McCain still has the VP option to secure the conservative base. And all my Republican friends who loathe McCain are so terrified of Obama their McCain vote is truly anti-Obama (This includes relatives who voted for Carter just to smack down Ford). Believe it or not, Obama is going to be quite the energizer for the right wing base come November.

either Obama or McCain, Barr is looking like a good alternative protest vote — at least that way, I can screw with the GOP ;)

d: i hear you, but i think that given the funding problems, mccentury will have no choice but to go with mitt and his money. and- i am very, very much aware of how obama is going to energize the racist-american vote. very.

paul: truly, you won’t pull the lever “against mccain,” as i’ve been calling the vote for obama for those who don’t like him (o)? i’m sorry to hear that. just because for the reasons davidson mentions, i think obama is going to need every vote. tell me you at least live in a state where it won’t matter. i know, you probably don’t want to hear the argument, “do it for the SCOTUS noms.” but that’s my motivation, and i hope i can persuade you to share it.

If that’s the best argument going, We Are So Fucked.

We’re going to do better in the Senate, regardless, coat-tail arguments aside, so we’ll have more leverage over nominations. If the leadership and Leahy’s SJC would grow a spine and Bork the nominees, it wouldn’t matter if Pope Benedict is President. (“Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Federalist Society?”) The SCOTUS noms argument, therefore, translates to me as helping Senate Dems avoid getting into a jam they’d really like to avoid: The confrontation they ought to be seeking out and winning (should have since 2006, but n-o-o-o-o-o-o….).

[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Obama incites enough fear/hate from the right due to his Chicago associations alone.

With regards to Mitt: Wouldn’t he be a popular VP choice amongst the base? I doubt it’ll be McCain/Romney, though.

lb- well, i didn’t say it was a great reason, just the ’best’ one i can come up with. and frankly, it’s easy for me to think of this vote as one that has to do with the next three decades rather than the next 4 or 8 years. roberts is young. and a totally scary fascist.

davidson- heh, that’s what i like about being forced to choose mitt. he’s *not* popular with the base, as the primary showed, and he won’t motivate them at all. hee hee, it’s fun to see the republicans suffer from the money-in-politics trap as much as dems have, for a change.

Are more apparent than real.

I’m voting against McCain, but I have little confidence in Sen Obama’s judgement in selecting judges, for the reasons brought up earlier.

i’m betting.

she’s on the Green ballot, no?

once or twice on the tubes.

That would be interesting.

Shit, my brain is on auto-pilot this morning. I was thinking he would be an “acceptable” choice for the base and how much of the right-wing establishment backed him (for many, by default). But you’re right in that he wouldn’t energize the base them like a Palin or Jindal would (I doubt the latter is a serious possibility; too young).

I still don’t think it’ll be Mitt though. Part of me secretly hopes McCain picks Lieberman and Obama picks Hagel just to complete this fuckery. Talk about unity: both Obama and McCain tell America to go fuck themselves!

the conservatives in my social circle are all leaning towards obama. i kid you not [they’re all church-goers, a group that obama has been wooing].