“threat of the latest bogeyman from the left”
What you are describing is politics. People disagree. That is the nature of people. There will always be conservatives, liberals, and everything in between. Therefore, more often than not, the best available candidate does not excite us. If we only voted FOR who we like, and never AGAINST those we don’t like, then we probably would never vote.
Its hard for me to believe that people actually think that McCain would be no better than Hillary. Its got to be the anger talking, making people irrational.
“Therefore, more often than not, the best available candidate does not excite us. If we only voted FOR who we like, and never AGAINST those we don’t like, then we probably would never vote.”
There is a difference between not being excited and being positively repulsed. I think that’s the problem right now. Conservatives are willing to compromise on a candidate. Many are not willing to sell their soul.
“Its hard for me to believe that people actually think that McCain would be no better than Hillary. Its got to be the anger talking, making people irrational.”
Believe it. Looked at from the point of view of what we are likely to get from a McCain administration, there is a line of reasoning that concludes that conservatives are better off with Sen. Clinton. I don’t share that opinion, but I do agree that there isn’t enough of a difference to matter.
Conservatives in general are changing their views with regard to the GOP. I’ve seen it before, but with a smaller subset of the conservative population: gun owners. The relationship between the GOP, gun owners and gun rights activists is strictly business at this point. Gun owners, rightfully, do not trust the GOP to be any more supportive of their positions than the Democrats.