Lesser Of Two Evils
February 7, 2008
5:00 AM CST
“If you’re having to choose between the lesser of two evils, the point is not how evil the lesser one is—the point is how horribly evil the greater one is.”—Some smart guy.
Over at Rachel’s place, there’s been this fabulous squabble, with Rachel and Bill Whittle basically making the above argument.
And it’s a good one. Seen from 100,000 feet, no matter how bad the eventual Stupid Party nominee is, he’s orders-of-magnitude less bad than either of the Evil Party’s choices.
Here, incidentally, was the reason for my RCOB yesterday, in case no one figured it out. If McCain wins the Stupid Party nomination, we almost have to vote for him, because the Evil Party are so evil.
What got the RCOB going was that after we’ve voted him into power, he’s going to screw us conservatives, over and over and over again, any chance he can get. You want to know how we conservatives see McCain? To paraphrase Larry Correia’s wonderful line about HK:
McCain. Because you suck, and I hate you.
The problem is that, in gunny terms, we’re stuck with voting for McCain, because his opposition is either Sarah Brady or that prick from the Violence Policy Center.
And he’s still going to hate us, even after we help him get elected, because that’s who John McCain is. If you’re not on his personal bandwagon, you’re the enemy, regardless of who you are. And one last thing: if it’s a choice between compromising with Democrats and compromising with conservatives, McCain will always choose the Democrats, because then TIME magazine and the New York Times will say nice things about him.
And for those fools who think that McCain is going to “reach out” to conservatives if/when he becomes the Republican nominee: you haven’t been paying attention to who’s been standing behind him on the campaign trail. McCain’s VP is going to be Joe Lieberman. That way, he can stick it to conservatives, while making nice with Democrat “moderates” and capturing the center—and marginalizing conservatives—all in one go.
That’s the reason for the RCOB. If McCain’s the eventual nominee, I’ll have to vote for him—even though I hate him and he hates me—because otherwise I’ll be handing the election to Hillary Rodham Antichrist, and her loathsome husband, Mr. Antichrist.
By the way, I’ll be holding my nose and pulling the lever for Romney in the Texas primary. Because I don’t think Romney hates me as much as McCain does.
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Update: Never mind. Romney’s quitting. So come primary day, I’ll just head off to the range.
