Rand Paul and Rick Santorum drop out of the Republican primary

 Well, the candidates are starting to drop like flies in the Republican primary field after the Iowa caucuses. First Mike Huckabee dropped out and today Rand Paul and Rick Santorum joined him as members of the also-ran. 

  Regular readers of America’s Watchtower know that I am a Rand Paul supporter so this news is disheartening to me although not surprising, however I did think that candidates would wait until after the New Hampshire results before making a decision to leave the race.

  So where does this leave me at this late date as I prepare to vote in the New Hampshire primary?

  The New Hampshire primary ballots have already been printed and distributed so Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee are still on the ballot despite their recent decisions. With Donald Trump holding a double-digit lead in the Granite State I see no harm at this point in not changing my vote. (Believe it or not there are actually 30 candidates on the New Hampshire Republican primary ballot!)

  I cannot and will not vote for a lifetime liberal Democrat in Donald Trump, my vote for Ted Cruz will not change the outcome, and I certainly will not jump on the Marco Rubio bandwagon so I still intend to vote for the man whom I believe is the only one who truly understands the Constitution. I do not think it is a wasted vote to cast a vote which will not change anything considering I was voting for a candidate who was not going anywhere in the first place. Does that make sense?

  It does to me and this is why: I refuse to accept the mainstream media’s narrative that any vote which is cast for someone who is not a front-runner is a wasted vote. The mainstream media determines who the front-runners are through biased coverage and polls which are designed to influence our votes and then claim if we do not go along with their narrative we are wasting our vote. They set the narrative and expect us to follow along (and in most cases we do) and I refuse to do so any longer.

   I believe the only wasted vote is a vote cast against our conscience based on what the mainstream media claims is electability. We justify voting against our conscience by convincing ourselves that we must vote for the most electable candidate while forgetting the mainstream media is telling us who the most electable candidate is in the first place. I have had enough of this! The lesser of two evils is still evil…

  What bothers me the most about this whole election cycle is the fact that the one candidate who believes in the Constitution was not able to gain a foothold in the election, he never had a chance, and I think it shows us we are living in a post-constitutional country whether we know it, or are willing to admit it, or not.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium