Paul dismisses major party nominees

Good for Ron Paul. The Republicans and Democrats are the problem, not the solution.

There is no difference, or change between the two major party candidates (Dems, and Repubs). I will be one of the long time voting Republicans that will be voting 3rd party this election cycle. Let's see if the media will do their job fairly, and support all of the presidential candidates and make sure they are all included in a presidential debate. The two party system is broken, and we need real choices, and not just hot air from Obama, and McCain.

I'm another Republican that will be voting 3rd party.

THANK YOU RON PAUL!

Ron Paul very accurately explained and predicted the current economic state. He was disrespected and shunned by his own party, McCaine and the MSM lapdogs. He is the best candidate to fix our economy. Now that all has come to pass we hear about him. He is not a man that holds a grudge, he calls it with honesty and accuracy. If he doesn't endorse his own party nominee it's because he doesn't think he is the best person to lead the country. Lipstick Pitbull or not.

Getting in line with Republicans would destroy everything Ron Paul hopes to stand for. Why?

Abu Ghraib, Plamegate, Niger Forgeries, Manipulated Intelligence on Iraq and Iran, Preventive war doctrine, Executive orders providing (Unlimited) Presidential Powers, Armstrong Williams and paid propagandists, Illegal warrant less NSA wiretapping, Walter Reed, Firing of US attorneys, illegally transferring resources to Iraq from Afghanistan, Tom Ridge and false threat levels, Michael Chertoffs general incompetence, Halliburton and Cheney, Hurricane Katrina and reconstruction, Black prisons and extraordinary rendition, Homeland Security, Blackwater, involvement in Delays and Abramoffs K Street Lobbyists Project, Cheney’s Energy Policy, Big Oil’s writing of it, and refusal to divulge participants, tax cuts for the wealthiest, denial of Global warming, big budget deficits and vastly increased national debt, big pharmaceuticals write prescription drug plan, attempts to torpedo the 911 Commission, Failure to implement the 911 Commission recommendations, loss of US reputation internationally after massive post-911 world support, by his own admission doesn’t care anymore about bin Laden, under funding of basic research, Alberto Gonzales, FDA and EPA, Porter Goss and the gutting of the CIA, Signing statements, Terri Schiavo (family and privacy rights in end of life cases), Overuse and abuse of the National Guard and Reserves, US balance of trade deficit, Dubai Ports deal.

Who could justify that list?

True that screw both these shit parties they deserve to be disbanded for how fake they all are....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'll just vote for Nader also if he is on the ballot in Texas

Getting in line with Republicans would destroy everything Ron Paul hopes to stand for. Why?

Abu Ghraib, Plamegate, Niger Forgeries, Manipulated Intelligence on Iraq and Iran, Preventive war doctrine, Executive orders providing (Unlimited) Presidential Powers, Armstrong Williams and paid propagandists, Illegal warrant less NSA wiretapping, Walter Reed, Firing of US attorneys, illegally transferring resources to Iraq from Afghanistan, Tom Ridge and false threat levels, Michael Chertoffs general incompetence, Halliburton and Cheney, Hurricane Katrina and reconstruction, Black prisons and extraordinary rendition, Homeland Security, Blackwater, involvement in Delays and Abramoffs K Street Lobbyists Project, Cheney’s Energy Policy, Big Oil’s writing of it, and refusal to divulge participants, tax cuts for the wealthiest, denial of Global warming, big budget deficits and vastly increased national debt, big pharmaceuticals write prescription drug plan, attempts to torpedo the 911 Commission, Failure to implement the 911 Commission recommendations, loss of US reputation internationally after massive post-911 world support, by his own admission doesn’t care anymore about bin Laden, under funding of basic research, Alberto Gonzales, FDA and EPA, Porter Goss and the gutting of the CIA, Signing statements, Terri Schiavo (family and privacy rights in end of life cases), Overuse and abuse of the National Guard and Reserves, US balance of trade deficit, Dubai Ports deal.

Who could justify that list?

The media will not.

You forgot to mention Chuck Baldwin from The Constitutional Party.

I agree with Tess - it's about time we sent all of them a message. The polls show that there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats.

