I too, am a Conservative, and if you aren’t supporting this ticket after last night, yep, I don’t understand you at all.
Palin’s the future, McCain is the ‘vehicle’ to that future, like it or not, for the GOP and Conservatives.
I wasn’t happy with McCain as the nominee. Up until Steve Schmidt took over day to day operations, I believed Rick Davis’s ineptness would guarantee an Obama Presidency, backed up with a Democrat lunatic left controlled Congress.
Now, its quite possible McCain/Palin can win this thing, and by a margin we haven’t seen since the 1988 election cycle.
You can keep ‘politically pure’ if you wish, I can respect that to a certain extent. But the fact is the McCain ticket is no longer just about John McCain, and his antics since losing the South Carolina primary in 2000.
Its about the future of the country, Conservativism, and the Republican Party.
Thanks for your well thought out response, we can disagree politely as you demonstrate.
On numerous levels.
This relatively young woman shows other budding young conservatives that yes, they can buck the system, speak their mind, not be ashamed or hide their conservative views from general public, and be well received, because America IS basically conservative. The leftists control the media outlets (mostly) both here and abroad, therefore the "feeling" is that the world hates us, and the US hate Bush, republicans, and conservatives.
However, when you scratch below the surface, it is all hopes and dreams on their side, not reality. Note the approval of the congress.
Getting Mccain/Palin over the top wil go a long way to temper the grasp the media and leftists have on US politics.
Right now, the middle is where the votes are, so that is where they need to be mined. I would love to see the day when the middle is moved, say one standard deviation, to the right. This may just be the time.