- Posted by Christopher Estep on November 4, 2008
I’m a conservative, a real one. Not a John McCain conservative. A “John McCain” conservative is like a “Rosie O’Donnell Diet Plan”. They just can’t exist in the same space without causing the universe to collapse on itself.
I’m not a “Bush Conservative”. There’s no such thing as that either, be it George W. or George H.W. Bush. Neither one were conservative except on a certain few issues.
I’m not even a Newt Gingrich conservative who tries every day to continue to be relevant, even though he never will be again. He was a great Speaker, but he needs to ride into the sunset.
I’m just me. I’m Christopher Estep and I’m a conservative. I have strong principles (tempered by pragmatic reality) and I stand by those principles both in my life and how I vote.
Saxby Chambliss will not be getting my vote as a matter of principle, and unless something changes in the next few years, neither will Johnny Isakson.
I realize that they both are generally conservative, but they are part of the huge problem in the Republican party and that problem is that they don’t know the difference between “bipartisan” and “give them what they want so we can look ‘reasonable’”.
When Chambliss proposed and then defended this “Gang of 10” deal that would allow a token space to drill oil offshore in return for massive tax increases on the same people, I had enough. He championed the 3/4 Trillion bailout.
I want a conservative in the senate like Inhofe who will tell people like it is and then stand by it. I’m tired of the same old porkers like Saxby Chambliss who think that the two things you need most to be a good senator is to look like you’re bipartisan and to bring “home” as much taxpayer money as you can, even if it’s not in the National Interest.
So, I won’t be voting for Saxby, even though the Democrat attempts to unseat him and their tactics have really ticked me off.
But before all you Commucrats get excited, I’m not voting for Martin, either. I just refuse to be responsible for sending another porker like Saxby Chambliss back to Washington. We need new blood and we need genuine conservatives, not these wimps like Chambliss, Bush, and McCain who have tainted the very label of conservative by telling people that they are one and then acting like a democrat.