Archive of entries posted on 22nd June 2011

Letting Obama win

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In the last few weeks, I’ve had some online conversations with some people that are conservative — along with some that claim to be conservative or libertarian — that are determined to let Obama win the 2012 election.

Now, to be honest, they didn’t actually say they were planning on letting Obama win. But what they did say … well, the effect of it will be to let Obama win.

And, here’s the thing: some of you are planning on letting Obama win, too. You say you don’t, but that’s what you’re going to do.

Some have decided that “there’s no way in hell” they’d ever vote for Mitt Romney. Or Herman Cain. Or Sarah Palin. Or Jon Huntsman. Or Michele Bachmann. Or RONPAUL!!!1!! Or Newt Gingrich. Or Gary Johnson. Or Tim Pawlenty. Or Rick Santorum. Or … okay, I’ve made my point: some have said they’d vote 3rd party before they’d vote for a particular candidate.

Why? Because that particular candidate is nuts (think RONPAUL!!!1!! or Gary Johnson) or is way too inexperienced (Cain, Bachmann) or not a real conservative (Newt, Romney) or boring (Pawlenty, Huntsman) some undefined reason (Palin, Santorum) or something (pick ’em).

You want examples? You’ll probably see them in the comments of this post by the very ones I’m talking about. And, if you look back at comments on earlier posts, you’ll see a lot of what I’m talking about.

This happened in 2008. I was all gung-ho for Fred Thompson while a friend of mine was all about Huckabee. (Remember, this was 2008.) As the GOP race narrowed, he was complaining about Romney and McCain, saying he’d never vote for either. And, of course, McCain ended up winning the nomination. And losing the election.

So, if you’re one of those that will never vote for MItt Romney/Herman Cain/Sarah Palin/Jon Huntsman/Michele Bachman/RONPAUL!!!1!!/Newt Gingrich/Gary Johnson/Tim Pawlenty/Rick Santorum … and if you hold to it … then Obama wins.

And America loses.

Sure, go ahead. Give me all your excuses.

I’m not going to let the GOP nominate just anybody and automatically get my vote. I’m going to send a message.

What message is that? “I’d rather America go to hell than vote for someone I can’t stand?” That message?

Don’t misunderstand me. You should send the GOP a message. It’s just that the timing is all wrong. November 2012 is not the time to send a message to the GOP. The time is now.

Let me say that again: now.

Get involved. Support the candidate you like. Do get involved. Let the Republicans know that, they way they’ve been doing things, you’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. And keep at it.

If, after all that, they still end up nominating another John McCain, I don’t see that I have any choice but to vote for the 2012 version of John McCain. But I’m going to give ’em hell about it.

Because, as bad as I’d hate voting for a candidate I don’t like, I’d hate letting Obama win even more.

It’s called making the hard choices. You’ll learn about that when you grow up.

Winnor!

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Time to award HIGH PRAISE to who came up with the best answer to “Things cooler than being an Obama supporter”. And the best answer was:

Rachel Maddow’s haircut

Except no one submitted that. So instead HIGH PRAISE goes to FormerHostage for his answer:

David Axelrod’s mustache

Great job, FormerHostage; you are truly a titan among men. Oh, and while I’m at it, thanks again for enduring that horrible thing you went through in the late 70s: The Carter Presidency.

Jon Hunstman

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So Jon Huntsman has joined the presidential race, and people are very excited for aware of his campaign. Anyway, Huntsman will be the perfect candidate for people who… are an immediate relative of Huntsman and would like to show support for him. I just don’t get his candidacy, but the press is very excited.

Anyway, I had my crack research staff find out what they could about Huntsman, and here is what they found:

FUN FACTS ABOUT JON HUNTSMAN

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Hmm… maybe fun facts was aiming a little too high. Maybe I should have just gone for “FACTS ABOUT JON HUNTSMAN”. Well, his name is spelled “Jon” instead of the more traditional “John”. I’m not sure how that happened. Guess you could ask his parents. If you cared.

Government Sorta Doesn’t Want You to Smoke

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So the FDA is going to put some really graphic pictures on the top half of every cigarette pack, including pictures of cancer ridden lungs, rotting teeth, and a corpse. Oh, and this guy:

Graphic!

I don’t really get this one. Maybe smoking made him bald. I guess you luck out if you get this pack because instead of staring at death you only have to look at dour baldo.

Isn’t this a really weird thing? The government is doing everything it can to stop people from smoking sans actually banning cigarettes. How long until the warning is “WARNING: Smoking cigarettes can get you arrested for smoking.”? Except that the government gets a ton of tax money from cigarette sales, and you know the one thing government hates more than smoking is giving up tax revenue. So it’s all rather schizophrenic, and I don’t expect a happy end to it any day soon.

So how much of health risk does something have to be before the government decides they have to warn us against it? Like are we soon going to see pictures of obese people on Big Mac boxes with the warning “WARNING: Eating this may make you a big fatty.” Though there is some stuff I wouldn’t mind a warning label on. Like on the next presidential ballot, there can be a picture of a long unemployment line with the warning “WARNING: Voting for Obama is the same as hating America.”

What do you want a graphic warning label on? Best answer wins…

HIGH PRAISE!

Random Thoughts

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Huntsman is his actual last name and not a nickname, right?

When it seems like your cat is staring you in the eyes respectfully, it’s really thinking how tasty your eyeballs look.