, and I urge you to think from this premise. It’s George Bush or it’s John Kerry. Which one my friend?
“Voting your conscience” is the phrase we often use, and to a certain degree we all have some trouble with both these men, but we are at war. If not for the conflict against brutal, heartless, radical, and invisible forces of Islamic terrorism, the gravity of each vote would not be as overwhelming as it is for obvious reasons. The reality of this conflict dictates we take greater action than using the voting booths as a means of satisfying romantic personal expressions. Americans need to take ownership and make tough choices, just like our Presidents do. When Senators and Representatives are presented with issues that require an up or down vote, they don’t get a third option to satisfy their conscience, because the rest of America is counting on them to get things done. We need not shirk this duty ourselves, but apply the same principal on Nov 2. George Bush or John Kerry. Yes or no.
It’s not just about you, it’s about others, too. We have a moral obligation to accomplish more than walk away from the polls “feeling good” about our vote. This is responsible citizenship, which is quite Biblical in fact. Voting for effect requires stronger wisdom, stronger scrutiny, and will result in a stronger conscience because it’s based in reality not fantasy, and these times are too serious for narcissism and fantasy.
George Bush or John Kerry?
To the undecided voter
Take a hard look at each of the two men and ask yourself who has the spine to lead at a time of war.
George Bush received a recession he didn't cause and a 9/11 he didn’t ask for, and without pointing the finger of blame at Bill Clinton, because before the Democrat Party politicized the war, Bush was a believer in bipartisanship, of which I am now a skeptic. Bush responded to the recession with tax reductions, a move ridiculed by eletes on the left, but our present economic activity is back to pre-9/11 levels with growth on the horizon. In response to the information provided, Bush helped bring a democracy to not one, but two Middle Eastern countries, for the first time in history. No nation on earth was able to even penetrate Afghanistan, neither the British after their third war in 1919 nor the Soviet Union in it’s prime, as brutal as it was. But the United states led a coalition that toppled the Taliban in one month, and the campaign against Iraq ousted Saddam Hussein’s regime under the same one month time horizon, an effort again predicted to be impossible by Bush critics. But in all the nay-saying, 75 percent al-Qaeda has been captured or killed, and we have not been attacked since 9/11.
John Kerry, despite all the pessimistic predictions, has been the champion monday morning quarterback. He has contributed nothing to our effort but stands on the sidelines calling our allies “window dressing” and a group of the “bribed and coerced” and has disgracefully referred to Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi as a “puppet”, an alliance of nations Kerry claims only he can unify and motivate. Since 1984 what accomplishments does Kerry trump today? What has he done? What is he remembered for? He has blown off 76 percent of the intelligence committee public hearings during the eights years he served the committee, but calls himself as a warrior who has a plan for everything, but an inability to define it.
He’s more than a pacifist, John Kerry is a compulsive liar. In these last few days John Kerry has continued to make use of the rumors surrounding a phantom social security cessation to seniors, claiming Bush wants privatize it - and take it away from old people. And this is after Bush already cleared up the myth during the debates when he discussed a plan to offer young workers only a portion of their money to go towards a private fund for social security, while maintaining current benefits to seniors. Kerry also doesn’t care that his continued use of the “draft” rumor was debunked by Bush in front of millions of people. He’s happy to impose a higher tax on rich people, while he enjoys taking part in his wife's business revenues that Heinz-Kerry pays a modest 12% of for taxes. Kerry won’t discourage John Edwards’ use of the death of Christopher Reeve to plug embrionic stem cell research - designed to animate the hard left base promising people with Reeve’s disability will jump out of their wheel chairs Kerry is President. He will also make a public issue of the personal sexual preferences of Dick Cheny’s lesbian daughter to appeal to gay voters, and when universally criticized, he offers no apology.
He is happy to run on an unqualified NY Times headline titled "Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished from Site in Iraq" well before even the White House had the details acquired, and before NBC revealed the missing cache wasn't there when U.S. troops arrived. Kerry is a hunter to hunters, a Christian to Christians, a rebel to rebels, an environmentalist to environmentalists, an SUV owner to SUV owners, a hawk to hawks hawks and dove to doves. He is the personification of the weakest unprincipled man to ever run for President, and he is either counting on our apathy, ignorance or our stupidity when he shamelessly, compulsively, and deliberately lies over and over again.
So that’s about as bluntly as I can put it, Nov 2 2004. See you at the polls.
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You may like Ralph Nader of the Reform Party, Gene Amondso of the Prohibition Party, Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party, David Cobb of the Green Party, or Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party. For all we know, these or any of the third party guys could make better Presidents than either Kerry or Bush. Please understand that it’s important to respect how different voters draw from his or her own autonomous evaluation system, but also note that however romantic your political aspirations, or indignant towards Bush or Kerry you are, it stands indisputable that one of these two men will be President after Nov 2. That’s just the way it is.
Ok? Either George Bush or John Kerry will be President. Which one are you willing to live with?
