[antimedia] antimedia: I've been thinking a lot lately....

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I've been thinking a lot lately....
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   ....about what my vote is worth. Bill Quick puts it into words well
   with [1]this post about John McCain.

     Every time I post something about the problem for liberty-minded
     conservatives with the direction the Republican Party has been
     taking since the first George Bush administration, I get a lot of
     pushback that can generally be divided into two types. The first
     comes from what I call âShit Sandwich Republicans,â because that is
     exactly what they are more than willing to eat, as long as the
     filling bears the label âMade by the GOP.â These are the types who
     often lapse into hysterics if somebody refuses to swallow their
     âlesser of two evilsâ logic, and who would cheerfully vote for
     Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John McCain if any of them
     achieved the status of official Republican nominee. They can safely
     be disregarded as being beyond hope, help, or argument. Their
     political reactions are as reflexive as those of a flatworm,
     although not quite as intelligent or reasoned.

   Bill has hit the nail on the head.
   We are rapidly getting to the point where there is no one in either
   party that is worthy of my vote. I mean that literally. The America I
   dream of and that I believe is true to the founding father's vision is
   so completely different from the one most of our politicians are
   pushing that it bears no resemblance to it at all.
   It isn't the government's job to decide whether or not I should smoke,
   drink, drive without a seatbelt or do any of the other myriad things
   that I should, as a free man, be allowed to do without interference
   from the government. But so long as many Americans are willing to
   settle for Bill's "shit sandwich", we will continue to see our
   freedoms eroded further and further.
   I've read all the arguments about how this vice affects others and
   that one costs more money and therefore we have to prevent people from
   engaging in it. I have no problem with the government passing laws
   that assess penalties for the abuses people commit, but banning things
   you don't like is not American. It's telling that I am in a small
   minority saying that these days.
   Electability should not be the primary consideration for voters. We
   need Americans who are willing to take a stand on principle and work
   hard to convince their neighbors to do the same. We've been sold a
   bill of goods by politicians, and it's time we faced up to it and
   changed the system.
   Ross Perot scared the hell out of the Republicans, and two years
   latter the "Gingrich revolution" was in full bloom. So long as you
   continue to pat the John McCains and Olympia Snowes on the back, you
   will continue to see this country drift farther and farther to the
   left. Is that not what you've seen happen in the past fifteen years?
   How far to the left have we slipped when Joe Lieberman is suggested as
   a candidate for defection to the Republican party?
   It's no mistake that Ron Paul is garnering the votes that he is,
   despite his detestable background and his willingness to flirt with
   racists and storm troopers. It's past time for American voters to
   start valuing their votes again and refusing to give them to
   politicians of low character and questionable motives.
   Tags: [2]McCain [3]liberal [4]vote [5]principle

References

   1. http://dailypundit.com/?p=29500
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/McCain
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/liberal
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/vote
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/principle