Voting 3rd party got us Clinton....when Perot took many votes away from the Republican Party...Voting for a third party in the next election will yield us 4 more years of the Great Zero.
I told myself after I voted for the McCain/Palin ticket that I will not vote for a RINO again...but after seeing the ineptitude of the current sitting POTUS...I will not throw my vote to a 3rd party president, only to hand Lord Zero victory and another 4 years....as McCain's mother said...I will hold my nose and vote for the Republican candidate, even if he is not conservative enough for me. While the (R) candidate will get my vote by default....not voting may be worse.
My hope is that the Republican party will sway more to the right.
The above quote is the mind of the average conservative American. I do respect that opinion yet I do not agree with it.
I am reminded of something I read a while back. It was a commentary concerning the election of the 4th Presidency of the United States. John Adams was attempting to be re-elected for a second term and of course we know that Thomas Jefferson won. Yet what struck me as so amazing in this commentary was the situation that the government and the people were in at the time. Adams managed to keep the United States out of war with England and France in order to preserve the Union of the nation and this was his single great accomplishment during his administration. Yet Adams was branded as a Federalist. Years later his son John Quincy Adams would also follow this same branding and government would grow further with national banks and departments of the interior. Yet John Adams for all of his fevered pitch from 1775 to 1776 seeking a free and independent nation, once elected not only as president but also as vice president under Washington, he sought to re shackle some of the freedoms of the people. One of these attempts was a direct attack upon the 1st amendment violating the right of free speech by not allowing dissenting remarks concerning the President of the United States. Jefferson had a field day with Adams that destroyed their friendship. In the attempted re election of Adams, Adams did not even make a close second.
I do find it interesting that Adams and Jefferson rekindled their friendship before their deaths. Also these two men, Jefferson and Adams, marked the last two living founding fathers in the 1820's and they both lamented even then what had become of the government. In 1826 there was to be a commemorative celebration on July 4th. John Quincy was president at the time and his father John was invited to come to the Capitol. There John Adams viewed a new painting that is now famous today, you can find it on the back of a 2 dollar bill. The painting was of all of the founding fathers signing the Declaration of Independence. Adams scolded the painter saying that this event never took place. He stated that "we were at war with England at the time" and that each member of congress signed the declaration as he would pass through Philadelphia then immediately leave for fear of British assault upon the city. Adams claimed that the artist was re-writing history and creating this "modern American history" in its place. Adams then later claimed that the history, purpose and need for the revolution and an independent nation was lost forever. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson he asked a question. The question was "Who would write the history of the revolution?" Jefferson replied "No man will" but Jefferson stated that if men are to remember and to learn what the revolution was for and why we sacrificed that they would only be left with scattered facts, dates and events that they must piece together to find its meaning. Both men died on the same day, July 4th 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
How does this speak to us today within our present circumstances? If men that founded this very nation could look back in their own lifetime and see how far removed the government had become from what it was intended to be, how much more are we off course today? For me it is not a matter of who is left or right for when I see a Republican or Democrat I see the same party. I do not see a liberal nor do I see a conservative. When I look through the lens of our founders I see them as traitors. Until the American people are willing to once again demand that they are represented as intended by our constitution then our choice will always be the lesser of two evils rather than what is right or good for our children.
I am sorry, I am not satisfied with a Republican candidate based upon thier past offered candidates for our nation. So let me ask the people in this forum. Who will write the history of the demise of this nation? For if we do not change, if we are not willing to change perhaps only facts, dates and events will survive for the next generation to piece together the mistakes we made.
