Given that Mike Huckabee has all but declared candidacy, as has Ron Paul, and the writer of Mallard Fillmore (and my friend Mark) is wanting to draft Walter Williams, what would the best lineup be?
This is a tough one, like deciding between a Kimber and a Heckler & Koch for a sidearm. I hope that I get to help make it. Let's go with Williams/Huckabee, with Ron Paul (Get the U.S. out of the U.N!) as Secretary of State.
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While I'd definately have to go with the H&K, I'm hoping for a decent third party canidate (maybe out of the Constitution Party) so I can at least vote with a clean conscience.
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...with as much respect as possible for someone I don't know:
vote for the *what* party, and throw your vote away, based on principle? Nobody but a republican or democrat is going to win...so why not pick the "best of the worst"?
This is an honest question, not a sarcastic rant.
I can't presume to answer for David, but one reason to vote third party is to send a message. You're correct that third parties rarely win elections directly, but they sometimes do get the big parties to come to their side on important issues.
For that matter, it's probably true that Williams, Huckabee, and Paul don't have a snowball's chance of winning, either. So again, I'm more or less hoping to send a message.
and the trade-off of likely helping your *biggest* opponent to win an election is worth it to you?
Seems, honestly, optimistic to the point of foolish. Why not reform the current system, from the inside, rather than sending a message from the outside?
Shawn, that is a good question and one I've answered many-a-time. I voted for Michael Perouka in 2004 because he was the only canidate who openly professed Jesus Christ as Lord and the only one who said his conscience as President would be guided by the light of Scripture.
I don't see it as throwing my vote away. I view my voting as an action upon which I will one have to give account before God. In all honesty, I have no party loyalties. Let me ask this, if we keep voting for the "lesser of two evils", aren't we still voting for evil?
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well...I'd guess that you and I may differ slightly in our intent/means of working out our faith in the world. I'd want to be as involved as possible, realizing that sometimes i'm going to have to work within a culture that is flawed. Essentially, mine is a 'christ transforming culture' model, where (and this is based purely on your comment there) yours is a 'christ above culture' model...would that be a safe assumption?
My method is to see/focus on as much good as is visible/possible/there, while seeking to renew/reform the broken bits. If I've got to wait for everything to be holy enough (and I realize that I'm caricaturing you somewhat there) in order for me to be a part of it...well...1) it's never going to happen, and 2) I'd be a fool if I ever DID think it would happen.
So...I'm pretty positive that god's not going to be upset that I voted with a hope and honest belief that my vote was going toward doing as much real, tangible good for the whole society, even if that vote was not for a christian.
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