Conservatives Who Plan To Sit Out 2008 Presidential Election = Idiots

Okay, I'm almost as big of a fan of John McCain as I am ...well, the next weakest conservative candidate for President that has ever run as a Republican (not sure who that is but you get the point - John McCain does NOT trip my neo-con trigger). But this talk of Republican conservatives "sitting out" the 2008 election as a signal of protest or out of indignation is beyond me. Wake up idiots! You are willing to sacrifice 8 years to the likes of Hillary or Obama? You're willing to allow islamofascism reach American shores and beyond?
Here's a terrific article from FamilySecurityMatters that details just the points why NOT to sit home on election night. Let me share here some excerpts:

In 2006, McCain received a 65% rating from the American Conservative Union, which measures whether members of Congress are in line with conservatives on major issues. In 2005, his score was 80%.
Here are Hillary Clinton's scores in those same two years: 8% and 12%. Obama scored 8% both years.

If conservatives think they can rally around a challenger in 2012 and oust an incumbent Democrat, they should think again. Conceding the White House in 2008 could easily mean an eight-year term for either Hillary or Obama – and such an eight-year term would wreak havoc on a country already overburdened by taxes and under assault from Islamic terrorism

If you are a neo-con like me, then suck it up and vote in the Republican in 2008 for President so we can protect our land from attack and from Sharia law, while we go to work to rebuild the part from the ground up. Believe me, there isn't a single Democrat or Independent or MSM reporter in the entire world that will note that your protest non-vote in 2008 was to send a signal to the Republican party - they will simply chalk it up to the fact that the Left IS THE PREFERRED CHOICE of America. And you may be looking at 12-20 years of Leftist White House rule. You willing to risk that? If you are, you are an idiot.

Conservatives: Sitting Out 2008 Is the Height of Idiocy
Ben Shapiro

The conservative base isn't fond of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. They disagree with him on a wide variety of issues, and they feel insulted by McCain's ardent desire to please those across the political aisle.

But conservatives are fools if they stay home in November.

McCain is a hard-line proponent of victory in Iraq. He has pledged to lower taxes. He has always fought governmental corruption, even if that has led him to absurd extremes like campaign finance reform. He is a strong pro-life voter. He says he will veto any bill that has any earmarks.

This is historically ignorant. Intraparty squabbles are constant with regard to choosing presidential candidates. Parties do not move toward a particular ideological group because of electoral defeat – they move toward a particular ideological group because that group is most motivated to back a single candidate. Ronald Reagan was a rising force in the Republican Party before Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter -- he almost wrested the nomination from Ford in 1976. The Democratic Party's recent move to the left has not been a reaction to their electoral defeats in 2000 and 2004 – after all, Al Gore and John Kerry were certainly quite liberal. The problem with the conservative movement in 2008 wasn't the movement -- it was the lack of a candidate. And sending the GOP to ringing defeat in 2008 won't push the Party back to the right unless there's a candidate to rally around.

If conservatives think they can rally around a challenger in 2012 and oust an incumbent Democrat, they should think again. Conceding the White House in 2008 could easily mean an eight-year term for either Hillary or Obama – and such an eight-year term would wreak havoc on a country already overburdened by taxes and under assault from Islamic terrorism.

The proposed conservative boycott of the GOP in 2008 also demonstrates a massive misunderstanding of the GOP's role. The GOP isn't constructed to nominate conservative candidates. It is constructed to win. It's the conservative base's responsibility to nominate conservative candidates. In 2008, the conservative base failed. That isn't the GOP's fault. Punishing the GOP fruitlessly punishes an organization that isn't to blame.