- Posted by Christopher Estep on February 5, 2008
I had thought that when Ann Coulter said that she would campaign for Hillary if McCain got the nomination that she was just using hyperbole to make a point. I wondered how any conservative could make such a suggestion.
And then John McCain rigged an election in WV:
But before Huckabee’s surprising turnaround at the convention, McCain delegates told FOX News they had been instructed by the campaign to throw their support to Huckabee.
McCain delegate John Vuolo said former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer approached him and other McCain supporters at the convention and told them he had spoken to McCain, and that the best thing to do was to support Huckabee in the hope that Huckabee could beat Romney in this winner-take-all state.
I'm still in shock that McCain would stoop to such a level. And don't even try to tell me that this isn't rigging an election, because it is. He's manipulating the outcome to hurt his opponent. Had McCain actually dropped out and threw his support to Huckabee, that would have been different. But he didn't. Instead he colluded and conspired to throw the election.
McCain's supporters weren't convinced that Huckabee was the better man! They thought nothing of the sort! Their only motive was to hurt Romney because they know Huckabee can't win! In business, this is illegal. It is the sort of things that people get indicted for and sent to prison. You can't hurt yourself in order to hurt your opponent more. It's anti-competitive and highly illegal.
Thanks to this little scumbag maneuver, there is no possible way that I will ever vote for McCain. I would vote for Ralph Nader first. This sort of manipulation of an election is something that I would expect from a third-world country, not from someone who thinks he should be called a hero. I said yesterday that I didn't think Barack Obama would disgrace the office of President of the United States, even though he's a flaming liberal bent on creating a totalitarian fascist liberal utopia. I can't say that anymore about John McCain because McCain already has disgraced the office of the President even before he gets a real chance to get in.
I can't even contemplate the crimes he would commit during a presidency when he would do this now, when he's ahead in the polls and the delegates. It's the kind of behavior that makes me literally fear for the safety of this country. Who's to say that he would start whacking foreign leaders or diplomats who disagreed with him? I can't even begin to consider the danger he now poses.
I knew McCain probably had some lingering issues due to his captivity and torture, but I never thought he would ever go this low. It's erratic, rash, and in one fell swoop he has shown himself to be the most dangerous person in the entire race. With judgment like this, it is no wonder he never made Admiral. They likely knew that he was erratic and couldn't be trusted with that kind of authority.
John McCain is a disgrace to his office and to the very uniform that he throws in everyone's face.