If electing the leader of the largest nation in the free world is not about conscience, what is?
Unfortunately it's about ignorance! Voting the lesser is exactly the reason we have reached this state of decline in this once proud Republic. I guess it's inevitable! At least that's what history has taught us. It's obvious our view is the minority view on this forum, and in the country as well.
No wonder we get a president like Obama or McCain. The next one will be no different.
Why don't you move to a Socialist country, then, and get it over with? Your line of "reason" is what got Clinton elected via Perot.
Let me analog it for you; let's say you haven't eaten anything for 10 days, and somebody puts a medium-rare Porterhouse on a plate in front of you. (Hopefully, you're not vegan.)
There's no knife or fork.
Do you eat it with your hands, or do you get up and walk away starving so as not to exhibit poor manners?
We're not voting to elect an ideal candidate, here, folks...we're voting to keep the wrong ones from ruining America.