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A third party vote is a wasted vote.
November 5, 2009 | Tagged Culture War, third party vote | Leave a Comment
As if we needed another reminder that third party candidates are the real third rail of American politics, the results of the GOP debacle in NY’s 23rd Congressional District should serve as a stinging lesson in Street Smarts 101. You don’t split the vote by endorsing a third party candidate!
“Mistakes were made,” as the North Vietnamese general said after the war, when referring to the communist massacre of almost 3,000 civilians in Hue, South Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive. The Republicans in the 23rd District nominated a RINO who was, of all things, in favor of the card check option that would kill the secret ballot in company elections on unionization. The GOP candidate in question had other left-wing positions that rankled many conservatives.
That said, the split in the Republican vote between the Conservative Party candidate and the turncoat RINO, who dropped out of the race and threw her support behind the Democrat, gave the left-wing party of big government and restricted individual freedom the win in the congressional election. The lesson could not be clearer. If you want the party that you oppose to gain election victories, you vote for a third party candidate. It happened with Ross Perot. Clinton won. It happened with Ralph Nadar. Bush won. It happened with Ron Paul. Obama won.
Vote for ELECTABLE pro-Second Amendment candidates from major parties that most closely adhere to your views. If possible, vote GOP. The party in power controls the political process. Voting third party throws your vote away. As if we needed another reminder!
Def Mech