Let's make our voices heard!

Tess, you know the press has not done their job fairly and will continue to prove their similarity to Pravda and Tass. I too am a long time Republican turned third party. No hope for America.

All this is gonna do is steal Obama's votes. Nice strategy by Ron Paul and his fellow secret republican, Ralph Nader.

If you don't think there is no difference between the two major party candidates, there is no hope for you! There are stark differences between Obama and McCain.

Mark and Tess are exactly right. The American people need to look beyond
the "veil of illusion" which has been placed over our eyes for the last 45
years. It will not matter one bit who wins in November, those in power
behind the scenes, have set the stage and no new actor is going to be
allowed into the world's arena to hold up their production goals...
WELCOME TO A BRAVE NEW WORLD...THE REALITY SHOW
coming soon to a city near YOU!

Go Ralph! You've done more for me via your consumer advocacy than any of the other dreamers and charmers.

The Obamanation and McNugget are one in the same. Both will degrade the republic into a socialism. McNugget is scary in some ways, because he is openly fascist and blood-thirsty. Obamanation is scary because of his health "care" plan, spending the nation into oblivion and the fact that so many trust him.

If I had my pick, I'd rather have Obamanation than McNugget and his nutty VP, but I think I will vote 3rd party (Libertarian), like last time, just to flip the two party system the bird.

Screw the demipublicans!

Obama, McCain both are owned pony's in a fake race, thanks to people like Ron Paul who stand for the little guys, who understands how the real world works, unlike the democrat or republican followers who don't even know the real issues, 2009 is not going to be good, this ship is sinking and all obama can say is change, change what??? McCain a warmonger who will likely take us to Iran or worse, but hey as long as the American people have there SUV's and Miller at night while watching American idol who cares that were getting raped, just remember the fall of rome.......oh how they loved the colosseum

Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were the only candidates who were worth anything.

Ron Paul is an idiot to suggest that people waste their vote. It's a amzaing that a lunatic like Paul could get elected dogcatcher, yet alone to Congress.

I agree that we need a 3rd party... as I've found that I can't find myself completely i agreeance on either side. bits here and there. But w/the 3rd party... are we going to need a 4th also... as I am not sure the 3rd will fit my belief either. Not trying to be cynical here.

But for now, w/how close this race is ... I'll be voting for the less of the 2 evils. As will my friend who voted for Ron Paul. I have a feeling 3rd party vote will be high this year... which is fine, the 2 parties should hear our voices to act on a reform of their parties

No difference between the Republican Party & the Democratic Party? Are you kidding? I mean, I would never suggest that they don't have attributes in common, but on issues like privacy, civil liberties, women's issues/choice, stem-cell research, science-in-general, technology & innovation, health care, veteran's issues, labor & unionization, & secularism the Democratic Party is immeasurably better than the Republican Party. The citizens of this country will have a much better shot at the American Dream under an Obama Administration - that's just a fact ...

As for Ron Paul, I find it odd he didn't try & consolidate all those third party votes for himself (& run with Bob Barr as his vice-presidential candidate) ... He could have made a big splash.

Vote the People's ticket! Vote Obama/Biden in '08!

Both Dems and Repubs are only in this for money and fame and work toward the benefit of Corporate America. They could care less about me or my problems. They are our problem. It's time to give them both the boot. Third party for me.

Obama, McCain both are owned pony's in a fake race, thanks to people like Ron Paul who stand for the little guys, who understands how the real world works, unlike the democrat or republican followers who don't even know the real issues, 2009 is not going to be good, this ship is sinking and all obama can say is change, change what??? McCain a warmonger who will likely take us to Iran or worse, but hey as long as the American people have there SUV's and Miller at night while watching American idol who cares that were getting raped, just remember the fall of rome.......oh how they loved the colosseum

No difference between the Republican Party & the Democratic Party? Are you kidding? I mean, I would never suggest that they don't have attributes in common, but on issues like privacy, civil liberties, women's issues/choice, stem-cell research, science-in-general, technology & innovation, health care, veteran's issues, labor & unionization, & secularism the Democratic Party is immeasurably better than the Republican Party. The citizens of this country will have a much better shot at the American Dream under an Obama Administration - that's just a fact ...

