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• Friday, September 12, 2008 11:03 AM

  To Third Party Voters

  I know how you feel. The first time I could vote I voted for John Anderson as I didn't want to vote for Jimmy Carter and Reagan was out of the question. When Reagan won, I was a bit ambivelent because he ran on a balanced budget platform, which I beleived in.

  He got elected then tripled the budget deficit and turned out to be a disengenuous war hawk with a staff that sold arms to Iran (gee, no problems there....).

  I voted for Ross Perot because one again, he was talking about the budget deficit and something about Clinton seemed not on the up and up however if Perot didn't run I would have voted for Clinton. The next election, I voted for Clinton because he proved himself to be very capable.

  The next election was Gore versus Bush. It was clear the stakes were very very very high to anyone paying attention. People who voted for Nader literally split the vote and Bush would have never been President. Now, the bigger reasons of course were the blatent cheating in Florida, but if Nader didn't split the vote that would have been mitigated.

  So here we are, another very very very high stakes election.

  Are you REALLY going to vote Third Party because:

  1) Obama let you down,

  2) You are pissed because Hillary Clinton isn't the nominee,

  3) You are in a state that doesn't matter,

  4) You really think your third party vote is making a statement?

  Here is the reality...

  Obama will never be perfect but you are also voting for the Party, and all it represents and YES, AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS.

  Hillary lost, we can't change that, and asked you to vote for Obama. Your state DOES matter...remember when people in the West Coast voted for Nader because they thought Florida was firmly in Gore's camp and it WASN'T? That is not a game!

  Finally, yes, you are making a statement but what is the cost? Potentially, everything you hate.

  I am not just talking to you Green Party/McKinny folks, I am also talking to you Ron Paul folks. You don't seriously think the Republicans have anything to do with Libertarianism do you? The Democrats are no farther from Libertarianism than the Republicans, as they are more about personal liberties and will think twice before putting our boots on the ground over an oil field. They are simply more trustworthy. (And Bob Barr a Libertarian? For real?)

  This isn't a game. Think hard about the stakes.

  —peeps1 Read peeps1's other letters
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