but I’m pretty sure it won’t be.We have, running for president, a man of an unusually long and clear record of integrity in political life, in John McCain—not spotless, no, but several standard deviations above the norm—versus a man who has no such record, in Barack Obama, who abandoned his pledge to take public financing, whose campaign has taken deliberate steps to enable illegal donations, whose past is still largely unexamined (and who has taken significant steps to keep it that way), and who has shown himself willing to enlist surrogates, including political supporters and government agencies, to destroy those who challenge him, if they can. It’s gotten to the point, if I were a liberal, I still wouldn’t vote for Sen. Obama—I’d be organizing a write-in campaign for Hillary Clinton.
“It’s gotten to the point, if I were a liberal, I still wouldn’t vote for Sen. Obama—I’d be organizing a write-in campaign for Hillary Clinton.”
Honestly, my assumption would be that you would just interpret Obama differently, in the same way that convservatives white-wash McCain and point out the silver lining, whereas liberals see the looming, glowering cloud of national misfortune.
Its a difference of perception, and I think that confirmation-bias has something to do with it on both sides.
I think there is a *lot* of room between Obama the Messiah and Obama the Terrorist-loving Fraudulent Antichrist that just isn’t being talked about, just like the unexplored space between McCain the Shining Faultless War-Hero and McCain the Hypocritical Warmongering Doofus.
Really, they’re both a lot easier to deal with as symbols…as objects rather than subjects.
One can only hope. Go, Hill! We’ll take it any way we can get it — legally, that is. Which is more than the Obama surrogates and the illumanati “change” visionaries on high are doing.
Many liberals are. Check out The Confluence at http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/. These writers are my favorite Hillory supporting McCain voters ever! Who knew we’d have so much in common?
No. There have been Republicans I’ve refused to vote for in the past, and there no doubt will be in the future. Were I liberal, the same would be true of Democrats–and Barack Obama would be one of them. I don’t expect flawless integrity of anyone, especially in politics, but I won’t vote for anyone with major cracks in their foundation, even if I agree with them politically.
As for John McCain, I don’t claim he’s either shining or faultless, but neither “hypocritical” nor “warmongering” is rationally justifiable. Actually, if you know any conservatives who whitewash the man, you know a very, very rare breed indeed. (As for your implication that only “liberals see the looming, glowering cloud of national misfortune,” either you haven’t been paying attention to my blog or you think I’m far more unusual than I actually am.)
Seriously, I don’t think Sen. Obama is “the Terrorist-loving Fraudulent Antichrist,” but if I were a liberal, I’d be writing in Hillary.
Oh, and thanks, Dave and Caila. I’ll have to check that link when I get the chance.