Posted by
ScarletPimpernel on Monday, October 20, 2008 2:29:12 PM
This election 2008 has many voters befuddled. I want to make it easy to help you, the American voter, decide on how to cast your vote.
The most important thing is not to waste your vote. Some boors and some anarchists like John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Jennings Bryan, and Neal Boortz insist that voting for your principles and conscience is the most important thing but they are jerks so don't pay any mind to them. Still, a lot of people are not sure what "waste your vote" means. A voter will waste his or her vote by voting for any party outside of the two major parties. So keep it simple and vote either Republican or Democrat.
"Why?", you may ask. This is a boring, irrelevant question. However, if you insist on satisfying your curiosity, the reason you should vote for only the Republican or Democrat is because that is the way it has always been. Well, except for about the first 75 years when there were 9 parties from which to choose, each wielding some influence on the national scene. But the people back then were ignorant and stubborn and did not know what was good for them. They should have stuck with the original two parties, The Republican Party and the Federalist Party. Obviously the Republican Party, which is still here today, is the best party because it is still here today. I don't know why the people let the Federalist Party go out of existence but, thank goodness, we got the Democrat Party to replace it. (although I will tell you right now, the Democrat Party is horrible for America - more on that later.)
Voting is usually about comfort, but sometimes it is about fear. The way to make yourself feel better is to never change the way you vote. I recommend the Republican Party, but if you decide to go Democrat, well, whatever. Consistency is the key. Change makes many people who always vote for one party nervous which is always bad and a sure sign that it is doubly important to not waste your vote.
That is why the Republican Party has never changed. Back in the 1790s they were for modest central government, limited commercial activity, and strong farming communities. They still stand for such things to this very day. Sometimes, people who used to be loyal Americans - those who voted for any and every candidate with an "R" by their names without question - decided to go against their country by asking for change within the party or for the leaders of the Republican Party to get back to its principles and when they didn't get it, they refused to do the right thing and vote for the Republican Party candidate. The very notion that the Republican Leaders did not know what they were doing or that (even if they actually didn't know what they were doing) these leaders should do what the people wanted was unheard of. America is not the place for dissent within the Parties. Go to Europe if you want that kinda action, my friend.
Modern day Republican leaders like Joe Lieberman, Chuck Hegel, Arnold Schwarzzennegger, George Soros, W, John McCain and Lindsay Graham scold these selfish "Repubs" and tell the "loud" people to "calm down just a little bit". The loyal voters also look at these un-Americans who don't care about their country as if they're crazy or vain. The loyal voters will say, exasperated, "These people, with their ideas that the Party is drifting Left only a little slower than the evil Democrat Party and, therefore, we should all quit voting for people who supposedly have dragged us Left for 20 years like Bush, Dole, W and McCain (who has voted more times on major bills with the Dem/libs than all the other candidates combined except for Biden), are just being babies. Any year now, the Republican Party will make us feel good again. Anyday now. We just have to keep voting "R". Besides the Democrats might win and then we will do something crazy like nationalizing banking or insurance or home ownerships!" It is this non-change that soothes the loyal, real American voters.
I mentioned before that there have always been only two parties from which to choose except for the first 75 years of the Republic. I just want to make a little side note that there was also a small space of time from 1860-1865 when the Democrats split into two factions. Oh, and also there was the Progressive Party headed by some guy named Roosevelt, the Silver Party, the National Woman's Party, the Farmer-Labor Party, the Black Panther Party, the Communist Party, and the list goes on for a while but since these parties weren't smart enough to be in either the Democrat Party or the Republican Party, they were no good. Although they did have influence on the way things were done in the United States, the point still stands that they should never have gained any attention because if they weren't in either major party, what was the point? Besides, the United States almost went out of existence each and every time over the past 220 years or so whenever a new fangled party or idea was foisted upon them. Our fiber, people, systems, and laws are not strong enough to constantly entertain any new directions. The two major parties are what makes America what it is.
The irrelevant parties mentioned above were called "Third Parties". Some loyal Americans called them "fringe" parties, and the members "agitators", and "losers". The first two fair descriptions are obvious, it is the third one that I want to explain to you, the American voter. If you vote, and your MAJOR party candidate does not win, it does not make you, personally, a loser. If you vote third party, however, and your guy loses, then you are a loser. Now, some good Americans will be diplomatic and just say that you were doing a protest vote instead of calling you a "loser" because you voted for a third party.
Protest votes are when you don't like either candidate and you maliciously vote for a third party candidate. Stay with me, cause it gets a bit tricky here: protest votes are only for third party candidates, never for a major party candidate. For instance, and this is silly cause it never happens, if you did not like the Republican candidate because the ratio of policies and beliefs that you agree and disagree on is 1-12, BUT the Democrat candidate is a Democrat, and you fear and or hate him for it, then your vote (naturally for the Republican) is not technically a protest vote because you voted Republican. And if a Democrat decided that they feared/hated the person who beat their choice for nominee and wanted to vote Repub to show their displeasure - that also is NOT a protest vote. Only those votes that go for a third party candidate are protest votes. It does not matter whether the third party candidate and you agree on 90% of ideals and policies, it is still a protest vote and you will be a loser because you voted for him/her. Conversely, voting for your candidate out of sheer fright or hatred of the other party candidate and not because you like or agree with your candidate is NOT a protest vote. Got it?
To summarize on how you should vote: Vote Republican Party, it saves a lot of trouble.