As for Ron Paul, I find it odd he didn't try & consolidate all those third party votes for himself (& run with Bob Barr as his vice-presidential candidate) ... He could have made a big splash.

Vote the People's ticket! Vote Obama/Biden in '08!

Both Dems and Repubs are only in this for money and fame and work toward the benefit of Corporate America. They could care less about me or my problems. They are our problem. It's time to give them both the boot.

Yes, this will steal votes from Obama and McCain...that is the point!!!! Third party for me.

I can understand Ron Paul appearing with Ralph Nader, but Cynthia McKinney?!

Cynthia McKinney?!

Yeah, she's the one who attacked an officer and was thankfully defeated not once but twice out of Congress.

Ron Paul, if you are listening, please don't stoop to her level by associating your grassroots campaign with her controversial history. I can understand your reaching out to independents like Nader and the other Libertarians, but you will lose a great deal of respect with your associations with McKinney.

I feel that Both parties try to cloud and distract votes with non-issues like Abortion (which both candidates say is a state issue)and the black and woman issues (which I can understand how that is relevant). Bigger more important issues like Education, the American economy (small Businesses, not Corporations) a incredibly lopsided trade deficit and a Health care system that leaves the middle class left out. All of the BIG issues are touched on so vaguely it boarders on insulting. Ron Paul is the real straight shooter has a better plan for the future which is revamp Government and The IRS. I Feel the The American People are not in charge of the Government Like the Founding Fathers wrote up Government seems to me like an elitist group not like the people they "represent". Can a "regular" guy like me become Senator? Or do I need big Money behind me?

Both Dems and Repubs are only in this for money and fame and work toward the benefit of Corporate America. They could care less about me or my problems. They are our problem. It's time to give them both the boot.

Yes, this will steal votes from Obama and McCain...that is the point!!!! Third party for me.

"stealing votes" "strategy"

come on. seriously. it's not a bloody horse race. if no one ever votes third party then of course a third party will never win. but because there are idiots out there who want to vote for someone who "has a chance" we will *always* be voting for the lesser of two evils.

vote for someone who represents you- not who you think will win, and eventually, you'll be able to elect that candidate.

I can understand Ron Paul appearing with Ralph Nader, but Cynthia McKinney?!

Cynthia McKinney?!

Yeah, she's the one who attacked an officer and was thankfully defeated not once but twice out of Congress.

Ron Paul, if you are listening, please don't stoop to her level by associating your grassroots campaign with her controversial history. I can understand your reaching out to independents like Nader and the other Libertarians, but you will lose a great deal of respect with your associations with McKinney.

Regardless of who you vote for George Bush et al. have sold this country to China. We now live in one of the most repressive countries on earth. Third party candidates don't stand a chance because of the media conspiracy. Welcome to wonderland, enjoy the ride. Adios America.

If you are from a solidly Red or Blue state and you do not match your state's color, do NOT waste your vote!!! Vote 3rd party and help send a message. As an example, consider Texas. If Obama only gets 25% of the popular vote instead of 30%, it won't make a bit of difference - McCain's going to win all of Texas's electoral votes regardless. But consider how menaingful those 5% of the popular vote would be to Nader, Barr or any of the other independents. In this situation, voting 3rd party is the only way NOT to waste your vote.

OTOH, If you're from a "swing state" and don't strongly support McCain or Obama, then vote for the one you least fear. Don't vote 3rd party. In this case, your vote REALLY counts and you should spend it wisely and vote for the lesser of two (not three, four or five) evils.

But, again, if you're a Dem in a Red state (like Texas) or a Rep in a Blue state (like California), then your vote will have absolutely NO EFFECT on who becomes our next President. Sending a messsage by voting 3rd party will NOT "give" the election to either candidate.

He also appeared with the Libertarian Party-Bob Barr, and the Constitution Party-Chuck Baldwin who are also running . These are the two largest "third parties" we have to choose from. If we are always afraid of "throwing away" our votes if we vote third party we will never be able to express more completely what we the people want. If we start to show massive support for alternate party platforms then maybe the marketplace of ideas can become vibrant and healthy again.

