Most sane people are voting for McCain.
I’m curious as to how we ended up in this situation. I think the question is not what will we do. The question is what will you do? Will you continue to torpedo Republican candidates that you don’t agree with? Will you have a running “(Candidate X) Truth File” each election cycle to attack those candidates you deem not conservative enough? You had a big hand in making this McCain bed, and I think it’s time you slept in it.
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Being as you seek to inject sanity into this, why don’t you ask the GoP why they keep shooting themselves in the feet?
If you don’t like the forum and the proprietor and the way he sees fit to run it, you know where the logout is.
There are many issues in this post here. First, in the above post I mentioned that while I have disagreements with Jim I appreciate the service he and this site have done. The vast majority of people on this site are good as well, though obviously a few bad apples exist.
Now, why do the GOP keep shooting themselves in the feet? The most obvious explanation to me is that they are Republicans, not conservatives. I cannot stand the pandering that goes on from both sides. It used to be that being Republican meant being conservative, but that’s clearly no longer the case. Maybe you’re referring to the GOP nominating McCain as shooting themselves in the foot, which would also be a valid argument. I don’t know. I do know that I just don’t understand the whole logic behind the “suicide vote.” By that I mean the idea that the country is doomed regardless of who’s in office and we might as well let the Democrats get the blame. I was not alive for the Carter debacle so I don’t know what that was like.
However, I do know that the media did nothing to Clinton despite his numerous faults (imagine if Bush had perjured himself!). Bush has been blamed for absolutely everything that went wrong in this country and half of everything that didn’t. I believe the media exists to attack conservatism day in and day out. They’re a big reason we’re in this mess right now. Going back to 2006, George Allen uttered one word that I had never, ever heard mentioned as a “racial slur” yet the media used it to torpedo his campaign and in the process destroy the Republican 2008 frontrunner.