A Bleak Future for GOP
29 January 2008
FOX News has now called the Florida primary for John McCain. Watching the polls the last couple of days, this isn’t really surprising, though it is disappointing. That Florida is a winner take all state makes this bigger than it otherwise would be because McCain’s win will be a close one. But McCain will come out of Florida with all the delegates and that hurts Romney.
The really scary news tonight comes from the Giuliani camp. FOX News reported tonight that Giuliani will announce tomorrow that he is leaving the race and he will endorse McCain. I can’t think of worse new for the Republican Party. If that happens it will be a devastating blow to the Romney campaign. It’s beginning to look like McCain is going to get the nomination.
I’ve said repeatedly that McCain cannot win in November and I still believe that. I’ve said I will not, under any circumstances, vote for McCain in November and I stick by that. I believe there are a lot of conservatives who fell as I do who won’t vote for him.
It seems the Republican Party still has a lot to learn. It has always been true that when true conservatives run on a solid conservative platform, they win. McCain isn’t a true conservative and he’s not running on a conservative platform, though he claims he is. That is not a winning strategy for the party or for the country.
Huckabee, running forth in Florida, still thinks he can win the nomination. I’d love it if he was right but his long shot status is getting longer every day. Moving forward I’ll be rooting for him but I think this really is down to a two man race.
I’ve not been a big fan of Romney but he is infinitely preferable to McCain. He may not have the conservative credentials but he at least has the business experience to understand how this economy works. McCain thinks it needs his guidance and that is scary. So I guess I’ll be supporting Romney moving forward. I’m really glad at this point that I’ve followed Reagan’s eleventh commandment when it comes to Romney. And believe me, I came close to not following it.
If you are a conservative, I strongly suggest that from this point forward you do whatever you can to support Romney because the alternative is almost unthinkable. If McCain actually did pull off a victory in November it would not be a victory for the Republican Party. Indeed, it would set the GOP back at least a decade. McCain would do everything in his power to remove real conservatives from the party because he hates them. Right now he’s pandering to them but that’s politics, not conviction. If McCain becomes president we’ll see the disdain he has for social conservative and evangelicals. He’ll tear the party, as we’ve known it, apart. A McCain administration will leave the Republican Party virtually indistinguishable from the Democrat Party. That may well lead to the development of a third party because conservatives will no longer have a home in the GOP. And the fact is, a third party will never be viable in this country because of our presidential system. The only hope is for conservatives to do what it takes to retake our party.
Today is a dark day for conservatism but it’s not over. McCain clearly has the advantage but advantage is not victory. The future is not yet written. Conservatives, now more than ever, must get to work and stop McCain on Super Tuesday. It can be done and between Romney’s money and the hard work of conservatives we can stop McCain and we must. I’ll be sending in a donation to the Romney campaign tomorrow. I’ll be blogging in support of Romney and I’ll be talking to everyone I can to convince them that Romney is the only hope for the Republican Party and this country. I hope you’ll do the same.
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January 29th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I believe I’m with Rush on this one. If it boils down to putting a liberal in office regardless of whether or not he’s a republican or a democrat, let it be a democrat, so the democrats get blamed for burning the country down. He said it took a Carter to make a Reagan possible. Having a democrat in office doesn’t really terrify me. But then again, maybe as you say, putting him in office may spark a serious conservative third party. I don’t know why you say a third party isn’t viable. Making John McCain president may make it viable. How realistic is it to think that we’ll take the party back? Maybe it’s more realistic to count our losses, and send the Republican party to the middle where it’s determined to be, and create a new party of conservatism.
I still don’t think I can vote for either. Third party for me, I suppose. Maybe I’ll just write in “Ronald Reagan.” I loathe Romney, probably as much as I do McCain. I think Romney’s just a huge politician playing the game. But I don’t think it will matter, because I figure McCain will get it.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:45 am
The biggest fear of having a Democrat in the White House is judicial appointments, particularly Supreme Court appointments. In that one area a Democrat can do tremendous damage in four short years.
But I agree, if we are faced with a liberal either way, a Democrat would be better in the long run for the very reason you state.
There are a number of reasons built into our system to work against a third party ever being viable. The electoral college and our winner take all system top the list. It would take substantial changes to our entire political system to make a third party viable. We would have to change to something like a parliamentary system before a third party could ever gain substantial power. The odds are very good that I will be voting third party come November though.