Do not waste your vote

I am 18 and will be voting for Ron Paul in both the primary tomorrow, and also in the general election in november either as a write-in or if he runs third party, if he doesn't get the republican nomination. He has opened my eyes and showed me that parties do not matter, republican, democrat, you get the same thing basically, they just take turns. He has showed me that there is no such thing as wasting your vote and you should vote for who you really want to be president, not who's likely to win.

Americans have this mentality that they have to vote for who ever is 'probably going to win'. But it's a flawed mentality. The presidency and elections are not a horse race. You're not going to the track and betting on a horse that has the best shot at winning. You gain nothing, and in fact lose everything, if you vote and elect someone that does not share your philosophy. The only way you would possibly win, is if you are actually betting money on the election, but come on, how many people actually do that? I actually have a friend who HATES John McCain and wants to see Mike Huckabee elected, but says he is going to vote for McCain just because Huckabee has no chance. lol. Does this fool not understand that if he, and people like him stopped that idiotic mentality, and actually voted for Huckabee, he would have a much better shot at winning?

Americans wonder why they keep getting a crappy president every election. We had Bush Sr. who was such a crappy president he didn't get relelected for his 2nd term. We had Clinton who everyone wanted to impeach. Then we have Bush Jr who everyone, even republicans dislike, and want to impeach. Americans get what comes to them, if they want to keep electing the same idiots to office just because they are the 'likely' winners.


I have a question: What's the point in even having an election, if everyone is just going to vote for the same person because they are the 'likely winner'? Let's just skip the election, and make the 'likely winner' president before any elections even happen.

So yes, I will be voting for Ron Paul. I know he won't win the nomination because too many people are idiots and vote for someone just because they're popular, but at least I know I won't be wasting my vote like people think. To truly waste my vote would be to vote for the lesser of 2 evil, which I will never, ever do again.