BLS offers advice:
MikeM, if you live in a state where the election may actually be contested, please reconsider your decision. If a few hundred more Palm Beach County voters had gone for Gore, he’d be President now…. You, MikeM, may actually be able to make a difference. And even Vox has conceded that Bush is better than Kerry. So don’t waste a vote that can make a difference, only waste one that can’t, like Vox’s.
It’s time to erase this false concept of a wasted vote. If a wasted vote is a vote for a candidate who has no chance of winning, then this doesn’t simply apply to third party candidates. Dole, Dukakis and Mondale were all miserable candidates who had absolutely no chance of winning, and yet strangely one never heard the concept of a wasted vote brought up then. In truth, the concept is nothing more than a propaganda device used to keep people locked into the bifactional one-party system. If the Libertarians double their vote total from 2000, it will soon be demonstrated that the votes weren’t wasted as the shock waves carry over into the major party.
I haven’t “conceded” that Bush is better than Kerry. That usage carries implications of approval, which I have not granted. I have assumed that Bush is marginally better than Kerry, although I have absolute proof of Bush’s executive branch shortcomings whereas I have only my suspicions and assumptions about the likely evils of John Kerry. In any event, the differences are marginal as neither man supports constitutional government and so neither deserves any electoral support from those who value human rights, individual freedom and the US Constitution.
As usual, the pro-Bush defenders fail to understand that anti-Bush conservatives, libertarians and constitutionists truly don’t want Bush to win. I don’t want Bush to have another term, I don’t want John Kerry to have a first one, and I’m not going to be held responsible for either of them doing so. If the rest of America is foolish enough to vote one of them into power, so be it, I can’t prevent that. But at least I can know that the slow and systematic destruction of America was done over my protest and without my consent.
If you voted for Bush in 2000, then you are responsible for the gutting of the 1st Amendment in McCain-Feingold. You are responsible for the new Medicare entitlement. You are responsible for the Patriot Act, the sacrifice of US sovereignty in the Law of the Sea Treaty, as well as the revival of big government. Protesting that Al Gore might have been worse doesn’t remove any of that responsibility from you. You gave all that to us. Thanks ever so much.
The president had four years to win my vote. He did nothing but confirm the correctness of my decision to refuse to vote for him the first time around.