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Posted by D. Sherman on Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 20:35:16 :
In Reply to: Re: OT Trying to Ban Wood burning in Ohio posted by Steve Elliot on Sunday, March 02, 2008 at 19:28:17 :
Until people start voting for the person they like the most, rather than the one they think is more likely to be able to beat the one they dislike the most, we'll just keep getting what we've got now. Barring a major screw-up, a Democrats is going to win the presidential election. McCain doesn't have a chance. If there was ever a time for Republicans to vote for who they simply liked the most, this is the year to do it. They still might not put a Republican in the White House but at least they'd have the right man raising the right issues in the campaign.
Frankly, this time last year Obama was in the same spot Ron Paul was -- the party bosses didn't like him, the media didn't take him seriously and nobody thought he had a chance. But so many regular Democrats, and people who'd never paid much attention to party politics, supported him that now he's the front-runner. If Republicans had had the courage to do that with Ron Paul, rather than obsessing over who would be most likely to beat Hillary, we could have had Paul vs Obama this fall, a real conservative against a real liberal, and both of them honest and articulate men who weren't beholden to the party bosses.
I honestly don't see why any conservative would like McCain more than Clinton. You've got a liberal Republican against a conservative Democrat. Their platforms aren't even all that much different. All three are anti-gun, if that's important to you. They're all career politicians who've made their living spending other people's money. None of them is saying anything serious about reducing the size of the federal government. Clinton and McCain are both talking out of both sides of their mouths on Iraq and free trade.
Personally I think the Republican party's going to have to get its hat handed to it this fall before the party bosses realize that what they're peddling is no longer what people want to buy. Maybe once they've been thoroughly defeated, they'll be willing to go back to advocating smaller government and personal liberty.
One more thing; it's congress, not the president, that passes laws. The presidential candidates can run their mouths off as long as they want about what they'll do, but they can't do it unless congress goes along. If you don't like the idea of Hillary or Obama being the next president, it might be worth putting some effort into electing congress-critters that you like better. I'm one of those who thinks were better off with a stalemate in DC than with either party in total control. If we can keep congress and the President arguing with each other for the next 4 years, they'll have less time to inflict new laws on us.
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