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Home Front: Politix
Bill Quick Flip-Flops, Now Will Vote For McCain
2008-09-03
So every four years we elect a king. Since people like consistency, we tend to elect the same king as many times as we can get away with. (See previous paragraph.) And the king, especially in any sort of emergency, has a lot of power. They donÂ’t always, or even most of the time, have enough to fix things right away. But theyÂ’ve got a lot of power.

Including the power to totally screw things up.

Everybody in the room that had the power to change the PresidentÂ’s idea of a fucking plan also worked for the bitch. Legally, they were required to follow her orders. They could argue, they could recommend but that was like talking to the Great Wall of China. She knew what was Right and what was Good and the people arguing against her had Dicks and they were Wrong.

For the kids reading this, this is a very important point. When you choose your king, forget most of the reasons you think you should vote for the king. Mostly, the king canÂ’t do much about the economy but ruin it. They canÂ’t make you richer or smarter (although they can manage the reverse). If you want one suggestion, think about all the contingencies under which that king (or queen in this case) may hold your lives in his or her hands. And choose wisely. About half the U.S. population chose unwisely. (48.2%. It was one of those elections.)

Quite a few of them died. Every person who voted for Warrick deserved it....
And
You hit that motherfucker with a full fucking court press.

You donÂ’t open up the borders, any of them, until youÂ’ve killed the son of a bitch.

Fuck the economy. Fuck anything. Shut the fuck down until your population is safe. They canÂ’t buy trinkets or gas or groceries if theyÂ’re mostly dead.

Nothing. Else. Matters.
These are a couple of quotes I pulled from John Ringo’s new book, The Last Centurion. In very graphic terms, he lays out a justification for voting for John McCain, although he doesn’t name that name. The “President Warwick” in this book is an extremely thinly disguised Hillary Clinton, of course.

I have often publicly worried about the threat of some sort of biowar attack against the United States, and also worried about things like airborn Avian Flu. I still worry about such things, and I consider them to be major, even potentially existential threats to the survival of the United States.

Now, from a political point of view, I think a John McCain presidency will be disastrous for the GOP in the long term, and certainly disastrous for conservative principles within the GOP. In fact, I think an Obama presidency, in which things generally proceed from bad to worse, would be better for conservatism in the long run.

And voting for shit sandwiches only gets you shittier sandwiches in the long (and not so long) term.

But.

“Nothing. Else. Matters.”

And that is true. John McCain is probably not going to do much for anything political I care about - I consider him a moderately left centrist - but he is something else, as well. He is capable of making a decision and sticking to it in the face of public opposition. He is a former navy pilot and commander who made life or death decisions on the fly, and then carried them out. So here is what it comes down to: For the sake of my own safety and survival, who do I want in the White House if Bird Flu starts killing people in San Francisco?

Do I want Barack Obama, who would dither, factor politcal issues into his reaction, make the same sort of vastly deadly mistakes that “President Warrick” made in Ringo’s book, and probably end up killing me, or would I rather take my chances - for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with politics - with a President McCain who might - just might - make enough better decisions faster and give me a better chance of actually surviving such a disaster?

It’s got to be McCain, folks. I can’t help conservatives to regain power and influence if we are all dead and the country is in ruins. In the normal course of events, I don’t think that would happen. But we are in an era where “normal” is going to become increasingly abnormal. And, once again, politics has nothing to do with it. If Barack Obama were the vetted fighter pilot, commander, and stubborn, fearless decision maker, and the same leftist he is today, and McCain was the waffling, inexperienced neophyte who was moderately the more conservative of the two, I’d have to vote for Obama. Because you can’t do anything if you’re dead.

So IÂ’m going to vote for McCain. I canÂ’t stand the guy or his politics, but at least with him I believe IÂ’ll have a better chance of living long enough to do something about them.

And, McCain backers? Spare me your “I told you so’s.” None of you did. A novelist named John Ringo made the situation clear to me. But that situation is not one any of you presented. So save it, okay?
Posted by:Abdominal Snowman

#8  PIMF

Should be "will of course continue to parrot..."
Posted by: Minister of funny walks   2008-09-03 15:26  

#7  Sarah Palin, the mom you wanted to have, will get many rank and file "feminists" who care about the role of women in daily life. On the other hand: Strident leftists, who in the past have taken it upon themselves to speak on "behalf" of all women, will of of continue to parrot the party line. But they will no long speak for the masses.

Sarah Palin exists. That voting block is GONE. THAT is why the leftists HATE her.



Was Slats Glans2659
Posted by: Minister of funny walks   2008-09-03 15:23  

#6  Quick's statement "But that situation is not one any of you presented." does not ring true. "Situations" like that have been in the back of many voter's minds ever since 9/11. POTUS has a great deal of power for good or ill, most of us know that without presenting it. Quick takes excessive pride in his stubbornness & resistance to outside influence.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2008-09-03 15:09  

#5  There have been defections, Aris. Mostly silent, some bloggers that I've read. We won't know for certain until the election, though, which is how it should be. Certainly the trailing daughters are quite angry at Progressive attacks on Miss Bristol and her fiance', and as I checked out their friends' Facebook pages, it seems they aren't the only ones. Trailing daughter #1 has just got confirmation that she is registered to vote in her first election. I grant that my small sample is not conclusive, but these are typically bright middle to upper-middle class kids all heading to university, the ones who should be falling for Obama's call for change.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-09-03 13:46  

#4  Those poll numbers are as real as pink elephants!
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-03 10:14  

#3  There have been several "name" flips from Obama's camp to McCain's in the last few days. None in the other direction though. The One's poll numbers appear good, but given the recent defections, how real are those poll numbers?
Posted by: Slats Glans2659   2008-09-03 09:30  

#2  This is what we call a gut check. I hope everyone does it before they vote.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2008-09-03 00:42  

#1  Welcome back to the real word - glad you returned from delusional self-destructive Libertarian Utopia Land.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-09-03 00:38  

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