Duck, SuziQ
Adult thinking not appreciated by the majority in here
Thank you, dear, I've lived through a few Presidential primaries. Sometimes we have a lot of good candidates, sometimes, only one or two, and the process is much easier for the average primary voter.
We had an unusual primary this time around, in that there was neither an incumbent President, nor an incumbent Veep. Everyone had been around a while, and had his own supporters and detractors, and there was carp flying from the get-go. It was a nasty, brutish process, made worse by voters from outside the party who tried to disrupt it. Yes, McCain did get independent voters, as he always had, and some Democrats. But he got quite a few solid Republican votes, as well, and conservatives saw their votes split among several fine candidates.
It was just the luck of the draw this year, and McCain came out on top. He wasn't chosen by the RNC, or in some smoky back room. If you don't like him, that's fine, many didn't vote for him in the primaries, including myself; I'm a FredHead. But in the interest of this country, I'm sucking it up, and voting for the candidate I believe will do a better job for this country than either of the Democrats would ever do. I'm not looking for pie in the sky, or desirous of making some sort of statement of principle. I'm dealing with what IS.
I’m kind of tired of being told to “suck it up and vote for the R”. McCain and the RNC has said, several times, that they don’t really need my vote. Why don’t you and all your McCainiac friends just go your merry way—you don’t need the conservative vote, you certainly don’t need my vote—so lay off, alright? McCain will not do anything significantly different than the other two, so it quite frankly doesn’t matter.
Duck, SuziQ
Adult thinking not appreciated by the majority in here