Before You Vote Third Party: The 2004 Factor

by Angel Shamaya
Director, KeepAndBearArms.com

For gun owners voting third party in Tuesday's presidential election, I have a question for you:  Are you really willing to let the product of your conscience-vote be AL GORE?

I've never voted anything but Libertarian in my entire life.  Ever.  

Not in a Presidential race.

When it came to PURE Constitutionalism, Republican candidates seemed like candy-coated government clones with oatmeal spines.

Oh, Republicans have talked a good talk, and have certainly been better than the Liberal Slime that oozed onto my television screen all preened and prissy, churning butter for my vote, producing unnatural amounts of stomach acids for me to heal. 

But I haven't seen a Patrick Henry come along as a final contender in the Republican Presidential race in my entire short life. They were too bought, no matter how sweet their talk or sugary some portions of their ideals. Anyone who believes differently is in serious need of revisiting votes and policies of the Republican Presidential candidates from the last 12 years and overlaying them with the Constitution.

Don't get me wrong. Compared to Demoncrats, they've looked like Thomas Jefferson, every time, no exceptions.

But they've still been a far cry short of Pure Republican (as in, Republic of America) individuals.  They just go a little slower while strapping my freedom to the whipping post, telling me things like, "this is the best we could do" while collecting fat checks from my blood, sweat and tears -- living in high cotton picked by slaves they help subdue.

So I voted my conscience.  I voted for the guy who spoke my language.  I voted for the best candidate for the job.  I voted Libertarian.

And helped put Bill Clinton in my White House.  Twice.

Been congratulating myself on that one for 8 years.

Boy, I sure showed them.

I keep hearing people say we gun owners and liberty-minded folks should vote third party.  To send a message to the Republicrats.  To vote the right way.  To put our votes where our hearts lie.

Uh huh.

Sure thing.

I want Algore in my White House for four long years.  Gang rape in prison sounds like a great Sunday adventure, too.

The only message the Republicrats who don't care about your freedom or your Constitution -- or marginally care but place it beneath the public opinion of morons -- are ever going to understand is a bullet through their heads.  Or a knife stuck in their hearts.  Or a rally that defeats them in the ballot box.

Those are the only choices. Forget the jury boxes fixing things in the next four or eight years. While they can certainly help, a high percentage of the judges are rotten lawyers on steroids, and there are too many profoundly unconcerned and apathetic people being put on juries to ever think the jury box is a realistic long-term or even short-term but widespread strategy. The two remaining options for restoring the Republic are: voting box or cartridge box.

Call me an idealist...I still think we can do this thing without bloodshed.  Or at least slow the ride to Party Time so we can collect ourselves, get better organized, get better trained.

If you're going to be a "conscientious" voter, and go third party, then start feeling good about putting GORE in charge of your military while you send the Republicrats a message that you are willing to hand the Darkest Enemy everything he wants to show a dramatically lesser enemy that you're "right."  Under the grave circumstances we face from the Demoncrats and the millionaire gun controllers, that is like being in a war zone and handing yourself over to a guy who will torture and kill you because you disagree with a guy who would simply fine you and send you on your way.

But before you vote for Gore -- and let's do be honest, a vote for Browne in a swing state is a vote for Gore, no matter how "reasonable" your "reason" may be -- I ask you to ponder the rest of this brief message knowing I was raised and am and always will be, philosophically, just the safe side of anarchistic:

Republican Worshippers need one more Republican President to prove once and for all that A Third Party is our last resort if we're going to restore the Republic through civil means. Even then that is a very big IF, but it's a slow-down mechanism we need right now.

Most lifelong Republicans need to be shown that Bush is not the best man for the job. Yes, he's a far cry better than GORE, for God's sake.  Anyone with a brain and even a rudimentary understanding of the principles upon which our country was built knows that.

Yes, he's a trickler. A little gun control here, a little gun control there.

But he's a guaranteed stay of execution.

It's only been eight years since a Republican lied through his teeth to us -- and since he signed a horrible piece of anti-gun legislation against every gun owner and every free American alive.  But people forget quickly.  And having Bill Clinton in office for eight long, tiresome, excruciating years makes anybody look good.

So the vast majority of people and certainly all of the diehard Republicans are voting for Bush or Gore, period. That is called "This Election Reality."

One of those two fellas is going to your White House. Anyone who actually believes a third party will go to the oval office after this election is delusional.

Bush or Gore will be your next President. Choose.

Choose based on the most fundamental rights that establish and then preserve a free society: guns.

Do you want it to be Bush, who signed the concealed carry law in Texas and stopped a host of lawsuits against gun manufacturers from taking place in his state -- to the extent his power would allow?  

Or do you want it to be GORE, who said in plain English that only the police and military and government officials and their bodyguards should be allowed to carry a gun for self-defense?

This isn't rocket science.  Those are the only contenders who have a chance in this election.

A trickle beats a flood.

My greatest concern over this election fiasco is that GORE will win.  But not because I'm afraid of what the little Liberty Maggot will do.  I know what he would do, and surely you do too, or you wouldn't be reading this message on this website.

I'm afraid that if GORE wins, all of the people who would have gotten shafted, eventually, by semi-Constitutionalist George W. Bush will bleat incessantly in 2004 that "we need a Republican in the White House."

Meaning there won't be a third party commanding our military and signing Executive Orders until, at least, 2008.

If you don't put Bush in there this time, not only will you not have a third party President in 2000, you won't have one in there in 2004 and the fight to get a third party president into the White House in 2004 gets pushed back, at least, to 2008. And if we miss in 2008, who the hell knows if we will still have our .22's in "legal" possession by then?

If it gets to a point where only .22's are legal, I'll be dead anyway, having taken as many as humanly possible with me, so it won't matter to me personally, but I'd like to leave this nation closer to freedom, wouldn't you?

It is unlikely that any Republicrat is ever going to restore the Republic.  A government of limited powers is not what flows from the Republican outhouse.  The best we can hope for is that they will stay our execution.