Voting in Fear - Why I'm Leaving the Republican Party

A year or so ago the democrats could have easily won the next general election fair and square.

But they apparently couldn't force defeat down America's throat in the middle east, so instead they decided to ensure their own defeat politically on the home front by running losers Clinton and Obama as their top contenders for the jack-ass donkey party nominee and handed sure victory back to the Republicans.

The GOP, however, was apparently too stupid to take a simple gift and instead handed the opportunity to get back into a serious contention by running John McCain as the Republican nominee.

Meanwhile good conservatives like Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson were left on the sidelines.

My voter registration card got stamped "Republican" for the last time today. I went to the polls and voted in my party's primary for Duncan Hunter. When I got to the counting machine I wasn't sure whether I should feed it in or just go ahead and toss it in the trash bin. It will count as much either way.

So the Democrats had it sewn up but tried to sabotage themselves with two candidates that don't have a dime's worth of difference between them. The Republicans could have run a conservative and put the executive branch back on track, but instead allowed a lack-luster liberal to achieve the nomination.

There's just no defining difference between the remaining contenders, and frankly, little difference between the two major parties, either.

The time has come for all those other little political parties out their to get busy. I've talked to my friends in both the major parties, and none of them seem to be happy. The defections should begin. No one can say I don't follow my own advice; as of today I am leaving the Republican party. I'm going elsewhere, and elsewhere does not include the Democrat party. The Republicans and Democrats have all but joined forces. I'm going waaaaay out there. On the fringes, you might say. Maybe not the fringes where common sense is concerned, but definitely the fringes as far as common politics in the United States goes.

I've made my way over to the American Patriot Party site and I'm consuming every article published there. I thought that the Libertarian party might be my style, but it's beginning to look like the American Patriot Party is where I need to be. They're not as influential as the Libertarians, but this latest presidential campaign has convinced me of one certainty: We will never achieve anything close to excellency in the executive office again if we continue to all hang our heads, discard our convictions, and vote for the "lesser of two evils".

I'm sick of being mediocre in my political activities and I'm ready to puke over voting for mediocre candidates.

Whatever happened to voting for the best? Who says the best don't run anymore? There are great men and women with convictions and standards out there running in every presidential election who are awesome presidential material but we sweep them under the rug and shame ourselves every four years as we grumble on our way to the booth and vote for "the lesser of two evils".

America, where is our conscience? Why do we let situational ethics determine who we vote for? Why do we fear the opposition so much that we will vote for someone "a little better" instead of voting for someone we know is best?

It is fear, after all.

Fear that if we don't vote for the Republican nominee, a Democrat will win. Fear that if we don't vote for the Democrat nominee, a Republican will win. Acting on logic based in fear is cowardice. If you believe McCain, or Clinton, or Obama will be the best president out of all those running, including the "third parties", then be brave and vote for whichever of them you see fit. But if you vote for one of these because you're afraid one of the others will win...we'll, I won't say what I think you are if you do that. And don't be too offended, I've been one myself. Never again.

I, for one, will no longer vote like a coward.