In my yard, the answer to that is “mostly weeds.” But this week, signs for candidates on the ballot for the fall primary election have started showing-up across Newton.
Do you have an election lawn sign on your property? Or will you be putting one up soon? If so, who is it for and why?
We do not post signs for political candidates. Mostly because my husband and I almost always support opposing candidates….maybe he should take the right side of the lawn and leave the left for me?????
I think you should divide your lawn, it’s good to for the word to know that people with different political views can still share the same planet.
Greg,
Look at Mary Matalin and James Carville. That’s pretty extreme.
We have the some problem at my house that Native Newtonian has, and my wife is in fact a Native Newtonian also. As is obvious from most of my posts, I tend to be conservative politically, though I’m not a Republican, nor is she a Democrat.
What is the whole ‘I’m conservative but not a Republican’ thing? For that matter, ‘I’m liberal but not a democrat’ thing? I don’t buy it.
You might be against declaring yourself but if it walks like a democrat…..you’re a democrat.
What does a Democrat walk like?
Any true conservative would be made sick by any of the mainstream “republican party” candidates and officials going back for a good while now.
Mike
You mean the Libertarians who say they don’t want the government involved in anything, except they want it intrusively involved in enforcing their ideas of morality?
Who like Gary Johnson, who is pro choice, pro gay-marriage, and pro drug legalization and taxation, and fiscally very conservative? Doesn’t sound too intrusive to me. He’ll be on the ballot too.
God forbid we break party lines in this country. We must continue to vote for the Democrat Obama who continued 2 wars, took military action in another country, re-signed the Patriot Act (which I know democrats hated under Bush, but don’t care about under Obama) and the NDAA and continues to spend money like it’s water.
Alternatively, we have Romney, who’s healthcare system was the foundation for Obama’s, who signed countless gun laws while in Massachusetts, who is pro-life but makes exceptions (which doesn’t even make sense), and supports the NDAA.
People have a choice to try to make things better, but they won’t, because its not the cool thing to do. Hopefully people can wake up before it is too late.
Mike
Mike – while I may not agree with them, I have no problem with Libertarians who are Libertarian on all fronts. What I object to are those who claim to be Libertarian (such as Ron Paul, among many others) but want the government intruding in abortion and other areas. Ayn Rand would be rolling in her grave.
In order to have viable 3rd party candidates, these parties need to start locally. Run someone for state legislature. Once you have some people successfully getting elected to local government under the new party label and having a track record, have some of them running for Congress. Right now, when people vote for 3rd party presidential candidates, they’re throwing away their votes. In order to change that, show that the 3rd party candidates are electable.
Just a bit of perspective on third party presidential candidates. Teddy Roosevelt, perhaps the greatest president in American history, and a national icon forever preserved on Mt. Rushmore, lost his bid for the presidency as a third party candidate. So I would put Gary Johnson’s odds of election at somewhere less than zero.
Libertarians [as the party is currently constructed] have a lot in common with Republican standard bearer, Mitt Romney, who believes “corporations are people too.” The Libertarian Party would be a lot more appealing if they could distinguish between individual liberties and allowing corporations to enjoy the same rights. The day they do that, I’ll consider voting for a Libertarian.
Gary Johnson was a two term Governor in New Mexico. I do not agree that voting for a 3rd party candidate is throwing your vote away. I know that Johnson will not be elected, but I also know that Romney is the same exact thing as Obama, and I’d rather see Romney lose, and the republican party look to more truly conservative candidates as taking their votes, and hopefully change some of their party lines.
With regard to Libertarians and abortion specifically, Some people, even the non-religious, view the point of conception as the start of a life, or are of the belief that it is impossible to determine when a life begins so would prefer to err on the side of caution when determining at what point someone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (understandable as Ron Paul is an OBGYN). These people are equating a fetus to a human life and are considering that “unborn baby’s” rights alongside that of the mother, and aren’t always necessarily just trying to control women’s lives. I can’t fault someone for that, though I do not necessarily share those beliefs (I do believe abortion to should be time limited, and I view late term abortion as nothing short of murder and find it unfortunate that those involved are not charged for such).
Mike