What are the betting odds for a third-party candidate to win this coming presidential election? Most people will say zero. It has never been done in our country’s history. However, in a close election, a third-party candidate can be the deciding influence by taking enough votes away from one of the major parties, thus enabling the other majority party to win. Bill Clinton owes his first presidential victory in 1996 to H. Ross Perot’s third-party siphoning off many otherwise Republican votes.

Today, practically speaking, we are left with only two realistic choices: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. What is today’s burning issue? I believe it is the government’s moral duty to protect the lives of the two most vulnerable groups of humans: the unborn and the infirm-aged among us. Hillary and Donald are very opposed to each other on this issue. Hillary won’t even oppose partial birth abortion, whereas Donald has publically said he would appoint Supreme Court justices in the mold of the late Justice Scalia and gave a list of pro-life justices he would choose from.

So I suggest that in most cases a vote for the Libertarian candidate is in effect a vote for Hillary, the cultural Marxist.

Ed Burns

Mayer