{"id":602,"date":"2012-09-07T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=602"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:02:38","slug":"live-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/602","title":{"rendered":"Live free&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vote.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-601\" title=\"vote\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vote.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Your vote counts\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vote.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vote.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Good morning my fellow campers (happy or otherwise).\u00a0 Today I stumbled across a site called &#8220;<a href=\"www.isidewith.com\" target=\"_blank\">I Side With&#8230;<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 The site is ran by two folks with no party affiliation.\u00a0 They have a quiz that you can take and it helps match you to a political presidential candidate.\u00a0 I was rather surprised by my results; but too bad I&#8217;m not going to tell you what they were. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple of discussions with friends, and one of my friends always says to me, &#8220;Doc, why would you vote for a 3rd party guy when you know he&#8217;s not going to win?&#8221;\u00a0 I always counter with &#8220;Vote who you feel would do the best job of running the country, not the guy you think is going to win the election.&#8221;\u00a0 And my stance on this hasn&#8217;t changed, and I believe that if everyone voted this way, the 3rd party guy would stand a chance. I would like to see a &#8220;None of the above&#8221; on the ballots as a show of no confidence.<\/p>\n<p>My question for the masses, who are you going to vote for, and why?\u00a0 I have to admit, Gary Johnson kinda has my attention (he is a Ron Paul advocate); he did good things in New Mexico as governor.\u00a0 I like the essence of what his message is; &#8220;Be Libertarian with me for one election.&#8221; Could you imagine a Johnson\/Paul or a Paul\/Johnson ticket?\u00a0 That would be awesome.\u00a0 There are things I like and dislike about Johnson; but I think overall, I like more than I dislike, at least for now as I know it.<\/p>\n<p>The things I like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop the spending and &#8220;live&#8221; within means.<\/li>\n<li>End the wars; get out of Afghanistan and stop military interventions.<\/li>\n<li>Abide by the constitution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I don&#8217;t like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abolish the Fed<\/li>\n<li>43% reduction in Military spending<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What say you?\u00a0 Do you like what he has to say? I&#8217;m not a Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative or [insert label here].\u00a0 I am an independent voter, and I think; therefore I&#8217;m dangerous to the two party system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning my fellow campers (happy or otherwise).\u00a0 Today I stumbled across a site called &#8220;I Side With&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 The site is ran by two folks with no party affiliation.\u00a0 They have a quiz that you can take and it helps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/602\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[50,80],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-america","tag-duty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1136,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1136","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":0},"title":"My way or the highway pal!","author":"DR D","date":"October 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, as the US Government shutdown continues; we need to pause and reflect. 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