Preach it! Amen!
I thought a virtue of conservative belief was a belief in individual responsibility, a can-do belief that we can use our freedom to make this a better world. We have the socialist Obama trying to sound like Reagan, channelling his optimism (albeit to build socialism), and the wimps that call themselves consrevatives are whining about how the world doesnt just up and give them everything they desire. They are ready to stockpile food and ammo?!? Huh? Since when did you get what you want staying home on election day? Since when did we ever have politicians give us 100% of what we want? I dont recall that time, and it must be faulty memory that is making some think there ever was such a time.
The suicide conservatives who welcome Obama's election and refuse to do a d***-useful thing to stop the advance of socialism - you know, like even say a kind word about the many conservative GOP candidates running - well, they are becoming like the self-hating Jews, they bash their 70%-friends but never criticize their 100%-enemies. They are getting as tiresome as the Obama-manaical media.
It's time to get out of the gutter of disappointment, despair and fatalism. We CAN make the world a better place, not next year but NOW. We CAN do it by finding people we believe in to support. They ARE running in many races and if you deny it, you are uninformed. I can give you names. If you are a conservative, support the many conservatives running for Congress THIS YEAR ... and we wont have a bad year after all. IT'S UP TO YOU.
I count myself in league with those who will not vote for McCain in November. I'm also no longer a member of the Republican Party. I didn't leave them (McCain and the Republicans), they left me. They no longer represent what I believe to be good statesmanship and government.
I'm not whining, however. Nor am I welcoming Obama's election. You want someone who isn't doing anything? Try McCain. He's NOT holding to sound conservative principles. He's NOT trying to shore up his conservative base before enticing moderates and liberals. He's NOT showing good governance with his stances on amnesty and cap-and-trade policies. That's not whining; that's the facts.
Nor am I whining when I say McCain must show me he'll represent the principles I hold dear before I vote for him. It's my vote. No one owns it. No one ever will. I will NOT give it to anyone just because of party affiliation; at least never again. Those days are over.
You can call me every name in the book. I don't care. Unless your hero proves to me he's worthy of my vote he will not get it. And come November, should he fail to win the election, don't come running back to me with all your complaints. The responsibility will rest with only one man: John McCain.
Do you, in all your misguided thinking, believe that voting for a man simply because he's the least of two evils is "doing something" for conservativism? Do you? Are you really that far from reality?