3rd Party Followers SHOULD Vote Romney

Liberals tend to vote for whomever has the most support on their side, even if they differ here and there because they understand that when they win, they get things accomplished for their side. That means more liberal judges, more government spending, more debt, and more entitlements, and more anti-religious movements and more eroding away at conservative values.

Conservatives on the other hand tend to divide themselves and bicker over who truly is the most "ultimate" and "supreme" conservative option, and therefore tend to lose more often. When we lose, we do not get our say.

Instead of supporting the conservative team and moving the entire movement forwards, some instead choose to stroke their own egos by splitting off and voting with write-ins and “loser-tarian” third-party candidates that never can get enough support to win, let alone break 2%.

These voters then feel intellectually superior for wasting their vote, and feel that America (now with a leftist at the helm) will "learn it's lesson" and listen to them better next time, because they were right all along. This mentality does nothing for the country, but rather is self-centered and selfish as all it does is makes that person feel good about themselves.

Author Michael Medved uses a strong term to characterize this, calling it “mastabatory,” as it is a completely wasted and selfish effort that does nothing but make the voter feel good.

Remember that even in this climate, Conservatives outnumber Liberals 2-to-1 in almost every state, yet Liberals keep winning. We instead need the Conservatives, the Independents, and even as many Democrats as we can get to vote for our side, and for the ONE major candidate for our side. No candidate is ever perfect in everyone’s eyes, but still, we are always better off with someone from our side in the White House, then we are with someone from the completely opposite side.

3rd party lovers are all very passionate, but use your passion, your love of country, your ability and willingness to vote – use these for good. Do not throw the election to the Left by not supporting the Right's major candidate.

Do not split your vote from Conservatives so that you can thump your chest while you give us four more years of Obama – four more years of anemic economic growth, four more years of bigger government, for more years of over spending, four more years of anti-business rhetoric, four more years of condemning and envying “the rich,” and four more years of leftist judges being appointed to the Supreme and lower Federal courts (judges that will sit and decide law for 40 years or longer).

If you really care about Conservative values and you want to make an actual difference for this country, vote for Romney, the major candidate that most closely matches your values, that has the most support, and highest possibility of winning. Ronald Regan understood this the first time he ran, and I hope Ron Paul and his supporters understand this too.

Vote for Romney, and until next time, America.

-- Bry Cox

A Question for 3rd Party Supporters

Supporters of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson tend to be voters with high values. Therefore the answer to this question should be obvious. Which is better, or rather, which is a higher value: making actual change for America, or pounding your chest and feeling right?

There are many rules to presidential elections that are unbreakable, here are two. If you want to make ACTUAL and REAL change, you must understand these, no matter who you'd like to win.

(1) No 3rd party candidate in the history of America has ever won a major election, particularly a presidential election, or even received even more than a tiny percent of votes.

(2) All 3rd party candidates pull votes away from the candidate with values most like them.

It’s been said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over while hoping for a different result. Hoping that write-ins or 3^rd party candidates will suddenly win is insane. Believing that throwing your important vote their way is somehow good for America is insane. Voting for a 3rd party candidate out of a feeling of personal intellectual superiority is insane. Why? In every case you do not help your cause, but instead harm it. Instead of seeing of the big picture, you instead focus just on yourself.

Common arguments for 3^rd party candidates are that the current system is broken, your guy didn’t get a fair shot, or you say you can't vote for "the lesser of two evils." But these arguments do not stand up because neither candidate is evil but rather imperfect as every candidate will always be.

Secondly, you cannot make change or fix the system by working against it, if anything by breaking off you set things back further. A political party is grown through addition and multiplication, not by division. There is strength in numbers.

The small single-digit percentage points that 3^rd party candidates have is not enough for any of them to win, to have say, or to make a positive difference – yet it is enough to throw the election to Obama. And if Obama wins we get more government spending, a slower economy, more liberal judges on the bench, and more anti-business and anti-success agendas – all the opposite of what you and I want for our country.

As Conservatives, we ALL agree on the same big issues. We agree that when we have stronger family values, stronger businesses, a stronger economy, and much less government spending and less debt, we can not only start to succeed, but we can focus on other pressing issues.

When we conservatives can agree and vote together, we can move the country in our direction. When we split off because of petty differences, we lose and are stuck with more liberal agendas, more liberal judges, more government spending, and more government debt.

You would never dream of leaving your family, breaking off, divorcing, and working against it, all in the name of “strengthening it.” Similarly, you build a conservative party the way you build a family, and that's by working within the family, not outside of it. Ron Paul's own son understands this and I hope his supporters do to.

Vote for Romney, and until next time, America.

– Bry Cox