I’m one of “those people.” I refuse to vote for either party’s asshat nominee. While Obama’s clear obedience to James Hal Cone’s Black Liberation Theology makes him easily the most vile nominee ever, McCain’s election would assure backbencher status for all true Conservatives, and probably for a long time. We will have no party to call home if there ever is a President John Sidney McCain.
I don’t think the campaign meant to tip its hand about how McCain will seek to castrate Conservatism, but its quasi-announcement of strategy and tactics as detailed by Politico.com gives us proof of what folks like me have long suspected:
McCain, GOP unleash anti-Obama plan - Jonathan Martin - Politico.com
“When John McCain was offered early release as a prisoner of war, he refused, subjecting himself to torture rather than give a propaganda victory to his captors,” Schmidt [campaign staffer] writes. “Is it any wonder that during the Republican primary, John McCain was working with Democrats and talking about the need for comprehensive immigration reform?”
Obama, Schmidt contends, has never picked the harder right over the easier wrong.
Pay attention to the parsing here.
McCain is going to use his campaign to equate those of us who are opposed to amnesty, illegal immigration and mass immigration with the soldiers who tortured him. People with the desire to carry out their obligations as stewards of American traditions and culture going to be portrayed as evil. And McCain is going to use his supposedly indelible mantle of “patriotism” as a club to beat us into silence.
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Well, I will not be silenced by this insidious bag of pus. And these are the kindest words I can come up with to describe the lying son of a bitch. Now that it is clear he lied about having “learned a lesson” about immigration and “enforcement first” in order to restore his campaign from utter wreckage, there is nothing that can convince me the man is worth even a half-sack of excrement. At least excrement is useful as fertilizer.
I’d rather lick the bedspreads at a whorehouse than vote for John Sidney McCain.
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That said, I have a few questions that I think we will need to use in rebuttal here: Wasn’t this decrepit senators’ conversion to the Church of Global Warming Hysteria an act of picking the “easier wrong” over the harder right? Wasn’t his sponsorship of McCain Feingold just an easy way for him to feel absolved for his role in the Keating Five scandal?
Just because this man did some patriotic good at one time in his life, it does not mean he has a good character today. Not at all. If being patriotic in several instances defines a man forever as a patriotic man of character in America, why do we revile Benedict Arnold so much?
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Aaron // Jun 27, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Do you have any good ideas of an alternative to vote for, other than McCain? I am certainly not enthused about voting for the GOP’s nominee. Obama is certainly out of the question.
Regards!
2 Katie's Dad // Jun 28, 2008 at 3:02 pm
There is no “good” alternative. This election is already lost, if you are a conservative. The only thing that we have left is to vote, yet abstain at the top of the ticket. If enough people do this, it will get noticed.
Something I’ve been pondering is the possibility of doing a nationwide write-in campaign, but not of the normal sort. My idea is to encourage people to request a write-in ballot, and then write-in McCain’s name. My understanding is that the votes would not count toward McCain’s totals because he is not officially a write-in candidate. But votes done this way would be counted and reported as votes for a non-candidate named John McCain. The thing that needs to be determined is whether or not this tactic would work in all states, as there are various rules and laws for how write in votes are counted.
I think that if there were two to three percent of all voters that wrote in McCain specifically to say that we would have voted for McCain had he not been such a raving, leftist asshole, then it would make a point that I think desperately needs to be made: Ignore or offend traditional conservatives at your own peril, GOP.
3 Terry Morris // Jun 28, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Hmmm. I’ve been contemplating as to how to go about this. I can’t vote for McCain.
My idea was to write in Tancredo. But to be honest I’m not sure this is possible on Oklahoma ballots.
4 Flanders Fields // Jun 29, 2008 at 8:14 pm
KD, Terry and Aaron, Have any of you considered Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party? I’m not overly happy with the way the platform is worded for the party, but I like Chuck Baldwin for what he writes (I think I have a post on him on video recently, but don’t remember the post name.).
We are not losing on this one by not voting for the majors. We never have had a real candidate with them for many, many years. This moves the time up for the time we will have one. We sure as hell don’t have one in the major parties.
5 BSR // Jul 9, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Surely, one can consider other parties - Libertarian, Constitution, Green etc., to register displeasure with the two party duopoly. The worst is to not vote at all.
6 Katie's Dad // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:41 am
BSR, if you are saying that taking an abstention at the top of the ticket while voting for conservatives down the rest of the ballot is “the worst,” then I must disagree. As a registered Republican (which may not be for long), my casting a null spot, or writing in McCain, on my ballot will be counted statistically; it will lower McCain’s percentage of the total GOP vote while not raising Obama’s percentage of the crossover vote. That’s a good message to send to the left-tilting GOP right now.
If enough conservative Republicans turn out to intentionally cast a harmful ballot to McCain, win or lose, the GOP will note this in post election analyses. What it says is that we wanted to vote for a true Republican, but there was no such choice on the ballot. As I see it, I would not be helping send this important message if my “protest vote” went to a third party candidate.
If you are saying that not voting at all is the worst, I also must disagree. For instance, I believe there should be no encouragement from government to vote at all. Why? Because it entices people who don’t know anything about issues to cast ballots. The only prudent thing for people that are completely disinterested in issues to do is to not vote.
If you are saying that it is “the worst” for someone who is informed about issues to not even show up at the polls on election day, I agree with you.
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