I just came back from voting in the primary.  All week, I've been reflecting on a conversation I had a couple years ago during the New Jersey gubenatorial primary.  That conversation was had with a trustee of a large organization who is (supposedly) of like mind regarding our 2nd Amendment.

Back then, I was supporting Steve Lonegan for governor.  The "advice" we all got was that we needed to get behind Doug Forrester in the primary, because Steve Lonegan just "wasn't electible", despite his steadfast principles.  Jon Corzine had to be stopped at all costs, we were told.  Everything old is new again, I suppose, because that's the same old sob story we've been hearing for weeks, now, regarding Hillary and Obama.

With little surprise, I woke on Wednesday November 9th of 2005 and called this guy (with a high degree of buyer's remorse having cast my ballot for Forrester) to tell him: "Well, as of last night, Lonegan was no less electible than Forrester."

Today, the odds on probability is that in one of the nation's most socialistic states, McCain is going to be the GOP's 'golden boy'.  We're told that we ought to vote for him, because "we need to vote for the lesser of two evils."

The problem with voting for the lesser of two evils is that you're guaranteed of getting an evil, and even more of the same in years to come, because you've rewarded those policies and positions by assent of your vote.  We sew the seeds of our demise by allowing constant incrementation against our First Principles of Liberty.

In 2005, we DID get the most of the evils, and lost an opportunity to send a message to the GOP .

Today, I voted my conscience.  I voted for Ron Paul.  Because I'm tired of these half-baked, wishy-washy wanna-be "conservatives".

Never again will I be persuaded to vote for an evil of any stripe, "lesser" or otherwise.  I have no desire to wind up with the 'best' of the worst.