I was blog hopping early this morning and went over to Greg Baus’ blog to check out his links on political alternatives to the 2004 presidential election. It was in response to comments on a post at Andy’s Montgomery’s photoblog. There was some disillusionment with both major party candidates, so Greg reminded everyone that there were alternatives–chiefly the Constitution Party.

I started thinking about the two party system, wasting votes vs. making a statement, living in swing states vs. lock-in states, and so on. It soon took me on a search for ideas on the web. I came across this myth busting article by a pro-Libertarian. Along a similar vein, I googled up this site with a Christian emphasis (which happens to bash Bush in favor of the Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka).

I have not all of a sudden jumped off of the Bush bandwagon. On the contrary, I started leafing through old college texts looking for fodder for a post on Christianity and politics. The Peroutka article had raised a few red flags for me (as if they were swinging the pendulum of reform too far). In Russell Kirk’s book The Roots of American Order I happened upon this quote from Abraham Lincoln:

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party….The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

After reading it I abandoned my grand blogging plans and thought I would just share the quote. It is comforting to know that no matter who gets elected in November, we can, according to Kirk, rest assured that man’s order “is subordinate to a providential order.”