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Lois Droegemeier, San Angelo

I am a disgruntled American, a voter who has normally chosen the "least worse" candidate for president, but who hasn't been wholeheartedly behind many of them.

That method has served me well enough over my past 30 years of voting. Voting for the lesser of two evils is how we got to the point of having the least popular candidates in history nominated for the nation's highest office.

Until this year, there has always been a minimal standard of decency found in most of the candidates. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both represent the bottom of the barrel as far as I'm concerned. It's a stretch to examine the lowest common denominator of their policies and character and find any redeeming attribute.

I have searched for a third party that I can get behind. The Constitution Party represents my views on minimum government, and believes in restoring the United States Constitution as the nation's rule of law. The Constitution Party believes that everything not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government, nor prohibited by the Constitution to the states, is reserved to the states or to the people.

From its website: "The mission of the Constitution Party is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity through the election, at all levels of government, of Constitution Party candidates who will uphold the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights. It is our goal to limit the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, Constitutional functions."

Darrell Castle and his running mate Scott Bradley are official write-in candidates on the Texas state ballot. My vote on Nov. 8 will be for Castle/Bradley. It's time to return to the basics.