MidgarKonotsu wrote...
ShaggyJebus wrote...
I'm curious. All the people who say they're not going to vote because they think McCain and Obama are both idiots, why not vote for a third party? A third party won't win, so it's not like if you vote for some random person, we'll have a Communist as president or something, and voting would show that people do care.
Hell, I think even if you don't want to vote for either candidate or a third party, you should still vote for something. Just because the person who will become president is a douche in your eyes, that doesn't mean that person won't become president.
In life, you sometimes have to pick between two bad choices. If you're at work, and your boss says you can either spend hours filing boring reports about the budget, or you can spend hours filing boring reports about staff, you won't be able to say, "I don't like either option, so I'm not going to do anything."
Who cares if Obama sucks balls? If McCain's going to do more harm that Obama, why not vote for Obama? And vice versa. If McCain's a dick, but he's going to do better than Obama, then vote for McCain. Even if they're both going to do terrible jobs, and we'd be better off with a monkey, TOO BAD! A monkey isn't going to become president as a result of this election. It's either McCain or Obama.
I do applaud people saying they'll vote for a third party. If a third party candidate, or all the third party candidates together, get a large enough number of votes, it could change the way politicians view things. It may not, but at least it
could have some effect. It's better to try.
This election is just like the episode of south park with Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich!