Reply #32: Your retort and your proposed vote are pefectly legitimate choices...

[arendt]

unlike others on this board, I will not DEMAND that people vote my way.

A sane political platform would include:

1) A national program to get un-addicted to fossil fuel (and avoid nukes) by researching and building (in the U.S.) massive amounts of alternative energy technologies - heating, electricity, transportation.

2) Fire everyone at the regulatory agencies, disband them, and start over. You are more likely to be firing corrupt hacks than honest civil servants. If you feel guilty about that, give a good pension to anyone who has been in an agency for over thirty years - they are probably the least corrupt, or they would long since have departed via the revolving door.

3. Restore the Constitution - (how to do this is beyond me)

4. Disband the mercenaries. Move their functions back into the real army. Cancel the Haliburton contracts. Move the logistics chain back inside the real army.

5. Have a new "Church commission". Shine some light on the $50 Black Budget (of all services and all intelligence agencies, including DHS).

6. Start prosecuting violations of separation of Church and State and separation of powers (impeach them all, even after they are gone).

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Of course, none of this is going to happen. My point is that no third party candidate is going to win, and no winning candidate is going to do the right thing. (Not going to win because, first, its simply too late to organize an effective third party ticket and get it on the ballot.)

So, how is your vote third party tactic any more effective than my vote for the lesser of two evils tactic? Just asking, in a friendly way. I'm reading in that your answer is that McCain is no worse than what the Dems will put up. My response is that you will have now normalized Bush/Cheney's lawless reign of looting and terror by not voting out the GOP.

arendt