Help me out here. I really don't get it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

If this topic needs to be moved, I will let the moderators decide.

My observation is this:

"voting their conscience"

Is it only acceptable to do this if your candidate is the one everyone else thinks is politically correct?

It seems to me that the same people who are saying to vote your conscience and vote for ________
are the same people who "knock" people for voting for Nader.
I didn't vote for Nader, but I really don't understand this mindset.

Maybe, I just need another drink.

[DarkTirade]

1. It's called a double standard.

And people do it all the time without realizing it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Yes.

Here have a drink on me :toast:

[DarkTirade]

3. Ooh, thanks. :)

:beer:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. I was beginning to think I was all alone

with my thoughts.

[DarkTirade]

9. Yeah, ish probly not good to drink alone. *hic*

Don't wanna shtart getting *buuuuuurp* maudlin. :P

[Breeze54]

4. To me, "voting their conscience" means

voting for the candidate, that you know in your heart, is the best choice.

The one that has YOUR best interests at heart.

To me; that's ___________

But that's for you to decide on your own. ;)

Cheers!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. Cheers

Have you noticed this over in GD? It is really disconcerting to me.

:toast:

[Breeze54]

12. No, I didn't but I'll go take a look/see.

;)

BRB

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. It is not any one thing said tonight as much as I have noticed it

over the course of a couple of months. It is like a vibe. I think it is more from one group than the others.

[Deja Q]

6. Like "conscientious objector", it's another phrase meaning "cynical coward".

:hide:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. the phrase "vote your conscience" is comparable to

"cyncial coward" and "conscientious objector" ....???

I am sorry. I don't follow your reasoning on this. Would you care to elaborate?

[Capn Sunshine]

15. Up yours, pal. And I mean that with love

It's not your fault; you're both young AND Canadian.
I guess in Canuckistan the media only mentions the heroes of war who conform to the blood letting stereotype.

Review stories of guys like Sergeant York or Muhammad Ali. Any Quaker dating back to the Revolution. Quakers on both sides of the border were responsible for the Underground railroad. Seventh Day Adventists served as no combat medics and helped advance trauma medicine tenfold.They have hospitals, in case you ever wondered what the "Adventist" part of Hospital names were all about. These are all people who are declared C.O.s and yet heroic. Cowardice comes in all genres, but COs have to be pretty brave in the first place to step up.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. Thank you.

His comment made no sense to me.

[Whisp]

8. vote while unconscious. same difference.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. excuse me?

do you mean I am brain dead?

[Whisp]

13. not you specifically, just the general unconscious shit.

[Blue-Jay]

14. So, we shouldn't vote for the Democratic nominee?

Unless he/she is the person that we really really really wanted? Is that it?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. NO. That is not it.

Don't put words in my mouth.

[Blue-Jay]

17. Fuck it. I'm voting for Nader. You convinced me.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. ~

:rofl:

[lost-in-nj]

20. I like you

BUT
I can not answer a serious thread
on a Saturday night
after a few beers....

I will look again tomorrow...

:hi: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

lost

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. I so totally understand.

I really do.

cheers :toast:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. This is an example of what I am talking about

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3844466


No Reply necessary...I just don't get it. The tone of it all is so smug.