The Only Proper Way to Vote (Hint: For the Party, Not the Person)

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The Only Proper Way to Vote (Hint: For the Party, Not the Person)

“I vote for the person, not the party,” people will proudly say ...

Selwyn Duke | July 13, 2026

“I vote for the person, not the party,” people will proudly say. This is considered the enlightened position, taken by “free thinking” Americans unconstrained by partisan politics. Why, they’re fair-minded: They judge every politician as an individual.

Here’s what no one says:

In general elections, this is often what demagogues want you to do.

In practice, though, voting for “the person” may just mean being distracted by personality — like a woman falling for a serial killer’s charms. More on that later.

As for my charms, I won’t seem to have any if I “tell you how to vote.” So I’ll just explain how I vote and why (and why you should vote that way, too!).

When people ask me how I could support _______ (fill in anyone you consider controversial), my answer is always the same:

Politics, famed German leader Otto von Bismarck noted, is “the art of the possible.” It’s not the art of “You get whatever you want, 100 percent, right now, no questions asked” — but of the possible. The late President Ronald Reagan, never accused of lacking conviction, understood this well.

“I have always figured that half a loaf is better than none,” he famously said, “and I know that in the democratic process, you’re not always going to get what you want.”

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/the-only-proper-way-to-vote-hint-for-the-party-not-the-person/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Nope.

If I have a choice between a Liberal Democratic or a Liberal Republican, I'm voting for the Liberal Democrat to b1tchsl@p the GOP for abandoning conservative principles, such as limited Government.

I'm not electing a member of the Uniparty that happens to label himself as a Republican to fool the electorate.

I didn't vote for flip-flopping McCain nor Romney.  McCain flip-flopped on illegal immigration.  Romney was running against his own Universal Healthcare - Massachusetts' RomneyCare - and called disabled veterans deadbeats.

The Party serves my purpose; I don't serve its purpose.

The Party is my means to an end; I am not a means to the Party's end.

If the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, or Patriots suck, I will boo them.  That's how ownership, coaches, and players know we expect better of them.

Recently, the Republic Party has done NOTHING, ZILCH, NADA, NULL with their Congressional majorities when they've also had a Republican President.

The Republican Party needs to send more conservatives with spine, imagination, initiative, and cajones to Congress.  The Kelptocratic Globalist Oligarch donors' Congressional lap dogs aren't making the grade.

GOP, don't make the mistake of asking or telling a crazy Irishman from Boston to get in line and behave so the Republican Party can continue to be derelict to conservative values and principles.

Republican Party, you work for me; I don't work for you.