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beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:23 PM Aug 2016

I hate the nonsense by those who keep saying vote your

Conscience...like WTF..in defending not voting for Hillary..what claptrap that is..it's not conscience...but ego..ego where you put you kids and grandkids future at stake with a possibility of trump appointed Supreme Court justices..it's ego to endanger our national security with man so clearly unfit to be president...it's all ego....

I am so tired of hearing about it.....I'm not letting a hitler type take the whitehouse and it's a shame we have those who's ego is so way more important that they want to teach America a lesson...it's a trump level sickness

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MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
2. My conscience leads me to vote for the person I think will
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:31 PM
Aug 2016

do the better job in office. It's not all about my own personal issues. I vote for the common good, and always for a candidate I think has a reasonable chance of winning. I never waste my vote on fringe candidates. I cannot do that in good conscience.

My conscience tells me to vote for the better of the two candidates who might win. Always. My ideal candidate is never on the ballot, actually. That candidate has never been on my ballot, and never will be.

It's a binary choice for every office. I vote for the better choice, not the ideal choice. The ideal choice is either not on the ballot or cannot possibly be elected.

randr

(12,412 posts)
3. Americans have the first opportunity in our history
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:32 PM
Aug 2016

to stand with together, Black/White/Hispanic/Asian/Male/Female/LGBT/Native/Muslim/Evangelical/Catholic/Protestant/Hindu/Jew/Old and Young alike, and send a message to the collective force of Trumpets that think this is their land.
This is OUR land and not only are we taking it back; we are taking it into the future!

Tikki

(14,557 posts)
4. When cruz said it that way...I thought it was a cop~out.
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:35 PM
Aug 2016

cruz had been saying, GOD told him to run for president.

Then why did he not tell his people to 'pray' on who to vote for.

It was a softee on cruz's part.

He should have said that he still believes god wanted him to be president, but 'something' got in his way....
....That his people should pray on what that was...


Tikki

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KT2000

(20,583 posts)
7. some voters think it is all about them (ego)
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:48 PM
Aug 2016

and others consider the good of the country. Hard to change that as it is an ingrained perspective.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
8. We need knowledgeable, intelligent voters...vote what your brain tells you
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 03:35 PM
Aug 2016

this next election is critical...

The next President will nominate 2,3 or maybe even 4 Supreme Court justices.
Since the average term of office of a supreme court judge is more than 25 years,
those appointments will set the tone and attitude of the Supreme Court for the next generation.

Allowing those appointments to be conservative appointments will mean game over for any progressive goals.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
9. anyone with a decent conscious would know
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 04:14 PM
Aug 2016

that Trump needs to lose and lose hugely. It will show the country repudiates his racism, bullying, etc.

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