On September 30th, 2009 at 6:07 pm, Blackstone said:

I voted for Bob “the Builder” Barr and I have made your argument many times. There was NO excuse for voting for Obama but had anyone put a gun to my head and forced me to choose Obama or McCain, I would have voted Obama. We conservatives are in better position today to fight socialism with Obama as president than we would have been had McCain won.

If this is what Roland meant, he should have said so. Every time I have seen this comment, it was posted by a nose-holding “Republican Uber Alles” myrmidon. Seeing his follow-up post about “third party spoilers”, I stand by my first comment.

I voted for Perot in 1992 too and consider it a good thing that Clinton won but 43% of the vote is far from a mandate. That is why Republicans won back Congress and the budget got balanced. Had the numbskulls who stayed home last November voted third party, Obama would have won with well below 50% of the vote. Had Republicans who voted for Obama voted 3rd party, the number might have been in the low 40s.

If that is being a “spoiler”, then being a spoiler is a very good thing. There are only two positions to take today: Democrat/Assistant Democrat (GOP) or conservative. The nose-holders are Democrat enablers.

To be clear: I voted for Perot in 1992. To be even more clear: I support Palin. Strongly.

The question is a matter of degree of risks. Obama may be the end of this Republic. He will certainly cause damage that will never be fixed. Massively expanded bureaucracies never retreat.

If McCain had won, we would now have Vice President Palin. She would be the unquestionable heir apparent. With her popularity with conservatives, she would matter.

The third party spoiler crowd never learns.

On September 30th, 2009 at 5:15 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

On September 30th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, mattm said:

So, who is happy that they voted Dem to show the GOP the are not happy?

Dumbest comment of the day. Conservatives have much more influence and traction now that McCain can no longer doing the blocking for the Democrats.

Actually it’s not such a dumb comment. Republican and Democrat are not the only two options. Any conservative who would actually vote Democrat to protest against the Republicans, let me be diplomatic, needs to have his head examined. Voting third party, doing a write-in, even staying home, would be so much more preferable to actually giving the Democrats any kind of mandate to screw us further.

I’m glad McCain’s out of the picture, and I’m glad for the protests, but they’d be even more effective had there been a more visible (i.e., third party) protest vote from the last election.

On September 30th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, mattm said:

So, who is happy that they voted Dem to show the GOP the are not happy?

Dumbest comment of the day. Conservatives have much more influence and traction now that McCain can no longer doing the blocking for the Democrats. Do you really believe that electing the very architect of most of our current problems would have been better? Remember the obnoxious bills that carried his name?

You nose-holders are about to follow your beloved “party that stands for nothing” into extinction. Conservatives? We’ll be fine. Thanks for asking.

Go Sarah!!

Will anyone learn from this? Of course not.

Left-wing authors don’t sell nearly as many books thanks in no small part to the fact that their target market is one that wants everything for free. I do love it when libs are victimized by their own creation.

/sarc

On September 30th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, right_on said:

right_on is, well, right-on. I have been following this theory for quite some time now and it works! Amazingly, the Obama gang lies about everything. They even lie when they don’t have to lie. They cannot help it.