[FairOpinion]

I am not going wobbly -- but I have seen quite a few FReepers express that they would actually rather have Kerry, "just to show Bush, that he can't take the conservative base" for granted. I would hope that those "so-called conservatives" will face reality, that if they don't get out and vote for Bush, they may be electing Kerry and what that will mean for us.

Well, if the election is close, those fine "principled conservatives" may be the ones handing the election to Kerry.

Conservatives need to consider the serious consequences of their actions.

Bush won by 500 votes the last time. The election is expected to be very close, a few votes either way may be what decides this election.

[Consort]

...but I have seen quite a few FReepers express that they would actually rather have Kerry, "just to show Bush, that he can't take the conservative base" for granted.

Those are your Kerry Conservatives. The Clinton Conservatives had the same misguided "reasoning".....they wanted to "teach Bush 41 a lesson"...so they voted for Perot or they didn't vote at all...and the Liberals won. If Bush loses, Conservatives lose....big time.

[lentulusgracchus]

The only good thing about a Kerry win is that I could sit quietly in my hate-crimes reeducation-camp prison cell and, by a Zen exercise, extend my senses to listen to Hillary writhing silently on the sidelines for eight long years while she and her hellbound consort grow aged and decrepit in the green room of bigtime politics.

No U.N. general secretaryship for Slick, to erase the stain of impeachment.

No U.N. treaty surrendering the sovereignty and turning over the armed forces of the United States, in order to make Hillary the last President of the United States, and Slick the first President of the World (aka The Antichrist, I'm told).

No his-and-hers presidential gravesite.

No presidency for Chel.

No more solid grip on DemonRat Party funds, and no more solid grip on the tongues of Web Hubbell and Susan MacDougal.

Something to think about.

[applemac_g4]

I haven't entirely decided what I'm going to do - but I'll probably just sit this one out. I can't bring myself to vote for a "conservative" who is proposing a guest worker program & massive illegal immigration, favors outsourcing jobs to foreign countries (if the heritage foundation is to be believed, even homeland security jobs), has talked about banning gay marriage but hasn't actually done anything to indicate that this will happen or make it a campaign issue, gave the National Endowment for the Arts the largest budgetary increase of any president in history, saddled us with more government bureaucracy, only provided a token 3% tax cut, and spends like a drunk sailor... Kerry may be elected this fall. But the result, contrary to what the fearmongers point out, won't be a headlong rush into liberalism. It'll be gridlock. After 4 years of "compassionate conservatism", gridlock is starting to look pretty good.