Everyone who needs to read this, wont. The rhetoric were hearing is bordering on insanity. I am far from “patriotic”, but the response from the conservative candidates isn’t American. Hell, it’s barely humanitarian.
Why ask others to sacrifice their freedoms because I think it might lead to the preservation of my own?
“We cannot afford to elect a president who will pack the courts with ‘politicians in robes’ who subvert the law to advance their own political agendas.”
“I have a proven record of appointing conservatives to the Florida judiciary…”
I feel like there’s an inconsistency here.
To me this whole idea seems somewhat immoral and illegal. It is just a form of collusion… In case you are not sure of the meaning of collusion… Collusion is an agreement between two or more parties, sometimes illegal and therefore secretive, to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain…
Another way to frame this (and maybe sell it as something other than strategic voting, which can be seen as a negative thing) would be to look at it as a vote-swap. NDP supporters asked to vote Liberal are not voting against their party, but simply swapping votes with a Liberal supporter asked to vote NDP. Everyone gets their own vote, just somewhere…
As usual, Canadians (who join political parties in tiny numbers, only 2–3% of us at any one time) go begging to parties and leaders and candidates to do what they do not seem to understand they must do amongst themselves.
http://facebook.com/voteswapcanada is publicly swapping votes for close races right now. Sharing those…
