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Yeah yeah I agree theres things afoote that would rankle the hair on a dogs back..

What I want to know is how did the arch weasle John McLaim become the "conservative" candidate for President.. instead of the obvious conservatives.. I have been clapping and clapping for Sara Palin the last few days.. until it dawned on me that I've been slipped a "mickey".. I've been BRAIN WASHED... Just like with voting first for the idiot George Bush against the cretin Al Gore then to top that off I voted for the known idiot George Bush over an obvious traitor and lying sack of you know what AGAIN.. And NOW I'am willing to vote for the arch weasle John McLaim over another empty suit masquerading as KingFish from Amos n' Andy..

(looking into the mirror.. I don't look right)..
To self: I may be drugged or brain washed.. I never was too smart... Heck I voted for George Bush twice his father a few times and even his brother when I lived in Florida.. Who chooses the opponents for these liberal republican candidates anyway?.. I know.. maybe I'm a SHeeple... thats it.. I'm a sheeple.. And have the "bleating" government I deserve..

I often feel as you do. Your combination of hope and anger is shared by many genuine conservatives.

I wrote the following on another thread recently, as to how I am able to justify supporting the Republican ticket:

We may well be in for a tragic four years no matter who wins this election, unless McCain recognizes that it was the genuine gun-toting, church-going heart of the republican party that put him into office ... and that he owes them ... and that he had better make a sharp right turn if he expects not to lose their support during his term in office.

He did, after all, select one of them as his running mate. Neither you nor I is fool enough to believe he did that because he and Palin are kindred spirits/ideological soul-mates. He did that because he knew he couldn’t win without us. And he must know he will lose us, once again, if he returns to RINO business as usual.

At the same time, I am not, and never have been, a Pollyanna. If I were taking bets, I’d bet that Sarah Palin will wield only as much power in a McCain administration as she is able to demand. Significant power will not be delegated to her, but neither is she one who will be content with thumb-twiddling. And I’d also be willing to bet that, should McCain win, November 5th will not mark a right turn of any significance in his ideology.

With that said ...

As I see it we are faced with the election of Obama/Biden, which might well spell the end of freedom and sovereignty in America. It won’t take more than four years for that to occur under O/B.

Or we are faced with the election of McCain/Palin. That eventuality is entirely different than the election of McCain/AnyoneElse might have been.

As I have written on my blog countless times, I probably would have stayed home, or written in the name of Ronald Reagan in protest, on November 4th had I been faced with an Obama/Biden vs. McCain/AnyoneElse choice.

But what a difference two weeks can make.

Palin is a staunch right-wing ideologue. And an activist staunch right-wing ideologue – not simply a pundit/philosopher/orator. She has an extensive (considering the amount of time she has held office) list of resounding successes to show for her conservative activism. She’s a dying breed, for sure.

She will not allow herself to be a passive vice president. And she will make noise if she is ordered to assume that posture. And she will have every right to do so, because she will have played a pivotal (vast understatement) role in the election of John McCain.

John McCain is seventy-two years old. Sarah Palin is forty-four.

This no longer boils down to the quadrennial ‘voting for the lesser of two evils’ conundrum, which I have vowed never to be a party to again. For the first time in twenty-four years, we have a genuine conservative on the ballot. No, she is not in the top spot. But she is there. The Republican ticket contains a fighter who is willing ... in fact determined ... to reclaim America’s status as a ‘shining city on a hill’. And, no matter the odds against her succeeding, I’ll be damned if I won’t do everything within my power to provide her a chance to do so!

If she fails ... if she is prevented from making a difference ... it won’t be because I wasn’t willing to afford her the opportunity ... what I see as the last opportunity for a genuine conservative to reverse the course of our suicidal journey into oblivion.

~ joanie

joanie,

Excellent article.

hosepipe,

Using conservative standards, McCain just didn’t measure up but compared to Obama, he looks good. The more that is known about Obama, the better McCain looks. Obama is an insult to everything that made America great.

Add Palin, who really looks great, and McCain becomes acceptable to many.

I have to wonder, if we get McCain now because of Obama, who or what do we get from the GOP down the road when the left puts up an even scarier Marxist? At what point does the ‘lesser evil’ cross the line into just plain evil? Will we continue to accept a lower standard as the Dems lower theirs?

Would the Republic survive if Obama wins because conservatives withhold their votes from McCain?

Would it survive if conservatives compromised their principles yet again?

I don’t know enough to answer but I think that I know enough that we must think about the questions before we cast our votes.