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Entry: What Would Machiavelli Do? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_would_machiavelli_do1#18884 Post contents: The argument in favor of voting Republican so as to assure the presence of pro-life justices on the Supreme Court is further complicated by the fact that by so doing inadvertently we may be voting in favor of the very "unitary executive" that increasingly has rendered our democracy a relic of the past. The seating of Alito was almost assuredly that. The objection now isn't simply one of registering an anti-war sentiment, it is also one resisting a implicit Faustian deal involving support for a kind of Caudillo in return for the lives of the innocent we seek to protect. The ReichsChurch leadership has so hideously distorted the substance and public face of "pro-life" as to render electoral support for it a self-destructive act. I will not vote - and have not voted since 1992 - for the simple reason that as a conscientious Catholic I have been disenfranchised. John Lowell Sent at: 2008 09 07