I am sure Pelosi thanks me although I cannot think of why as I voted for the losing Republican in IA-1 in 06 and will do so again in 08. I understand your logic. I merely do not agree. I voted for W on that basis in 04, Mission Accomplished and all. I was then told by W, McCain, Graham, Chavez and other Bush supporters that I knew who he was when I voted for him and that by voting for the lesser evil I had given my support for Amnesty, Meirs, the ports deal and every other lame ass thing done the past few years. That failure to 'fall in line' made me a traitor, a red neck, a bigot, a racist, would make me personally responsible for the next 911 etc. Sorry, name calling doesn't work on me. Tends to make me angry. If voting GOP makes me a serf I refuse. My people left the land of the czars sometime back. If the Republican Party wants my vote let them work for it. Let them not insult me when we have policy disgareements. I keep being told the base is too small and the Republicans must 'reach out' [which usually means doing Kennedy's work for him and then letting his staff put easter eggs in the guts of the bill]. I am a conservative. Home defense and defense of nationality come first. W and McCain both sold that out. They ignored two decades of history that said that unless enforcement comes first it will never come. The usual suspects will sue and the usual bureaucracies will drag their feet and twenty million more will arrive to wait for the next amnesty. I was told by Harold Hutchinson(http://calledasseen.blogspot.com/) in a different venue that the GOP didn't need people such as myself or Michele Malkin [was honored to be put in the same grouping with such a fine thinker and writer]. That under Saint Rudy the new Republican Party could easily win without having to pander to our kind and could be an economically liberal socially moderate party. OK. Try the experiment. Try it without my vote. Try it without over a hundred people I know from the net who held their nose in 04 but won't in 08. You don't get votes by telling people to get over it and get in line. You get them by bringing them into your coalition. McCain is on recent record that he still supports his own Amnesty Bill. So if you want Amnesty vote McCain. If you are against Amnesty vote in a Democrat so every House Republican will be free to vote against Obama's Amnesty Bill. So I remain a conservative buyt cease to be a national Republican. Free, free at last.
Scott
Feb 10, 2008 09:14 AMLabels: More from the same debate on Pajamas - no way I can be guilt triped into the lesser evil this time
posted by scott 2:47 PM