During the Democratic primary, Republicans such as myself advocated that we crossover and vote for Hillary in the hopes that a protracted campaign would help shatter Obama's halo bestowed to him by a sympathetic media. It did what we wanted it to, it brought up names such Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. But has it backfired? As we enter into the home stretch of the general election, have we doomed ourselves by inoculating people against the charges that we fling against Obama now? His connections to the now infamous ACORN may be our last bullet to stop the juggernaut, but there is no guarantee that it will work.
Call me pessimistic...but I do not think we have a good chance come November. I remember the run-up to the Bush-Kerry election. I remember that although Kerry had a lot going for him, it was clear to many that it would be a close race in the end. Not so here. It's very much a cliche now, but change is in the wind. We are no longer in the middle of a visible war and instead in the middle of an economic crisis that has been wrongly blamed on the Republicans.
Have I given up hope? No, but there is not much to hope in right now. For now, I just fight the good fight. I encourage other Republicans to do the same.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Time to pick up the pace
Yes yes, I keep saying I will, but now I REALLY AM going to start posting more. Even if it's minor things like this:
The '08 elections have taken on a sort of circus type attention. With the withdrawal of both Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter from the race, personality wars seem to be the order of the day. While each candidate represents his own portion of party...
John McCain: DefCons and some FisCons.
Mitt Romney: AllCons (which would be fantastic...if he hadn't flip-flopped around to be an AllCon)
Mike Huckabee: SoCons.
Rudy Giuliani: DefCons and FisCons.
Ron Paul: All the aspects of the party that come out of the woodwork at night.
...the main reasoning behind choosing your candidate seems to be "electability". Apparently the Democrats are on the verge of taking the country, so we need to elect someone who is suave enough to appeal to everyone and his dog. So subsequently, the candidates either aren't getting enough scrutiny from the base, or are getting plenty, but their shortcomings are being overlooked for "the greater good".
It's a sad thing, but this race has degenerated into prize-over-principle politics on the Republican side.
The '08 elections have taken on a sort of circus type attention. With the withdrawal of both Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter from the race, personality wars seem to be the order of the day. While each candidate represents his own portion of party...
John McCain: DefCons and some FisCons.
Mitt Romney: AllCons (which would be fantastic...if he hadn't flip-flopped around to be an AllCon)
Mike Huckabee: SoCons.
Rudy Giuliani: DefCons and FisCons.
Ron Paul: All the aspects of the party that come out of the woodwork at night.
...the main reasoning behind choosing your candidate seems to be "electability". Apparently the Democrats are on the verge of taking the country, so we need to elect someone who is suave enough to appeal to everyone and his dog. So subsequently, the candidates either aren't getting enough scrutiny from the base, or are getting plenty, but their shortcomings are being overlooked for "the greater good".
It's a sad thing, but this race has degenerated into prize-over-principle politics on the Republican side.
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