OT - Gas to hit 4.00 - Vote for Ron Paul - dropping out?

[Von Fugal]

<quote name="Steven Alligood" date="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 at 14:18 -0600">
>
>> On Wed, June 18, 2008 1:44 pm, Von Fugal wrote:
>>   
>>> And guess what, it starts with YOU and ME. You CANNOT wait
>>> till everybody else does the right thing, you just have to Do It.
>>>     
> Unless, of course, your voting of your ideals results in them being  
> taken away.
>
> The system is not perfect.  The system has issues.  The system should be  
> better.
>
> But it's not.
>
> The only way to fix the current system is from within.  If you vote for  
> someone who has no chance of winning, you are doing nothing to make this  
> a better country; you're just complaining, but unwilling to help.
>
> If you vote for someone who has no chance of winning, you have no right  
> to complain about the winner, because you did not take the opportunity  
> given you to effect the outcome.
>
>
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do  
> nothing.  Voting for someone that you KNOW cannot win is doing  
> absolutely nothing about where this country is going.

I whole heartedly dissagree.

Von Fugal
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