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“Our Guy” is exactly the problem. The assumption that anyone who has, historically voted Republican will continue to do so simply because that is “our guy” at the top of the ticket is a tweaking of the nose to those who are tired of holding it every time they go to the voting booth. The Republican Party has, for all intents and purposes, started to take for granted the conservative vote the way the democrats can take the black vote for granted (where else can they go?) What are they (or any party) supposed to say to the Independent voters it wants to attract? Doesn’t it have to make a case for earning their votes? In fact, ought not the same mindset be in play when dealing with all segments of your constituency? Don’t you run the risk of disenfranchising some when you try to attract others? Well, it looks like this time out the Republicans have taken the gamble that if they go Moderate this time around (maybe even tilt a little more leftward than that)...that by doing that, they will pick up votes while hopefully not losing any that they have historically been able to count on in the past.
Funny thing about gambling...you don’t always win. And now, some of you want to kick up a fuss because the choice of “Our guy” has had the effect of, not only turning off a large segment of the historic constituency (conservatives), but has wakened them to realize that a continuance of this approach only takes us farther and farther from our historic conservative platform. As long as we continue to send the message that “...as much as I can’t stand ‘Our guy’, I’ll just hold my nose, cast my vote and hope that the Party will remember our loyalty,” we will continue to get McCain-type candidates. John McCain IS how the party is saying, “Conservatives, we remember your loyalty!” I’m reminded of the pledge scene in the movie Animal House when the guy bent over and was given a blow to his backside. The correct, expected response was, “Thank you sir. May I have another?”

Lastly, the writer hasn’t “fragged” “Your guy” so much as he (McCain) has mishandled his own firearm and it went off and struck him in the foot.

Your guy! Sheesh...