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[Aaron Burr]

Politics are unprincipled. American politics are the most unprincipled. You say that all the time. Therefore, to act on principles would be counter intuitive when faced with a political decision. In fact, voting on your principles this election will ensure that your goals will never be attained. Therefore, making an unprincipled choice in this election would greatly benefit your enlightened self interest.

It's not like I'm asking you to drink hemlock. Just cast your ballot for Mitt. You wont feel a thing.

[Uncle Al]

Yow! Where to begin with this sophistry? I think I'd better focus on just this one sentence:

In fact, voting on your principles this election will ensure that your goals will never be attained.

One of my interim goals is seeing fewer and fewer eligible voters actually vote, thus eroding the ability of those elected to claim they have a "mandate" from the electorate. It would be silly, not to mention cognitive-dissonance-inducing, for me to cast a ballot given that goal.

Actually, you are asking me to drink hemlock, at least a wee bit of hemlock, as I would indeed feel something: nausea.

You take it on faith, I gather, that Willard-as-prez would somehow be better than 0-as-prez. I don't agree, and find little difference between the two on fundamental policy matters. Both are committed to continuing policies that suck the wealth out of our pockets, send thugs to brutalize, incarcerate, or kill people who have harmed no one, and are all based on the perverted view that the people are servants of govt rather than the other way around. So, even your utilitarian argument in favor of voting for Willard fails alongside any principled argument you might offer - and you haven't offered any, at least not yet.

[Aaron Burr]

You're just f*cking high. If you can't see the difference between Mitt and Jug Ears, you're on crack....oh wait...

[Ironsmith]

Yea, with all due respect to a mans principles and convictions the rest of the country still has bills to pay and mouth's to feed. Families are really suffering and struggling and while I may not fall into that category I can't f*cking stand to see someone sit idly by and not vote that $$$$$$$ out of office.

An entire generation of college grads are applying for minimum wage positions in my organization, how the hell are they supposed to pay their student loans back under another four years of Obama? If you cant see the need to vote against that bastard, take a drive to wherever the local bread line and unemployement office is in your area.

Your likely to be shocked when you see who's standing in those lines these days, could easily have been any of us here under slightly different circumstances.

Sorry, but I really don't want that for a guy who wants to go to work and earn a living wage so he can support his family and feed them and keep a roof over their head.

[Uncle Al]

You're just f*cking high. If you can't see the difference between Mitt and Jug Ears, you're on crack....oh wait...

You're just fscking high. If you can't see the similarities between Willard and 0, you're on crack...oh wait...

[Uncle Al]

AB and Ironsmith, you're both giving the despicable 0 "credit" for the dire economic state. He doesn't deserve it. Although he's party to its perpetration, the destruction of American enterprise and the debasement of our culture, wealth, and currency started long before 0, or any of us here, was born.

Sure I see differences between Willard and 0, but those differences are inconsequential to what needs to be done to avoid economic and cultural disaster in the near future. If you think that electing Willard and kicking 0 out of the White House will make any substantive difference, then you're the ones who've been smoking or snorting the funny stuff. You are living in a fantasy land full of illusions.

[Aaron Burr]

You're a crack whore making no sense. I'm sorry to call you a crack whore, but who am I to argue with your user title?

Get off the crack, whore, and vote Mitt.

[Ironsmith]

@ Unky, your right I am giving him credit for the dire economic state no matter what he inherited the day he took over the desk. Out there in the real world there's real people that need to eat and pay their rent/ mortgage and utilities. They depend on people like me to invest capital in order to create jobs for them to earn a living.

Guess what Al? I'm NOT F*CKING investing a penny I don't have to under Obama's watch, plain and simple it's to risky period. Know any other capital investors with money to put in play? I sure as hell do, none of them are going to do much of anything either. It's to risky, were better off holding onto what we have and calling it a life if Jug Ears get's another four years.

I want to start some new projects, I have the capital and the means to do it tomorrow and put some good people back to work but it's not going to happen under Obama. Mitt was by no means my first choice either but between him and Congress I believe we can get back to doing more business and make it work without losing my shirt as an investor.

What that means in the real world is I'm certainly not alone, there's more people ready to do some business and the job's we create might just save the financial skin of someone important to you. If you by chance have a relative or loved one struggling right here and now, not knowing how to buy groceries tomorrow then this ought to matter more than an economical and cultural disaster "in the near future." That may not happen in our lifetimes, and I agree with you regarding the state of politics but refusing a vote in this election is poor stewardship of our fellow man.

[Uncle Al]

...refusing a vote in this election is poor stewardship of our fellow man.

You make a good point, but it is one I disagree with. I suggest that our differing position here is best explained by our differing time frames for evaluation. Your way is short-term with a certain long-term down side, and mine is long-term with perhaps a short-term down side.

Using good stewardship of my fellow man as the criterion, then I maintain that withholding my vote - and consent to be governed by today's Leviathan - is better stewardship in the long run.

[Uncle Al]

You're a crack whore making no sense. I'm sorry to call you a crack whore, but who am I to argue with your user title?

Get off the crack, whore, and vote Mitt.

Hmm. "Crack whore" is it? A whore sells something dear for a fleeting short-term gain. What am I selling and what is my gain?