Sorry Pukes at the Republican National Committee...

LOL! First of all, I have to say, all I seen was the title to this discussion and not the user who posted it, and somehow, right away, I knew it was you. hahaha. Anyway, if I were going to vote for anyone in any election, I would vote for the canidate with whom I shared the most number of common view points with on the current issues. I would not care if that canidate was Republican, Democrat or Independent, just where they stood on the issues at hand. It would not make sense to me to vote any other way.

I'm not American, so don't have much interest or knowledge of your elections but you only have two parties to vote for? is that right? I've always wondered, even tho it's always tory or labour here, at least there are a bunch of other parties to vote for, not that it does any good they're all the same. I wish we could get a more pro european government, hopefully the scottish parliament will get independence and we'll get closer to europe and further from America.

Six month ago we all felt this way, and some of us went to far with it(Me). Yeah mad as heck and not going to take it anymore, well I guess I am going to take it. Obama is a good galvinizer, and McCain actually is not that bad, relatively speaking that is. Basicly ParaTed a vote for a thrid party is a vote for those Democrats. I fell defeated so try not to rub it in to much. I left the party but you stayied, you were the smarter of the two. I could not imagine 6 months ago I would be doing this. I do not mind eating humble pie as long as I have good company.

WOW! I am impressed. I hadn't seen you in a while - not even on my "defense of Obama" discussions. I was wondering if you were OK. And, I agree absolutely 1000% with you! I will NEVER vote by party. I will ALWAYS vote based on whether or not that person deserves my vote. And, on occasion, that person HAS been a third party candidate. I've always felt that "the lesser of two evils" was still evil, nontheless. But, on rare occasion where, if even in the third parties, there isn't a candidate you feel good about, you have to make a choice. The odds are great that one of the two biggies will win. But, I agree that if enough of us said - we've had enough - this isn't working - and then we vote third party, a distinct drop in vote tallies for the majority parties will be a wake up call. I voted for Ross Perot (who most feel is responsible for Bill Clinton winning by drawing sufficient numbers of former Republican votes away) and for the Libertarian candidate Baradnick back in 2004 (who had little if any effect on the vote tallies). We should vote our conscious - not party line.