Why am I Fighting?

 As I sit down and write this, John McCain has been projected as winning the Florida Republican primary. It now appears as though McCain is the front-runner for the Republican nomination, and I think he will wind up with it. This is not acceptable to me.

 One thing that I have discovered since I began blogging just over a year ago, and it is a discovery that I had not seen coming, is that blogging can be quite therapeutic. I can sit here in the privacy of my own home, just let my thoughts come out, and sort of type my way through what I am feeling. Tonight I hope this proves to be one of those posts.

 Tonight as I watch Republicans abandon their conservative principles and ideals I wonder to myself,  “why am I fighting this battle?”, “why do I continue to fight?”, and I have no answer.

 This whole revolution that appears to be going on in the Republican party is something that Ryan has been writing about on Pro Patria for a little while now, but tonight it has hit home with me. Republican voters seem to be giving up their core values in order to nominate someone solely based on electability. Can someone truly give up a core value if it is indeed a core value?

 Republican voters seem to have decided that John McCain is the most electable because he has fucked over Republicans every time he has had the chance. They have decided that this is acceptable because in their minds any Republican is better than any Democrat in the white house.

 John McCain is no better than any Democrat in the white house. With the exception of national security he is exactly the same as the Democrats. I consider illegal immigration and border security part of the war on terror and national defense, and on that issue John McCain fails miserably.

 Conservatives are selling out their party just to remain in power and this is also too reminiscent of Democrats in their quest to regain and keep power. What difference does it make whether Clinton, Obama, or McCain is the president who signs the immigration amnesty bill into law? What difference does it matter if Clinton, Obama, or McCain is the president who raises our taxes? What difference does it make if Clinton, Obama, or McCain is the president who is nominating justices to the courts? It matters not, the result is the same. Who gives a fuck if the president has a “D” or an “R” next to their name if they are selling our country out.

  I have been, for the last year, trying to expose liberals and liberal policies for who and what they are only to be betrayed by my own party and my party’s voters. I can’t and will not in good conscience vote for John McCain, and I sure as hell can’t vote for any of the Democrats. So what the hell am I supposed to do? Who am I supposed to vote for? And more importantly, why am I fighting this fight when my party is so willing to give up the ideals I believe in?

 My party has decided that keeping power is more important than ideas and that is sad. Tonight I ask the question why am I fighting? I just don’t know any more.