To some of you Republicans who are wincing now at your own party's ads, who are grimacing at the demise of your cherished conservative values, who have in the past respected clear leadership and steadfast adherence to traditional core Republican values - I still want you to vote.
I realize you may not be able to vote for my candidate, Barack Obama, even though I wish you would. I wish you would consider him for his steady, calm demeanor and his team of expert supporters and advisors.
But I can understand that you might not be able to go for the Democratic choice.
But how can you throw your vote away without making a comment upon what has happened to your Grand Old Party?
To complain about where George W.Bush has taken it and John McCain and Sarah Palin want to continue to take it.
Wars wrongly chosen, deficit spending like you have never seen, competence gone, cronyism rampant.
If you vote for McCain you will be approving of his erratic behavior, his unsteady leadership, his abandonment of his own principles, his wild, last minute dice throw choice of a running mate. A mate that has changed the tenor of your cause.
You will be tacitly approving of the baser elements of the ever more negative tone he and she have been expressing in this campaign.
The animalistic instincts of racism and the fervent fundamentalism of identity faith.
And for the continuity of the out-of-control Bush deficit.
The embarrassing desperation of it all.
George Will, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks and other Republican pundits have stated their doubts and distress over the situation.
How will you tell your party to get back on track?
To get back to the basics of ideas and discourse with the intellectual regimen exemplified by the conservative pioneers Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley?
To the reverence and respect of a Dwight Eisenhower? Of the gentlemanly manners of Gerald Ford. Even the steady hand of Bush the Elder.
Certainly John McCain has a history that must be respected, but he has now been to the crossroads and he seems to have sold his soul to the devil.
To vote for him now, and then having him lose, will be a waste of your opinion.
So I am urging you to vote, yes to vote for your principles and your conservative cause.
Make your voice count to your party and its leaders.
Make your choice be for the better part of the Republican heritage.
Give your vote to Ron Paul.
By casting with Paul, you still will not win the election, I know, but your choice will join with the other disenchanted conservatives who are embarrassed by the direction taken by the GOP.
The historic growth of our gigantic National Debt, the dismantling of our constitutional rights, the stumbling ventures into unreasoned foreign wars, which have been brought to us by the anti-intellectualism of Bush will only be exacerbated by the pandering populism proposed by the McCain/Palin effort.
With your own beloved party gone so far astray from the ideals to which you originally invested your loyalty, how can you make a difference?
Why lose with a whimper when you can choose with pride someone who will actually represent these founding ethics.
Ron Paul will not win, but if he can gather a substantial tally he will be an emblem for a return to sensibility. He will show the party governance the way back.
by steven bolstad
POLITIX
How
can good conservatives make their case
in the circus atmosphere of this election?
I am not one,
but I have a suggestion for them.
A modest proposal.
