When we cut off our nose to spite our face…(UPDATED)

January 31, 2008

GLENN: Michelle Malkin, I’ve got 30 seconds. If it’s John McCain, Hillary Clinton, do you pull the lever for John McCain?

MALKIN: Not at this moment I don’t. I’m running a poll right now on my site and you can see that there are a majority of my own readers who are going to sit home. And I think it’s a big warning to the conservative movement out there. We still have time to fix this.

GLENN: Michelle Malkin, thank you very much, appreciate it.

What?! Allahpundit is calling this McCain Derrangement Syndrome. Are we supposed to seriously believe that Michelle Malkin’s going to actively or passively support Hillary Clinton because…well, for any reason?!

I think I know what she and some other conservatives are doing…they’re trying to pressure the powers that be in the Republican party to get us a better candidate before next Tuesday…right? I hope that’s the intention, because otherwise Allah’s right - there’s a serious mental disorder in the conservative ranks at the moment.

I believe it is a little too late for this strategy. If there was ever an appropriate time for conservatives to threaten to boycott the entire election process and let the nation go to liberal hell if we didn’t get our way, it was while we still had a conservative or two running for office! (e.g., Tancredo, Hunter, Thompson)

Now, five days before Super Tuesday, is a stupid time to be causing an irreconcilable rift among conservatives. I mean, how do you back down from a threat to vote for Hillary over McCain and still maintain any credibility, come February 7th?

Be careful, folks…this is what happens when we cut off our nose to spite our face: We head into a wartime election year with no clear sense of direction. This isn’t “cute.” It doesn’t make us look “feisty.” And it certainly doesn’t make us look “smart.” It just makes us look ridiculous.

UPDATED - Ann Coulter apparently as McDS, too:

The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president — on a personal level, she’s still a little creepy.) I’d rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain.

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At least under President Hillary, Republicans in Congress would know that they’re supposed to fight back. When President McCain proposes the same ideas — tax hikes, liberal judges and Social Security for illegals — Republicans in Congress will support “our” president — just as they supported, if only briefly, Bush’s great ideas on amnesty and Harriet Miers.

You need little flags like that for Republicans since, as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid.

Republicans who vote for McCain are trying to be cute, like the Democrats were four years ago by voting for the “pragmatic” candidate, Vietnam vet John Kerry. This will turn out to be precisely as clever a gambit as nominating Kerry was, the brilliance of which was revealed on Election Day 2004.

Posted by Jenn Sierra | Filed Under US Politics

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2 Responses to “When we cut off our nose to spite our face…(UPDATED)”

Sam Pierce on January 31st, 2008 3:32 pm

I have it too.

Do you believe that a Republican should vote Republican regardless of the candidate? Are all Republicans conservatives? Are any liberal? If a Republican candidate is liberal, should all Republicans be required to vote for him? Should all Republicans be required to remain Republicans when the party no longer represents the values that are the most important to them?

Are we stupid if we decide for ourselves how to vote? Is the only rational choice between liberal and liberal?

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Richard Disney on January 31st, 2008 11:01 pm

It is a sad state of affairs when McCain claims that he would be endorsed by Ronald Reagan during the last debate and there are apparently people out there who believe that. I think the main thing that will keep Romney from winning is Huckabee staying in the race and spliting the conservative vote. That being said, I would put Vicks under my nose and hold my nose and put a gas mask on and pull the lever for McCain if the only alternative is either Mrs. Clinton or Barak.

Funny how Hillary is running on only her first name and Obama is running on only his last.

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