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In Ohio, Third-Party Candidates Could Tilt Election

Monday, November 5, 2012


If Romney wins, the people who vote for Stein or Johnson have absolutely NO RIGHT to complain if we are in shambles after Mitt's tenure. No right whatsoever. If Obama loses, I'm squarely placing blame on the Indie voters.

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Obama supports voting third parties, even when it risks Democratic turnout.  

Obama and the corporatists in the Democratic Party have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressional committees behind Blue Dogs, Republicans and Independents over progressives/liberals and real Democrats. Some, but not all, examples:

Republican-turned-Independent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek.

Republican-turned-Independent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio which, in turn, was an effective endorsement of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressional seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy retired from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island.

And who can forget Obama's deal with Republican Arlen Specter, to endorse Specter over progressive Democrat Joe Sestak if Specter changed parties.  By getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.

Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.

Obama and the corporate-owned Democratic Party worked their butts off to prevent more progressives/liberals from getting elected.  Examples include Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressive Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter.

If Romney wins, Obama's supporters have only themselves to blame, for being arrogant bullies and preventing fellow Democratic voters from exercising their desire to challenge Obama during the primary season.  
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