I’ve heard and read a lot of conservative people saying that they would rather vote for a democrat over McCain, because “it is better having an avowed enemy than a ‘friend’ who is quite likely to stab you in the back”.
Of them, about half are thinking of voting for Hillary because she is more of a realist than Obama, and therefore a little safer. The other half are thinking of voting for Obama because they think that because of his naivety and lack of national political experience he can be better controlled and led by congress and the other ‘powers that be’.
(I’m not saying that either strategy will be correct; Just that it is a not uncommon thing)
OK; I’ll admit that 20% was an exaggeration. I just said that because that was the number given in the survey expected to do the opposite.
But if you think that there aren’t a significant number of conservatives that will NOT vote for McCain, and of them, some number who WILL vote for the (whichever) democrat in protest, you haven’t been paying attention outside of your own little echo chambers.
I haven’t made up my mind yet what I, personally, will do.
But every time I start thinking that I will ‘suck it up’ and vote for McCain he does or says something new to Make me REALLY angry all over again.
The Vet’s I talk to like him because he is angry.
“But every time I start thinking that I will ‘suck it up’ and vote for McCain he does or says something new to Make me REALLY angry all over againe”
Same here. A couple nights ago, I read his daughter’s blog and I started to feel a little, I mean little, better about McCain and then his cowering to the media about Obama blew it all to hell again. While reading the blog, I was comparing the families of the candidates that I would rather see in the Whitehouse. I’m grasping for anything that would make me feel less disgusted about having McCain as our candidate.