{"id":242,"date":"2016-04-12T00:14:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T00:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macyplace.com\/tom\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2016-04-12T00:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T00:14:17","slug":"vote-party-not-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/vote-party-not-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Party, Not Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">In a two party republic like ours, every #election is a vote for policy not for a person. In the last election, many Christians refused to vote for a Mormon so we got Obamacare, a liberal Supreme Court, turmoil in the Middle East, a faltering economy, terrorism on our doorsteps\u2026.If our last election was critical, this one is even more so; it will set the direction of our country for decades to come. And yet we have #Romney saying he cannot vote for #Trump. Other people in the #Republican leadership say the same thing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HoldNoseButVOTE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-244\" src=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HoldNoseButVOTE-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"HoldNoseButVOTE\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HoldNoseButVOTE-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HoldNoseButVOTE.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 85vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Some folks don&#8217;t like Cruz. Others hate Trump. Still others don&#8217;t want to vote for an establishment candidate like Kasich. There&#8217;s all kinds of reasons NOT to vote. BUT to hold your nose and turn away from the voting booth is to give the other party\u2019s policies a foothold. No matter how bad you think a candidate is, a citizen in a Republic like ours should vote; hold your nose if you must, but vote!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Power to the People! Vote Republican!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a two party republic like ours, every #election is a vote for policy not for a person. In the last election, many Christians refused to vote for a Mormon so we got Obamacare, a liberal Supreme Court, turmoil in the Middle East, a faltering economy, terrorism on our doorsteps\u2026.If our last election was critical, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/vote-party-not-person\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vote Party, Not Person&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,85,108],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}