"Red State" Co-Founder Says No Way, No How, No McCain

By: Lowell
Published On: 10/12/2008 8:39:40 PM

You gotta love this, from the co-founder of RedState.com, "the leading blog for right of center online activists" which has "played an integral role in the right's fight online against the left."

In the end, I couldn't do it. My California ballot arrived in the mail today, and I opened it fully intending to vote for John McCain. I filled out the state propositions first - yes on 8, no on everything proposing a new bond or new spending - then the local offices, straight Republican excepting Kevin Johnson for (nonpartisan) Sacramento mayor. Finally, the vote for President of the United States: an academic exercise in California, where Barack Obama will surely win by a crushing margin. But good citizenship demands voting as if it matters. Do I believe in John McCain? Not as much as I used to. Do I believe in Sarah Palin? Despite my early enthusiasm for her, now not at all. Do I believe in the national Republican Party? Not in the slightest - even though I see no meaningful alternative to it. So, my choice for President in 2008, scrawled in my ballot as an act of futile protest, is Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. If nothing else, I am confident this is the first of several votes I will cast for him in years to come.

Awesome. Meanwhile, former Ronald Reagan advisor Ed Rollins predicts this election "is going to turn into a landslide" for Barack Obama.  Our job?  Make that prediction a reality in 3 weeks.  G'Obama!

Comments



How many Republicans of reason and conscience are there? (bamboo - 10/12/2008 8:54:25 PM)
It's reassuring that some Republicans are willing to stop and think when they perform the one act of citizenship that matters most right now. But the unscientific impression is that too many of them stopped thinking a long time ago and will vote for McCain-Pallin out of thoughtless reflex. May the thinkers reign!


I don't know, but Jeff Frederick (Lowell - 10/12/2008 9:07:12 PM)
is certainly not one of them.


This clearly represents (aznew - 10/12/2008 9:06:36 PM)
the coming cracks in the Republican coalition as it was formed by Bush. The marriage between socially conservative/economically populist Republicans, and low tax/socially liberal Wall Street Republicans, could not last much longer anyway, anymore than the Democratic coalition put together by FDR could last more than a generation (a charismatic JFK gave it a few extra years of life)..


I mean given the option (Tiderion - 10/12/2008 9:29:02 PM)
and lack of a decent Democratic alternative, I think many of us should be willing to vote for someone other than the Democratic nominee. If it was John Edwards versus Bobby Jindal now after that scandal broke out, I think I would put a vote in for Hillary. Though Jindal has been quite a man of integrity of late.

Voting requires of each of us individual commitment to a better tomorrow. It takes integrity and intelligence and a willingness for compromise. Voting party line is a vote of convenience not compassion. Reason stipulates that the best candidate be elected.



Run through the tape! (Dan - 10/12/2008 9:38:00 PM)
I love Michele Obama's comment.  "We need to run through the tape".  I don't care how many people say this election is over, and Obama will win.  Obama HAS TO win.  Obama isn't a luxury, he is a necessity.  I think we all know what a McCain presidency would do to America.  And could you imagine how horrible it would be if he died and Sarah Palin took over!?  

So, I think we should feel good that Obama is leading by as much as he is.  We should feel like people are finally understanding the stakes of this election.  We should feel good that people are finally understanding that Bush is not an anomaly.  He is representative of how many Republicans think...and lead.  

Obama hasn't won the election until the votes are tabulated.  Until then, I am grateful to all of you who volunteer and spend your time fighting to take America back.

However, Lowell is also right that we need to make sure Obama DOES win in a landslide.  He needs a high level of support to allow him to lead the country the way it needs to be led. 50-49 isn't good enough.  We need to send a message that this nation wants real change.  Obama needs to take 30 more Democratic Congressman, and 9 more Democratic Senators with him.

Lowell, thanks for reminding us that our work is far from over.