Voting Your Conscience for a Third Party is NOT a Wasted Vote

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Your Conscience for a Third Party Candidate Is Not a Wasted Vote.

 

By Chuck

Baldwin

When asked why they will not vote for a

third party

candidate, many people will respond by saying something like, "He

cannot

win." Or, "I don't want to waste my vote." It is true: America

has not

elected a third party candidate since 1860. Does that automatically

mean,

however, that every vote cast for one of the two major party candidates

is not

a wasted vote? I don't think so.

In the first place, a wasted vote is a vote for someone you know

does not

represent your own beliefs and principles. A wasted vote is a vote for

someone

you know will not lead the country in the way it should go. A wasted

vote is a

vote for the "lesser of two evils." Or, in the case of John McCain

and Barack Obama, what we have is a choice between the "evil of two

lessers."

Albert Einstein is credited with saying that insanity is doing the

same

thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. For years

now, Republicans

and Democrats have been leading the country in the same basic

direction: toward

bigger and bigger government; more and more socialism, globalism,

corporatism,

and foreign interventionism; and the dismantling of constitutional

liberties.

Yet, voters continue to think that they are voting for "change" when

they vote for a Republican or Democrat. This is truly insane!

Take a look at the recent $700 billion Wall Street bailout: both

John McCain

and Barack Obama endorsed and lobbied for it. Both McCain and Obama

will

continue to bail out these international banksters on the backs of the

American

taxpayers. Both McCain and Obama support giving illegal aliens amnesty

and a

path to citizenship. In the debate this past Tuesday night, both McCain

and Obama

expressed support for sending U.S.

forces around the world for "peacekeeping" purposes. They also

expressed support for sending combat forces against foreign countries

even if

those countries do not pose a threat to the United States.

Neither Obama nor McCain

will do anything to stem the tide of a burgeoning police state or a

mushrooming

New World Order. Both Obama and McCain support NAFTA and similar "free

trade" deals. Neither candidate will do anything to rid America

of the

Federal Reserve, or work to eliminate the personal income tax, or

disband the

Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Both Obama and McCain support the

United

Nations. So, pray tell, how is a vote for either McCain or Obama not a

wasted

vote?

But, back to the "he cannot win" argument: to vote for John McCain

is to vote for a man who cannot win. Yes, I am saying it here and now:

John

McCain cannot win this election. The handwriting is on the wall. The

Fat Lady

is singing. It is all over. Finished. John McCain cannot win.

With only three weeks before the election, Barack Obama is pulling

away.

McCain has already pulled his campaign out of Michigan. In other key battleground

states,

McCain is slipping fast. He was ahead in Missouri;

now it is a toss-up or leaning to Obama. A couple of weeks ago, Ohio, Pennsylvania,

and Florida

were all leaning

towards McCain, or at least toss-up states. Now, they are all leaning

to Obama.

Even the longtime GOP bellwether state of Indiana is moving toward Obama. In

addition,

new voter registrations are at an all-time high, and few of them are

registering as Republicans. In fact, the Republican Party now claims

only

around 25% of the electorate, and Independents are increasingly leaning

toward

Obama.

Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama is headed for an electoral

landslide

victory over John McCain. John McCain can no more beat Barack Obama

than Bob

Dole could beat Bill Clinton.

I ask, therefore, Are not conservatives and Christians who vote for

John

McCain guilty of the same thing that they accuse people who vote for

third

party candidates of doing? Are they not voting for someone who cannot

win?

Indeed, they are. In fact, conservatives and Christians who vote for

John

McCain are not only voting for a man who cannot win, they are voting

for a man

who does not share their own beliefs and principles. If this is not

insanity,

nothing is!

So, why not (for once in your life, perhaps) cast a vote purely for

principle!

Vote for someone who is truly pro-life. Someone who would quickly

secure our

nation's borders, and end the invasion of our country by illegal

aliens.

Someone who would, on his first day in office, release Border Patrol

agents

Ramos and Compean and fire U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. Someone who

would

immediately, upon assuming office, begin leading the charge to

dismantle the

Federal Reserve, overturn the 16th Amendment, expunge the IRS, and

return

America to sound money principles. Someone who would get the US out

of the

UN. Someone who would stop spending billions and trillions of dollars

for

foreign aid. Someone who would prosecute the Wall Street bankers who

defrauded

the American people out of billions of dollars. Someone who would work

to repeal

NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and stop the NAFTA superhighway. Someone

who would

say a resounding "No" to the New World Order. Someone who would stop

using our brave men and women in uniform as global cops for the United

Nations.

Someone who would stop America's

global adventurism and interventionism. Someone who would steadfastly

support

and defend the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

"Who is this person?" you ask. Go

here to find out.

As John Quincy Adams said, "Always vote for principle, though you

may

vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote

is never

lost."

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Chuck Baldwin is a candidate

for president of the United

States

on the Constitution Party ticket. Click here

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