I took advantage of early voting and wanted to share my choices, and my reasoning behind voting the way I did.<\/p>\n
Before I begin, let me say a few things about myself. \u00a0I’m very conservative, and believe strongly in personal freedom, offset by personal responsibility. \u00a0I’m an independent and consider anyone who votes purely along party lines to be both a dupe, and irresponsible.\u00a0 They’re effectively abdicating their principle democratic freedom, namely the right to vote, to someone else.\u00a0 Along with being a freedom, voting is also a responsibility – to evaluate the issues and make subjective personal choices about them. \u00a0By voting along party lines, you give away the keys to your kingdom.\u00a0 Worse, the people to whom you relinquish your rights are biased, and make no bones about being so.<\/p>\n
Considering what I\u2019ve already said, you\u2019ve probably already decided how you think I\u2019ve voted –\u00a0read on and find out how right you might [not] be.<\/p>\n
In the interest of reducing the onset of potentially fatal boredom, I\u2019ll restrict this post to the more important issues on my particular ballot.<\/p>\n
President<\/strong> \u2013 Score: Barack Obama 0, Mitt Romney -9.\u00a0 No contest, and not because I think Obama is doing a good job, actually I think he\u2019s wasted an extravagant amount of my tax dollars and achieved precious little.\u00a0 However, the thought of returning to the warmongering excesses of the previous eight years is frightening \u2013 I definitely don\u2019t want to go back to the way things were. \u00a0Romney\u2019s every word shows him to be a rich man with no intention of paying his fair share. \u00a0I am yet to hear what his \u201cplan\u201d to turn things around is.\u00a0 Here, let me click my fingers and create 12 million jobs \u2013 there you are, 12 million jobs created!\u00a0 Oh dear, what\u2019s that strange gassy sound \u2013 could it be the sound of virtual reality deflating\u2026?\u00a0 Nope, in good conscience I just can\u2019t cast a vote for someone who clearly has no plan worth sharing on how to solve the financial debacle in which we currently find ourselves \u2013 sorry, but giving yourself and your cronies a fat tax cut isn\u2019t a \u201cplan\u201d.\u00a0 My litany of negatives against Romney goes on, and on, and on but that is the main issue I have with him.\u00a0 Bottom line, I\u2019m not voting for Obama \u2013 I\u2019m voting against Romney.<\/p>\n When the best choice is the lesser of two evils, it is time to re-evaluate and restate the question.<\/p>\n — C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) October 1, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n