Wednesday, February 17, 2016

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS NOT VOTING - NOT VOTING, OR WASTING IT ON A THIRD PARTY, IS A VOTE FOR ANOTHER DICK CHENEY

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS NOT VOTING - NOT VOTING, OR WASTING IT ON A THIRD PARTY, IS A VOTE FOR ANOTHER DICK CHENEY
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Voting for a third party, or a party that can't possibly win, is a wasted vote. It's like not voting at all. It constitutes a vote for the people that you dislike most. You should never get so angry at the Bogey Man that you leave the backdoor open for the Devil. That's how George W. Bush was elected in 2000, and that didn't work out too well for us, did it?
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After Ralph Nader was rejected for the 2000 presidential nomination by the Democratic voters, instead of acknowledging his rejection and falling into line to help defeat the Republicans - the people who represented the very policies that he was supposedly so passionately against all of his life - Nader went into a petulant snit and ran as a third party candidate. It was clear that he purposely ran as a third party candidate with the mean-spirited intent of sabotaging the Democratic effort, because third parties never win.  Again, the only purpose third parties ever serve is to help elect the people that you like least, because they divide the vote of like-minded people.
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Then Cornel West joined Nader in this foolish - or treacherous, you make the determination - campaign, and as a result, George W. Bush won the election over Al Gore by winning Florida by a mere 537 votes. The Nader/West coalition peeled off 97,488 votes from Gore in Florida alone. So when I say that Ralph Nader and Cornel West were more than a little responsible for George W. Bush becoming President of the United States, and thus, your current economic condition, don’t take my word for it, you do the math.
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Yes, the conservative Supreme Court Cheated for Bush, but if it hadn't been for the stupidity of Nader and West the vote wouldn't have been close enough to be thrown into the Supreme Court. So as a direct result of those voters who decided not to vote, or to waste their vote on Ralph Nader (who couldn't possibly win), over a million innocent Iraqis (mostly women and children) and thousands of American troops are now either dead or permanently disabled.
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SO NO, I NEITHER LIKE, NOR DO I TRUST, HILLARY CLINTON A BIT,
BUT IF SHE WINS THE NOMINATION I’M GONNA VOTE FOR HER,
AND HERE’S WHY . . .
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http://wattree.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-modern-republican-party-has-morphed.html


Eric L. Wattree
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

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