Way Up North: Left Coast Rebel: "Take Them at Their Word?"

30 April 2012

Left Coast Rebel: "Take Them at Their Word?"

Having trouble trying to decide which candidate to vote for, while holding your nose? There's some food for thought over at the Left Coast Rebel.

Excerpt:

What is a conservative voter to do? There really are only two options. Vote for Romney, or don't.

Voting for Romney plays on the possibility that he is a conservative masquerading as a liberal (both past and near future) to win elections. If that is the case he may govern as a conservative. If that masquerade is in fact real - he's a RINO - then we are straddled with a less liberal liberal than the uber-liberal liberal in the White House now. In other words, the dose of poison will at least stop flowing so quickly. Perhaps with pressure properly applied it can even be slowed to a trickle. That's clearly not ideal and it is probably a much more likely scenario than the masquerade fantasy noted above. But it is still a better outcome than the "don't vote for him and stay home election day" option.

Go read the whole thing.

3 comments:

johnnyb said...: Very good food for thought. Not voting at all is a definite vote for Obama. My idea has always been-- if you don't vote, don't complain!; Tuesday, 01 May, 2012
joated said...: Any point right of left is better than left.

I'm at the ABO stage but find Romney, while less than ideal, a far, far better option.; Tuesday, 01 May, 2012
Anonymous said...: I think of Nixon/McGovern. We didn't have "good" choices then but at least the candidates were diametrically opposed.

Now we have Twiddle-Dee and Twiddle-Dum - one with an R; t'other with a D. I'd have less concern if MA wasn't the East Coast CA. Makes 'em hard to tell apart.

But I'll likely go with R. Not because he's R - I'm not voting for "President" - but because he's not the incumbent and maybe there's a chance his selected underlings will be of more American sentiment than the current courtiers.

Maybe it'll really boil down to the VP choices.

(I guess the powers-that-be decided that delegate-count thingy only gets in the way of the desires of The Party)

Q; Tuesday, 01 May, 2012

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