We’re screwed.
You think your pessimism is bad, just imagine how delusional the democrats have to be to get excited about voting for obama.
Maybe the RINOs of NRO realized that Santorum isn’t going to rock the boat too badly when it comes to Washington politics. Even Rush Limbaugh is out of touch on this. If this keeps up, the propaganda war is going to nominate either a RINO in Mittens, or a slightly more conservative Beta Male.
I just can’t bring myself to have the energy or the desire to ever pull the lever for Mittens or Saint Rick. It’s unthinkable to me that we’ll waste a perfectly good opportunity to push for some major reforms thanks to such an openly socialist and vulnerable Democratic President. We can reform the tax structure here. Initiate a flat tax (or, get on a reinvigorated Cain train and make our next fight something in favor of the 999 or the Fair tax), initiate serious reform of social security by embracing the Chilean model, obliterating all the bureaucracy the libs have put in place for years and years...
But, instead conservatives are getting fooled to vote for a Social Conservative who believes in Catholic ideas of Collectivism and government social support. The only thing he does is maintain the system, albeit in a way “favoring” certain industries, but not embracing a truly equitable system. It’s still the same old corruption with the same old progressive tax system with the same old games, rhetoric, and ideas. But hey, he takes cute pictures with his baby, and he’s a good guy! Nevermind that he has no ideas and that the best defense he can come up with is to accuse the other candidates of being worse than he is.
If Saint Rick wins the nomination, I don’t know if he can beat Obama. I myself will never give a vote for mediocrity. I’m sure others will, but I just can’t do it.