Memo to Rongbots and Huckaboobs
You may not have gotten the memo, but it’s a two-way race now. Neither Mike Huckabee nor Ron Paul will be the Republican nominee for President. If you are still leaning toward supporting either of them as of this date, here’s what to do:
- If you support Huckabee because you (1) are a RINO, (2) would like to see the border busted wide open, (3) don’t trust Mitt Romney on guns or abortion, (4) suffer from RDS/LDSDS to a degree rivaling Michael Moore’s BDS, or (5) can’t bring yourself to support anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line, vote for McCain.
- If you support Huckabee because you have a soft spot in your heart for violent thugs who do vicious things to other people, don’t bother voting for either McCain or Romney, as both will sorely disappoint. Vote for Obama in the Democratic primary instead.
- If you support Huckabee because you (1) are a social conservative, (2) support the First Amendment, (3) consider successful executive experience a prerequisite to a successful Presidency or (4) suffer from MDS, vote for Romney.
- If you support Ron Paul because you support limited government, fiscal conservatism and/or border control, vote for Romney.
- If you support Ron Paul for any other reason, don’t vote at all.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
[...] Update: Voting advice to benighted voters. From Xrlq. Heh. [...]
January 31st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Why in the heck would I vote for a flip flopper? Seriously. I really can’t stand McCain or Romney. And Huckabee and Paul don’t really appeal to me either.
Have we ever considered that getting Hillary that we might get a real conservative revolution and then we wouldn’t have to hold our noses all the time?
January 31st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Have we considered that if we got cancer we would not ever get sick again?
January 31st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Sarcasm, love it. But I say we are reaping what we sow. Sometimes you just have suck-tastic candidates, and that’s where we are with the Republicans.
Look, Republicans were thrown out of power in Congress for good reason. Bush has horrible approval ratings for a reason. I’m just not excited about our candidates but then again I don’t think I really ever have been. And if it takes this much convincing to make a life-long conservative to vote for someone, don’t you think there’s something wrong?
Sorry guys, I’m looking for the genuine conservative article, and it aint Romney or McCain.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
It’s cool, Molly, don’t sweat it. You’ll just be joining the other 50% of eligible voters who don’t vote.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Molly, I take exception to your characterization of Romney as a flip-flopper. He may have “flipped” from moderate/liberal to conservative on a large number of issues, but can you name a single issue on which he has “flopped” back? As for looking for the genuine conservative article, I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but Godot isn’t coming. These are the choices we have, and the best we can do is to make the best of it.
As to the notion that President Hillary will spark a conservative revolution, don’t count on it. The first President Billary was supposed to do the same in 1996, but it didn’t quite work out that way. Even when this non-strategy does “work,” e.g., Carter, it does so at a huge cost. Carter only lasted a single term, and luckily enough, didn’t get to appoint a single Supreme Court Justice, but did manage to singlehandedly make Panama, Iran and the Ninth Circuit what they are to this day. I’d happily trade the Reagan Revolution for a status quo ante that meant we didn’t need one in the first place.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:45 am
The fact that he flipped at all — from liberal to conservative — is rather disconcerting. Who is the real Romney? I’m going off of voting record, not off of lip service. The same can be said for Hillary. We know she’s a hardcore liberal but she’s softened her image and is seen as more moderate. The fact is that I just don’t trust either.
As far as voting is concerned, I will vote, but I will likely hold my nose. I just don’t know what my choice will be.
And as far as a conservative revolution is concerned, after hearing all the socialistic programs at last night’s La-La-Land Love Fest, I can’t see how we won’t have a revolution. Yes it will be at great cost. I honestly hope it doesn’t come to having her in office but I think last night’s debate will likely ensure that she is President and he is Vice President.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Jeff, I’d rather go off of his record, not his lip service. Again, at least with McCain I know where he stands, even if he doesn’t stand with conservatives on the vast majority of issues. But what are you going to do when McCain wins? Are you going to vote for him in the general election? (And I know we vote on principle in the primaries.) Do you really think Romney is going to win it? And let’s say Romney does win it, do you really think he’ll beat a Clinton-Obama ticket? Good luck with that. And doesn’t anyone find it slightly amusing that a Governor from Massachusetts is the conservatives’ savior?
I know we don’t have a great choice, but I’m sick of NOT having a great choice in the Presidential. If we keep voting for these people, well, that’s what we will keep getting. And my disgust is by no means a reason for me not to vote. Sorry NK, false assumption. I just don’t know which poison I’m going to drink at this point and I’m pissed off that I’ll likely have to drink it…again.
As far as a revolution is concerned, that’s really what I want and yes I know there is a great cost. Nothing worth fighting for comes easily, right? I’m just ready to put that line in the sand if I have to.
I guess the underlying problem is that I’m just so pissed with the Republican Party in general from straying so far from its foundings that I really can’t see straight. Isn’t anyone as incensed as I am? I’ve been this way for quite awhile now, and I think it’s reasonable for the Party to get its proverbial butt handed to them by the electorate because they deserve it.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:16 am
“I’m just so pissed with the Republican Party in general from straying so far from its foundings that I really can’t see straight.”
Which “founding principles” would those be, Molly? The GOP was a relatively pro-choice party on abortion until Reagan was elected. The GOP was considerably non-interventionist in International affairs before Nixon, and didn’t reach its full “internationalist” stride until George W Bush. And the GOP was the biggest supporter of tarrifs on trade until Smoot-Hawley caused them to be out of Presidential power for 20 straight years.
Let’s be honest, Molly: You saw how much fun Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and Ann Coulter had during the late ’90s Clinton years. You saw how much fun Markos Moulitsas and Keith Olbermann had these last 4 years. You want some of that “fun” again, and a Madame President will give that to you in spades. Or at least you think it will.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Although to be fair, anti-immigration positions have been a GOP staple since at least the 1920s. One of California’s most respected former GOP governors (Hiram Johnson) had certain things against Japanese immgrants.
February 4th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
“The fact that he flipped at all — from liberal to conservative — is rather disconcerting.” Who is the real Romney?
Presumably, the older and wiser one, not unlike the real President Reagan, vs. the relatively liberal one who served as governor of California, vs. the very liberal Reagan in the years before he sought political office.
“I’m going off of voting record, not off of lip service.”
So am I, and thus far, Romney’s record is one of taking a far-left jurisdiction and governing just about as far to the right as humanly possible, while McCain’s consists of governing as far left as humanly possible while answering to a constituency well to his left.
“But what are you going to do when McCain wins? Are you going to vote for him in the general election?”
Absolutely. I don’t think he’d make a great President or even a particularly good one, but I have no doubt he’d run circles around Clinton or Obama. Though it bears noting that for either Romney or McCain to beat either Clinton or Obama largely depends on the latter imploding.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Who’s the second person?