Suicide Voters
Feb 6th, 2008 by Mark
Well I think the term Suicide Voters is over wrought.
Still, McCain has so radicalized key conservatives that some have vowed to turn themselves into suicide voters next November by pulling the lever for Hillary Rodham Clinton over him.
However I have decided that the Republican Party has left me. Literally “left” me. I cannot in good conscience vote for John McCain.
February 6, 2008 — RUNNING as a conservative, John McCain rolled up huge victories last night in New York, New Jersey and beyond.
But if history is any guide, the McCain we’ve seen of late on the campaign trail is the most conservative McCain we’ll ever see.
Once again I hear the morons saying: “get over yourself, McCain is our guy, you must get on board.” Well FU. McCain is worse than Hillary.
He claims the mantle of Ronald Reagan. He even claims the mantle of Barry Goldwater, conservatism’s crack version of Reagan. But as McCain clinches the GOP nomination, he will begin his usual leftward lurch.
He will return to his lifelong positions as soft on illegal immigration, skeptical of tax cuts and favoring strong federal control over things like campaign financing.
McCain’s appeal to independents and even the left is what makes him such a powerhouse in the general election.
It is also precisely what has so many in the Republican base so wildly fearful of handing him the keys to the kingdom.
This is exactly the issue, he is one of them. I don’t believe he is a threat in the General Election. The liberal media likes him because he sells out the his own party to help their cause. Even if Hillary is the choice, the campaign chant will be “change”. John McCain will be painted as a Bush Country Club Rebpublicrat.
If the Republican Party expands “because we have a candidate who’s going out trying to attract liberals by being like them, then the party’s going to be around but you won’t recognize it,” thundered radio king Rush Limbaugh.
The Republican Party will “be over as it exists now,” he warns.
Amen, that is true. The Republican Party is over.
But if those conservatives sit out the general election, they will help Democrats make history by electing either the first black president or the first female president next November.
Good. It will speed the demise of the Democratic party, and a return to Conservatism in the Republican Party.
UPDATE:
If it’s o.k. for McCain to reach across the isle, then I can do it as well. I can reach across the isle and vote for Hillary, or Obama, or a third party candidate.
UPDATE 2:
DNC Chair Howard Dean is sending a fund raising letter to his ‘nutroots’ constiuents. In it he says this:
John McCain is a media darling, but don’t trust his carefully-crafted image - he’s worked for years to brand himself. From Iraq to health care, Social Security to special interest tax cuts to ethics, he’s promising nothing more than a third Bush term.
See, I told you so. More of the letter here.
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