patentattorney wrote:
So if your thought was trump wasnt really a conservative, just one in disguise. Sure. I can see that. That is kinda a crazy thought to me, but I can at least see that. Still crazy to me that would be a reason for a hardliner to not vote previously.Thanks for the discussion. I appreciate why it would seem crazy to you. I contemplated a 3rd party vote but in the end couldn't line up with that either.
It was very difficult to sit out. Hopefully I have conveyed the degree of difficulty both on that day and every day since.
It is why I can say with a great deal of certainty that while I'm still not sure what exactly I will do on election day, I can say for certain I will not sit on the sidelines again.
Edit: perhaps I missed part of your point. If by previously you mean in the primaries, I did vote. I live in WI. By the time it got here it was Ted Cruz vs. Trump. I voted for Cruz and he carried WI. Even by then it was too late.
That said, Cruz was very very far down my list of the 20+ originals who started. So again, put into historical context, I was already pretty frustrated with the Rep party in general by the time the general came around. Despite all the deflection here, we still put Trump up. And in my case it was already down to the lesser of two bad R's by the time things rolled around here.
Add on a "protest" vote going to Hillary. I chose to sit out. And I'm still struggling with that choice.