Quote Originally Posted by CMP_5.56
I personally made a decision I will no longer vote for someone I can't stand behind.
I think eventually you're going to find there are few absolutes. Even choosing not to vote rather than voting for someone with whom you don't entirely agree is a compromise. It's a poor compromise at that.

In my opinion you're far better served by voting for someone who's at least fairly close to sharing your ideals.

I don't care for McCain's politics at all. But casting a vote for McCain was a far better option than not voting at all.

You're going to have to realize at some point that there is no perfect candidate and we don't have a perfect system. I don't like it either. But right now, it's part of the system we have and it's the best in the world.

For argument's sake, let's say the republicans share a very narrow margin in the house and senate over democrats. Obama is re-elected in a replay of what happened in 92 due to a minor 3rd party candidate taking away votes from the R candidate. We get stuck with 4 more years of bullshit.

Alternatively, people who think like you and I (for the most part) are realistic rather than idealistic and vote for the R candidate and Obama is defeated. Now we have a R house, senate and president.

Out of those scenarios, which do you think is going to benefit your political preferences most?

For me, it's the 2nd scenario.

I would love to see our system evolve to the point we have more than 2 viable parties. It isn't there yet so you play with what we have.

Being idealistic is one thing. Being realistic is another.

At this point in the game, the place to start voting for 3rd party candidates is locally.