I’ve really been thinking about this McCain thing.
Initially I was very noble, asserting that no matter who the Republican nominee was that I would so vote. At times I might hold my nose but it was that “anybody but Hillary” logic.
But John McCain has done so damn much to offend me, the top of the heap being that campaign finance thing that slapped my free speech right in the face. Then there was the Gang of 14, his promotion of amnesty, his vote AGAINST tax cuts. He’s also a bad-tempered, sneering, simpering nobody who wrecked a couple of planes during his term in the military and scuttlebutt has it that McCain might have some lies about his own service a la Kerry.
But scuttlebutt aside, I have enough dislike of McCain that I’ve decided that should my party slap me in the face, and note that now Crist of Florida has endorsed this ill-tempered cretin, I WILL vote, but I will write in a candidate of my choice. I will NOT vote for McCain. My one and only vote is too precious to me.
My dream is, and it’s a big one, but I dream that Rush himself might lead some sort of movement. Only Rush has the power to do it. I’m thinking Rush has the principles to undertake such a thing.
I don’t know, maybe Rush can promote a massive write-in campaign, maybe even his own name. This IF McCain gets the nomination by the Republican party which will have, by then, spit in our faces and told us to shut up. Or if not a massive write-in of Rush’s name as I know he doesn’t want an elected office, than a write-in of SOMEBODY....maybe Micky Mouse.
I try to imagine the embarrassment of the Republican party as millions of votes roil in for either Rush or Micky Mouse. Maybe McCain would win anyway but for sure a damn fine message would have been sent to those who betrayed us.
Like I said...it’s only a dream.
Tom DeLay says McCain will destroy the GOP, he could run something, as the inside man with Rush the public face.
I felt that way in 1992 about Bush I after he broke his "No New Taxes" pledge. I wrote in a ticket of Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett, and got 8 years of the BJ Klintoons. I traded a few moments of delicious vengence for 8 years of misery. Wasn't worth it.