lesser-evil

Julian, here is a poser, that may help you untangle the disgusting nonsense from the Krauthammerians, who view torture as merely a lesser-evil moral decisions.

Morality Isn’t Free 2009

Unless Lamont commits a gaffe and Lieberman somehow succeeds in making the election about Lamont's unacceptability -- driving up his negatives to the point that voters hold their noses and either stay home or reluctantly cast a vote for Lieberman as the lesser-evil he'll lose.

Midterm Roundup 2009

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Progressives of America - Unite! by Ernest A. Canning 2009

A lesser-evil approach permits preventive detention, where subject to judicial review; coercive interrogation, where subject to executive control; pre-emptive strikes and assassination, where these serve publicly defensible strategic goals.

Cheney vs. Ignatieff on waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - Blog Central - Macleans.ca 2009

Progressive Democrats of America provides the vehicle for transforming the Democratic Party from a top-down entity in the control of corporate America to a bottom-up Democracy which would enable Progressives, like Ralph Nader, to avoid the 'lesser-evil' trap without resorting to the futility of Third Party politics.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Progressives of America - Unite! by Ernest A. Canning 2009

But lesser-evil voting sustains our corrupt political system.

After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride 2008

This general election more than most will test the courage of voters to avoid lesser-evil strategic voting that has propped up our two-party plutocracy.

After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride 2008

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After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride 2008

And you are all champions of lesser-evil, short-term thinking and certainly no believers in Thomas Jefferson's views about the need for periodic revolutions by the people.

Will Progressives, with their No Difference and Lesser of Two Evils Psychoses, Give McCain the Election?(includes poll) 2008

As for me, I will never, cannot ever, regardless of the alternatives, regardless of the "lesser-evil" proposition -- ever cast a vote for anyone on or associated with persons on my list made in 2002.

Joe Biden and Political Expediency 2008