Posted by
Roxanna M. on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:46:10 PM
I recently read a blog posting from someone who called himself a "conservative suicide voter" because he was not going to vote for John McCain. I personally think this is stupid. I'm sick to death of members of the Right saying first that they weren't going to vote for Giuliani and now aren't going to vote for McCain because he isn't conservative enough. Okay, stay home. That's your right. But don't say word one when your missed vote gives us Clinton or Obama and all that will follow. If you don't vote, you have no right to complain.
I have read this posting more than once, and the more I read it, the more I have come believe that this man isn't a conservative at all. He's a liberal pretending to be a conservative hoping to talk people out of voting for McCain, as if there are some who need an excuse.
What gave him away? "Applied critical thought might have led to a different result than Bush II . . . But enough conservatives skipped critical thought because the alternative seemed worse. It was not." (Emphasis mine)
1. How does he know that enough conservatives skipped "critical thought."? Did he do polling, conduct a survey? He doesn't know my thinking. He doesn't know why I did what I did. It's highly unlikely that he knows what the vast majority of conservatives was thinking. He has simply made an assumption and called it a fact. A hallmark of the Left.
2. Bush II's first opponent was Al Gore. I find it inconceivable that there is a conservative alive who would say that Gore would not have been worse than Bush. In fact, there are a heckuva lot of dimocrats who acknowledge that Gore would have been worse. His near-maniacal ramblings concerning global warming are extremely worrisome.
3. Bush II's second opponent was John Kerry, the two-time gigolo and war "hero" who demanded medals for boo-boos so he could come home early. In a time of war, indeed at any time, America needs and deserves better than a man who cut and ran without so much as a second thought about who he was leaving behind. Better them than him, I guess.
4. "It was not." (Emphasis mine) The blogger didn't say, "It might not have been." He definitively stated "It was not." Since neither Gore nor Kerry was elected, it is impossible to say whether they would have been worse than Bush II. Again, he has simply offered his opinion as fact.
People always give themselves away.