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After all my "Petulant grandstanding" about the ill-suited Republican Primary offerings (I was annoyed enough to threaten to vote Obama in this primary) I returned to my senses long enough to vote for Mitt Romney.

It's in the box. Romney, and a sore nose.

On the way out, exit poll! So, to be contrary, I took the Democrat's version.

And I lied on every question!

Just to demonstrate the inefficaciousness of polls. Pollsters get whatever fanciful balderdash people care to drop on them.

Meanwhile, at Protein Wisdom, Jeff Goldstein replies to Roger Kimball's call for Republicans to return to the fold, play nice, and vote for McCain.

Jeff is so damn good at this! Here's (some of) his response to Roger...

"A shame to see Roger Kimball — if it’s the same brilliant Roger Kimball who writes for New Criterion – bemoaning the “petulance” of those who, in some circumstances, will eschew identity group pragmatism and instead stick to principle.

“Conservatism” has truly lost it’s way. Hell, if I was interested in joining a party just to keep power at all costs, I’d have stuck with the Donks. To them, the personal is the political — and so power is an end, a validation of the worth of the self.

"A note to Roger, in case he’s reading this (and gets beyond the “bite me” bit): failure to engage in “petulant grandstanding” has taken the “conservative movement” over into leftwing territory (well, except that, unlike John McCain, JFK actually believed in tax cutting).

"No more. Some of us actually think that McCain is the worse of the two evils, that a Hillary or Obama presidency might trigger another “Contract With America,” one propelled by classical liberal principles — an awakening, of sorts, to just how much control progressivism (or compassionate conservatism — pick your brand of “nice fascism”) has ceded to the federal government, from in-home smoking bans, to chips in our thermostats, to hate crime legislation and its attempt to regulate thought and normalize “acceptable” speech.

(emboldenings mine. Go read the rest.)

John McCain doesn't represent my views. Isn't that why we vote, to elect representatives who, if not marching in lockstep, are at least on the same playing field we're on?

Democrats own the Left. From birth, it seems, Democrats follow well-worn paths that are assigned to them by thoughtless default. Democrats accept that they are educated to vote Democratic by our leftist-leaning Government public schools and most non-private Colleges and Universities; Democrats are further trained and reinforced to vote Democratic by the MSM and Hollyweird; and, poor people are enticed to vote Democratic to ensure the steady, uninterrupted flow of their handouts from the 'evil rich'. The 'entitlement first' voters, Democrats rely on those.

Now, most Republicans aren't lockstep Dancin' Fools*. To get Republicans together (the mythical 'Republican Base') would be an exercise in cat herding. Most Republicans tend to reject the new-establishment views of political nannystatism and correct thought; most Republicans free-think past the MSM and Hollyweird; most Republicans reject the mind-numbing droning of their college professors (!), most Republicans filter and reject the popular opinions carried as banners by our newspapers, television news outlets, and the primarily leftist web-based news sources (CNN, MSNBC, even and especially Microsoft's pervasive slants); most Republicans fight against the politically correct ACLU and legislate-from-the-bench judges, and most Republicans generally just go against the flow of the fat, dumb and happy Americans who only care long enough to finish that 30-minute sitcom...surely our War can't last longer than that!

That is, most Conservative Republicans.

McCain supporters, I wonder about them. Not many Conservatives in that camp, I'll warrant.

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*Oh, that "Dancin' Fool" reference? Just a remembered Frank Zappa disco parody, brought to mind by Karl's post mentioning that Ricky Dees 'Disco Duck' video...oh, hell, go read the thing if you're interested.

Frank Zappa's "Dancin' Fool", to the tune of modern-day leftist Democrats electing more of their nannystatists..."The beat goes on and I'm so wrong, the beat goes on and I'm so wrong...."

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