Sheep may go to heaven... but they create bad governments - by Adam

"This is the most important election of our time!"

I can't tell you how many times I've heard these words in the last three elections, and sadly, I followed right along. Both sides say it, and both sides say it because they know their constituents are sick to death of their parties, and they fear a revolt.

While it's not easy to vote for a third party candidate, it's the right thing to do when there is no candidate who seeks to preserve the constitution. There are so many disenfranchised democrats and republicans, that if people actually voted their principle, we would see a huge voting block for third parties.

I love how we will show our disdain for our current nominee by... voting for him. That'll teach him. I think McCain is dangerous as well as Obama. McCain, like Obama has a bad history, a la the Keating five, but I'm most concerned with policy. The fact is that McCain, like Bush, is a Neocon. In the past number of years, the Neocons have inflated the dollar to unprecedented amounts, trampled on the 4th ammendment, began talks on the North American Union (and the Amero), went to war unconstitutionally, betrayed our border guards Campeon and Ramos, did nothing to quell illegal immigration, expanded federal bureaucracies, expanded the fed, bought stock in private companies (Socialism!)... etc. (there's more... a lot more, sadly)

I understand that my vote may contribute to one evil being elected... but that's not the point. Whether I take arsenic or drano... I'm still dead. Pick your poison. To think that we will prevent the rapid unprecedented expansion of federal power (the one thing both parties agree on) by doing the same thing we've been doing is insane. It's time to vote principle. If we all vote principle, I think we'd see a drastically changed government. If we don't begin to vote principle... I promise, we will see a government without liberty, without representation, without any sort of leash by the people.

But this doesn't just apply to presidential politics. I'm voting against my federal representative, Vern Ehlers, as well. He voted for a socialistic bailout despite the overwhelming outcry of his constituents. While I don't agree with other stances he's taken, I think that this one unrepentant act is enough reason to throw him out. There's a saying... if a dog bites once, put him down, because he will surely bite again. When a representative politician betrays the constitution and his constituents once, he'll do it again. It's time we fire him.

That's why I am voting for Erwin Haas, Libertarian for congress. If we want actual change, let me tell you, it will not come from the two corporate parties. The best friend of the Republican is the Democrat, and the best friend of the Democrat is the Republican.

Vote your principle, and vote the constitution. A novelle thought, no?