To Third Party Voters
“Yeah - Kerry scares me - but I can’t in good conscience vote for Bush because ______ (fill in the blank)”
What is a vote? Is it an expression, or an activity designed for effect? For whatever rational, if you vote for a third party candidate you know will loose, your vote is an expression. It may give you relief today, but tomorrow it won’t have anymore effect than talking to your doberman. However, your children will feel the effects of your voter withdrawal. In reality, a vote is an action that does - and should - shape the country. Letters to your Congressmen are designed for expression, but votes are designed for effect, that’s how they should be used when the stakes are this high, and I urge you to think from this premise. It’s George Bush or it’s John Kerry. Which one my friend?
“Voting your conscience” is the phrase we often use, and to a certain degree we all have some trouble with both these men, but we are at war. If not for the conflict against brutal, heartless, radical, and invisible forces of Islamic terrorism, the gravity of each vote would not be as overwhelming as it is for obvious reasons. The reality of this conflict dictates we take greater action than using the voting booths as a means of satisfying romantic personal expressions. Americans need to take ownership and make tough choices, just like our Presidents do. When Senators and Representatives are presented with issues that require an up or down vote, they don’t get a third option to satisfy their conscience, because the rest of America is counting on them to get things done. We need not shirk this duty ourselves, but apply the same principal on Nov 2. George Bush or John Kerry. Yes or no.
It’s not just about you, it’s about others, too. We have a moral obligation to accomplish more than walk away from the polls “feeling good” about our vote. This is responsible citizenship, which is quite Biblical in fact. Voting for effect requires stronger wisdom, stronger scrutiny, and will result in a stronger conscience because it’s based in reality not fantasy, and these times are too serious for narcissism and fantasy.
George Bush or John Kerry?
To the undecided voter
Take a hard look at each of the two men and ask yourself who has the spine to lead at a time of war.
George Bush received a recession he didn't cause and a 9/11 he didn’t ask for, and without pointing the finger of blame at Bill Clinton, because before the Democrat Party politicized the war, Bush was a believer in bipartisanship, of which I am now a skeptic. Bush responded to the recession with tax reductions, a move ridiculed by eletes on the left, but our present economic activity is back to pre-9/11 levels with growth on the horizon. In response to the information provided, Bush helped bring a democracy to not one, but two Middle Eastern countries, for the first time in history. No nation on earth was able to even penetrate Afghanistan, neither the British after their third war in 1919 nor the Soviet Union in it’s prime, as brutal as it was. But the United states led a coalition that toppled the Taliban in one month, and the campaign against Iraq ousted Saddam Hussein’s regime under the same one month time horizon, an effort again predicted to be impossible by Bush critics. But in all the nay-saying, 75 percent al-Qaeda has been captured or killed, and we have not been attacked since 9/11.
John Kerry, despite all the pessimistic predictions, has been the champion monday morning quarterback. He has contributed nothing to our effort but stands on the sidelines calling our allies “window dressing” and a group of the “bribed and coerced” and has disgracefully referred to Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi as a “puppet”, an alliance of nations Kerry claims only he can unify and motivate. Since 1984 what accomplishments does Kerry trump today? What has he done? What is he remembered for? He has blown off 76 percent of the intelligence committee public hearings during the eights years he served the committee, but calls himself as a warrior who has a plan for everything, but an inability to define it.
He’s more than a pacifist, John Kerry is a compulsive liar. In these last few days John Kerry has continued to make use of the rumors surrounding a phantom social security cessation to seniors, claiming Bush wants privatize it - and take it away from old people. And this is after Bush already cleared up the myth during the debates when he discussed a plan to offer young workers only a portion of their money to go towards a private fund for social security, while maintaining current benefits to seniors. Kerry also doesn’t care that his continued use of the “draft” rumor was debunked by Bush in front of millions of people. He’s happy to impose a higher tax on rich people, while he enjoys taking part in his wife's business revenues that Heinz-Kerry pays a modest 12% of for taxes. Kerry won’t discourage John Edwards’ use of the death of Christopher Reeve to plug embrionic stem cell research - designed to animate the hard left base promising people with Reeve’s disability will jump out of their wheel chairs Kerry is President. He will also make a public issue of the personal sexual preferences of Dick Cheny’s lesbian daughter to appeal to gay voters, and when universally criticized, he offers no apology.
He is happy to run on an unqualified NY Times headline titled "Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished from Site in Iraq" well before even the White House had the details acquired, and before NBC revealed the missing cache wasn't there when U.S. troops arrived. Kerry is a hunter to hunters, a Christian to Christians, a rebel to rebels, an environmentalist to environmentalists, an SUV owner to SUV owners, a hawk to hawks hawks and dove to doves. He is the personification of the weakest unprincipled man to ever run for President, and he is either counting on our apathy, ignorance or our stupidity when he shamelessly, compulsively, and deliberately lies over and over again.
So that’s about as bluntly as I can put it, Nov 2 2004. See you at the polls.
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