http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3282
By Christopher G. Adamo
Irrespective of all the in-depth political analysis that deals far too specifically with each candidate’s professed policies and appeal to voters, the bulk of this campaign season is primarily being driven on both sides by pragmatism born of fear.
The base of each party is currently motivated not by any inspired support for one or more of its own candidates, but always and only out of a dread of how the country might suffer at the hands of the candidate from the opposing party. And the situation has remained in this dismal mode since the onset of the ’08 campaign.
While enthusiastically accepting empty platitudes as promises from both Obama and Hillary of “change” for the future, their respective supporters lean less on any particular contrast in ideology or political agenda (since no such contrast actually exists), and are instead motivated merely by who seems to have the best chance of keeping the Republican candidate out of office. And across the aisle, the field of Republicans is behaving in a disturbingly similar manner.Florida’s primary notwithstanding, the fact that John McCain is taken seriously at all by Republicans is in no way reflective of enthusiasm for his consistent, left leaning (and this is a charitable assessment) governing philosophies, nor his monotonously predictable betrayals of conservatism at every opportunity where he might personally benefit from doing so. Rather, he is seen by some (wrongly) as a formidable opponent to the ostensibly inevitable Hillary Clinton.
It is hardly possible that Florida Republicans voted for open borders, trashing the First Amendment, “constitutional rights” for terrorists, or sacrificing the integrity of the Constitution in order to “protect the supposed integrity of Senate chicanery. No doubt, to the media and in John McCain’s mind, this is how the Florida results are to be interpreted.
So, in this clash of supposed Titans, reality has temporarily been relegated to a back burner. But reality, at least that of the Republican candidate and his former stances which can disillusion and alienate the conservative base, will surely be resurrected once each party has its nominee.
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/cadamo/2008/cga_01311.shtml