Geoff Metcalf thinks we need to vote for the lessor of the two evils. He is correct that we cannot just throw a switch and return to constitutional government. Some people just do not live in reality. The liberals have been taking this country for a long time by incrementation. I guess constitutionalists will have to take back the country back little by little as well if that is possible. If not, I ask you what is the alternative outside of civil war and a break up of the Union?

When 50 percent of the people in the United States will vote for Obama, socialism and the amorality of the Democratic Party we are obviously a nation on the brink of change. So do Bible believing Christians attempt to hold high ground and try to fight another day by electing the lessor evil or do we just throw in the towel and let the party of Obama, Polosi and Reed totally control the country and change America into the Peoples Republic of Amerika?

After four years of those people in power there will be no going back because they will have changed the rules and free speech and free press will not exist. On the one hand, it is going to happen sooner or later anyway if our moral slide continues. On the other hand, voting for the lessor evil might give some people in the U.S. four years to regain their minds. That is choice to make this year.

Geoff Metcalf — Defending the Indefensible

By Geoff Metcalf

August 6, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.” –Thomas Henry Huxley

I was flooded with excoriating email in the wake of my suggestion we are compelled to accept the lesser of available evils and vote McCain.

It was bad enough I wrote it, and meant what I wrote, but various editors changed the original headline (‘Reluctantly Responsible’) to make my sins appear even more heinous.

Fans of Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr all argue for ‘their’ guy being the solution to the cancer eating away at the GOP and the republic. If only that were true…

Many of the more abusive emails sounded a lot like reading Geoff Metcalf (circa ‘91/’98/’2000/and even 2004). I have been called a very comprehensive variety of nasty names and had my intelligence, insight, manhood and patriotism challenged.

I understand the vitriol and the frustration and the primary counter to my column. Frankly, I wrote much of the same during the Dole/Clinton election. I even quoted Aaron Tippin and Buddy Brock, “You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything”

The republic has been eviscerated over time by chronic liberal incrementalism. It is politically impossible to restore the republic to a pre 1913 or pre 1865 condition with the flick of a light switch. Critics will attack me for endorsing ‘evil-lite’…and they are right. However, the incremental objectives should be to get evil-lite lighter and lighter.

Principles do matter. However, when faced with bad weather, bad terrain, superior enemy forces and inadequate logistics, it is not an abandonment of principle to change strategy and tactics.

Despite the flood of protestations to the contrary, MY principles are not compromised. MY beliefs are not abandoned, and MY recognition of the desperate need to restore the republic to the framers model as an imperative is not shaken.

However, reality cannot be ignored. Hate it, revile it, refute it, and make believe it ain’t so, but it WILL happen. Either John McCain or Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.

I also asked Novak how do you counter the apparent and ubiquitous media bias against almost any (real) Republican idea?

He said, “The problem is not that the media beats-up on the conservatives but that the conservatives are so weak-kneed and indecisive, retreating in short-order whenever someone turns on them.”