XPost: talk.politics.drugs   
   From: nathan_engle@yahoo.com   
      
   Eric Johnson wrote:   
   > Brother Nate wrote:   
   > > There are at least 2 ways to flush a vote down the toilet.   
   > > The first is to throw it away voting for some shmoe who's   
   > > never going to win.  The second is to cast it for someone   
   > > who just isn't going to enact the policies you want no   
   > > matter what.   
      
   > This assumes I am a I issue candidate, which I am definitely not.   
      
   You aren't a candidate at all.   
      
   > Neither   
   > side represents my views on drugs, so how is voting for a candidate who   
   > agrees with me on 200 other political issues which are important but   
   > disagrees about drugs throwing a vote away?   
      
   You get the policies that the people you elect make no secret   
   that they're going to enact.   
      
   > Do you find candidates who agree with you on every issue under the sun on   
   > your ballot?   
      
   In some cases I see very close matches.  I really like Evan   
   Bayh and Richard Lugar, and I've never regretted voting for   
   them.   
      
   > I don't. One has one's choices and one makes them.   
   >   
   > I voted for Bush in 2000. It has brought tax cuts and an end to the   
   > inheritance tax, two things which matter in the lives of my family and I a   
   > hell of a lot more than drug prohibition.   
      
   With the long-term no-interest loan Mr Bush has given you   
   at the expense of tomorrow's taxpayers I bet you can buy a   
   lot of pot at your local Netherlands coffee shop, but I'm   
   still not sure I'd call it a wise fiscal policy.   
      
   Any politician who overspends the public coffers the way   
   Mr Bush has ought to be able to buy a lot of votes.   
      
   --   
   Brother Nate               Electron Juggler   
   nathan_engle@yahoo.com     http://mypage.iu.edu/~nengle   
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