Comments on FreeColorado.com: How Obama Lost Another Vote

Mitch, you're missing the point. My comments about...

2008-07-25T16:44:00.000-06:00

Mitch, you're missing the point. My comments about John Galt were published in a Colorado newspaper -- Grand Junction's Free Press, in the article reproduced above. Then I reproduced the article on my web page. I have made it a point of discussion. This has nothing to do with "upsetting" McCain; I switched my vote from Obama to neither. Is this going to become a front-cover story for The Denver Post? Obviously not. Is this idea going to sweep the world? No. Do I expect many people to write in John Galt? No. But if even a few people pick up Atlas Shrugged because they want to better-understand what's going on in the world around us, then I've accomplished my goal.

> Obviously, writing in a candidate is the same a...

2008-07-25T16:11:00.000-06:00

> Obviously, writing in a candidate is the same as voting
> for "none of the above." The point of my mentioning John
> Galt is not that his name will be counted, but that it
> makes for a useful symbol of the conundrum of this
> election.

I understand, however, I would submit it’s only a useful symbol if it’s reported by the Board of Elections to the media, and given that an “upset” by McCain, or a coronation of His Holiness, will be the front page story for days and weeks to come, a novelty story about a vote for John Galt is unlikely to see anything in the denver Post, or anywhere else.

> This election is about a lot more than the presidential
> race. Colorado faces important votes for Senate, the
> House, state-level offices, and ballot measures.

I face the same issues in AZ. Referenda, a constitutional amendment, local races, are important.

> I wouldn't be so quick to suggest that Rand would vote
> for either candidate this year. Clearly she would have
> trouble voting for either man; whether she would vote
> against one as the worse evil is beyond me.

Perhpas you’re right. Perhaps she would counsel you to go to the Gulch. After all, it "is" in Colorado.

:)

Obviously, writing in a candidate is the same as v...

2008-07-25T13:25:00.000-06:00

Obviously, writing in a candidate is the same as voting for "none of the above." The point of my mentioning John Galt is not that his name will be counted, but that it makes for a useful symbol of the conundrum of this election.

This election is about a lot more than the presidential race. Colorado faces important votes for Senate, the House, state-level offices, and ballot measures.

I wouldn't be so quick to suggest that Rand would vote for either candidate this year. Clearly she would have trouble voting for either man; whether she would vote against one as the worse evil is beyond me.

Voting for John Galt may satisfy your Objectivist ...

2008-07-25T12:20:00.000-06:00

Voting for John Galt may satisfy your Objectivist belief system, but, in the scheme of things, does nothing. For starters, write-in votes are never counted by any State Boards of Elections. You do not vote for the person - you vote for electors. No electors, no votes. Secondly, politics, contrary to the fantasies of The Lightworker's acolytes, is not about creating the ideal society. It is about "the possible".

One of these men is going to be the president, and while I agree both represent evil philosophies, voters are unfortunately in the position of having to choose the lesser of evils.

So, the questions is - who will limit the State's intrusion into your life? As an Arizonan, I reluctantly suggest it will be McCain, but I do believe this to be true.

A Federal government under the control of Pelosi (D-Beijing), Reid (D-Havana), and His Holiness, The One (PBUH) is a far more dangerous state of affairs than divided government.

Voting for Galt is pure mental masturbation. Rand would not approve. You might as well stay home, and not vote.

I have been following many of your blog posts with...

2008-07-24T11:52:00.000-06:00

I have been following many of your blog posts with interest. I have heard a national radio pundit say that the intermountian west "gets it. " I think that this column is one reason why he had that impression.

I have re-read Atlas Shrugged this summer, and it is far more frightening now than when I read it in the "80's. I don't know who I am voting for, but I do know that I will not break my record of never having voted for a major-party candidate in my life.

You are right. The policies promoted on both sides are profoundly evil. Evil is destructive. It may not mean much, but I do not wish to vote for destructive ends.