This election is a conundrum for conservatives but it is going to be a disaster for the Republican Party. The problem is that McCain’s nomination is going to split the Republican Party and there is nothing that anyone can do about it. While some conservatives will hold their noses and vote for him in November as the lesser of two evils, others will not.
A few months ago, conservatives worried that if Rudy Guiliani were nominated, that conservatives would not vote for him in November because he is a social liberal. He would have been a bad nominee for the party because he would not have been able to unify and energize the base. But the same thing is true of McCain for other reasons. He is just as unelectable as Guiliani would have been.
Why is the party putting McCain forward as our standard bearer in an election year when our guy is going to run against either the first black nominee or the first woman nominee? Why are we nominating someone who is unpopular with the base?
Lecturing the base about how disloyal we would be to the country if we do not vote for McCain this fall is not going to persuade some of us to do so. I may decided to vote for him as the lesser of two evils but I am not going to become emotionally invested in a presidential election that I know our party is going to lose and I’m not going to be surprised or disappointed when we do.
You are correct,
There are so few “Republicans” at the polls these days and the Democrats out number them by over two to one, and the donations coming into the Democrat coffers rivals the National budget, while “Republicans” are begging in the streets with the homeless for food.
The GOP will need EVERY vote they can muster to even make this election just a mild land slide for the Dems.
This won’t spell the end if we do lose. (And brace yourself for just that.) It will be like the Carter years, very short and eve opening for the America that has slipped into a coma once again. The result was 8 solid Conservative years of Reagan and 4 mushy moderate Bush 1 years.(Which is why we lost.)
When the GOP slides to the middle it loses, I can give examples; Bush 1, Dole, Ford, and Nixon.
We either clean house and become a solid Conservative party again, or we become an amoral Socialist cesspool like Europe has become. I choose the latter.