I kept trying to tell people how important it was not to allow all three to fall into the democrats hands and too many people, right here, kept saying let the GOP lose and then we can rebuild it... it was stupid then coming out of their mouths and it’s even more stupid now and I, frankly, have no patience with any of those people. We are in a dead serious time and there is no place for people on a serious site to make idiotic comments... JMHO of course.
“I kept trying to tell people how important it was not to allow all three to fall into the democrats hands...”
Me too. And I argued that point as strenuously as I could to all my acquaintances who happen to be very liberal by reason of my present circumstances. I reminded them that if they were trying to reincarnate the Clinton “glory years” of boundless prosperity, that those years occurred against a backdrop of a divided Congress who checked the Clinton playbook quite effectively.
Alas, I converted very few, I’m afraid. McCain was truly a very hard sell, a mediocre and unappealing choice at best, and ran a flat-out miserable campaign. The economy and the markets sure didn’t help much, but when McCain gave in to bailout #1, the one he flew back to DC to veto, then later gave into it, I had little ground to stand on.
With genuine respect, truly -- how do you think we got to this point? I certainly helped get us here, I admit, with my votes in the past.
We can and should give money to candidates who uphold the princples, we should vote thoughtfully in the primaries, we should write letters to the editor, we should do what we can to promote those Republicans who are right. But when it comes down to the bottom line, no matter what we do, the real thing happens in the voting booth.
The vote is the only thing you or I have to actually play a part in steering the GOP course. That's it. There is no other mechanism but the vote. As long as liberalism wins, we will elect liberals. Liberalism is winning in the GOP because party voters like me are blackmailed into it. Newt is doing it. He means well, and he may be right, but the older I get, the more I doubt it.
Sure, McCain would be better in the short run. But the long term consequences for the GOP would have been this: Liberalism won again -- validation. GOP must continue to be moderate reach-out liberal with regard to expanded government in order to win.
I want that to lose. My vote now goes elsewhere because it is the only tool I have to change the course of the GOP, and a change in course is the only thing that's going to save this country.
Az Car, you and I both know Romney to be a fraud. If it had been Romney instead of McCain on Nov. 4, would you have voted for him? Knowing that THAT was the message, that this was the direction that was going to work for the GOP, and therefore for the future freedom and trust of the country under the Republican party banner?