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost" -John Quincy Adams

I am very impressed with the integrity of Ron Paul. The McCain camp did put in a last minute plea to Paul through Phil Gramm of all people. I have long held many positions that Paul articulates. The greatest thing that could happen for this country is a 3rd party candidate winning the presidency. The media biases against 3rd parties and the 3rd party difficulty in accessing debates sickens me. Ron Paul is the greatest politician I have ever had the priviledge of voting for. He exposes all that is wrong in the political cesspool, and he is right on the major issues as well. God bless you Ron Paul.

If you are from a solidly Red or Blue state and you do not match your state's color, do NOT waste your vote!!! Vote 3rd party and help send a message. As an example, consider Texas. If Obama only gets 25% of the popular vote instead of 30%, it won't make a bit of difference - McCain's going to win all of Texas's electoral votes regardless. But consider how menaingful those 5% of the popular vote would be to Nader, Barr or any of the other independents. In this situation, voting 3rd party is the only way NOT to waste your vote.

OTOH, If you're from a "swing state" and don't strongly support McCain or Obama, then vote for the one you least fear. Don't vote 3rd party. In this case, your vote REALLY counts and you should spend it wisely and vote for the lesser of two (not three, four or five) evils.

But, again, if you're a Dem in a Red state (like Texas) or a Rep in a Blue state (like California), then your vote will have absolutely NO EFFECT on who becomes our next President. Sending a messsage by voting 3rd party will NOT "give" the election to either candidate.

You can see Ron Paul is a more honest broker than the rest during the debates.
I will vote for Barr and watch McCain sweat.

What does the Republican Party stand for now. Global expansion and military space war?

I am very impressed with the integrity of Ron Paul. The McCain camp did put in a last minute plea to Paul through Phil Gramm of all people. I have long held many positions that Paul articulates. The greatest thing that could happen for this country is a 3rd party candidate winning the presidency. The media biases against 3rd parties and the 3rd party difficulty in accessing debates sickens me. Ron Paul is the greatest politician I have ever had the priviledge of voting for. He exposes all that is wrong in the political cesspool, and he is right on the major issues as well. God bless you Ron Paul.

If you are from a solidly Red or Blue state and you do not match your state's color, do NOT waste your vote!!! Vote 3rd party and help send a message. As an example, consider Texas. If Obama only gets 25% of the popular vote instead of 30%, it won't make a bit of difference - McCain's going to win all of Texas's electoral votes regardless. But consider how menaingful those 5% of the popular vote would be to Nader, Barr or any of the other independents. In this situation, voting 3rd party is the only way NOT to waste your vote.

OTOH, If you're from a "swing state" and don't strongly support McCain or Obama, then vote for the one you least fear. Don't vote 3rd party. In this case, your vote REALLY counts and you should spend it wisely and vote for the lesser of two (not three, four or five) evils.

But, again, if you're a Dem in a Red state (like Texas) or a Rep in a Blue state (like California), then your vote will have absolutely NO EFFECT on who becomes our next President. Sending a messsage by voting 3rd party will NOT "give" the election to either candidate.

What are these "stark differences" between the two "Major" candidates John?

How about we list the similarities 1st. I'll start with the FISA legislation. They both agreed on that.

Would anyone care to add to the list of similarities? There are way more similarities than differences, and they all conflict heavily with the Constitution and our Civil Liberties.

The Obamanation and McNugget are one in the same. Both will degrade the republic into a socialism. McNugget is scary in some ways, because he is openly fascist and blood-thirsty. Obamanation is scary because of his health "care" plan, spending the nation into oblivion and the fact that so many trust him.

If I had my pick, I'd rather have Obamanation than McNugget and his nutty VP, but I think I will vote 3rd party (Libertarian), like last time, just to flip the two party system the bird.

Screw the demipublicans!

I stopped voting for the Republicrats a long time ago. And though I believe Obama is marginally better than McManiac, I will vote for a third-party candidate. I just wish Ron Paul was on the ballot so I could vote for him.

