I do vote. I vote Libertarian. And my complaints about the two-party system are reflected in my vote. It's much more meaningful than a vote for the lesser of two evils.

Vote veteran someone that puts America B4 any party, we come from all backgrounds. Divide and conquer is what they do. End double standard,DC politician on Obamacare,SS mrpresident2016.com

What I was saying...and I will make it clearer...was that if a better percentage of registered Republicans had voted in 2012, Romney would have won. This was particularly true in Ohio. Many Republicans did not vote because Romney was not conservative for them. So, they did not vote, and we got another 4 years of Obama. Correspondingly, I can already see that a large number of Republicans are not going to vote this November because Trump is not the perfect conservative in their eyes. And they will, in effect, hand the election over to Hillary Clinton.

You have the right to do what the hell you want. However, if you don't vote your complaints are very, very hollow. And you know that.

The people who gave us all another 4 years of Obama are the people who voted for Obama. Everyone else has every right to complain, including those who declined to vote for Romney. And we don't have some unchosen "obligation" to vote at all. Obligation to whom?

Are you trolling? Obama won because the Conservative party drove away too many good Republicans. Time for the conservatives, if they want to win, to return the Republican Party to being republican.

So I have no right to complain if I don't agree with your reasoning and decline to vote for your preferred candidate? My right to complain is not contingent upon whether or not my vote happens to please you.

"Don't complain" is idiomatic phrase, but your knew that. You have a right to complain, but you know that it is baseless if you don't vote. You not only have the right to vote. You have the obligation. You are probably one of those people who chose not to vote in 2012...which gave us all another 4 years of Obama.

In what country do you think you live in? When has a choice to vote for whomever you decide upon or not to have voted given you the unmitigated gall ( didn't want to use some really politically incorrect words there) to tell any US citizen that he has no right to complain. He has complained to start with by either not voting or voting for someone whom you decided was not to be voted for? I am tired of that non-American belief of yours.

Sadly, the producers in this country are soon to be able to be outvoted by the takers.

We also have a very large (and growing) backlash against the welfare class, which is partly the reason that Trump is the Republican nominee. Hillary will face a huge amount of opposition even if she is elected, and will likely face an uphill battle to implement much of her program.

The media is in the process of losing much of its credibility and influence among mainstream voters, thanks to its increasingly obvious bias. I think they'll be less of a factor to contend with, going forward.

Even if Hillary wins, I think the Republican establishment will fear the Trump voters within the party's ranks more than they will fear the media. Thanks to its overt bias in this election cycle, the mainstream media is already being publicly discredited and losing much of its influence, and not just among Trump supporters.

It looks like we will get stuck with one or the other.
I don't think a third-party candidate can win. So
which do we vote for: getting shot through the
head with a gun we KNOW to be fully loaded, or
Russian roulette?

I thought that was FDR.

Trump gets my vote. Down with hillary

In the era of low information voters a democracy assures that you will get the government you deserve. That is the ultimate curse.

Given the establishment Republican senators tendency to cave under a modest amount of pressure from the media, I seriously doubt that the cloture rule will be invoked once the media start screaming that the Republicans are out to destroy the judiciary. It's likely that two or more judges on the Supreme Court will pass on or retire during a Hillary presidency, and I'm skeptical that the Republicans will hold out once the number of justices drop to five or six.

Yessir.
Very succinct.

CBJ...You're quite welcome. Glad to be of help.

I think that the USA is on the downhill side of its progress. If Hillary gets in, the slide downward will speed up. If Trump is elected, the downward slide may be slowed, but it will continue. I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end.

Right now we are witnessing what happens when Congress allows a President to act as an authoritarian, ruling by executive order. The solution is simple: if the House refuses to fund the budget the President wants, they can stop Executive overreach. Unfortunately, as soon as the media bleats about "shutting down the government," the Republicans cave, giving the Democrat President what he wants. You don't think it won't work the same with Hillary?

Will the Republicans in the Senate invoke the cloture rule with the media beating them up about "destroying the SCOTUS" as more elderly justices retire or pass on? I doubt it, as their establishment fears the media more than they do the people.

Hillary wants to increase the numbers of immigrants, and move toward amnesty and citizenship for illegals. The President controls the Border Patrol, so expect Hillary to continue the policy of "catch and release" with border crossers. Are you ready for the growth of Sharia law communities? How about the establishment of a trilingual society, with Spanish and Arabic speech and labels given the same priority as English?

I have mixed emotions about trump the man. He has accomplished much in his life, from his profession to his family he has done more than the average person. Much more. He is, however, what we ancients would a show-off. He likes the spotlight and uses it well. His stream of consciousness rants are hard to overcome. He won the nomination fair and square which is certainly more than you can say about his opponent. And, FFA, you know that a Hillary administration will be a disaster of epic proportions. Calling Trump irresponsible and a bully is over the top. I think he may be decisive and that doesn't make him a bully. His mouth often works without consulting his brain, sometimes. But of the other suiters for the nomination, he is nowhere near the bottom of the pack.

LOL......my favorite analogy is we have the choice of either "Nurse Ratchit" (One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)....or "Archie Bunker"....heard the Canadian housing market is on fire.....many desire to leave the country

I totally agree with you. Like most Republican candidates, he is receiving the typical bashing from the liberal media and the ruling class. The New York Times went on record saying to the media something like, "Take Trump out." You won't hear one word about what people who work with him and for him really think.