How can one seriously vote Republican or Democrat?

Question

I will say right now that the people who choose to vote for the corporate puppets in either party are brain weak. The media is owned by the big businesses who control the Democrat and Republican Parties, so they naturally have an easy time supporting their minions by manipulating the dumbed down American public and avoid covering the Libertarians, which nobody notices and some of the brainwashed take it for that Libertarians are radicals. I vote Libertarian because they are against the crooks that run both parties and one of the best candidates in 2008, Ron Paul, used to be a Libertarian. He is against the IRS, which pisses on our money and steals from us because most Americans are too stupid and weak to care and do something and he is for restoring all of our Constitutional rights, which the bastards running the government have taken away. I know he will not win, but he is better than the other pathetic jokes running in 2008.

Answer 1

We need to stop saying that Ron Paul will not win. If this attitude persists among supporters, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Government has lost all credibility. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and Fred Thompson are Establishment candidates in a year in which the tides are against the establishment (McCain's gonna drop out before the summer ends because his campaign is fading fast). The majority of the country can't stand Hillary Clinton and even the most bloodthirsty neo-con will realize that the only way Hillary loses in 08 is if Ron Paul is the GOP nominee.

Jim Ostrowski, who actually predicted that Kerry would win the Democratic nomination when it appeared that Howard Dean was definitely going to be the nominee and who predicted 48 out of 50 states right in the November election of 04 (the only 2 he got wrong were the ones where the Bu'ushists committed election fraud, New Mexico and Ohio), has predicted that Ron Paul can win the election. We need to give up the defeatist attitude and start making it clear to everybody that not only can Ron Paul win, he will win.

Answer 2

How about the Constitution party....at least they are winning some local seats....
A recent survey (http://rasmussenreports.com) shows the number of Republicans has been falling for two years straight and now hovers around 30%.
The Rasmussen poll also found the number of people identifying themselves as Democrats has fallen to its lowest level in a year and a half and is gauged at about 37%. Some see this as evidence Americans have lost faith in both ‘Big Box’ parties.

As a result, the number of Americans not affiliated with either major party has jumped to an all-time high—almost 33%.
That means there are now more Independents than there are Republicans.

“For many years, both parties have abused their power because no serious challenges to their duopoly have emerged, until now,” commented New York Times best-selling author and Constitution Party member Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.

http://www.constitutionparty.com/

Answer 3

I vote either for one of the top two parties. I try to pick one of the candidates who looks like less of a crook.

Though some of the small parties' candidates have some good ideas, its hard for someone not backed by the Republican or Democratic party to even get any electoral college votes. I once voted for Nader and felt like I threw away my vote.

I'm pretty much fed up with the who two party thing in this country, but I'm not sure a third party can win a general election.

Answer 4

Unbelievable. The mere thought that someone can choose who represents them in government is anti-democratic. Besides the fact that someone else decides who we have a right to vote for, the idea that we can know how a person will vote, or run the country by their sound bites is absurd. Sure we can learn everything that a person wants us to know by reading their bios in the newspaper, or on the internet, but it is impossible for me to trust that any of them will act nobly when faced with the temptations that Washington offers them. I find it hard to believe that these temptations will be removed with a change of party affiliation.

That said, the idea of fraternity of Party and pressure by the parties to vote a certain way, can be eliminated by adding more non-affiliated members. Voting with one's conscience would be far more plausible if there were no pressure to abide by the party line. Then again, the voting would probably fall in line with the clique that your representative would join up with, so you would still not get someone who represented you.

At least you have a plan to break up the biggest peer groups. I hope it works.

Answer 5

Maybe if there were a credible, non-extremist third party out there, I would consider voting that way. As it is, the Green and Libertarian parties are too far out there for me to even consider.

Answer 6

How? Well.. I push the button next to the Republican candidate's name and when it lights up, I press the "Finished" button at the bottom and leave the voting booth.