Column - November 21st
If you are still trying to figure out who to vote for, allow me to make a suggestion. Don't vote. I am not joking. There are two very bad candidates running in this runoff; neither one is really worthy of your vote.
And if you don't pay attention to anything else I have written, please pay attention to this. Do not cast your vote based on fear. The privilege is too precious to be scared into voting for or against a candidate.
I'm back in The Covington News, although my column will appear monthly until the end of the year and then bi-monthly beginning in January.
This column recaps the United States Senate race here in Georgia and touches on the case for not voting because, let's face it, at the end of the day no matter who wins this election, you will lose more personal and economic liberty.
You can read the column here and you can check out my previous columns here.
Comments
I respectfully disagree. We should all exercise due diligence and vote wisely.
Best,
Steven
http://thenewrepublicans.net - we got a shoutout on Politico.com
Posted by: newrepublican | November 21, 2008 09:27 AM
No, we shouldn't, especially if you don't believe in the candidates.
Posted by: Jason | November 21, 2008 12:31 PM
Ditto, Jason, no way I'd vote for either Shuxbee or Mr. Peepers.
Steven, the only "wisely" about this runoff is abstention!
Posted by: Mike in Elberton | November 21, 2008 01:24 PM
I'm inclined to sit this one out too, but I've got friends who keep telling me that's exactly what the Socialist Democratic party is hoping fiscal conservatives will do.
Suxby ain't much, but he might possibly be a speed bump for Obama & Company.
Posted by: Dutch | November 21, 2008 08:26 PM
Suxby ain't much, but he might possibly be a speed bump for Obama & Company.
He's not even a pot hole. This argument is a red herring. The Senate has had over 60 Big Goverment types for a while now. Best I can tell is that there are only about 13 to 15 small government Senators left.
Posted by: Daniel N. Adams | November 22, 2008 11:06 AM
We know Martin's going to be a puppet for Obama. That's his platform. Suxby is a partisan political hack. Which one do you think is most likely to vote against Obama?
I'm not sure I agree with my Libertarian friends on tactics. Sure we can go out, vote for people we believe in and cause a runoff. But when the runoff occurs, we stay at home and pout in the corner? If that's true, we still become inert in the end.
Posted by: Dutch | November 22, 2008 03:22 PM
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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong---but the man who mrefuses to take sides must always be wrong"
Robert Heinlein, 1957, Double Star
It is never right to sit out an election.
Posted by: Joe | November 22, 2008 09:54 PM
I have finally made up my mind. I was leaning toward Martin because he would be easier to defeat in six years. Then Al Gore came to Georgia and campaigned for Martin. If Jim Martin will embrace a member of the lunatic fringe like Gore, he will never get my vote.
Posted by: Joe | November 24, 2008 04:27 PM