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skurfa4
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Re: How Sad is that

Really? Because someone says a negative about Republicans they automatically support Democrats? Wrong...some of us, unfortunately far too few can see that the Donkey and Elephant may be different animals but they produce the exact same manure. garyjohnson2012.com

pnh102
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said by skurfa4:

Really? Because someone says a negative about Republicans they automatically support Democrats? Wrong...some of us, unfortunately far too few can see that the Donkey and Elephant may be different animals but they produce the exact same manure. garyjohnson2012.com

Voting third party ensures that the person who you least want to win ends up winning. Just ask the 3rd party voters who voted for Ross Perot in the 1992, 1996 and those who voted for Ralph Nader in the 2000 elections if they were happy with the outcomes of those elections.
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Of course, the ballot access laws protected by the two major parties don't hurt either to delegitimize third parties.

Both major parties are corrupt pieces of excrement. Telco's analysis was spot-on, except for assuming that the corruption solely comes from Republicans.

Democrats are fundamentally the same, their healthcare bill is basically a lobbyist giveaway to Big Pharma.

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said by Os:

Of course, the ballot access laws protected by the two major parties don't hurt either to delegitimize third parties.

But this still doesn't change the fact that a vote for a third party is the same as voting for the candidate you want least to win. It is just math at work.
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That's why we don't have public elections. Ideas, not corruption would be necessary.

And the Democrats and Republicans would lose their stranglehold on control. Follow the money, and you can see why our country is forced into a false choice every 4 years.

From the tagline in your signature, you're clearly drinking Team Red's Kool-Aid. George had it right, factions are the problem.

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said by Os:

From the tagline in your signature, you're clearly drinking Team Red's Kool-Aid. George had it right, factions are the problem.

Please show me one election in which the third party candidate won. The only time it happens is when one party is displaced by another one.

The last time this occurred was in 1856.

Realistically speaking, there are 2 choices in this election, Romney or 0bama. Any conservative who votes for someone other than Romney is helping 0bama. Any liberal who votes for someone other than 0bama is helping Romney.

It is nice to dream of a perfect world in which we'd always get the candidates we wanted, but that doesn't exist and never will. Sometimes it boils down to 2 choices.
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Outside of abortion and gays, there's not a fundamental difference between Romney and Obama on foreign or economic policy.

The actions speak louder than the words.

It would be nice to realistically even have 2 choices. Who's challenging deregulation, corporatism, corruption or austerity?

And that is the problem.

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Who's challenging deregulation, corporatism, corruption or austerity?

No one!
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Romney/Ryan 2012 - Put a couple of idiots in charge.

Fixed your Sig for you.

Oh and btw... having a 3 party (and in some ways 4 party) system in Canada seems to work perfectly fine up here.

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It seems to keep them in check sorta.The 3rd place team actually came in 2nd last election with huge numbers.Surprised the shit out of everyone.People want change for real.No more promises just action and I dont think our border would stop that same want of change for your people.
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Democrats are fundamentally the same, their healthcare bill is basically a lobbyist giveaway to Big Pharma.

Personally, every time a republican politician votes poorly, the first thing I hear from a repubclian is that "Government "is to blame. Never ever the actual voting record of the politician they elected to represent them.

Voting records are public record and not negotiable. For example, Ryan voted for every single Budget-Busting policy of Bush. To claim he is the same as someone who voted against these very policies is incorrect.

People fail to realize that we have 3 branches of government here. The president is not some CEO, General, or Prime Minister that gets to call the shots. In fact, as per the Constitution, congress is responsible for the majority of policies.

There is a reason after all the the rest of the developed world uses the modern Parliamentarian system instead. Stalemates and finger pointing like we conveniently have under our system is simply not possible. The buck stops with the prime minster and his cabinet; who are also actual elected senators.

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said by skurfa4:

Really? Because someone says a negative about Republicans they automatically support Democrats? Wrong...some of us, unfortunately far too few can see that the Donkey and Elephant may be different animals but they produce the exact same manure. garyjohnson2012.com

"Wrong...some of us, unfortunately far too few can see that the Donkey and Elephant may be different animals but they produce the exact same manure."

Man! Ain't that the truth?!!
Doesn't matter what branch of government either.

Doesn't matter what you are either, meaning Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Stupid, Intelligent, etc....................
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find a documentary sex lies i can remember the rest it was about voter fraud in one county basically a supposedly secure voting machine can have a hidden partition in the flash card and with in it is script that can had or subtract votes this was in ohio and even when confronted with the truth the county election board whent with the machines any ways
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But this still doesn't change the fact that a vote for a third party is the same as voting for the candidate you want least to win. It is just math at work.

You're right on that one. Ralph Nadar, GW Bush's most effective ally.