< sigh > you know, we’re going to “principle” our way to pure hell for EIGHT years, NOT FOUR, of Democratic lunacy. The situation is clear:
*because of our infighting in the primaries, we’re now stuck with McCain
*McCain is NOT EXACTLY the same as Hillary/Obama. Similarities yes, but not the same.
*the next president will get to nominate 2, maybe even 3 SC justices to the bench.
*as bad as McCain is, there is simply NO ARGUMENT, THAT MAKES SENSE, THAT SAYS MCCAIN’S NOMINEES WILL BE AS BAD AS HILLARY’S/OBAMA’S
That, combined with the fact that McCain will prosecute the WoT much more effectively than Hillary would leads any reasonable person to say, “I’m not going to act like a CHILD, and say I’m not voting for McCain because I didn’t get my candidate in there, rather, I’m going to act like an ADULT, and realize that, unless I want the SC SCREWED UP for the next 30 years, and absolutely NOTHING done on the WoT, I’m going to HAVE to vote for McCain!”
As I’ve said previously, no one likes that McCain is in the drivers seat for the nomination, and it would take a miracle to stop that now, but it’s time to act like adults and deal with reality. The only reason the “revolution of ‘94” happened was because conservatives realized they were snookered by ol’ big ears down in Texas in ‘92, and realized it’s best to affect change from WITHIN the party, not by standing by and letting the party be DESTROYED from the outside!
Thus, it’s not an analogous situation today. We have no 3rd party spoiler to blame. We only have OURSELVES to blame; so to think that letting a Dem win to “teach the RNC a lesson” is foolhardy. There’s no lesson to learn other than the most basic of all: Quit fighting so much in the primaries and maybe we can get behind REAL conservatives sooner! But again, that’s a lesson for 2012.
TODAY, it’s time to suck it up, act like an adult, and do the RESPONSIBLE thing, or has this site suddenly become a site to promote Democrats to office, simply to “teach the RNC a lesson”? Funny, I can’t remember a time when it was EVER acceptable to even SUGGEST voting FOR a Democrat on FR.
You rock! Great post.