So I'm not going to vote Republican or Democrat in this race. I'm going to vote Libertarian because Bob Barr is closest in view to Ron Paul who I was rooting for before the media narrowed it down to McCain/Obama.
People tell me it's throwing away my vote.
Why have the freedom of choice when people say you throw your vote away if you don't vote for a "main" candidate? That's like letting people drink but tell them they can only have one specific beer versus one specific wine and they'd rather have a cocktail.
There is a very interesting article about how third-party voting affects government here: http://www.nolanchart.com/article252.html
We just need to go back to the beginning!
I was reading Encarta on this topic and found this very interesting:
The framers of the United States Constitution made no provision in the governmental structure for the functioning of political parties because they believed that parties were a source of corruption and an impediment to the freedom of people to judge issues on their merits. James Madison argued in his The Federalist “No. 10” paper against a system in which “factions” (his word for parties) might be able to seize control of the government. George Washington, in accordance with the thinking of his fellow Founding Fathers, included in his Cabinet men of diverse political philosophies and policies, rather than narrow his choices to those of a single political outlook.
So...to those who thinking not voting R or D is a throw-away: in the words of Ron Paul motivators: "I'd rather throw away my vote than throw away my country".
