Editor,

It may be a bit much to refer to our two leading presidential candidates as “evil,” but the old saying does come up.

My friends of various opinions encourage me to not vote for the opposition because that candidate is the greater “evil.”

We gloss over the warts of our side and accentuate the warts in our opponent. So the lesser of two evils is our candidate. We end up not voting for our candidate … we vote against the other.

The lesser of two evils. We so want our country to be a place where we can be proud of our leaders. But with candidates covered in warts, come January we will be able to say, “our president, ‘the lesser of two evils’?”

Maybe next time.

Meanwhile, we long for a ballot marked “none of the above,” because, the lesser of two evil is still … evil.

Rodger Truax

Coupeville