This all started because of something I posted on my Facebook page late Wednesday night.

To set the record straight, I boycotted the so-called presidential debates because it can’t be a debate if all candidates are not represented. Don’t let Fox News, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC or even your well-meaning GOP and Democratic friends fool you — Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are not the only people running for president.

Therefore, any thing I say is just as biased as those who post memes of Obama in the latest Jihad wear or Romney with a halo over his head on their social networking pages.

That said, that makes me the world’s most dangerous person or at least I have earned that title through friends and acquaintances who have been programmed to think you can only vote for Republicans and Democrats.

My theory on voting and politics as we head into the elections nearly a month from now is quite simple: If you don’t like the choices offered then vote for the person you think would do the best job.

There’s really simple mathematics at play here, too. If you believe the two men running for president are the lesser of two evils then all the algorithms are going to say no matter how you slice it, you still get evil and I can’t live by that mantra.

Democrats and Republicans think this is dangerous mainly because it goes against their beliefs and, God forbid, you go against the grain of what they believe because you’re going to tilt the wheel to the candidate they don’t like.

I don’t view it that way. Whatever I decide to do at the polls I’m going to do it because it’s what I believe to be right — not what my Republican or Democrat friends say is right. I only have myself to live with and have to try to do the right thing.

The last time I checked it’s not up to your friends to tell you how you should vote and then become incensed when you don’t agree with them. Ford and GM will tell you they have the best cars on the market but then you go and do your homework and find Subaru or Toyota better suits your needs.

So what are you supposed to do? Choose a Ford or GM just because Ford or GM tells you their vehicles are the best when you don’t necessarily believe that in your heart?

All this rambling and meandering takes me to what I began this column with, my Facebook post from late Wednesday night that simply said, “Scratching and shaking my head. The left says their man won the debate; the right says their man won. Politics is a jaundiced beast for sure.”

One of the responses was that I should write an objective piece on who actually won the debate, which is hard to do since I immersed myself in Big Bang Theory reruns for my sanity’s sake. “Dig in and finish this with the rest of us,” was the final line of the response.

I have serious issues with thinking that can’t seem to grasp we are free to vote for the person we think is best for the job and that person doesn’t have to be Republican or Democrat.

My final response to the matter was, “I'm not going to tell my readers they only have two choices because they don't. I'm not going to tell my readers they have to vote because they don't. I'm going to tell my readers they should study the issues for themselves before even going to the polls and make an educated vote.”

To me, that’s pretty sound advice, to others, however, it’s the ranting of a deranged lunatic and the most dangerous person on the face of this earth — Lance Martin