| Voting Your Conscience for a Third Party Candidate Is Not a Wasted Vote. 
By Chuck Baldwin
When asked why they will not vote for a third party
candidate, many people will respond by saying something like, "He cannot
win." Or, "I don't want to waste my vote." It is true: America has not
elected a third party candidate since 1860. Does that automatically mean,
however, that every vote cast for one of the two major party candidates is not
a wasted vote? I don't think so.
In the first place, a wasted vote is a vote for someone you know does not
represent your own beliefs and principles. A wasted vote is a vote for someone
you know will not lead the country in the way it should go. A wasted vote is a
vote for the "lesser of two evils." Or, in the case of John McCain
and Barack Obama, what we have is a choice between the "evil of two
lessers."
Albert Einstein is credited with saying that insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. For years now, Republicans
and Democrats have been leading the country in the same basic direction: toward
bigger and bigger government; more and more socialism, globalism, corporatism,
and foreign interventionism; and the dismantling of constitutional liberties.
Yet, voters continue to think that they are voting for "change" when
they vote for a Republican or Democrat. This is truly insane!
Take a look at the recent $700 billion Wall Street bailout: both John McCain
and Barack Obama endorsed and lobbied for it. Both McCain and Obama will
continue to bail out these international banksters on the backs of the American
taxpayers. Both McCain and Obama support giving illegal aliens amnesty and a
path to citizenship. In the debate this past Tuesday night, both McCain and Obama
expressed support for sending U.S.
forces around the world for "peacekeeping" purposes. They also
expressed support for sending combat forces against foreign countries even if
those countries do not pose a threat to the United States. Neither Obama nor McCain
will do anything to stem the tide of a burgeoning police state or a mushrooming
New World Order. Both Obama and McCain support NAFTA and similar "free
trade" deals. Neither candidate will do anything to rid America of the
Federal Reserve, or work to eliminate the personal income tax, or disband the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Both Obama and McCain support the United
Nations. So, pray tell, how is a vote for either McCain or Obama not a wasted
vote?
But, back to the "he cannot win" argument: to vote for John McCain
is to vote for a man who cannot win. Yes, I am saying it here and now: John
McCain cannot win this election. The handwriting is on the wall. The Fat Lady
is singing. It is all over. Finished. John McCain cannot win.
With only three weeks before the election, Barack Obama is pulling away.
McCain has already pulled his campaign out of Michigan. In other key battleground states,
McCain is slipping fast. He was ahead in Missouri;
now it is a toss-up or leaning to Obama. A couple of weeks ago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida were all leaning
towards McCain, or at least toss-up states. Now, they are all leaning to Obama.
Even the longtime GOP bellwether state of Indiana is moving toward Obama. In addition,
new voter registrations are at an all-time high, and few of them are
registering as Republicans. In fact, the Republican Party now claims only
around 25% of the electorate, and Independents are increasingly leaning toward
Obama.
Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama is headed for an electoral landslide
victory over John McCain. John McCain can no more beat Barack Obama than Bob
Dole could beat Bill Clinton.
I ask, therefore, Are not conservatives and Christians who vote for John
McCain guilty of the same thing that they accuse people who vote for third
party candidates of doing? Are they not voting for someone who cannot win?
Indeed, they are. In fact, conservatives and Christians who vote for John
McCain are not only voting for a man who cannot win, they are voting for a man
who does not share their own beliefs and principles. If this is not insanity,
nothing is!
So, why not (for once in your life, perhaps) cast a vote purely for principle!
Vote for someone who is truly pro-life. Someone who would quickly secure our
nation's borders, and end the invasion of our country by illegal aliens.
Someone who would, on his first day in office, release Border Patrol agents
Ramos and Compean and fire U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. Someone who would
immediately, upon assuming office, begin leading the charge to dismantle the
Federal Reserve, overturn the 16th Amendment, expunge the IRS, and return
America to sound money principles. Someone who would get the US out of the
UN. Someone who would stop spending billions and trillions of dollars for
foreign aid. Someone who would prosecute the Wall Street bankers who defrauded
the American people out of billions of dollars. Someone who would work to repeal
NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and stop the NAFTA superhighway. Someone who would
say a resounding "No" to the New World Order. Someone who would stop
using our brave men and women in uniform as global cops for the United Nations.
Someone who would stop America's
global adventurism and interventionism. Someone who would steadfastly support
and defend the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
"Who is this person?" you ask. Go
here to find out.
As John Quincy Adams said, "Always vote for principle, though you may
vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never
lost."
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Chuck Baldwin is a candidate for president of the United States
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