Chris Matthews' Election Day lecture on the American political system perhaps lacked something in eloquence, but it possessed the merit of simple truth:
If you don’t vote you’re an idiot.... The haters all voted, they always vote.... And if you vote for one of these numbskull third or fourth party candidates like Gary Johnson or Jill Stein and say, oh I was so surprised at what happened — no you shouldn’t be, because idiots like you ... don’t know how the system works. You have two choices.
Nevertheless I would encourage libertarian idiots not to waste a vote on Mitt Romney. Johnson's your man.
Matthews is being blunt...but he's right. I've found that when one reads the comments of those who proclaim that they're voting third party...one finds a rather snobbish attitude, a "look at me! I'm so pure, so much better than you sheeple! I'm not part of the corrupt two-party system that's (fill in the blank)!"
They then bray how much they know about the "system" and how corrupt and weak it is. Of course, the reality is that they know jack sh*t. One need only look at 1968, 1980, 2000, and 2010 to realize that.
Posted by: Marc McKenzie | November 06, 2012 at 04:21 PM
Any libertarian who could have sat through the GOP primaries and then listened to the Akins and Mourdocks of the world, and still think the GOP is more closely aligned with their ideals than the Democrats, is a) no libertarian at all; and/or b) a fucking idiot. The only libertarian ideal the GOP still stands for is freedom to have a lower tax rate and to live in a shittier country as a result.
Posted by: Turgidson | November 06, 2012 at 05:18 PM
Bless Andrew Hornings Libertarian heart. He may have killed Mourdock.
Posted by: Peter G | November 06, 2012 at 06:34 PM