Ann, as usual, explains it perfectly.
I am profoundly against McCain as POTUS. I will vote against him in the general election. I am an American first, a Conservative second, and a Republican, distantly third.
I'm not about "party loyalty". I'm about American Patriotism, and loyalty to Conservative Ideals. McCain is BAD for America, and BAD for Conservatism (and extremely bad for business!)
Ann makes the salient point, that may seem obscure, but is mortally important.
If McCain gets elected, it tells the Republican Party that it can safely ignore it's "Conservative Base", and still win the Presidency.
If McCain gets elected, it will move the Republican Party so far to the Left, that what is sometimes said by the cynics, that there is "no difference" between the parties. will be damn near true.
If McCain gets elected, Party Loyalty (debt) of Congressmen and Senators will encourage/force them to support heinous McCain policies and proposals that they would be able to vigorously oppose if Hillary or Barack proposed them.
It is actually better to have a Liberal Democrat than a Liberal Republican in the White House. It leaves the Republicans free to oppose, stymie, undermine, fight, pressure, gang-up, stick-together without running foul of Party Leadership or violating blind Party Loyalty.
Having a Liberal Republican in the White House will absolutely split the Party, breaking any collective force they might have to resist bad policy. Some Republicans will invariably choose to support a "Republican" President...no matter how "in name only" he might be. And some will choose to oppose. Thus we have a broken party, unable to stop the steamroller of Liberal ideas about Taxes, Illegal Immigration, "Torture", Guantanamo, Global Warming, Political Speech Censorship...and a host of other McCainian idiocies.
Please, if McCain is nominated, if you love America and are a Conservative Republican, don't vote for him. Indeed, even consider working for Hillary.
I believe that Hillary will be less damaging to the country than Obama. If only because so many Republicans hate her, it will be easy for them to maintain a united front in both houses, to oppose anything she does. This is a GOOD thing.
But, given the long-lasting damage to Conservatism and the Republican Party that a McCain presidency would do, I'll vote for Obama before McCain.
NOTHING could be worse than a Liberal "Republican" in the White House.
Let me put it this way:
Electing Hillary president is like breaking a bone...Initially harsh but descending degree of pain, acute condition, temporarily debilitating, short term inconvenience, expensive. But it will heal as good as new.
Electing McCain president is like getting leukemia...Initially unnoticeable but ascending degree of pain, chronic condition, permanently debilitating, long-term impairment, financially ruinous, lousy prognosis.
The Gunslinger
The time has come for true conservatives to form a viable, legitimate third party.
ReplyDeleteTwo nights ago "Nikki" from the RNC called me at home to, I assume, solicit money for the Republican party. The reason I can only assume this is because I never let her get that far. When she introduced herself I immediately cut her short by telling her that right now I'm so disgusted with the Republican party that she needn't bother asking for any money and I hung up. That was a mistake on my part. I should have taken the time to explain to her why I've renounced my affiliation with the GOP.
Although there are several individual conservative politicians still fighting the good fight, the Republican party as a whole has drifted somewhere left of center. It's time to unite this core group under a new banner and solidify the conservative movement.
I've thought that for a long time. Having "Republican" Schwarzenegger as a governor will do that to you.
ReplyDeleteThe success of third parties has been marginal at best, though. They've set it up pretty much to guarantee the Republicans and Democrats won't be seriously challenged.
But a McCain victory might just disgust enough Conservatives to create critical mass.
What a friggin' disaster!