Republican Base Gets High

I have touched upon this briefly in the last few weeks on a few other blogs, but I figure I will put my thoughts down on my blog as to how I feel concerning those conservatives who say they will never vote for McCain, even if he takes the nomination. I am assuming McCain cleans up this Tuesday, so if he doesn’t this whole post is going to sound a bit odd.

Here are a few posts putting the McCain nomination in perspective.

Neo-Neocon:

It’s true that the press mainly covered McCain’s sound bites about needing more troops. But McCain’s website also contains excerpts from speeches and articles that indicate he was advocating a Petraeus-like counterinsurgency approach long before Petraeus was appointed for the job…

McCain was virtually alone in this position at the time, and subsequent events have underscored his rightness. Compare and contrast this man as Commander-in-Chief to Hillary or Obama, both of whom have advocated cut and run in Iraq on many occasions (Obama with total and utter consistency, Clinton with a bit of characteristic hedging).

Rachel Lucas:

Let me get this straight: you’d rather have Hillary Clinton, a bona fide socialist, liar, all-around bad person, as president. You’d rather have Obama, the senator with the most liberal voting record, as president.

Really? I throw up my hands in disgust. I truly do.

I know some say that they’d rather “have the country ruined” by a real liberal than by a RINO. You know what that sounds like? Something you’d read on DailyKos. He’s not going to ruin the fucking country, y’all. At most he has 4 years to do whatever he does and I’m pretty sure recent experience proves that no matter how bad a president is, they can’t “ruin the country”.

Dr. Sanity:

GET A GRIP, PEOPLE!

While I have no problem with conservatives fighting to keep their candidate of choice in the race, I find it completely baffling that they would stay home in November if McCain gets the nomination. While I admit that I am not a conservative, and while I currently feel more at home within the Republican Party, I do not come to the issues the same way most in the party do. I also get that McCain has pissed off a lot of folks with his stances on campaign finance reform and immigration. People who feel McCain is wrong on those issues have every right to fight against his candidacy.
I will say that I don’t give a damn about campaign finance reform this election. I also don’t really care about the entire immigration issue (although a favor a comprehensive reform that also offers citizenship), the War in Iraq and the War against Islamism are the most pressing issues of our time. All the Republicans who say they would never vote for McCain, even if he got the nomination and was pitted against Hillary or Obama, I will have to dismiss him outright as folks who were never really that concerned with the conflict we are in.

If McCain gets the nod, Republicans should hold their noses and vote for him. I am truly disturbed to go to countless conservative sites and hear people say they would never give a vote to McCain; that it is better to have Hillary or Obama in office than give him the Presidency. It baffles me to hear from these types of idiots, but there they are in droves. The commentators at Little Green Footballs, who were overwhelmingly in favor of Giuliani and comment on the fight against Islamism constantly, appear to be completely disgusted with McCain. How can you possibly feel the Islamist movement is a major threat, and find McCain WORSE than Obama and Clinton as a candidate? I hope that this is just bellyaching from this crowd, but it worries me that they have a desire to “punish” the country for not sticking to a more right leaning candidate, and would simply sit out the election.

If Republicans want to wait around for Reagan to walk from the grave and “save the party” then they can sit out the election and “punish” the American people in the name of their superior purity. Wait until Jesus walks the earth; and then you can vote for him. In the meantime, the world will move on without you, and you won’t be able to bitch about what it looks like while your head is stuck in the mud.