Thursday, January 03, 2008

And Here Comes Angry in Virginia   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Another Corner e-mailer:

I live in Virginia.  We don't vote until 12 February.  And here we are, in yet another year, where I'm being told I'm going to have to choose between Mike Huckabee and John McCain as my GOP standard-bearer??

Isn't there something seriously wrong with this picture?

I know, this is how politics in America works, it's all Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, all the time.  But look at the ideological variety on the GOP side, and tell me that if we listen only to the winners coming out of those three states, how can they POSSIBLY produce a consensus candidate for 2008?

The simple fact is, they can't, and I increasingly fear, they won't.  I for one know that, as conservative as I am, I couldn't possibly vote for Huckabee in November, and John RINO McCain would require seriously gritted teeth to vote for after all the insults he's hurled our way.

Just because bat-crazy Iowa loves its Huck and looney-tunes New Hampshire loves to vote for mavericks, this means I'm going to lose any chance at all to support Fred, Mitt, or Rudy in a mere month's time?  And this is accepted as normal and sane why??

The Republican Party is doing its most loyal supporters a great disservice if it pushes out candidates early this time around.  We can forget about any of those "Reagan Coalition" candidates in 2008 unless we get more time than two weeks.

Sigh.  What a lousy deal.

I wish Jonah's book was out already, so I could read away my frustrations tonight.

01/03 10:10 PMShare