If you're going to vote for somebody off the wall who has no chance like Gary Johnson? Might as well write a name, any name, on a piece of toilet paper, use it for its intended purpose and then flush it away.
Sadly that's where we are. I once voted for Ross Perot just as a means of protest. Except I wasn't protesting, I was just handing Clinton the election. It was a stupid wasteful, spiteful vote.
I won't ever do that again. I will look at the people who have a legitimate chance and (in the majority of cases) choose between the evil that resides behind door number one and the futility behind door number two.
Voted for Clinton the second time over Dole. Dole didn't move me and Clinton seemed to be getting things done.
Was I motivated to vote for GW Bush? Not really. I had the misfortune to meet him prior to the election and thought he was one of the dumbest people I'd ever talked to. But when the other choice is whackadoo Gore? I'm voting Bush. Bush vs. Crazy Ass Liar Kerry? Easy again.
I thought McCain was an incredibly weak Republican choice. But versus stuffed-shirt, hazy origin, never-done-anything Obama -- who I was flabbergasted ever even got the nomination he was such a fop -- I'm voting AGAINST him.
I didn't vote FOR Romney in 2012. I voted against everything the Muslim-In-Chief had done. Every lie he spouted, every coverup the media assisted in.
This year I'm reduced again to voting against something. I don't think the country can survive a Hillary Clinton presidency. I know it can't survive a lunatic Bernie Sanders occupancy. So I'm not so much FOR Trump (or Cruzio or Rubuz or whoever) I'm just against whoever wins the other side.
My belief is that Trump happens to be the only candidate with the emotional resonance to stir people to the polls in numbers enough to overcome the entitled masses who will flock to Bernie or Hillary. The fact that the guy is an avowed socialist -- something we fought against in WW2 -- and people are falling for his failed message stuns me.
It's sad that we're reduced to that.
Elections have become almost useless anyway. When I go to the polls I see all these positions and people I've never heard of and I'm supposed to make a choice? I typically write my own name in for one and then a few other people in for the others. I've gotten at least one vote for some office in every election for years.