I don’t have a sign in my yard declaring my vote for the Presidential election. I don’t have a bumper sticker on my car with my candidate’s picture. I’m not afraid to voice my opinions, but I’m growing weary of debating and defending them.

What it comes down to is whether I think one candidate is better than another, and I do. Unfortunately, neither candidate is my ideal. Both candidates have ideas I don’t support, but one has fewer ideas that offend me than the other. I’m not the only woman to feel this way. What is a well-educated, fiscally conservative, socially tolerant, personally responsible woman to do when faced with the choices we have for this election? You’ll have to make up your own mind, but here are a few other conservative women who aren’t sold on either candidate and what they are saying about this dilemma.

Emily at Let’s be honest here… is discussing whether one’s views on a particular issue (specifically, abortion) require you to vote for a certain party. She asks Do Christians have a moral obligation to always vote for a pro-life candidate?

Shannon at Mothers Against Government Intervention and Control (MAGIC) wrote You’re Not for McCain or Obama. Who Do You Vote For? What’s a smart Libertarian to do when the choices are limited? Weigh your options carefully: Don’t vote, vote for the lesser of two evils, or vote for a third-party candidate or write-in. Shannon evaluates each of these choices.

For a Libertarian such as myself, Presidential election season is a frustrating time. I don’t agree with many of McCain’s positions and I agree even less with Obama’s. I’m not even a big fan of Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate. So who will I vote for? Here’s a quick analysis of my three options.

Self-Composed wrote Experience is Not Really a Factor. The premise is if experience is not a factor, what is? The answer: Ideology.

It’s about ideology. Reagan wasn’t the greatest president of our time because he was experience, he was the greatest president because he had clear, conservative principles and he acted on them. Jimmy Carter was the worst president of our time because he had clear liberal principles and he acted on them.

Now, keep in mind, conservatives and liberals with all the ideology in the world aren’t going to decide the election. The fence-sitting independents will. The American Idol watchers. These are the people who might think it’d be neat to have a young, black president this time instead of an old white one, and vote accordingly. The less shallow among them will look to things like experience to help them decide. Unfortunately, they don’t think much about ideology, which is what truly separates and distinguishes the candidates.

Audrey at Barking Mad writes

Nothing screams at me; "VOTE FOR ME!" with either of these men. True, there are other candidates I could vote for, Bob Barr being one of them. But realistically, at this point in the game, the only thing a vote for him is going to do is send a message to the other two that says; "You aren't cutting it, we want and demand more and better for ourselves, for our children, for our futures and for our country!"

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