What are we going to do about it now???
I supported Fred, but Fred didn’t win. Are we supposed to take our football and go home and ruin the country with Hillary or Obama because we didn’t get our candidate??? I am no big fan of McCain, but I am going to be a better man than McCain was after 2001 and put the country ahead of *my* personal feelings.
EVERY time the Republican Party foists a rotten candidate on us (national or local level) I’m told to suck it up and vote for the guy anyway. I’ve usually done it, and lots of others have too. They got used to that behavior, and figured they can do what they want, and we’ll support them anyway.
This time, I’m making a stand. A personal stand, perhaps, but a stand. They can do what they like, but they’ll do it without my vote, my support, and perhaps most importantly, without my money. If Hillary runs the country into the ground, then maybe people will wake up. If they don’t, the country didn’t have much going for it anyway.
Here is your mistake... objection to McCain is NOT based upon personal feelings... objection to McCain is his history and he hates conservatives on the same wavelength as Hillary. Now 'fairness' dictates an honest evaluation of who John McCain really is and not get caught up in this paralyzing fear of who Hillary is. They both come from the same ideological bed. My problem with McCain is he is a wolf trying to wear the sheep's clothing, it does not fit and he knows it.
“What are we going to do about it now???”
Most likely lose in a landslide reminiscent of Reagan/Mondale. Then...the party needs to do some major restructuring of it’s primary system before ‘12. Move strong conservative states to the front. Only these states can be winner-take-all. Iowa, New Hampshire, New York.....all to the back.. Give the more reliably conservative states more than half of the delegates needed to win. Close all the primaries, NO indies, NO dims.
Perhaps then that party would put forth their first conservative candidate since 1984.