Posted by
Ryan Hawkins on Friday, February 15, 2008 11:09:03 AM
(Speaking to those conservative christians who failed to back Mitt Romney.)
All I can say to conservative christians (after I read how they now are considering a 3rd party candidate on this
latest article on msnbc ) is:
We told you so.
Now after you evangelicals face the consequences of disregarding the advice of countless conservatives (Paul Weyrich, Mark DeMoss, Bob Jones III, Robert R. Taylor, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and Hugh Hewitt...not to mention the vast GOP endorsements for Romney - the magnitude of which which exceeded even McCain himself) that exhorted you to line up behind Mitt Romney for the good of conservatism, you evangelicals now have the audacity to consider third party options in the general election????? Unbelievable!!!!!!!
It is because of people like you that I am becoming a stronger and stronger advocate of a requirement for voters to pass some sort of intelligence test before their vote can be counted. I am convinced that America could elect much better leaders (both in primaries and general elections) if we can slice off the "stupidity vote" from the ballot box and eliminate the effect it has on elections. I suspect that could have eliminated 50% of Huck's votes...and the remaining 50% would have realized more strongly that Huck is unelectable and voted the pre-Feb.5 McCain-Romney race based on the issues important to them: 1) Pro-life; and 2) Federal Marriage Amendment. McCain was 1/2; Romney 2/2.
I beat this issue to death in January that we were in a two-man race, and that conservative evangelicals needed to choose between McCain & Romney. A vote for Huck was a vote for McCain. To most of us, that was obvious before February 5, but I guess it wasn't obvious for the majority of evangelicals until February 6. I hope you learned your lesson. Huckabee made his appeal to a select group of voters while alienating everyone else...which limited his candidacy and made him unelectable both in the primaries and the general. He failed to appeal to fiscal conservatives...he failed to appeal to economic conservatives...he failed to appeal to military and national security conservatives. He was (and still is) unelectable both in the primary and in the general.
I am now a reluctant, pessimistic McCain supporter...only because he is a slightly better alternative to Hillary or Obama.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you evangelicals gave up your fight for the Federal Marriage Amendment when you chose Huckabee over Romney...I'm just as upset over that as you Evangelicals are, but I strongly suggest you line up behind McCain in November if you want to win any abortion battles over the next 4-8 years. Your stupidity in supporting Huck over Romney has already cost us the battle over the federal marriage amendment, but let's learn from our mistakes!!!! A third-party conservative candidate will hand the general election to the Democrats...causing us to lose yet another battle - on abortion!!!! Think!!! Cut the stupidity vote...let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater!!!! (Pun intended.)