Posted by
J-GOP on Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:23:32 PM
Well, the all-imortant Republican Florida primary is now offically over, and as everyone is well aware, John McCain, not Rudy Guiliani, is the winner. Boo-hoo!
With Rudy's loss, Republican devotees now much ask themselves a question that the media pundits have been asking for several weeks:
Should someone vote with their conscience and support the candidate that best represents their values, (even if that decision helps to elect a Democrat), or should they vote for the candidate that has the best chance of beating the Democrat, regardless of how that person matches up with one's value list.
Dick Morris had this reality check in his most recent article on his website:
The bitterness of the Democratic contest leaves open the possibility of massive defections from Hillary should she be the candidate, both among blacks and whites. There will be legions of disappointed young voters if Obama eventually loses to the race-baiting Clinton machine.
McCain’s record offers much to attract these disaffected Democrats and independents. His ability to win independents where they are permitted to vote in Republican primaries attests to his appeal to swing voters.
So McCain can win and Romney won’t. That’s the long and the short of it.
Since McCain is the only Republican that can beat either Hillary or Obama, that means that conservative Republican voters will have to hold their nose as they throw the lever for McCain. It's either that or voting for Romney, knowing that the election will go to a Democrat.
Since it's expected that Justices Stevens and Ginsberg will retire in the next few years, such a move means that Republican lose the Supreme Court for another 30 years. And we can only wonder what that move will do for our society.
So now that Rudy is out, I'm voting for the Supreme Court with a vote for McCain. Evangelical and conservative voters should do the same.