PROUD TO BE PART OF THE 1%
of the popular vote….you can guess who i wrote in!!!
the reason we have an electoral college, really, is so that NOT EVERYBODY chooses who will be president. the founders didn’t trust everyone. i don’t either. HOWEVER, i also don’t trust this 2-party system that is so horribly entrenched in the psyche of this country and it’s people.
we shouldn’t choose someone based on popularity….we should choose them on what they stand for, and i’m sorry, dems & reps are the same same thing (2 sides of the same coin)…it won’t really matter which one wins. unless it had been Ron Paul as he is truly Libertarian….if i hadn’t have written him in, i think i would have gone Constitutional party or Nader….the Libertarian candidate this time voted yes for the FASCIST ACT (RE: “PATRIOT act”)…
hey dems & reps…demons & reptiles…teehee
11.11.08 at 3:37 pm
Was it Bob Barr?
I voted for several third party candidates this year for the first time ever. Including Bob Barr, for President, and Wes Upchurch, for Missouri’s Secretary of State.
Next election everyone should do the same. We need people who are libertarians and Ron Paul republicans in office.
11.11.08 at 10:56 pm
no, i did not vote for Barr as he did not need to be written in…but i kind of encompassed all alternate candidates in that 1%, though maybe it might have been as much as 2% in the end. the media doesn’t report so well on non-dems and non-reps.
Ron Paul actually ran as a Libertarian in his 1988 presidential campaign and his ideas, particularly in this campaign, were/are much more Libertarian in nature than Republican….
the reason i didn’t go with Bob Barr (other than i had already made up my mind a while back) was that he voted “yes” to the FASCIST, i mean, “PATRIOT” Act(s)…..which were very large blows to our constitutional rights/freedoms…though i guess he did apologize for that. i suppose everyone makes mistakes! even Ron Paul had some interesting leanings in his early career.
but yes, we do need more alternative voters out there…really just people to not be afraid to vote for a non-dem or non-rep. i think that’s half the reason RP ran on the rep ticket…..to attract some of those strict 2-party thinkers.