i disagree - you shouldn’t stand back from the process but vow to insert yourself more actively into party politics in your locality going forward. this has to happen from the grass roots. no sense committing suicide in the meantime.
I could easily change my mind between now and election day, but for now I’ve simply had it. We gave them EVERYTHING they asked for and how did they thank us, by putting us in the shape we find ourselves, facing yet another election where we’re told ‘like it or lump it”. And if you choose lump it then YOU’RE the bad guy.
I might well be fighting a lonely battle but the message they’re going to get from me between now and the convention is bring us a candidate that we can support and still face ourselves in the mirror every morning or count me out.
No anger, no whining, no vitriol. Just a simple stand, I refuse to go along like I have for nearly 40 years thinking this time would be different. McCain will be another Bob Dole and if I go along ‘because the alternative is worse’ then I have no grounds to say over and over “Don’t blame me, I warned you and ignored me.”
Everyone has his or her breaking point. McCain in 2008 will be mine. They still have plenty of time to come up with a nominee that will not turn me off. Let them be the ones who hold out because they can’t bring themselves to vote for a Hunter or a Thompson. They are used to getting their way. This time needs to be different.