This is a poll that I thought of while writing a response to Shiz' thread.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
I voted for sueing all the way to the Supreme Court under anticipation that they (the space aliens) would be representing the two major parties and hence one of the two would be the one that would ostensibly and anticipationally be the won who provisionally won (of course after counting the hanging chats)... see, they would have had a barbecue before the election started in which they ate the candidates from the third party (and fourth and fifth parties too) and replaced them with androids that aren't even assembled in the US of foreign fabricated components from American made raw materials. Then I would call on Chuck Norris (or roper if he's busy) to come and give the space aliens a good round house kick in the face!
But, see we have the advantage of having the wisdom from the Twilight Zone episode "How to Serve Man"... we know that any space aliens who come to earth bearing gifts and large books in unknown languages are actually here just harvest us for use in the recipes contained in said large books...
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
If McCain or Giuliani win the Republican nomination I might consider voting third party. It would be difficult to vote for the man who successfully passed a law nullifying the first amendment and helped to form the Gang of 14 to agree to not give an up-or-down vote for fully qualified judicial nominees, or one who is OK with abortion and has morals similar to Clinton's.
On the other hand, I might decide that defending the US supercedes those issues and vote Republican anyway. Although the direction they would take the country in would make it less worth defending.
I was so underwhelmed by George Herbert Walker Bush the first time he ran, I wrote in the name of someone who wasn't even running.
Randy wrote: If McCain or Giuliani win the Republican nomination I might consider voting third party.
Early prediction based on what Fox News is spending it's time on when chatting about what is not going to happen for a long while yet, it seems to be a foregone conclusion that McCain an Giuliani are the ones who will be duking it out for the Republican nomination...
Yet, a lot can happen in the meantime... McCain ain't a spring chicken. He could have a turn for the worse healthwise, and so could Giuliani. Romney is getting some subtle bashing due to his earlier stating he supported equal rights (in the discrimination arena) for homosexual practicioners (how is that for a new, pc buzzword? ), but is also staunchly against gay marriage.
What if the viable candidate in a third party was someone like Romney, or gasp, actually was Romney? Would people vote for him then?
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Cat Herder wrote: Yet, a lot can happen in the meantime... McCain ain't a spring chicken. He could have a turn for the worse healthwise, and so could Giuliani.
Is this a hint? I could make a quick little roadtrip. Hmm...anyone here live up Giuliani's way?
"If the two major party candidates for Presidency were revealed to be evil space aliens bent on enslaving humanity, how would you vote?" Well, try this on for size: If the two major party candidates for Presidency were revealed to be involved with the same powers bent on control of the world and controlled by Satan, how would you vote?
Think I’m a conspiracy nut? I guess Joseph Fielding Smith was also, when he wrote "Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the President of the United States...it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself." (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 3, pp.314-315) Great men, including Ezra Taft Benson and W. Cleon Skousen have said the same thing in other words.
We have a couple instances from scripture where society on a limited basis has not been under the "control" of the adversary in that sense... City of Enoch and the Book of Mormon peoples for a couple hundred years after Christ's post resurrection appearance to them.
And, the key there was not that the adversary had no influence, but that the people gave him no power due to their righteousness.
It is kind of interesting to consider that elsewhere in the world at the same time, some of the most wicked conditions existed and it is fairly clear to say that the adversary's influence was in control over those societies.
You know, since we're probably not in a position to be judging the righteousness of others, so maybe the best thing for us to be doing is to be building up Zion and attending to our personal level of righteously living the gospel. It is clear that Satan has so much influence and power due to so many people giving it to him through not living the gospel.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
