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Letter: Republicans to blame for election's outcome, McCain weak candidate
Issue date: 11/18/08 Section: Editorial/Opinion
11/18/08 - To the Cigar,
With the defeat of America on Nov. 4, a knife was inserted into each of our hearts. But even during this time of arid depression and trepidation, as we hold our breath before James Buchanan loses his longstanding place as the worst of all U.S. Presidents to our new President-Elect, I believe that some knife-twisting is in order for those of the Republican persuasion - because this Presidential nightmare could have been avoided.
Republicans scoffed at more than one better-qualified, better-suited and more-viable candidate this election season. The blatant idiocy of these sad rejections laughs in the long faces of all Republicans today. They said, "No" to Fred Thompson, whose pearls of wisdom I have confused more than once with the brilliance of Ronald Regan - the Great Communicator.
They said, "No" to Rudolph Giuliani, the savior of New York City and hero of Sept. 11, whose extensive experience and success in organized crime-prevention and disaster management begged for more than just a petered-out "runner up" status.
They said, "No" to Mitt Romney - a man who spent many more years in business and executive management than American politics, the man who co-founded and headed the firm Bain Capital for 14 successful years, the man who saved his former firm, Bain and Company, from financial collapse in less than a year, doing so without layoffs.
Confederate State's President Jefferson Davis once remarked that, "If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: "died of a theory". On Nov. 5, the day that "Decision 2008" died, there should be written on the Republican tombstone those same words - with different spirit behind them: the theory of sacrificing principle for political expediency.
While the other candidates were viable to varying degrees across the board, Sen. McCain was good for only one adversary - Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose near-certain nomination provided many Republicans with a shameful feeling of justification to discard their party's conservative principles for premature certainty of another Republican victory.
With the defeat of America on Nov. 4, a knife was inserted into each of our hearts. But even during this time of arid depression and trepidation, as we hold our breath before James Buchanan loses his longstanding place as the worst of all U.S. Presidents to our new President-Elect, I believe that some knife-twisting is in order for those of the Republican persuasion - because this Presidential nightmare could have been avoided.
Republicans scoffed at more than one better-qualified, better-suited and more-viable candidate this election season. The blatant idiocy of these sad rejections laughs in the long faces of all Republicans today. They said, "No" to Fred Thompson, whose pearls of wisdom I have confused more than once with the brilliance of Ronald Regan - the Great Communicator.
They said, "No" to Rudolph Giuliani, the savior of New York City and hero of Sept. 11, whose extensive experience and success in organized crime-prevention and disaster management begged for more than just a petered-out "runner up" status.
They said, "No" to Mitt Romney - a man who spent many more years in business and executive management than American politics, the man who co-founded and headed the firm Bain Capital for 14 successful years, the man who saved his former firm, Bain and Company, from financial collapse in less than a year, doing so without layoffs.
Confederate State's President Jefferson Davis once remarked that, "If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: "died of a theory". On Nov. 5, the day that "Decision 2008" died, there should be written on the Republican tombstone those same words - with different spirit behind them: the theory of sacrificing principle for political expediency.
While the other candidates were viable to varying degrees across the board, Sen. McCain was good for only one adversary - Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose near-certain nomination provided many Republicans with a shameful feeling of justification to discard their party's conservative principles for premature certainty of another Republican victory.
