Posted by
Countryman on Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:30:38 PM
I have heard so many people say they will hold their nose and vote for McCain because it's the better of two evils, and that a third party candidate cannot possibly win.
If you are true conservatives, you will know that one attribute of
conservatism is the power and ability of the individual to create and
make his own choices in life, and the chance that one may lose.
Liberals
are the opposite, never taking chances, as they value security over
freedom, and do not trust themselves to make their own way in the world.
If
I find myself out of a job, and find that the two choices of jobs
offered to me are not acceptable, I create my own job, and gamble on
its vitality. We are self-starters, and don't rely on others to
determine the choices we have.
So it is with the current
Presidential election; if we don't like either of the two choices, we
create our own candidate and take the gamble that our choice will win.
It is a matter of choosing one's destiny or letting others do that for
us.
If you vote for McCain and he wins, then you can look back
and know that you have done your part to further us down the road of
big government and socialism.
If on the other hand, you vote for
a third party candidate and he loses, then you can look back and know
that you tried to stem the tide, but alas failed, the outcome being the
same as if you had voted for McCain.
Which vote of yours will allow you to look yourself in the mirror the day after the election and be satisfied?
Then too, there is the self-defeating mechanism of saying "A third party candidate can never win!"
If
everyone dissatisfied with McCain says that to himself, then it becomes
a self-fulfilling prophecy. On the other hand, if everyone dissatisfied
with McCain actually votes for a third party candidate, there is at
least a chance that he may win.
So do you gamble, or resign yourself to the choices others have laid out for you, whimpering "I am powerless"? Man or mouse?