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Endorsing McCain

Primary campaigns are when you decide the idealogical makeup of the party. If you've got strong feelings on subjects one way or another, the time to get them out and discussed and hopefully make them part of the party platform is during the primaries. After the primary is over and the party has voted and cleared one candidate and their approach, your party platform has also been set for that election.

Remember, Democracy is not about getting your way, its about being asked. "Getting your way" out of Democracy is really just a side effect of the process itself.

Heres the situation:

There are now three viable candidates for President. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain.

On the Democrat side, we have two leftists. The race for that partys nomination is not yet decided, but soon will be.

On the Republican side, we have former Naval officer and POW. As of last night, this race is now decided.

Idealogically there are vast difference between all three candidates but no matter who we vote for, and it pains me to say this, we are getting a Senator.

Mitt Romney worked his tail off and spent alot of money, and got second place in most of his primaries. I'm sorry, but thats just not good enough, which is a shame. Huckabee exists to give people who more than a little anti-mormon hatred a place to go and there appear to be more of those people than I had hoped was the case but thankfully not enough to give us a candidate with that ethos as a base. Ron Paul? Well theres one in every crowd isnt there. The mirage candidacies of Fred Thompson or Rudy Guiliani show that pundits, pollsters and "gut instincts" really dont mean a damn thing. In both cases, when these two candidates were put to the test, they folded up like a wet paper sack. How these two actually worked out may not have surprised you, but it surprised the hell out of me.

So its either McCain or one of the two leftists. So as to paraphrase a wise man and statesman of the last administration: "You dont go into the election with the candidate you want, you go with the one you have"

We now have McCain and we had better make the most of it. At this time I'm now formally endorsing McCain and I wrote a check for his campaign this morning.

Posted @ January 30, 2008 07:07 AM | Current Affairs

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While the quote is typical of the Rumsfield that I admire, I just can't do it. I cannot vote for keating 5, mccain-fiengold, mccain-kennedy, gang of 14, and non straight talking John McCain. If John McCain is the GOP nominee and there is no viable third party candidate, for the first time in my life I will vote for a Democrat president. Why settle for the fake republican when you can get the real thing.

Posted by: s1c at January 30, 2008 07:22 PM

Imagine if you will the following.

Its the morning of 9/11 Version 2.0. Thousands of Americans lay dead in the streets of a large city. Once again, the horror of jihad has arrived at our shores.

You now have three alternate universes to choose from:

1. President Obama gets word of the attack. What are his actions, what are his intentions and how does he lead the response to this atrocity? Where are we 8 years later.

2. President Clinton gets word of the attack. What are his actions, what are his intentions and how does he lead the response to this atrocity? Same as above.

or President McCain.

In my opinion, the Admiral will go Roman on the Jihadis, the other two will go prostate and beg the Jihadis for forgiveness.

Now, ask yourself this. Of the three, whom do you think can be said to be the candidate the Jihadis most dont want to see in power?

Posted by: Frank Martin at January 30, 2008 11:33 PM

For me, this system is broken, and it won't be fixed easily. I'll echo what S1C said by saying it seems my choices now are between Eek and Meek.
Immigration is my hot button. McCain fails. In my opinion, he's the Republican version of John Kerry...
Someone in this party thinks he's electable, but not me.

I'm now looking out toward 2012, hoping the fiasco we are about to endure will convince the Republican party to look at this failed election and the ramification of the next four years, then return to its' Conservative roots ala 1994. Only then can I consider casting my vote for the "R" candidate.
I'll be writing "Fred" on my ballot.

Is it third party time?
Maybe.

Posted by: Greybeard at January 31, 2008 03:22 PM

Did you endorse Dole in '96? This race resembles a horse race I once saw at Fairgrounds. If McCain wins the nomination, I'll know it's fixed for the Dems. I wish betting on it was legal. If it was, I'd bet on Clinton and if the odds were good I'd throw something on Obama. But McCain? I can't even imagine it.

Posted by: Patrick of Atlantis at February 3, 2008 12:32 AM

I did actually. Heck, I even voted for him in 96. I thought Dole was the better candidate over the other fellah and I think history will back me up on that.

And hey, Im still open to Romney. If he pulls it out, if he can manage to close the sale with the republicans who keep shooting themselves in the foot with votes for huckabee or if he can get folks like me who see McCain as the only one who can make a coalition, then romney will truly be a turnaround artist.

Posted by: frank martin at February 3, 2008 09:53 AM

It would be better to write in a candidate or not vote at all than to vote for either Obama or Hills. Voting for either one of them would add to their "mandate". Can you live with that on your conscience?? I thought not.

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