How About the Conservatives Learning Something from McCain?
I just love the argument …
“you conservatives are a fringe, you’re a minority, you’re not necessary, you’re bigots and torturers …. oh, by the way, remember to vote McCain!!!! Or else!!!!!”
If everyone has a right to their opinion, then those who have significant reservations about McCain because of BCRA, because of oppositions to tax cuts “for the wealthy”, because they were called bigots for opposing McCain’s immigration bill, because they thought the bill was a horrible idea and were offended by the way McCain, et al. tried to ram it through the Senate before constituents had a real opportunity to be heard, because they ‘support torture’ for believing it’s a bad idea to give the boys at Gitmo POW status, because they don’t consider waterboarding ‘torture’, because they don’t think ‘global warming’ deserves the sort of economy-dragging fees & taxes McCain proposes HAVE A RIGHT TO WITHHOLD THEIR VOTE FROM JOHN McCAIN.
Now, I agree that calling McCain a “liberal” is too strong – and it isn’t productive.
At the same time, he is so spectacularly wrong on so many VERY SIGNIFICANT issues that I can’t support him.
BTW – that doesn’t mean he won’t get my vote in November, just that, if he does, it’ll be a vote against the Democrat, not a vote for McCain.
No one ‘owes’ McCain their vote. McCain has issues of his own making with a block of self-described conservatives – - – we’ll find out if they’re ‘significant’ in November.
But know this – if McCain loses because he’s alienated enough conservatives to cost him the election, IT WON’T BE THE FAULT OF THE CONSERVATIVES.
It’s a poor musician who blames his instrument, and a poor politician who blames the voters.
