Tuesday, March 20, 2012

I just voted for Mitt Romney...

...in the Illinois primary. Yes, like the cartoon above, a part of me will be rooting for Rick Santorum tonight, even though he's reported to be trailing Romney by 15 points. But the patriotic American in me had to cast my ballot for Mitt. (Strangely, I didn't see anyone taking exit polls where I voted. Isn't anyone interested in my opinion?)

William F. Buckley famously advised his fellow Republicans to vote for the most conservative candidate who could actually win. My rule of thumb is to vote for the least objectionable Republican on the ballot.
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3 comments:

  1. Ed CrottyMarch 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM

    "least objectionable Republican" - Unfortunately, after what Cheney/Bush/Powell, et al perpetrated on this country, and the party that enabled them, and the racist bile from Beck, Limbaugh and the birthers, and the Insanity of Bachmann, Palin and Paul, the sheer smarminess of Romney and Santorum, there are zero Republicans that I can support. Ever.

    The Republican Party is "conservative". The point of Conservatism since it began is to "preserve the power of the arisocracy". This was true with Burke, true with Buckley, and it is still true. It is positively unAmerican.

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  2. Ed CrottyMarch 20, 2012 at 2:28 PM

    How about this:
    http://dupagegreens.org/2012/03/widespread-election-irregularities-in-dupage-county/

    The DuPage chapter of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project (IBIP) is receiving numerous reports from several DuPage County polling places that voters are encountering election irregularities. They are being told, after voting on paper ballots, that the paper ballots don’t fit in the optical scanner device, so the votes can’t be counted by the optical scanner in the presence of the voter. The ballots are then being manually placed inside the optical scanner machine by election officials without the votes being counted in the presence of the voter.

    I expect they are trying to steal DuPage for Romney to counter Santorum's lead downstate.

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  3. mtracyMarch 20, 2012 at 2:37 PM

    Hard to argue with any of that. But check this out and tell me that some Republicans aren't more "objectionable" than others:

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/03/christianism-watch.html

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