Rafter
Kinda makes you think that McCain doesn't want to get elected doesn't it? I don't think the Repub. want to be in office when everything tanks. They want Obama in there sitting in the sh*t.
Time will tell.
Obama: I could list a hundred small problems I have with him, but I'll save us all a lot of time;
No one who voted for that
damned FISA bill has
ANY business in the white house,
period!
Mccain: Unfit for the job. I consider him even more incompetent than Bush. The man's completely befuddled and it gets worse, and more obvious as it goes along.
Which brings me to what Rafter said;
I agree. I really don't think the Republicans want the White House next time around. As far as I'm concerned the party was hijacked for the 1999/2000 election cycle by a group who were anything but conservative. They've run the party and the country into a ditch.
The only R candidate who spoke truth to the issues facing us was Ron Paul, and the party leadership shunned him like the plague, hoping to get a 2nd generation NeoCon in the job. When it became obvious this wasn't going to happen, the rest folded their tents and left. McCain is just the only one left.
At the rate McCain's campaign is going it would not suprise me at all if there wasn't a concerted effort to dump him at the convention. If the party formalizes the incompetence he's shown so far, making him their candidate, then the Republican party is further gone than I imagined.
Any other time, an "open convention" might be R. Paul's best chance to restate his positions, and possibly get the nomination. I'd like nothing better; but considering the crew thats running my former party of 32 years, I doubt that will happen.
As things stand I will write in
Ron Paul, like I did last time.
Re. the "wasted vote" notion:
I think the whole idea of what your vote means, has been lost here. Unless I missed a memo I thought the whole idea was to vote for who you
WANTED in the office.
Voting for who you "think" will win, isn't excercising a choice, it's just noodling out where the herd's going, then rushing out ahead of it... to follow it. Voting against who you're afraid will win; is just more of the same.
Both of these mean you've abandoned choosing what you want, to settle for what you don't want, least. I cannot see how either of these is ever going get you what you want.
To me,
these seem like the very definition of a wasted vote, and I've done that far too long.
Taken collectively, what happens is we lower first our standards, then our sites, and stumble into making a choice for the dog with the least fleas. Until we find ourselves stuck in a process that offers us nothing but flea bitten mutts. Sure enough, for all my "go along votes", we seem to have just about everything I didn't want in a government. No more.
All I can do, is vote my
best choice, and urge others to do the same. No other choice will do. No other choice is worth the time.
If it turns out that not enough folk agree with my choices, then I hold my breath another four years, and try again.