Posted by
Closet GOP on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:01:22 AM
A lot of conservatives are going through the 5 states of the Kübler-Ross model or more commonly known as The Five Stages of Grief. Seeing the departure of Mitt Romney from the GOP nomination race has many Anti-McCain conservatives going through the five stages.
1.) Denial
2.) Anger
3.) Bargaining
4.) Depression
5.) Acceptance
I would say many have moved past denial as it is pretty much a lock that John McCain will end up with the presidential nomination for the GOP. Anger or depression seem to be a phase a lot are stuck on will to commit voter suicide and vote for Hillary or not at all. A few might want to bargain, what kind of Vice-President will he nominate or maybe we can get a third party character. But if conservatives have arrived to acceptance it doesn't mean that they are as accepting of John McCain. If I could make a sixth stage I would make it Advocacy.
For McCain to get elected as President of the United States it would take a vast majority of the conservative base to get to the "advocacy" stage. I don't mean that they will just vote for John McCain as the "lesser of two evils" but actually believing, like I do, that he would be a good conservative leader. It is still early to tell but I don't feel enough of the base is getting excited enough for McCain to gain the kind of support he needs. Now to give some people credit they are waiting until it is mathematically impossible for else to win the nomination. I don't think that McCain supporters can get ahead of themselves until he officially clinches the nomination.