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The Conservative's Canada - Where can Republicans threaten to move if Obama wins?
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 13, 2008 03:32pm |
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| Category | Speculative |
| News Date | Monday, October 13, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Conservatives have no Canada. Which is to say, they have no mythical land of ideological soul mates to which they can flee to nurse their wounds and commiserate over lost elections and flunked initiatives. Part of the reason for this may be temperamental: Even staring into the maw of an Obama-friendly electoral map, Republicans' first instinct is not to threaten expatriation. (The McCain-Palin slogan, after all, is "country first.") They have no backup plan for when the country they live in becomes politically unrecognizable.
Maybe they need one.
They needn't bother too much with the details—not even Canada is the paradise liberals imagine, and the logistics of moving there are not so simple. And abandoning America might be anathema to any red-blooded Republican. But everyone needs a Plan B, even if they have no intention of carrying it out—just in case, say, Barack Obama appoints Michael Moore to the Supreme Court (the way President Gore did). With that in mind, let's consider a few candidates for the conservative's Canada:
Israel
Poland
The Cayman Islands
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