People have been talking about this for a while now, the party has some serious divisions which lead to normal supporters wondering if they can even vote for the standard bearer for President, let alone donate money.
Today though, the posts aren't coming from the Democrats. In an installment of, "I'll go there, so you don't have to," let's look at some leading Republican blogs.
First, we have Red State. They're freaking out over McCain's global warming speech. Here are some choice quotes from the blog and the comments:
According to this story, McCain has confirmed my worst fears, and has endorsed a cap and trade system with a goal of reducing carbon levels to 70% below 1990 levels. It has the same effect as a carbon energy tax, but is more costly and far less efficient. Free-market my #$%*(#$ ass. I guess we should stop breathing.
Flashing lights should be going off in the heads of McCain staffers when they read that a small government / pro-gun guy don't see a difference between their man and Obama.
Reading this reminds me why I won't be voting for him this November in a swing state, and I can be happy about it. For all of his, I'm going to be good on spending, I'm going to cut the enormous growth in government, then he endorsed this cr*p. Nice job guys, we picked a real winner here
I am begining to think the libertarians getting 10 to 15%
Of the vote this year might not be such a bad Idea.
If the GOP wants to be Democrat lite so be it.
OK, that's just a blog. Surely National Review would be rallying behind their candidate. It's not like there's an editorial attacking him today or anything.
The scariest sentence in the speech was: "If the efforts to negotiate an international solution that includes China and India do not succeed, we still have an obligation to act." This is posturing in the place of thought. It puts us in the worst possible negotiating position, and confirms that Sen. McCain is not engaging practically with the costs and benefits of his own policy. It indicates a foolish willingness to sacrifice trillions of dollars on the altar of fashionable, though uniformed, opinion and political expediency.
It's not just the greenhouse gas speech that's causing such strife. Rumors of a Huckabee VP choice made Malkin's head explode:
All they need is sanctuary-friendly Rudy Giuliani as DHS Secretary, and the open-borders dream nightmare team will be complete.
Can someone please fast-forward to 2012? Please.
The comments there are filled with people threatening to not vote for the Republicans. It's more than worth giving her the page hit just to see that many people complaining about how much they hate McCain and would rather sit out in November. Things aren't perfect for us by any means, but at least most of our fights are over tactics. Policy disagreements are the way to create true lasting damage.