McCain Nomination Chills Conservative Enthusiasm
With news that Romney is leaving the Republican Presidential race, John McCain’s the nominee. However, Super Tuesday demonstrated what that nomination is doing to the party’s conservative base:
One measure of his task is that more than 14.6 million Democrats went to the polls on Tuesday and only 9 million Republicans — indicating a vast enthusiasm gap between the parties.
Faced with a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, conservatives are dejected. I voted for Romney on Tuesday in the slight hope that he’d show enough of a pulse to hang in there. His exit means that you’re just pulling the McCain lever out of party loyalty. However, as a conservative, I simply can’t pull the McCain lever with a clear conscience. He’s flat wrong on too many issues to make him substantially better than Hillary or Obama.
Good luck with your independents, John. You’re going to need them.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Conservatives, Democrats, indepedents, John McCain, Liberals, Mitt Romney, RepublicansFebruary 7, 2008 at 1:03 pm | Trackback
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I just heard portions of McCain’s speech to CPAC.
One thing is sure. He doesn’t do humble very well. He said he’d accept “counsel” from conservatives in areas of disagreement, but one would have to be slightly mad to believe him. Why now and not before…when those who opposed his immigration bill were racists and nativists, or other issues where his response was profanity and diatribe?
Perhaps he’d be more credible if he hadn’t recently lied about Romney’s position on timetables, and inflated Romney’s comments about the Dole letter to Limbaugh with a twisted detour to war heroism.
Second, generalities are not straight talk, particularly those which perch on “freedom”. These are political cliches, and mean absolutely nothing.
I’m not persuaded. Future debates between him and the Democrat candidate will tell us what we need to know. Other than the war, there are very few areas of disagreement .
It will be a cold day in hell before I vote for that RINO. This is going to be the first election since 1988 where I haven’t voted for President.