Republicans don't love their party, they hate the Democrats. They'll suck it up and vote for McCain.

[blondeatlast]

Therein lies the Republican danger.

In their eyes, McCain is still the lower-tax, smaller government, pro-military, God-fearing, NON-DEMOCRATIC nominee. Due to the culture of the Republicans, they KNOW that their base will vote for him regardless--and they will.

We love our party and we encourage it to improve--that's a GREAT thing. But we suffer from the same things that draw us to it; that they actively try to engage us all with our ever-more diverse agendas and then fail to manage it. We hold our people to a much higher standard; of course they will fail occasionally/sometimes/a lot.

There is ONE certaintly this electiuon year; nothing will improve--nothing--if John McCain gets into the WH.

From here, it's Us or Them; survival or extinction. I need that kind of tunnel vision. Complain all you want; I don't need the "ignore" feature to avoid it.

But if by some chance McCain wins, I'm damn good at holding a grudge and remembering...

[blondeatlast]

1. k

[anonymous171]

2. We need to divide their party. nt

[blondeatlast]

3. This would be a banner year to do so, but we're too busy snacking on each other.

They really do hate McCain, but they'll come out for him, count on it.

[Johonny]

4. They didn't vote in 2006

People identifying themselves as Republicans is going down. History shows these people haven't always shown up at the polls. Particularly the Christian right, who before mass mobilization were non-factors because of low turn out. It's unclear if the total non-Christian way the Republicans have run their party for 15 years has finally drained the fight out of this voting block. Certainly McCain has shown to be a non-factor in motivating these people to vote for him. The last few elections have shown it's not just how popular these people have been polling wise, but how good they are at getting their voters to the polls. 2 years ago the Republicans didn't show up. So far this year the special house elections have shown, these people aren't fired up to vote Republican.