Voting for the lesser of two evils

One of my favorite quotes from a recent interview of Michael Badnarik, Libertarian candidate for President:

“If you vote for the lesser of two evils, and your candidate wins, you still get evil. If you don’t vote for liberty, you will never get it.”

Another analogy he used in a television interview was something like the following. Suppose you were in prison and you could vote for your fate. Given the following odds:

* Death by Electric Chair — 50%
* Death by Lethal Injection — 45%
* Freedom — 5%

Which would you vote for? Would you vote for Electric Chair because it was the most likely? Hell no, you’d vote for Freedom, even if it has a less likely chance of winning.

I don’t think I can ever vote for “the lesser of two evils” ever again.