The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[scaeagles]

Thank you, 3894. I almost wept.

Alex, I have indeed struggled with that and have made public my waffling on voting for McCain. Being that I have the same advantage as ISM in terms of living in a state that is going to go for my candidate of choice no matter what I do, I may still choose not to vote. Choosing not to vote is certainly not the same as just not voting.

I'm afraid that's about the best I can answer that.

Edited to add:
However, there may certainly come a point in time where there will either need to be a redefinition of what a republican is or I will abandon them as a party member. But in reality, whom else would I vote for if everything else remained the same? The person whom I know will not be in line with much of what I believe, or the person who i can hope might be somewhat so? There is no candidate with which anyone truly can align themselves with on every stated position. Perhaps every election for me may eventually be the overused cliche of the lesser of two evils. The last vote I was excited to cast was for the Junior Senator from AZ, one Jon Kyl, who is actually very much along the lines of what I posted 9at least from what i can gather).