I'm done voting for lesser men on tickets.
I won't vote Romney. I won't vote Obama. I won't vote either.
I will go in and vote for people that EARN my vote by defending individual liberty, on an office-by-office basis. But I won't vote AGAINST anyone, nor be suckered into any more lesser of two evils types of games.
I wash my hands of it. Ryan doesn't change it, because he's not on the top of the ticket. He's as relevant as Biden is currently.
I'm not going as nutso as a "sovereign citizen" type of uber-Patriot... but I am just going to disassociate myself from it all. I make damned near 6 figures right now, and I'm laying plans to get by on half that very, very soon. I'm disgusted by all of it, and don't want to contribute to it anymore.
I'm not that great at my job... I have a fricking useless Asian Studies degree and I'm taking positions as senior systems engineers, database administrators, database developers. And when I leave, people can't replace me even 5 years later, or hire multiple people to try and do it, and can't.
Someone who actually went to school for information systems architecture or computer science should be able to outperform me 10 times over.
But at least in my shallow little pool here in PHX, I'm supposedly irreplaceable, every where I go.
That really makes me despair for my industry around here.
And it's an indicator of poor training/drive/ambition/intelligence/fortitude/whatever of my peers in this industry.
And I don't think it's my industry alone. Capability is hard to find.
I'll leave, they will hire two people each at 75% of my pay who won't do the job right, then a 3rd person at my pay who also won't do it right.
It's not that hard, it's just that SO MANY PEOPLE WANT SOMEONE ELSE TO FIX THEIR PROBLEMS FOR THEM, RATHER THAN THEMSELVES.
And a Romney ticket isn't going to fix that ailment in business any more than Obama.
If a manager can't fire a whiny nonperformer for fear of reprisal from lawyers and HR witches, then it doesn't matter where you work or what industry... eventually, we're all screwed as the leeches migrate from one mid-management position in one industry to another industry.
I might be convinced to vote for a Ryan ticket.
I'd certainly vote for a Paul ticket.
But not Romney.