Great passion, anger and frustration propel emotional conservatives

Jimmy Z - “I don’t think the Republican party has the slightest idea how much of this kind of unrest there is out there ... I don’t think they know how deep it is, how passionately emotional these people who say they will never vote McCain feel about it.” --Rush Limbaugh, 13 February 2008

My friends, I need to appeal to you who do not wish to vote for McCain. I realize I have done this before, and I have to tell you that this will be a running topic for me as the weeks press on.

If you are willing to vote for McCain, I am asking you to copy and paste my words into an email, and send them to your Republican and conservative friends and family who are threatening not to vote for McCain. This is a critical election year, and allowing the democrat nominee to be elected is absolutely and totally unacceptable.

First, let me say that John McCain is certainly not my first choice. I was a Fred Thompson guy because I believe that Thompson was the only true conservative in the race. His campaign was woefully mismanaged and he is out.

I could not vote for Mitt Romney for various reasons which I won’t bore you with again for the 34,674th time.  But some of you talk about Romney as if he was the Wunderkind Conservative, and you are simply deceiving yourselves.  Romney has at least as many questionable antics in his political past as McCain does (a government health care debacle, pro abortion position). Perhaps it is McCain’s work in the spotlight of Washington DC that made us more aware of what he was doing, but the bottom line is that Romney is easily as politically distasteful as McCain.

My friend, blog partner and co-conservative-‘conspirator’, SonlitKnight will tell you, I was furious with John McCain on a few occasions. Only he and Arlen Specter had angered me to the point of insisting they should be excommunicated from the Republican Party (until Arnold Whozitswhatits added his incompetent performance to the list).

All of that being said, John McCain is going to be our nominee. Some of you are hoping for an upset by Mike Huckabee, but even if that were possible, Huck doesn’t have the ability to beat the democrat. John McCain does.

I have written many times about what Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama believe. I have told you that they are pure socialists, that Hillary is more left than Bill, and that Barack is more left than she. Knowing this as you must, I am appalled that any of you supposed conservative Republicans would even consider voting for Barack Obama.

Obama is compelling. He is smart, and he has charisma.  He speaks with confidence.  After eight years of George W. Bush’s inability to speak in public, we are naturally drawn to a leader with a silver tongue.

But Obama is an extreme leftist, a candidate so left, he doesn’t dare get specific about what he wants to do. He doesn’t tell you in detail what he plans to do, how he intends to achieve these things, and how he proposes to pay for them. He is fluffy and inspirational with his pretty words and provocative cadence. But Barack says nothing.

And so, some conservatives and Republicans are reacting to the probable nomination of John McCain with emotion. This is altogether a terrible thing for our party. Conservatives are not emotional about politics. It makes no sense to approach politics emotionally. Politics do not deliver perfect candidates, and I would like to tell you that we should feel blessed to have someone as honorable as John McCain.

Last night, I was told by a very frustrated conservative in the evil liberal chat room that La Raza is backing McCain. This is nonsense; they will be backing the democrat in the general. More importantly, McCain isn’t embracing La Raza at all, and La Raza can say anything they like about him. Don’t fall for such shenanigans.

Emotion tells us ”McCain was a jackass. He doesn’t espouse what we believe. He has fought with conservatives in the past and I do not want to pull the lever for that guy.”

Logic should tell us something completely different. Logic very clearly indicates that we have a leftist democrat on one side, and a somewhat unreliable conservative/moderate on the other side. The liberal democrat will do nothing for us. The liberal president could, in a short 4 years, take conservatism back 20 years or more.

The conservative/moderate is someone we can work with. John McCain is saying the right things. Does that automatically translate into the conservative we would rather have? Probably not. Does it show us that he understands what conservatives want? Absolutely.

My friends, set aside emotion.  Be pragmatic. This is a simple choice.  As I like to say, this is not rocket surgery. Vote for the Republican nominee. Vote for John McCain.