(09-18-2014 12:55 PM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 12:47 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 12:46 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 12:36 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  I'll vote for just about anybody over many of the Democrats I know. I will gladly take the lesser of two evils but I still think it's a shame.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you're options will always be evil. I reject that paradigm. I'd rather "throw my vote away" voting for something that isn't evil.

I agree in theory with you entirely.

But, when one group is more likely to push to steal a greater chunk of my paycheck away and make it more difficult for me to do business I'll take the lesser of the two evils every time.

The lesser works for me on those two things.

I don't always agree with the GOP, but I know I don't need any more tax and spend liberals that trample on my rights and the Constitution.

Here's the thing... I don't always agree with GOP candidates. There were more than a few items I disagreed with Romney on in the presidential election. But there weren't enough items for me to say "I want Romney to lose, so I'm going to make a protest vote and vote for the Constitution Party candidate..."

And yes, I consider myself more in line with the CP party than the GOP (again, except for that foreign policy isolationist platform.).

Here's one for you. You do know who the Democratics "libertarian" party is? It's the Green party (and to a lesser extent the Communist USA party). But then go look at who those Green Party supporters put their votes behind when an election comes up. It's not the Green party, they'll vote Democratic, because there's enough similarities between the two, and then they push to try to get the Democrats to see along their lines.

If Libertarian/Constitution voters took the same look, the Republican party would be that much stronger, but Libertarian voters for the most part and seeing themselves as the "prinicpled" rejection vote.

Why do you think the Log Cabin Republicans NEVER jumped to the Libertarian party? There were stories galore where their leadership said, We see ourselves as Libertarians more than Republicans, but we know we can do more good for ourselves _and_ the Republican party by strengthening the party from within.