Quote Originally Posted by alanmolstad View Post
a moot point.






Here is something to think about Julie.

We tend to judge our actions by only the "intention" we had.
We tend to judge the actions of others with no regard for their intentions.

Even if the results are the very same final "action".


So the result/action of not voting (and allowing Obama 4 more years) is seen in ourselves as "taking a stand", because we overlook the damage our actions may cause others because we only look at our "intentions"

We pat ourselves on the back because we believe our intentions are so good that they outweigh the harm we cause.

Perhaps we even believe that God supports our stand.


Then we hear that another person is also not going to vote (thus helping to allow Obama 4 more years) and we act all belligerent to them.

We call their intentions "bigotry"

And we don't believe in a million years that God supports their actions.

We are blind...
Not voting for someone because they are dishonest and corrupt (as Newt---it is a proven fact) and then not voting for someone because of an old stand on social issues--well, they are not the same. Try as you like, it is not the same. How would putting someone in who has no ethics improve the situation? Now compare that to not voting for someone because of their old stance on something---one is bigotry, the other is not.

All I can see is that you distrust Mitt, not on anything he has done as a politician but what you perceive him to be---that is bigotry.

My distrust of Newt is on something he has done as a politician. I am just glad that the rest of the GOP see it the same way I do. I just couldn't believe it when SC supported him. I thought---if this is the GOP, then they do not represent decency.

Our reasons our different. Mine are on concrete evidence, yours is on nothing more than an old stance. That is a huge difference.