Cognitive Dissonance
Kim du Toit
May 13, 2008
9:28 AM CDT
After reading through this little atrocity, Friend & Reader Scott S. writes to me:
I’m trying really hard to be patient with McCain. He’s doing his absolute best to piss me off.
I swear, if he goes much farther than this, he’s going to lose me. As it stands, I’m going to vote for him, and then go home to tar and feather myself.
My dear friend: Welcome to McCain Country.
We should probably consider ourselves lucky, because McCain is giving us a taste of what’s going to happen when he gets to the White House. This, in other words, is what is in store for us conservatives: daily disappointments, frequent betrayals, and constant regret for having voted for him.
This is what we get for letting the perfect be the enemy of the good; for wasting primary votes on nutcases like Ron Paul, RINOs like Mitt Romney, or no-hopers like Fred Thompson.
McCain is going to screw us, every single chance he gets, as long as what he does makes him popular with the Press, or with “centrist” Democrats like Joe Lieberman, or with “moderate” Republicans like Olympia Snowe, or with “popular” figures like Ted Kennedy and Arianna Huffington, or with international bodies like the United Nations.
And occasionally, he’s going to screw us just because he hates conservatives, and because he can, and because he knows that as bad as he is, Obama would be orders of magnitude worse.
Leave space for me in the tar barrel. It’s going to look like a Japanese bath house by the time the election’s over.
