I'm Not Voting

I have heard that sort of rhetoric several times this cycle, from what I consider otherwise very intelligent people.  That would be several times too many.  In what may be my shortest Op/Ed article ever, I have this to say.

Not voting IS VOTING!  If you squirm every time you see something from this administration that defies logic; if you gag when you hear them pandering to an enemy; if you recognize that the make-up of the current Supreme Court is in dire straits and will get much worse; and if you’re bothered by what’s going on, and you just can’t stand it anymore, but you just don’t really 'love’ Romney, because he wasn’t your first choice.  I get it!  Really, I do, I get it.

But here’s what I get more than anything else; NOT VOTING, MORE THAN EVER, IS THE EXACT SAME THING AS VOTING FOR OBAMA.  

For God’s sake, this administration has legions of dead people voting for it; please don’t make the mistake of not off-setting a dead person.  Bite your tongue, grit your teeth, eat some crow, hold your nose if you have to; but damn it all to hell, get out and vote for Mitt Romney!  Any other vote or non-vote is a vote for a second term of Barack Hussein Obama; one which we will never recover from.

Don’t even think that somehow voting your conscience and casting for Ron Paul or Gary Johnson is the ticket.  Neither of them can win, and both of them know that, and I might add, if they truly loved this country, would drop out of the race and support Romney.  Simply put, our nation cannot afford anything less than a Romney victory.  

Think long and hard America, the future of our nation depends on you.