CHQ Presidential Straw Poll: Week 16

I cannot cast a vote in this poll. Come Super Tuesday I will vote for Michele Bachmann because it is the best principled choice I have. To do any different is to violate my conscience and become my own enemy. I cannot help it that Iowa jumped the shark and made a historically pathetic calculation driven by the centers of power behind the scenes. I have seen Rome in my day and I see Greece in my future, why should circuses and chariot races be of any concern to me?

Some might read this as a protest vote, not at all. It is an actual vote for the best candidate. I do not make a habit of moistening my fingertip to ascertain the direction of the current political malestroms of the day so that I may bet on who I guess will cross the finish line. That is not voting. That is betting. I am not a betting man. I am a voter.

That said, Rick Santorum is by far the preferred candidate of the four active campaigns. That citizens, who consider themselves conservative, do not recognize this simple fact is a sure sign of the futility we face as a nation. The Presidential race is lost to the influence of operatives of the dense gravity of power in both parties and the third rail of government. Corruption has had it's day and nothing short of a brokered convention will give pause to this mad dash in the wrong direction. Even this possibility will be met with the same dull minds that have so far failed to consider the enormity of our situation. I can only hope that my vote for Michele in that scenerio accounts for some small measure of reason being absorbed into the process.

Why not vote for Santorum you may ask. If he receives the nomination, I plan to. However, to expect that a political animal like Rick to suddenly adopt the Stoic attitude that he so far has not chosen in milder days, are the wistful hopes of a knave. The next President will step into a political warzone such as has not been seen in our lifetimes. The enormous pressures to conform to concillatory half-measures and meaningless rhetoric in lieu of substantial, hard fought, concrete dosages of tough love and bitter medicine will be greater than any he has to date possessed and not succumbed to. Truth be known, I feel sorry for the poor soul who gets this job. Although he is the best that this line-up has to offer, nothing of substance will change. The best measure of his Presidency will be what progressive advances he did not allow. We have played that game for far too long.

Yes I could have chosen "None of the Above" but that option will not be appearing on the ballot on election day. I loathe voting against a bad actor when instead I have the real choice to vote for a quality leader. Does this rant make me feel any better? Not really, because I know that it won't change a thing until enough people have gotten their bellies full and until the Tea Party has steeped long enough in the misery of their own making. That day has not yet come, nor does it seem as if it ever will.

If enough state attorneys general have the guts to investigate Obama's ineligibility to serve as POTUS, he will not be on those state ballots. The ripple effect would be devastating to his chances for re-election.

I think by far the biggest reason that people want to defeat Obama is to replace him with someone that understands the governments role in American. We want someone that will represent the people and stop spending money that we as a nation don't have. Stop increasing the taxation on the people of this nation. Get out of our pockets and learn not only to live within your means, but within ours as well since we are out of our own money too. While they're at it, they need to learn their place in this system and who they work for. I think the American people will vote for who they want this time (rather than the least objectionable that suposedly can win). Unfortunately, that may mean 4 more years of this clown if they don't give us a real conservative to elect. Most of us are thinking it just changes the speed not the direction we're headed and we'd rather just get it over with. Unlike the current administration that apparently doesn't mind failure, we'd like to have something worth saving and that doesn't seem like a real possibilty with 4 more liberal years and the entitlements they will have put in place.