Posted by
Citizen Carrier on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:43:20 PM
That is how I describe myself. What it means is that on Election Day I would willingly crawl over 300 yards of broken glass in order to vote for the Republican candidate. Doesn't matter too much to me at that point who it happens to be.
No, not even even if it is Rudy Giuliani. If that is who garners the majority of primary victories, that is who I'm going to vote for.
Of course, he isn't my first choice. Or second. Or even third. Still, here in Ohio I'm just one guy with one vote in the primary. Just because I want Thompson doesn't mean the others in my state are going to side with me. I should mention that I am morally--perhaps even physically--incapable of not voting. I voted for Perot in 1992, my first election, so do not try to sell me on the virtues of making a statement by voting third party.
The ability to smugly say, "Don't blame me, I voted for Perot!" was absolutely NO solace for the entire years of the Clinton Administration.
I'm a Broken Glass Republican because I want to win. Period.
And I don't want some penny-ante 51% to 49% win. Something where state supreme courts have to step in over recounts. Something where liberal whiners spend the next 7 years claiming they were robbed because that is the only scenario in which their arrogant minds can conceive of the American people rejecting another of their coastal, blue state elitist candidates.
No, after 7 years of "he stole the election" and "selected not elected" and "Ken Blackwell handed him Ohio", I want to send these idiots down the road talking to themselves.
After 7 years of hearing and seeing the words "Hitler" and "Fascist" thrown around with the frequency of rice at a wedding, I want it to hurt so bad some of them actually DO move to Canada.
We can fix the important stuff after the election, provided we at least have a starting point. A common ground. Even with the least conservative of the Republicans, we have that. Not so with Clinton, Obama or Edwards.
We're the ones who stopped the amnesty bill. The Dubai ports deal. The Harriet Miers nomination. The renewal of the assault weapons ban. All of that had far less to do with who we elected rather than how we made our conservative voices heard. At the very least, we must have a Republican. I prefer one that destroys the competition in the election. Reagan may be dead, but we should not despair of ever recreating the landslides he pummelled the Democrats with.
After that, it is largely up to us.