Campaign 2008
What would make you a “suicide voter”?
This election has more people talking about crossing over to the other party or else sitting out the election entirely than any I’ve seen. On the Democratic side, 20%+ of both Hillary and Obama supporters say they’ll switch if their liberal loses.
You have a lot of less-than-gruntled people on the Republican side as well. For my part, it would take a LOT to go suicide voter. This is an incredibly significant election. If we lose the war, the morale hit to our nation and especially our military will be enormous. More importantly, 50 million Iraqis will have the joy of all-out civil war. The Dems are already tracking for huge gains in Congress. With a Democratic president, there will be nothing stopping them from passing a raft of liberal legislation. (And the days when we had plenty of conservative and moderate Dems to work with is over. They’re nearly extinct.)
So for me, only the VP pick could make me even contemplate sitting out the election. John McCain would have to pick a true RINO or a Democrat. Even then, I don’t know. With troops in the field, I would be hard-pressed to justify it to myself.
How about you? What would make you stay home or become an Obamacan?
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There’s no way I’m staying on the sidelines. Every Obama or Hillary speech sends me running to the McCain ‘08 website contemplating clicking on the “donate now” button. McCain has infuriated me more than once but he’d have to burn Reagan in effigy (I know, some people already think he has) before I would contribute to the election of President Obama by abstention.
It just doesn’t make sense. Get McCain in office and *possibly* deal with another Sandra Day O’Conner on the SCOTUS or get Obama in office and GUARANTEE a steady stream of 50 year old Ruth Bader Ginsbergs. It would be disastrous in so many ways.
I think I’d have to believe that there really was no substantive difference b/w the two candidates, which won’t happen this time around. McCain would have to campaign as a liberal and probably saw things about how similar he was to Obama, or that even though they had different ideas, Obama would make a great president, one he would vote for if he wasn’t running himself.
Even then, I think I’d have to go the polls to vote for congressmen and state offices. I couldn’t just sit out.
Inkling and Phil-
Man, is it good to see old friends again. Thanks so much for stopping in.
“Get McCain in office and *possibly* deal with another Sandra Day O’Conner on the SCOTUS or get Obama in office and GUARANTEE a steady stream of 50 year old Ruth Bader Ginsbergs. It would be disastrous in so many ways.”
If I were Scaife I would finance an ad campaign built around this comment. This sums up the whole enchilada.
“I think I’d have to believe that there really was no substantive difference b/w the two candidates, which won’t happen this time around.”
I’m the same way. If anything, this election provides one of the clearest contrasts we’ve had. Obama is clearly a man of the Left, regardless of his rhetorical obfuscations. Moderates don’t work for ACORN after graduate school. . .
If McCain were to adopt Obama’s / Clinton’s approach to ending the war (ie, just get ‘em out as fast as possible) then I would just be distraught and possibly sit it out. . . I just can’t see abandoning the Iraqi people without tying up loose ends and leaving well.