During the course of the primary events I have seen my preferred candidates knocked off one by one; it has been disheartening, and much to my chagrin I find myself searching for something, anything about the remaining candidates that I can glom onto which will raise my spirit and hopes for November. I was reminded of the quote above thinking about our two contenders left, McCain the disastrous and Romney the unpalatable.
Listening to Senator McCain’s victory speech I found myself trying to appreciate his finer points, and he does have quite a few of these. So does Governor Romney for that matter, it is so rare these day for me to think of a politician as intelligent (formidable intelligence in fact with Mr. Romney) rather than just sly like a fox or even plain stupid. But still after all the hustle, bustle, and impassioned speech of the day, I found myself still wishing for a better candidate, another choice, but who is else is running?
Who else is running?
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I cannot say when uttering that phrase I had anything as melodramatic as an epiphany, rather the interest and mystery of my own party politics began to pale against the true magnitude of the general election. It hit me like a sledgehammer that indeed there are more candidates running, and fortunately these three at their greatest, wearing their Sunday best and at the top of their game could never convince me to pull a lever for them… but by not supporting the republican candidate that is exactly what I would be doing.
I have heard from many that it comes down to a matter of principle. That they just don’t see how they could vote for any other than their own personally anointed candidate, but in doing so they will only advance the principles of those across the aisle. Principles that enable Mrs. Clinton to proudly state that she is going to take things away from me for the common good with her Clintonist manifesto, or John Edwards saying that the war on terror is nothing more than a bumper sticker slogan and that by living in a house the size of Rhode Island somehow brings him closer to that “other America”. Just as bad is Senator Obama with his foreign policy of abandoning Iraq and declaring war on our allies, but at least he has the excuse of being woefully inexperienced.
In November I will pull the lever for the republican candidate regardless, because it will be a matter of principle, mine as compared to those of the democrat candidates. My choice is very clear when I think of this very simple question, “Who else is running?”
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