Sorry, if John McCain gets beat by Hillary or Obama in November, he won’t have anyone to blame but himself. I wish you people would stop lecturing us about being loyal to the party no matter who the candidate is. If you want to sell out, go right ahead, but I refuse to compromise my values any more than I have over the years, especially for the likes of John McCain. Keep lowering the bar and you’ll eventually end up having a candidate like Kucinich to vote for. In my opinion, It’s no different than the way the educational system has lowered its required level of achievement for students, and how other institutions and agencies have lowered their qualifications to achieve specific quotas.
What I don’t think others understand is that it is not just about this election. If we vote in McCain, his RINO style “conservatism” will become the norm. These liberal ideas will snowball until the Republican party is no longer the Republican party. By not voting for McCain, we are sending the party a clear message.
Who are "you people"? And who said anything about "party loyalty"?
The posted article was a straightforward lesser-of-two-evils argument. One can respond analytically and explain why "worse is better" in some long-game sense. One can adopt a more vague and emotional "I refuse to compromise my principles that much" posture. But you really should skip the petulant and unintelligent insults directed at other conservatives who are making what they believe to be a principled argument intended to further conservatism.
“I wish you people would stop lecturing us about being loyal to the party no matter who the candidate is.”
Yeah, how about lecturing to John McCain and tell him to be loyal to the party regardles of its members’ beliefs.
I’d have more faith in some of these pundits if they showed some intelectual honesty and took McCain to task instead of us for a change.
Bears repeating. Should have been in bold.
That’s right. You just sit home and when you and all you other self-righteous folk who think they are the end-all and be-all and speakers-of-truth about and for every conservative person in this country are paying upwards of 40 percent in your taxes, and waiting in long, long lines to obtain health care, and are experiencing here at home what Israel has been experiencing for its entire history, then you can just go slit your throat because it’ll be YOUR fault (not McCain’s, not the Party). Sometimes, it IS voting for the lesser evil; not that I think any of the candidates are truly EVIL (just misguided, foolish, and so on).
Sorry for being so strident, but I care about what happens and if it’s McCain vs. either Hillary or Obama, I’m going to happily put in my vote for McCain. And, maybe, just maybe his “loose canon” personality will be good for a change since Bush has been a big wimp about a lot of things.