Setting up your excuse for voting Paul, helping Obama win and then blaming Bush for it?
I think they all suck. I’ll vote Paul if he’s on the ballot, knowing he can’t win because I agree with roughly 90% of his views and he seems like he’s got more integrity than the other candidates. But believe me, I realize it doesn’t matter. The Senate and House races are much much more important to me at this stage, but I’ll probably bite the bullet and vote for McCain if he has a strong running mate that will be his successor in 4 years.
I just don’t get too worked up over it, because the odds of a 72 year old pro war moderate winning in this political climate would be astounding. I don’t want Obama and certainly don’t want Clinton, but we’ve made our beds and it looks like we’re going to be forced to sleep in them. The Dems had to pay the bill in the 1980s, but I don’t expect the swoon for the right to last nearly that long. When conservatism becomes conservatism again, and there are electric spokesmen for the cause able to get people excited about Constitutional values, we’ll get our chance again. The media has succeeded in making the face of the GOP “angry old white guys who want to start wars and spy on you.” I have alot of hope that somebody like Mark Sanford or Bobby Jindal or Lou Barletta (and eventually Duncan Hunter’s son) will rebrand the right back to what it used to be before it was subverted.