Posted on 02/24/2008 8:09:33 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
Republicans MUST forget about John McCain and move on to far BIGGER issues!
American conservatives are fed up beyond the level of 2006, when they allowed Democrats to take back control of congress in protest to liberal and moderate Republican policies coming from the Bush Administration and the Republican National Committee controlled congress. I know, because I’m one of them.
They are threatening to guarantee a Democrat White House in 2008 by way of these three equally ill-advised strategies… and Democrats appreciate all three.
• Staying home on Election Day in protest • Supporting a non-viable Third Party alternative • Writing in a Real Republican candidate who can’t win
These three options, while they might feel good, will have the same result as 1992, 1996 and 2006, a Clinton or Obama White House for at least four years and a giant, maybe irreversible lurch to the left on a scale never before experienced in the United States.
At another moment in time, I might support all of these methods of protest. But America is at war for its very future. There couldn’t possibly be a worse time in history for such a suicidal strategic blunder.
The White House Race is Already Over
The race for who will sit in the Oval Office has grabbed all of the headlines for months now and it will continue to dominate the headlines until all the votes are counted in November, even the illegal votes. But the race is already over and America already lost.
Conservative Americans have every right to be angry and they are not wrong in their assessment of the three remaining presidential candidates. In fact, they are so right in their assessment that there isn’t a dimes worth of different between McCain, Clinton and Obama, that there is no need wasting any more time on the subject. None of the three are suited to be Commander-in-Chief.
The fact that one of the three remaining candidates will become president means that ALL serious Americans, conservatives in particular, MUST vote in 2008 and they MUST make their vote count.
The Peter Principle Alive and Well in Washington DC
The Peter Principle was first introduced by L. Peter in a humoristic book (of the same title) describing the pitfalls of bureaucratic organization. The original principle states that in a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their "level of incompetence".
This has proven to be the core modus operandi of Washington politics for decades now. That’s how the most unqualified member of the House Nancy Pelosi, became Speaker of the House and how the most worthless U.S. Senator in modern history Harry Reid, became Senate Leader.
Now the two national committees, run by people who arrived at their positions via the Peter Principle, have advanced three presidential candidates which also arrive at their political power via the Peter Principle. All three presidential candidates are being "promoted up to their level of incompetence".
None of these three are worthy of the Oval Office. Most Americans know it on days when their brain is fully engaged and not spellbound by eloquently delivered hogwash about baseless hope of progressive socialism, spewed from the mouths of career political criminals like the Clintons or a freshman empty suit, the Elvis of modern politics, Barack Hussein Obama. Jim Jones would be proud of both of these Democrat pied pipers leading their sheep to slaughter.
That’s Why Conservatives MUST Vote in 2008
No matter which of the three losers is "promoted up to their level of incompetence" in the White House race, America will need a pro-American congress to block all of the anti-American policies sure to be advanced by the next administration.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the last president I felt good about voting for in 1984. That was twenty four years ago. After a quarter century of holding my nose in every election cycle, I too might feel better denying Senator John “Feingold” McAmnesty my support. If Teddy Kennedy likes him, I just can’t.
But I will not sit on the sidelines and watch leftists from either political party drive my country into the Democratic Socialist ditch. I won’t just vote. I’ll spend time, energy and money to make certain that which ever leftist candidate ends up in the White House, his or her hands are tied by a conservative pro-American congress.
A Conservative Senate
• A conservative (not just Republican) senate will assure that pure constructionist judges are appointed to the Supreme Court. • A conservative senate will make certain that the very real international war against Islamic Jihad is fully funded and aggressively fought. • A conservative senate will stop any effort to legalize illegal immigration, or undermine national sovereignty and security with an open unregulated border policy. • A conservative senate will block all efforts to sign insane international treaties at odds with American interests, including those advanced by Al Gore’s Global Warming Scam. • A conservative senate can re-adopt the Gingrich Contract with America agenda aimed at reducing the size, scope and budget of a runway federal government.
The senate is currently made up of 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats and 2 so-called Independents, both of whom caucus with Democrats currently. Three senate seats will swing control of the senate and plenty are up for re-election and available in 2008. Check your state senate races. Get really involved.
