McCain is in my opinion a disaster for president. I’ve said many times that I would not cast a vote for him.
If I change my mind, there is only one issue that would move me to do what I said I’d never do, and thats the Iraq and Afghan wars. Because, as I have also said several times, the war is my bottom line. If any Dem gave any hint that they had a clue, and wouldn’t abandon everything we’ve achieved to be swept away by the baddies, I would be happy to sit this one out.
But they haven’t a clue, and we can’t afford anyone in the White House who won’t take the war seriously, who would even think about walking away. I don’t think either Dem will do what they’ve promised, they won’t really have a choice realistically speaking, but the mere fact that they would consider it and defend it means we can’t risk putting them in the White House.
I like Rice a lot better than I do McCain. I like just about anyone you can think of better than I do McCain. But if I am forced to vote for him in order to preserve what we’ve accomplished in Iraq, and if his VP can also be trusted in Iraq and Afghanistan, then it won’t matter if I disagree on other issues. The war is the bottom line. If it wasn’t, I’d be happy to let McCain go down to defeat.
I’m with you. I can’t stand McCain, and I feel utterly abandoned. I hate knowing that no one is going to represent me on Illegal Aliens, the reality of Global Warmongering, and half of the other things that I think are absolutely vital. But this is going to be a choice of A or B, getting only half of what I want or getting none of what I want, and sitting out is going to result in the worst case. Further, sitting out is not going to “teach anybody a lesson, by gum”. The hard truth is that we as Conservatives have failed to make our case one person at a time to other voters, and we as a party have failed to put up candidates who live up to our values. We’ve ended up with too many RINOs in power because not enough of us have gone out and done the hard work to identify and get elected real conservatives who won’t end up embarrassing us in a men’s room somewhere or worse. Subjecting the country to four or eight years of Democrats packing even more Socialists and Communists into every available corner of the government is not going to advance our cause. I seriously considered sitting out, but I think we have to be grownups and do the best that is possible, while working harder for what we know is right. Take some heart from the knowledge that we did affect some decisions during the Bush Administration for the better. If it were not for the massive pressure from us, Harriet Miers would have been on the Supreme Court before you could say “Judge Souter and his gang stole my damn house”. Only the massive pressure from us has kept the Illegal Alien issue from becoming a wholesale concession to lawlessness. We haven’t won, but we haven’t given up, either. And we have won some significant battles. This is and will remain damn hard work. We have to do it, and not sulk off to suck our thumbs in the corner.
To the point, we should be flooding, and I mean flooding, the McCain headquarters with demands for a conservative VP like Hunter, Thompson, or someone even better.
They are all disasters for President. We should unnominate them now.
Exactly!