Accidental Suicide

Here's the difference between murder and suicide - when you get murdered, someone else pulled the trigger, but suicide is a deliberate hit you pull off on yourself. Accidental suicide, on the other hand, happens when you might not have any overt intentions of killing yourself, but engage in the Big Stupid, which results in your untimely demise. Think Russian Roulette, mixing alcohol and barbies or walking through Bed-Sty on a dark night flashing a Rolex and a fat wad of cash.

A big chunk of America's conservatives seem to be in the process of committing accidental suicide.

Joshua's Army member Louie Louie provided me with a great example of this kind of behavior, citing an article he found in his meanderings around the web as he writes:

"The poll/survey also found that 54 percent of conservatives feel so abandoned by the current crop of Congressional leaders and President Bush that they plan to reduce their contributions and/or grassroots work for GOP candidates in the next election. And 70 percent would support a principled conservative challenger running against an established incumbent Republican in a GOP primary.

The highlighted phrase in the last paragraph is what bothers me.
In the last primary season there were two honest to goodness conservatives, Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo, and neither got out of the starting gate.

How can people make the highlighted statement and get McCain as the nominee?
I don't understand the disconnect. And what happened to all those Hillary supporters who were going to vote for McCain? What, for crying out loud, am I missing???????"

Actually, Louie's not missing much..but it can be tough trying to make sense of irrational behavior.

He's indeed correct - we had an honest to G-d Reagan conservative in the GOP primaries to pick in Duncan Hunter.He was someone with impeccable leadership qualities and experience and he basically was ignored and ridiculed. So where were these people? Playing golf? One has to wonder exactly who these people consider to be a 'principled conservative.'

What people like these malcontents are now trying to promote, apparently, is a floor fight over the platform at the convention on national TV that will make the Democrat's cage match look like a schoolgirl spat,or perhaps even a third party.

I personally can't think of a better way to get Barack Hussein Obama into the Oval Office.If you'll recall,that how we ended up with Clinton and I don't think I need to remind you how well that turned out.

These people forget that John McCain is the nominee for one huge reason - because he was the closest thing the GOP had that was perceived as an 'anti-Bush.' The damage the current occupant of the White House( with help from a GOP congress) did to the conservative brand name and to the Republican Party has been devastating, and that's exactly why the Democrats are gearing their entire campaign around linking McCain with Bush. So far McCain has allowed them to do so with impunity.

As for the Hillary supporters, well, some of them will be pulling the lever for John McCain, and a lot of others will simply talk themselves into voting Democrat again, swallow the Kool-Ade and vote for Obama. Just as a lot of these disillusioned conservatives will be doing for McCain, when the game's almost over and the prospect of Mr. Hope N' Change in the White House hits them.

Some of these self-styled conservatives will probably stay home and sulk on election day, but I'm going to have a problem problem retaining respect for them after that anyway.

At this point, it goes beyond mere party loyalty, which I don't particularly care about. It's about picking the best of two admittedly flawed candidates to lead the country during a time of crisis.
McCain was never my choice for president, and I disagree with him on any number of issues. But when it comes to his experience, character and courage compared to Barack Obama, there's simply no contest.

To me, there are basically two reasons to vote for John McCain.

First, there's the War On Jihad, Iran and what I think we're facing in the near future.

I don't think Joe Lieberman was wrong in the least when he pointed out that since al-Qaeda declared war on us, they have greeted the first year of each new president's administration with a major terrorism strike...the World Trade Center bombing in 1992 under Clinton and 9/11 under Bush. While al-Qaeda has suffered serious losses,they are still a potent force. And it's unfortunately not only al-Qaeda we have to worry about.

Thanks to the unwillingness of the Bush and Clinton administrations to confront the nation-states promoting Islamic fascism or to protect our borders, not only do we have home grown jihadis to deal with but active Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad cells under Iran's command inside our borders, as Steven Emerson and others have documented.

Our enemies are at war, but most Americans are still clueless about the fact that we're in a life or death struggle. Whatever else you can say about John McCain, he not only understands that we're at war but has the temperament to deal with it...which is why so many of our country's enemies are pulling for Barack Obama to move into the White House.

The second reason to vote for McCain can be summed up in two words - judges matter. And when it comes to the Supreme Court, they matter for decades.

The next president will likely have at least two Supreme Court justices to appoint. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the most consistently Leftist and activist justices is 75, and her political soulmate Justice Stevens is 88. Justice Stephen Breyer turns 73 this year.

The Supreme Court came within one vote of overturning the Second Amendment just a short time ago. They didn't because there are two conservative justices, John Roberts and Sam Alito, who weren't there eight years ago.

The next time you see a bit of judicial idiocy in a Federal Court, especially when it comes to a national security issue, research the judge. Almost 90% of the time, it will be a Clinton or even a Carter appointee.

Now, John McCain might very well appoint some Leftist activist judges to the Court...but I know Barack Hussein Obama will.If you think Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer are bad, just wait.

With these two issues in mind, sitting it out is not an option as far as I'm concerned.And given what we're likely facing, the quaint idea that conservatives are going to be able to pick up the pieces in four years and fix everything is, well..suicidal behavior the way I see it.