Posted by
davidg2e on Saturday, February 02, 2008 1:35:18 AM
I cannot imagine the basis for the mindless adulation some Republicans have for John McCain. After a perusal of his legislative and pronouncement record, it seems his only the fact he was a prisoner of war is all that recommends him. So what! There were thousands of POWs in the history of our wonderful country. Those who survived went back to their families and farms and didn't even speak about it. They were simply doing their duty. McCain has parlayed that experience into a minor god (read Senator).I ask again: what else is there?
McCain certainly is not a mesmerizing, even fine speaker. He is alternately testy and smarmy. Give us Romney any day! All he needs is a bit of public speaking coaching. He easily speaks about his conversion from certain "Liberal" notions and he speaks about the new man with great directness and subtlety. He has read the public's mind on certain of these issues and has seen the error of his ways. That is what men of intelligence and discretion do, once persuaded of the intellectual vapidity of their notions. I have no confidence at all that this is McCain's inclination. He seems to be embracing certain issues with which he historically and on the record disagrees to accommodate the most strident of the Conservative voices and not because he thinks that is the way of logic. What McCain lacks cannot be taught. If he wins, I will surely vote for him, but I will hold my nose and pray for the best.
Huckleberry...er...Huckabee must be angling for a scrap from the plate if McCain wins. He surely knows that he has no chance for national election. He persists in being the Ross Perot of 2008 and the Ralph Nader of the last several elections, a conceit that I am confident history will hold up to opprobrium, especially
I urge EVERY Conservative to vote in the General election, and to vote for the Republican candidate, whomever it be, for the obvious reasons, but I devoutly hope that it is Romney. To sit out the election is to give the country away. ANY Republican is better than the best of the Democrat roster, all of whom I find to be treacherous and just plain naive (Harvard education to the contrary notwithstanding)in their notions of how to engineer the prospering of our wonderful country for the foreseeable future...and beyond.