Michele Catalano writes on why she remains decided to vote for G-Dub:

We’ve all used the phrase “the lesser of two evils” and many of us have used it when pulling the lever in a voting booth. While the word evil may be hyperbole, the hell that having to make a choice puts us through is not.

[...] If I took into account every person in the United States when I went into the polling booth, if I took into mind the needs of every gender, race, religion and group with special needs, I would never come out. I’d stare at all the choices and never be able to make the right one for everyone. So, selfish as it may seem, I have to make the right choice for me and what I think is the right choice for the country.

[...] Pardon me if my priority is the safety, freedom and future of the children I brought into this world. If that’s voting selfishly, so be it. My choice is the one which I feel will give me the best chance that I won’t repeat the scene of standing outside on a beautiful fall day, watching the sky to the west turn a hundred shades of death.

Two snips between the beginning, middle, and end, do no justice to her entry. I am not yet able to vote but I will throw myself behind Michele’s reasoning and those who share it. I will throw myself behind those who share my view that there is no point to ensuring gay rights, fiscal responsibility, good government, a better educational system, a solid implementation of the bill of rights, creative and academic freedom, and so many other issues, if we’re all either dead or dhimmis.

So many of my ideological opposites don’t want to deal with the idea that the goal of terrorists is our downfall. Sometimes I wonder if enslavement under these freaks is even a goal for them. I think they want us dead. I think they know enough to know that we will never be beaten down, never be forced into a life that is totally opposite theirs, because as Americans we love our freedom.

There are those to the right of me who would argue that Bush is the wrong candidate for all the wrong reasons. The only question I would ask them is “who would you rather have President, then?” I usually receive no answer. Just as the art of the compromise is something worked on in the higher levels of government, it, too, is played in the hearts and minds of every voter who goes to the voting booth and makes a choice. I have faith that majority of the American voting population has that skill, because they too are deciding for that minority who has no voice: naturalizing immigrants, workers, and others who rely on the votes of others to ensure their well being.

Our safety is in your hands, dear friends.