A conservative senate means that whoever sits in the White House, administration efforts to steer the nation into the socialist abyss will be impotent. Conservative Americans MUST vote to take back control of the senate in their state races, anywhere a Democrat or liberal Republican seat is up in 2008.
A Conservative House
To affect real change or reform within the Republican Party in coming years, conservatives must have the power base to affect change and force reform. Replacing both Democrats and liberal Republicans in both House and Senate races will give them the power they seek within their own party.
Liberals have no more control of our party than we allow them to have. Liberals, both in our party and across the aisle, have been more active in pursuit of their agenda over the last several election cycles. We didn’t just wake up here one morning. They worked diligently over many years to gain the control they now enjoy in both political parties and conservatives will have to become even more active than liberals, to wrestle back control of their own party.
There’s no time like the present to start that process.
Who Cares About McCain, Clinton or Obama?
If you understand even the basics of how our federal government functions, then you understand that it is congress, not the White House, who establishes the overall direction of this nation. Congress holds the purse strings, the legislative pen, oversight and even confirmation powers.
A President is all but powerless without control of congress. Likewise, congress is all but powerless against a president’s veto.
Conservatives Don’t Have to Lose in 2008
But they can defeat themselves. The conservative vote may not matter in the 2008 White House race at this point. But it sure can matter in every congressional race throughout the country; and more than at any time in recent history, it must.
If Ron Paul’s supporters are serious about their principles, they can have the biggest impact in their state congressional races by making certain that conservatives, not just Republicans, are sent to Washington DC this fall.
The same goes for those who supported Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Rudy Giuliani or any other candidate in any way more conservative than McCain.
All of these conservatives can still make a difference. All of them can still win. Or, they can all defeat themselves if they so choose. The choice is theirs to make.
I’ll be in the voting booth in November, no matter what I decide to do in the White House race, because the race that matters most is the race for control of congress. Hope to see all other American conservatives there in record numbers… Our country depends on it.
AMEN!
Well said, and I agree with you. Unfortunately, too many in the Republican party have been brainwashed into putting their PRINCIPLES aside for the "sake of the party."
I say, for the sake of the party, the Republicans should return to the PRINCIPLES that once made it the GREAT party of Ronald Reagan!
Once they do, they'll have earned my vote back, and not a minute before.
The days of courting Conservatives around election time to get our votes, then banishing us from the party once the election is over are long gone.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Tough, not impossible.
Unless we don’t try, then it is indeed impossible.
That's good, because you're sure as hell not going to get Conservative control of the White House with John McCain!
I’m with you. I’ve never voted for a Dem, and that includes McCain this November. However, I will do everything in my power to advance conservatism at my state and local level, by identifying conservatives, supporting them and working hard for their election.
Sadly, too many are still hung up on the WH race.
That race is already over. They had better move on and take action in their congressional races...
I’m almost completely with you.
You said you aren’t going to vote FOR McCain, and baring changes (we’ve got 8 months yet) I won’t either.
But make your vote count! I plan to. I am going to do what I can to derail McCain, that means not voting, voting for a no chance third party guy, and a write in vote is out.
The best chance to derail McCain is to CAST A VOTE for the Dem.
“I’ll be in the voting booth in November, no matter what I decide to do in the White House race, because the race that matters most is the race for control of congress. Hope to see all other American conservatives there in record numbers… Our country depends on it.”
Agreed. Nuff said.
Sadly, NO on all counts.
But I’m tired of wasting time trying to get Paul supporters into reality.
So, believe whatever you want. Conservative did NOT support Paul. He had no more than 1-2% support from conservatives across the country. At some point, all Paul supporters will have to ask themselves why that is???
And they won’t be able to lie to themselves in their answer forever...
EXACTLY!
BRAVO!
I ain’t voting for McCain, so there!
If it couldn’t be done when Reagan was in the chair then we can forget about it today. You need to get out of Egypt.
With McCain, at least we can get a Roberts and Alito in there. Hillobama, You wont have a prayer
I really hate that argument, for I find it so bogus.
7 out the 9 justices at the time of Kelo vs New London were appointed by Republicans.
Why bother?
Yes, McCain's picks could be as good as George HW Bush's picks. Won't that be helpful to the cause /s
Spread it far and wide!
“The best chance to derail McCain is to CAST A VOTE for the Dem.
Congratulations! You have come up with the best way to derail AMERICA for the next 20 years!
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