Why I will not vote for McCain-Palin
Richard W. writes:
I very much enjoyed your call for Palin to step down. That kind of editorial is sure to make you hated among conservative Kool-Aid drinkers, but so what.
I’d really appreciate you making your voting intentions public.
I feel that we have had this opportunity to see you debate both sides of the issue, better than most anyone else on the Net, for months. On the one hand: the non-American Obama, with his weird leftist beliefs, strange America hating associates, and experience-free resume. On the other McCain, the opportunist, liberal supporting, clueless Republican, now with a inexperienced “trailer queen” as VP candidate.
So, what’s it going to be? The frying pan or the fire?
LA replies:
Do you mean I haven’t made my intentions clear? I’ve said incessantly that I would not vote for McCain, but for some third party or write in.
Richard replies:
Maybe I am expecting you to be more pedantic than you are. You have made your dislike for McCain clear, but most often in passing. If the topic is immigration, for instance, you will add a comment that “and this is of course another reason why I could not support McCain”.
On the other hand you have also done an excellent job of slicing and dicing Obama, so much so in fact that I have wondered if you were wavering on the anti-McCain option. I suspect others may have felt this too.
In any case I thought a summary of reasons why you won’t be voting for either Barry or John would be useful.
LA replies:
Well, that’s funny, because the other day someone said she had the impression I was planning to vote for McCain, because of my praise for Palin. As I explained, the fact that I find Palin an intriguing and exciting political figure doesn’t mean I am planning to vote for McCain for president. Like everyone else, I have been looking at this new person in national politics and having first impressions of her. And really, all I’ve seen of her so far has been a few minutes of a C-SPAN interview from last February, her speech in Dayton last Friday, and her speech in Missouri on Sunday.
My position on the election has not been changed by the Palin nomination: I will not vote for McCain, unless I become convinced that an Obama victory would cause existential or at least grave damage to the country. And I haven’t seen anything to convince me of that. Instead of voting for McCain, I will vote for some third-party or write-in candidate.
My reasons for this position are the same as they have been throughout. (1) A McCain presidency will destroy the Republican party as a vehicle of conservatism and thus gravely damage conservatism itself. (2) If McCain is president, Republicans and conservatives will largely support him in his leftward policies. (3) If Obama is president, Republicans and conservatives will oppose his leftist policies. (4) Thus the net effect of an Obama presidency on the country could in some ways be less leftist than the net effect of a McCain presidency. (5) An Obama presidency would awaken a renewed conservatism and opposition to leftism, while a McCain presidency would complete the transformation of conservatism into liberalism, even while the “conservatives” imagine that they are fighting liberalism. Finally, (6) an Obama presidency, by unleashing the black agenda and the anti-white, multicultural agenda as a whole, may serve to awaken white Americans to the racial threat to America and get them finally to stand up against it.
I’ll go further and say that I am so disgusted by the Republicans and conservatives this week for the liberal, sentimentalist, Oprah-esque, non-judgmentalist, pro-illegitimacy arguments they’ve been using to defend the Palin situation, that I want them to go down.
A Republican party that affirmatively argues that we should say nothing critical about pre-marital teen sex and the resulting illegitimacy, the single must destructive phenomenon in our society, is a Republican party that has lost any reason for being and deserves to be defeated.
I recognize that my position is unusual and will not be embraced by many people. I do not attack traditionalists who feel that Obama must be stopped and therefore plan to vote for McCain. It’s a tough call, but I think they’re mistaken. In my view a McCain victory will debauch and ruin whatever is left of conservatism, and thus will be more damaging to the country in the long run, and perhaps in the short run as well, than an Obama victory.
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Terry Morris writes:
You wrote:
A Republican party that affirmatively argues that we should say nothing critical about pre-marital teen sex and the resulting illegitimacy, the single must destructive phenomenon in our society, is a Republican party that has lost any reason for being and deserves to be defeated.
Thank you for saying this. Amazingly (to myself) I had not thought of it consciously in these terms until I read the quote above in your article and realized that this is exactly what the Republicans (a lot of social conservatives among them, including Dr. Dobson) are demanding we do, and how very offensive this is to genuine conservatives. These people are asking us to contribute to the destruction of our society by omission. That is, if we can’t find it in ourselves to do it by commission.
Mack writes:
This is something that I have had contentious arguments about with other conservatives in the past; when you state “… an Obama presidency, by unleashing the black agenda and the anti-white, multicultural agenda as a whole, may serve to awaken white Americans to the racial threat to America and get them finally to stand up against it.”—what is it you believe white Americans should stand up for and how?
Maybe you have addressed this in the past but I cannot find a post in the archives that concisely lays it out.
LA replies:
Start with these, which I just googled by searching “obama” and “simpson” at VFR. I was looking for pieces containing my argument that an Obama presidency would be like a four-year-long O.J. Simpson acquittal sack dance by black America, waking up white America to what black America really is (which of course does not mean all individual blacks).
The Morningside Heights atrocity, and a question for Obama
The sun god can’t get his mask back on
Who is Barack Obama?
Obama’s incredible denial
Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 03, 2008 01:35 PM | Send