Don't vote for Gary Johnson

[Danimal]

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[Irving]

Thanks for posting this. We haven't really touched on the subject of third party voting on this site.

[hatidua]

I've never done real well with people telling me what to do or who to vote for. It's just the American in me I guess...

[Danimal]

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[DOC]

Ok I won't. I'm not going to throw away a vote on a 3rd party vote sucker. I remember the last Govenor's race and how he was the better choice and he got 45% of the vote but there was 10% that still voted for R and not we have Lickenpooper. Same high taxes on cars and cigarettes and punishment taxes if we are late. We even have to pay punishment taxes on camper trailers.
And for what? So we can have a huge bottleneck on I25 everywhere with no better traffic flow. But millions can be spent on ugly designs put in the walls that we have to look at on our slow drive home. I hate it but I'm not voting 3rd party this year.

[OneGuy67]

Thanks Danimal, for posting this thread. I've been contemplating this issue for some time and wanted to ask the same question here of the forum members.

I'm trying to understand the concept of voting for my principles, which could cause me to suffer 4 additional years of a president with no principles, that could very realistically destroy our society. How can one have the opportunity to vote this person out of office and throw their vote away on a third party candidate, who cannot win, but will siphon off just enough votes in the 11 battleground states, to cause Obama to retain the presidency?

I mean, we all agree he needs to go, but why toss your crucial vote away, and more importantly, siphon votes from Romney, that are desperately needed in order to win? Obama and Romney are statistically tied in all of the polls in Colorado at around 45% and Johnson is polling at 2%. That 2% could be the difference it takes to put Romney over Obama here and gain the Electoral votes. It could also be the same in the rest of the battleground states.

Just food for thought.

[KevDen2005]

Thanks Danimal, for posting this thread. I've been contemplating this issue for some time and wanted to ask the same question here of the forum members.

I'm trying to understand the concept of voting for my principles, which could cause me to suffer 4 additional years of a president with no principles, that could very realistically destroy our society. How can one have the opportunity to vote this person out of office and throw their vote away on a third party candidate, who cannot win, but will siphon off just enough votes in the 11 battleground states, to cause Obama to retain the presidency?

I mean, we all agree he needs to go, but why toss your crucial vote away, and more importantly, siphon votes from Romney, that are desperately needed in order to win? Obama and Romney are statistically tied in all of the polls in Colorado at around 45% and Johnson is polling at 2%. That 2% could be the difference it takes to put Romney over Obama here and gain the Electoral votes. It could also be the same in the rest of the battleground states.

Just food for thought.

Had this very conversation with a coworker who used to be a die-hard Obama supporter. I thought how funny it was that she was die hard for years before the presidency and within two months decided she no longer liked him and continued to dislike him more and more as the months passed. She always claimed to be very liberal and she is, however when she explained it to me on what her beliefs were she fits the concept of classical liberal or Jeffersonian liberal, not modern day at all.

So this year she has told me that she has to vote with her conscience and will be voting third party. Of course her and I agree on a lot of concepts and theories about freedom and what the government should be doing. She wants Obama out very badly but doesn't care for Mitt. Honestly, I am not a huge Mitt fan and as I get older I am less Republican and more conservative based on the Constitution. I am pretty religious and I believe that guides my moral compass, however I don't agree with the Republican party pushing that agenda.

I told this co-worker that I also had to vote with my conscience. That is, I need to remove the current administration at whatever cost, and that may be voting for someone who don't exactly prefer but still believe would be a better choice than what we have. My conscience tells me that if we don't replace the current administration no matter what that we won't have much of a country left in four years.

[Teufelhund]

Thanks for posting this. We haven't really touched on the subject of third party voting on this site.

I'd like to thank you for posting this as well. You made much better arguments for him than against him. Well said.

[Sharpienads]

Thanks for posting this. We haven't really touched on the subject of third party voting on this site.

But it is a fun topic to discuss. Where's my Obama/Johnson 2012 sign? Oh, here it is:

[Teufelhund]

LOL
Oh, is this the appropriate forum for political pictures to keep them out of the Funny Pictures thread? I've got two or three.