Monday, October 29, 2012

Green Party Candidate Jill Stein

Green Party Candidate Jill Stein:

         If you cannot stomach voting for either smarmy Mitt Romney or the lackluster incumbent Barack Obama, there are some viable third party candidates to choose from. Unfortunately, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and other third party hopefuls were shut out of the Presidential debated process, were given short-shrift by the mainstream media, and were and are greeted by indifference by the average potential voter.  Jill Stein and her veep candidate Cheri Hadaka (?) advocate a Living Wage instead of a Minimum Wage, the support full employment via  "Green Jobs", they support legalization of marijuana, a Universal Health Care system, a fairer tax system, a great reduction of military spending, and much, much more ( info came from JillStein.org). I checked out her web site at  JillStein.org, and I was quite impressed. I would endorse her candidacy and even vote for her except for one thing. If you vote for Jill Stein or another third party candidate as an alternative to the GOP or Dem choice or as a protest vote, you might help Mitt Romney cruise to victory. That would be a disaster because he and paul Ryan's austerity policies will only make the rich even richer and everyone else even poorer. I don't completely like some of what Obama has done or failed to do, but he is definitely the lesser evil in this race. By the way, I know little or nothing about Stein's VP running mate or the Libertarian Party candidate who would probably be to the right of Romney.

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