President Obama calls African-Americans a 'mongrel people'

[bob mayonnaise]

Either way, peepz is tired of it.

they say they are, but when push comes to shove they still vote for the R or the D, which means they aren't tired of it enough to put their vote where their rhetoric is.
peepz do what they're told to by whatever newz network they watch.

So, does this mean you won't be voting at all, you don't watch/read/listen to the news, or is your vote somehow more "enlightened" than others?
I consume PMSNBC, CNN, FOX, CBS, BBC, NPR, HuffnPuff Post, Drudge...etc....who will I vote for?????

Unfortunately, R & D are the only two viable major parties, so people will vote for "the lesser of two evils", even if they are libertarian (typically a vote for GOP) or socialist party (typically a vote for the Dems).
The smaller parties need to focus on local elections...it's not likely a 3rd party candidate will be able to make waves in national politics unless they have lots of $$$$$.
Until this happens, people will vote for candidates that most closely resembles their "rhetoric", as you so candidly put it. What's the harm in that?
If the incumbent isn't keeping promises; you vote them out in the next primary.
You're seeing more and more long-time candidates lose or have close races in primaries, so the fear that a new guy can't come in for the RNC or DNC and beat the other guy, is waning.

[scweeber]

Ron Paul.

[lude]

If I ever vote

Im voting Baer

[Kustie the Klown]

LP=fair and balanced.

LP is pretty decently balanced. We have the sum total of all the lib minds on one side. We have me on the other.

at least neither sides are <strike>right</strike>... correct...none of this matters...2012

No. My side is right. The left is tragically, disastrously wrong.

[dr. moneyshot]

Right about what?

What is the question....braaaahhhhhhhhh.......?

[Greg]

Either way, peepz is tired of it.

they say they are, but when push comes to shove they still vote for the R or the D, which means they aren't tired of it enough to put their vote where their rhetoric is.
peepz do what they're told to by whatever newz network they watch.

So, does this mean you won't be voting at all, you don't watch/read/listen to the news, or is your vote somehow more "enlightened" than others?

I seem to be able to figure out basic right and wrong and common sense without being led by the nose. and I seem to keep myself semi-informed without being glued to any one source of information.
I vote Libertarian and have since 1992. I don't agree with them 100% but they come the closest. I am a registered Independent.
I assume then that even though you proselytize being the same you still vote for that R.

[Greg]

Until this happens, people will vote for candidates that most closely resembles their "rhetoric", as you so candidly put it. What's the harm in that?

are you serious?

[bob mayonnaise]

Until this happens, people will vote for candidates that most closely resembles their "rhetoric", as you so candidly put it. What's the harm in that?

are you serious?

I put rhetoric in quotations for a reason:
People vote for the candidate they share the same ideas/philosophy with...well, in theory.
I sometimes forget I'm smarter than 94.2% of eligible voters and assume we're all on the same playing field...

[bob mayonnaise]

Dude, I vote R b/c there are no libertarian candidates (and I just cannot bring myself to vote for anyone with a leftist economic handicap ) down here, much less on the national ticket.
I agree that we don't need news sources to tell us right from wrong...most people have enough common sense for that; probably more than we think.
Do you just not vote if a libertarian isn't on the ballot, or do you vote for the candidate you believe identifies more closely with your philosophy?

[Greg]

actually in the MD general election there usually was a Libertarian candidate for most offices.
I doubt California will be any different.
if in the case there isn't if neither candidate is even close to my views, and neither the jackass nor southbound pachyderm are usually in the same ballpark, then I absolutely will not vote for either. I'll write in if I have the ability and if not, I just move along.
I'm usually more concerned with the local/state referendums and issues. I feel I can make more of a difference there as a voter than anyplace else.

[flip (glide 2)]

I am voting for and supporting Mike Kelly-R for my local congress race, the dumb bitch, dem, incumbent needs the boot right in her jokerface.

(she won't win anyways, she won in 08 on the coattails of obamafever against a 12 term republican who resembled a 6'5 porky pig, he needed out of the way anyhow for some new blood. She (Kathy Dahklkemper), was a suppose-ed blue dog, pro-life dem who signed on to the healthcare bill because of Obama's executive order that said feds wouldn't fund abortions.....he lied. Surprise, surprise. She will be out of a job. Dumbass. )

[Randy]

I sometimes forget I'm smarter than 94.2% of eligible voters and assume we're all on the same playing field...

I often feel it's higher then that. Or maybe it's just that a lot of the smarter people don't get around to the polls to vote.

I vote every time I can. From local primaries, to school budgets to the president election. Honestly, some times I have no clue so I just go in and pull the lever for no one (still possible in NY state we have the old arm machines) but to me people that don't vote shouldn't complain. . .and I like to complain.