Any Liberal candidate is better than any Conservative candidate.

[tekisui]

Poll question: Any Liberal candidate is better than any Conservative candidate.

Regardless of Party label.

[Unvanguard]

1. Not if the liberal is a third party candidate.

Because the only ultimate effect of his or her candidacy will be a shift to the right.

[Lerkfish]

4. proof? or are you just talking out of your ass?

cite examples, please.

[Unvanguard]

7. Nader is the obvious one.

But all it really requires to see is an understanding of first-past-the-post electoral systems unclouded by ideological bias.

[rantormusing]

20. If the election were tomorrow,

I'd easily vote Nader over Obama, or Cynthia Mckinny, or any green party independent candidate.

[warm regards]

23. McKinny...? Your avatar belies your comment.

[DevonRex]

6. Exactly. nt

[salguine]

11. A Democratic candidate isn't necessarily a liberal candidate. Or, more to the point, a

liberal candidate isn't necessarily a liberal President.

[Unvanguard]

14. What matters is that the D candidate is the MORE liberal candidate. n/t

[salguine]

19. That just made me blow my tea out of my nose. Are you joking?

[Unvanguard]

22. More liberal than the Republican, I mean.

More liberal than the only viable alternative.

The choice is not between good, okay, and terrible; it is just between okay and terrible, or bad and terrible as the case may sometimes be.

[zipplewrath]

2. Define "better"

Preferable? Yes
Strategically? Maybe not

[styersc]

3. True dat!!!!!!

I well read and articulate liberal cleans the clock of a conservative every time. May lose the election but is always on the right side of the argument and then eventually the populous will come around.

[DevonRex]

5. If your so-called "liberal" is a third party and your so-called "conservative"

is a Dem, then absolutely NOT. And THIS website supports Dem candidates in EVERY instance against EVERY challenger from ANY other political party.

[tekisui]

8. I think you have a wonky caps lock.

OR An over-ACTIVE left pinky FINGER. YOU should get THAT checked OUT.

[DevonRex]

9. Since I used caps on a few words? What a silly reply.

:rofl:

[tekisui]

10. I'm in a silly mood.

:silly:

[jesus_of_suburbia]

13. ....

:spray:

[spoony]

18. To be clear, then, you will support a conservative over a liberal.

Not that it surprises anyone.

[DevonRex]

21. To be clear, I will NEVER vote for a third party candidate when a Dem is on the ballot.

To many third party people, Democrats ARE conservatives. So there's a definition problem in this OP.

[nyc 4 Biden]

12. Liberal > Conservative. That was...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. True.

And my voting has reflected that in local and State elections.

[freddie mertz]

16. Another idiotic question. nt.

[tekisui]

17. I agree completely.

[OnionPatch]

24. Ok, but there really is no such thing as a liberal Republican.

Show me a liberal Republican and I'll show you a vegetarian lion. I'll even vote for him/her.