Rachel Lucas has reluctantly come out in support of John McCain – with all the usual profanities and insults her side offers those of us who are either still undecided or who will vote third party or write in. Obama has been added to the list of Things That Will Destroy The World – somewhere below Nuclear Winter and Global Warming, but certainly above Acid Rain, Overpopulation, and Y2K. Pretty soon we’ll hear that Nostradamus predicted him.
Whatever. No matter who gets into the Oval Office, the Republic will still stand. And no matter who gets into the Oval Office (of the remaining candidates), the consequences will be dire.
This comment by Physics Geek pretty much summed up my feelings (edited for profanity). It’s a well-thought out explanation of why I’m not going to race to the polling station to keep the flaming liberal, Marxist, freedom-destroying, tax-happy, economic moron, lying, racist out of the White House. I may still vote for McCain, to whom much of that list can also be applied, depending on how the war is going in November. But that’s the only reason why he might get my vote. And here’s why:
Not surprisingly, the S**t Sandwich voters have come out of the woodwork again. I fully understand your position, Rachel, as I used to feel that way myself. In fact, I accept my part of the responsibility for the continued leftward drift of the GOP these last [unsure how long] years. I continued to vote for Republicans because I knew that the Democrats were worse. Then the next election came again I voted for a still more liberal GOPer because, hey, he’s not as bad as the other guy, right? And the GOP leaders took that as a sign that they could do whatever the f**k they wanted and I’d keep voting for them. Unfortunately for our erstwhile leaders on Team Elephant, I’ve had my fill. If I had wanted higher spending, greater government growth and still more entitlements, I’d have voted Democrat in the first place. I didn’t, of course, but that’s what I got.
I survived the post-Watergate debacle of a Democrat dominated House, Senate and President. Ditto for the first two Clinton years, although the House and Senate contained some at least marginally conservative Democrats, who retired en masse once they were no longer in the majority. What I learned from those two experiences is that Democrats will, in general, royally screw up when given access to unfettered government power.
Here’s what I see happening after this year’s election:
1) Obama wins and the Democrat majorities increase in both the House and Senate. Whatever cockamamy legislation the Democrats dream up will get almost uniformly opposed by the GOP. Unless the Senate gets 60 Democrats- a possibility, I admit- this fall, filibusters will be the order of the day. Nothing much good happens during the first couple of years and the GOP comes back stronger during the mid-term elections, when the opposition party typically gains some seats in Congress.
2) McCain wins and the Democrats increase their congressional and senatorial majorities. McCain is the one who proposes some bullshit legislation that President Obama would have suggested, and the GOPers in the House and Senate go along with it because Maverick is the de facto leader of the party. So he possibility of some craptastic piece of legislation becoming law is, in my opinion, greater under a McCain administration.
3) Regardless of who wins the presidency, there is pretty much zero chance of getting through another Alito or a Roberts. Obama won’t nominate them and a Democrat controlled Senate will never vote for them. Also, the most likely SCOTUS members to retire and/or die during the next 4 years are all left-wing activists. Replacing them with other left-wing activists leaves the court as it is now, a narrow 5-4 slightly conservative majority. Kennedy is, of course, the fly in the ointment there. Regardless, I cannot envision a way in which a leftist Senate would vote for anyone reliably conservative or liberarian for SCOTUS, so I’m not certain how things would get better or worse with either of the two candidates.
4) McCain has mentioned that he’d like to go for McCain-Feingold part 2 if elected president. Obama wants to bring back the UnFairness Doctrine. Either way, someone gets to try and abridge my right to free speech. You can make an argument that Obama’s policies in this regard would be worse, but you’ll have difficulty convincing me.
I’ve got a lot more that I could say on this subject, but I’m pretty much done with arguing. I understand perfectly your position with regards to voting for the lesser evil as I’ve done it too often. However, all you raving jacka**es who want to call me stupid or retarded can go eff yourselves. I thought long and hard to get to this point; it wasn’t something I dreamed up while drinking a 6-pack of barleywine. I will assume that you reached your decision similarly and aren’t voting for McCain because you’ve got a brain parasite. I understand and respect your decision, but I disagree with your conclusion. It would be helpful in this discussion if you afforded me the same understanding. Also, calling me a dumb*ss doesn’t endear you to me or make it more likely for me to come around to your way of thinking.
For conservatives, the election was lost a long time ago. No matter who is elected in November, the consequences will be dire. But they also will not be beyond God’s reach. When Obama is held up by the RNCC and the “S**t Sandwich” Republicans as the ultimate bogeyman, I remember Romans 13:1-2 and Romans 8:28. We do our part; as citizens of a federal republic part of what we owe to “Caesar” is an educated vote. I’ll make the best decision I can and trust God for the rest.
