While I have yet to decide whom to support for President, I am personally offended by self appointed king makers, consortiums and coalitions trying to tell me who is conservative, liberal, and worthy of my vote. Here is a novel idea: leave each campaign for President to campaign, continue to have debates, let the media report the news, and let each voter decide whom to vote for in the primaries and general elected next year. Yet obviously, we voters are stupid; we can not make these decisions for ourselves.
A case in point can be found in this morning’s Washington Times:
Rudy Panic set in for many Republicans this week, with conservative leaders both nationally and in Iowa concluding they need to settle on a single champion to prevent Rudolph W. Giuliani from winning the GOP presidential nomination.
They fear that victory by the socially liberal former New York mayor could permanently shatter the largely successful coalition of social, religious, economic and national defense conservatives that, more often than not, has worked electoral magic for Republican candidates at all levels.
“The main driving force behind all of that is a belief that Rudy Giuliani is positioned to win the nomination and a belief that, and I describe it this way, the four most central planks in our Republican platform would be sacrificed in the process: life, marriage, guns, border security,” said Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican. He said the calls and e-mails in Iowa grew “utterly intense in the last week” as Republicans urged one another to settle on an anti-Rudy candidate.
A new poll showing a statistical tie between Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee for the Jan. 3 Iowa first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses is fueling the frenzy.
“What conservatives have to realize is that Giuliani is now relying on Mike Huckabee to take his most viable opponent, Mitt Romney, down in Iowa, and that anyone voting for him there in the caucuses will be inadvertently, and ironically, helping the New Yorker,” David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, said earlier this week in a surprise endorsement of Mr. Romney.
You can read the rest here. Please, read it, become informed of the issues and where each candidate stands on them, decide for yourselves, contribute or not to the candidate of your choice, and vote.
While the king makers have the right to tell you whom to vote for or against, you have an equal right to ignore them.
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