[Vision2020] Third party support

[Donovan Arnold]

Tim,

I have to mostly agree with Joan. While I don't think Kerry represents me, 
he is the only real alternative to Bush. I want Bush gone. He is destroying 
this country militarily, economically, diplomatically, and constitutionally.

He is far worse than his father or Reagan. The only way to remove Bush is to 
vote for the Democratic Nominee. That nominee happens to be Kerry. 
Therefore, I am voting for Kerry.

Radical movements do not start at the top with the Presidency. They start on 
the local level with local officials and offices.

There are plenty of radical candidates out there. However, people are not 
comfortable with radical people being the chief executive officer of the 
country and in charge of the world's largest military.

They want someone, not like us, as you suggest, but someone smarter than us, 
someone well educated and well experienced in handling crisis situations and 
managing complex issues.

The chance to vote for candidates that represent more radical views is over. 
It was called the primaries. I was for Clark, and then Kucinich. They lost, 
so now I must choose between Kerry and Bush. I gladly choose Kerry.

Voting for someone other than Kerry or Bush in this election is choosing to 
forfeit your vote and helping the candidate that least fits your views.

Anyone can run in the Republican or Democratic Primaries. It is open to all. 
Nobody is being shut out other then most people don't have enough money to 
run a nation-wide campaign.  This is how we narrow the election down to two 
final contestants.

I suggest you decide to vote for Kerry or Bush. To not do so is to say that 
you are unwilling to compromise with 300 million other Americans and you 
will only have it exactly your way. Nonetheless, it is your right to vote 
for someone you least want in office.

In terms of Idaho going Republican, I would say that this is most likely 
true for 2004. But it was not in Idaho's recent past and most likely will 
not be true in the near future. The Idaho Republican Party is attacking and 
trying to eliminate its’ own moderate members while the residents of Idaho 
are moving to the center and left. Not to mention the Republicans are not 
doing a bang up job with running the state at the moment in case you didn’t 
notice.

As a Political Scientist I can tell you that the only thing stable about 
politics is that politics is anything but stable.

Sincerely,

Donovan J Arnold

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