And to those who think that you shouldn't "waste" your vote - get real. If you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep getting what you are getting.

Vote your principles!

Oh god, if Ron Paul accepted Bob Barr's invite as a running mate.... I'd need a new pair of pants since I'd ruin mine upon hearing such news.

JOHN WROTE THE FOLLOWING:

All this is gonna do is steal Obama's votes. Nice strategy by Ron Paul and his fellow secret republican, Ralph Nader.

Posted by John September 10, 08 01:32 PM

My question to John would be, "How can you steal a vote from Obama by voting for a third party? Obama never had my vote, neither has McCain. The problem with most Americans is they still live by the status quo, and an inside of the box way of thinking. I, like many others have had enough of the same old big government rhetoric. It is time to vote on principle, and stop wasting your votes on who you think will win. It's about taking a stand, and voting your conscience. My vote will not be wasted on someone I do not agree with, so obviously I will not vote for either Obama, or McCain, neither one deserve a single vote in my book. If you want more of the same with our government vote for Obama, or McCain, if you want to vote for our Constitution, and for the people, I urge everyone to show these two party candidates a swift kick out the door, and vote for 3rd party.

U.S. 'Winning' Unpopular War in Iraq, but 'Losing' Popular War in Afghanistan

This is an excerpt from this article from the Council on Foreign Relations website today

"....I don't see how anybody who is not directly involved in these presidential campaigns can treat them with anything other than contempt. You have two very good candidates trapped in a theatre of the absurd where they have to constantly posture and attack each other politically and issue sound bites as if they were plans and policies. Any adult who can take that seriously is either mentally defective or emotionally disturbed. And this is particularly true in the case of Iraq. I would hope that everyone realizes that whoever becomes president next January is going to have to start coping with reality rather than slogans. None of us knows what is going to take place in the course of the next year."

Winning the Right War
Terrorism, Transnational Security Threats, Middle East, Intelligence, Iraq
Philip H. Gordon, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy
Survival

Voting for a third party candidate is a rejection of the foreign policy of the status quo.

Vote your conscience for a change rather than the lesser of two evils.

It's still evil!

Stand up for principles. Vote your conscience.

Campaign for Liberty.com

Down witht he major parties..

Jerry Garcia once said
"Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil"

Does anyone remember this document? I think it's time for all 50 states to Revolt!!!! IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The blog posts here are quite different in tone from most appearing under a CNN.com article yesterday. There were several very adolescent-sounding posts there that poked fun at Ron Paul and the conceprt of voting for anyone other than a Democratic or Republican nominee. One has to wonder about the possibilities of Democratic or Republican enlisted bloggers whose intent it is to either goad Paul supporters into caving in to the "wasted vote" fallicy OR assume that McCain or Obama supporters are responsible for the ridiculing posts, prompting the reader to vote against the supposed camp responsible for the blog post.
In any case, the ability to post blog writings is both a blessing and a curse, and one has to be very careful about assuming too much about the sentiments of the writer.
As for me, I will be voting for either Barr or Baldwin.

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." --John Quincy Adams

To those that say a third party vote is a wasted vote ...

I say if your voting for the lesser of 2 evils you are wasting your vote.

If you don't vote on principle and don't vote with your heart ... then you are wasting your vote ...

For the people who start crying that a third party is going to "STEAL" votes away from Obama or McCain. Grow UP!! Neither one of these men are for real change and we all have the Right to vote for a candidate that represents our values. I woud rather not vote, than vote for either of these guys. It's such b.s. and those who believe this are rediculout. This two party system plays with us like a spoiled child plays his/her divorced parents. Everyone needs to grow up!!! Our constiution and this country is hanging by a string! It's time for a 3rd party.

Vote Ron Paul!

I'd vote for ANY candidate that put Paul as VP!

Period.

I totally agree that Party Politics has ruined this country but I support Mccain/Palins reform message.I think President Mccain and Vice President Palin are fully aware of the dissatisfaction of many American people and I get the sense they are going to do something about it.Hey a third party maybe the way to solve some of the problems who knows but only voters can answer that.