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Vote Swapping Ruled Legal
cayenne8 writes "During the 2000 election, some sites were set up for people across the nation to agree to swap votes, among them voteswap2000.com and votexchange2000.com. They were established mainly to benefit the third-party candidate Ralph Nader without throwing local elections to George Bush. The state of California threatened to prosecute these sites under criminal statues, and many of them shut down. On Monday the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the vote-swap sites were legal (ruling here, PDF). The court held that '...the websites' vote-swapping mechanisms as well as the communication and vote swaps they enabled were constitutionally protected' and California's spurious threats violated the First Amendment. The 9th Circuit also said the threats violated the US Constitution's Commerce Clause.'"
Yes, but from that point of view, it's a far sight better than a spoiler vote for a Democrat,
This is only true if you're an idiotic fuck who listens to what the Republican party says, instead of watching what they do.
They increase spending at rates that vastly outpace that of democrats, and they increase deficit spending at a ludicrous rate.
I know some short-sighted people will point out "but they cut my taxes ever so slightly", and that's lovely... but it's only lovely if it's done in the context of something that at least remotely resembles a balanced budget and reasonable spending.
When done while paired with GOP spending, it is simply creating an inevitable catastrophe, and helping to destroy the value of the dollar.
Only a fool would love that outcome.
Please don't interpret this as a defense of the Republican Party, but you have made this claim twice now without citing a source to back it up. You also ignore the fact that a large portion of the deficit spending at least started because of the drop in tax revenues when the economy went belly up. (although that probably pales in comparison to the spending in Iraq)
GreyPoopon
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Why is it I can write insightful comments but can't come up with a clever signature?
There are things called primaries.
In those primaries Republicans went out and voted for these folks. They did so out of a large field.
So yes, Republicans went out, and a majority of them said "we think that these oil company neoconservatives are the best choice to represent Republican values."
This was not a "lesser evil" versus the Democrats, as you contend. You do so only because, like most GOPers, you have an aversion to truth, and a desire to rewrite history.