Nice rant, but please point out where I talked about me. I had my vote here in Florida. I pointed out that the primary system was changed this year, perhaps on purpose or perhaps unwittingly, to one that was tailor made for a candidate to be chosen who did not have the support of the conservative base. That is a demonstrable fact, and I believe, a decision that the party will come to regret, if it doesn’t already. I know the Republican party of Florida is in a panic about keeping our largely Republican House delegation. They believe McCain is unlikely to win the state, or even if he does eke out a win, he will have no coattails, since so many of his supporters are crossover Dems who will vote for him at the top but for Dems further down. The party is identifying vulnerable seats, and the inside baseball line is that if the district isn’t +6 or more (i.e., six percentage points more Republican than Democrat) the seat is in danger. THAT is what the nomination of McCain has wrought.
As for voting for the capitalist, that’s downright humorous. McCain has never worked a day in his life in the private sector, and is fond of saying he works for “patriotism, not profit.” Nice soundbite until you stop to consider that it is capitalism that funds the arsenal of democracy, so without profit, patriotism is going begging. Your great capitalist got where he is on his second wife’s daddy’s money, big bucks country club donors, and George Soros. Sucking up to capitalists does not a capitalist make. And, I had to laugh when he listed as one of his economic bona fides the fact that he BOUGHT Greenspan’s book, not that he READ it. Yep, quite a capitalist there.