Posted by
Gene on Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:53:48 PM
RE: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GreggJackson/2008/05/29/questions_for_mccain?comment
McCain or Catastrophe--Pick Just one!
Gregg, as you know, I agree with virtually everything you wrote.
However, despite all his negatives, at this stage of the game conservatives have no other choice but to back McCain.
I know there's a different view out there--that we should let McCain lose, take our lumps, and then hope for a Reagan in 2012.
There are two significant problems with that line of thought:
1. There IS no Reagan out there that I know of who could win in 2012 and
2. Four years--or possibly 8!--of an Obama or a Clinton administration could very well be catastrophic for this nation. The probability of 4-5 vacancies within that timespan on SCOTUS is more than enough motivation to suck it up and support, campaign for, and VOTE McCain even if we have to hold our noses as we do.
We all know that politics makes for strange bedfellows. Politics also makes for compromise, as McCain knows as well.
My first, close-up and personal, campaign experience was in 1964 with Barry Goldwater. That principled father of modern conservatism stuck by his guns, and lost in a landslide.
The result was LBJ and 60,000 dead in Nam.
America can't afford to lose in 2008!
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