Trying to Lose?

Given John McCains private war against the Republican Party, I think we need to ask ourselves some questions. In a recent post, which I titled "Story Of Betrayal" which can be accessed from the list on the left side of the screen, I talked about how McCain was so angry with the GOP that he has betrayed the party, and done everything in his power to harm the GOP, even at the expense of the American People.

So, the question is, does he see his Presidential campaign as a serious return to Grace, or is it the final act in his war to damage Republicans?

Think about it. If he is looking to win, why is he running such a sloppy campaign? Why is he trying to alienate the base of the party, without whom he absolutely cannot win, unless he has no intention of winning? Could it be that he no longer actually wants to be President? Is he a spoiler? In the race now for the simple reason of making sure that a Democrat takes the White House? Maybe that's not what's going on, but don't you think it's worth thinking about?

I'm still making the case for working toward the election of a real Conservative on a Third Party ticket. I don't think that we can afford to stay with the two main parties anymore. The fact of the matter is that both the Dems and the GOP have moved significantly to the left, and either of them now stand for big Government, higher taxes, and decreased liberties.

The thing to remember is that we haven't lost our liberties yet. We will if we don't take some action, but that action is easily open to us through the voting box. That is the genius of our political system. We have the right to vote for good people. We don't need to be swayed by the ones with the money, unfortunately, most people are.

What we really need is for people to wake up. People have become so complacent because they don't think that their liberties can be removed from them, after all, they are protected by the Constitution, so why worry about it? Well, we have to worry about it because the overwhelming apathy in this nation has led us to the point where most people don't have a clue what the Constitution actually says, and if you don't know what the rules are, why would you expect people to follow them? We all know, and you hear it from a lot of people, that we can't trust the politicians for much of anything, so why do you trust them to uphold the Constitution if we don't hold them to it? Yes there are watchdog groups, and some very good ones, but if they don't have the backing, or even the attention, of the American people, they are basically toothless.

I guess the big question is, does McCain do more damage to us if he wins the Presidency, or by assuring it to the Democrats? It's a tough call. Either way, about the only thing that can mess up McCains plans from within the Republican party at this point would be a huge, not to mention unexpected, surge from Mike Huckabee. If you've read here much you know that I'm not Huckabee fan, but I can say, at least he would fight for the Fair Tax, and I've come to believe that that would be a good thing. I understand that Huckabee has nearly no chance of winning the nomination, but nearly no chance is not the same thing as no chance at all.

If Huckabee does end up pulling off the long shot and winning the nomination, I would give some consideration to throwing my support behind him, but I don't really expect this to happen. Unfortunately, I suspect that McCain will get the GOP nod, and that is not a good thing at all. If that happens, I don't see that we have any choice but to find a third party alternative. As I can not, in good conscience, even entertain the notion of voting for McCain, I will not back off of the Third Party idea if he does get the nomination. And no, I won't vote for Ralph Nader either.

Voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us in quite a mess in this nation, and continuing to do so will do no good for anyone. We must choose a good person and get behind them, even if by doing so we run the risk of having the greater evil ultimately elected. Without taking some risk, there is no possibility of reward. Electing liberals under the guise of calling themselves Republicans has only served to keep us moving in that same old liberal direction that we are so against, and by continuing to do so because we have too much fear to take the kinds of risk that we need to take in order to turn things around.

One other thing that we need to do is to start ignoring the polls, and not let them make up our minds. Polls give the media too much power over the choices that people make, by deciding how they will tilt and report the polls, they make people think that opposition to what they report to be the mainstream point of view, would be pointless. A case in point are reports that Florida Governor Charlie Crist has a 71% approval rating. I still don't know anyone who likes the guy, and you would think that if he had that high of an approval rating, wouldn't it seem likely that I would know at least one person who likes him? And yet I don't. Makes you wonder if they just polled the newsroom. The problem is that this kind of poll report makes people think that there would be no reason for anyone to run against Crist in the next Republican Primary for Governor. We must think for ourselves.