Dear Senator McCain: In light of your passion for Algore's Klimate Change Koolaid I make you this promise. Drop the Green nonsense or I will be happy to take a gas holiday on November 4, 2008 and avoid a wasteful trip to the polls.
Posted on 06/04/2008 4:51:27 PM PDT by Thom Pain
Like many people I am very conflicted about casting my precious vote for Senator McCain this November. I want to suggest a way to send an irrefutable signal to him that we are voting for him as the least of the evils and NOT because we think he is the Conservative leader we had hoped for.
I think that if Conservatives voted for him by using the Write-In vote as a signal that we demand that he adopt, and actively promote and defend CONSERVATIVE principles and our U.S. Constitution a very strong message would be sent loud and clear. It would alert him that we will be actively pressing him and Congress to stem the growing tide of Leftist policy and that we will not give him and them any rest if they try to ignore the message.
Among the policies (I support) are:
Strong defense, including our borders
Strict constructionism in the courts AT ALL LEVELS
United Nations
Lower and greatly simplified taxes (personal, cap gains, and corporate)
Total ban on earmarks
Fiscal sanity for Social Security
End subsidies and set-asides
Full Value School vouchers
End NPR and similar programs
End non-profits and the abuses they promote
Enforce laws against treason & sedition
I respectfully suggest that if you vote for him in any manner he has every right to assume you approve of his positions .
I agree.
Let us see how he votes on the Lieberman-Warner Bill!
Just my thoughts.
...and you couldn't get me to vote for a Lib/Dem if you held a gun to my head. Ever.
And, before you say it, not voting is the same as voting for the opposition. Too stupid to even discuss.
I suggest this approach to putting forth a strong message to any candidate for public office.
First, set aside $100 for political contributions. $100 is an arbitrary amount. Set aside however much you think is appropriate for the good government of this great nation.
When the focal candidate promises or takes action that is in accord with the Constitution and laws as put forth by the people, send a $25 check to that candidate’s election fund. When the candidate does something that is harmful to our great nation, send an empty envelope with the message “This envelope would have contained a $25 donation had you not decided to work against this great nation. A donation is waiting for you when you correct your harm or do something good for the nation. Respectfully”
Been doing similar for years!
Dear Senator McCain: In light of your passion for Algore's Klimate Change Koolaid I make you this promise. Drop the Green nonsense or I will be happy to take a gas holiday on November 4, 2008 and avoid a wasteful trip to the polls.
Add to that list, DRILL HERE NOW!
I like it.
You go on ahead and vote for him. I am tired of this little game.
McCain doesn’t care what you or any conservative thinks, he also won’t pay any attention to your pleas. He’s out courtin’ Indys and Hillary’s old shrews.
“not voting is the same as voting for the opposition”
Only if you ASSume that my vote was going to the Repube no matter what. In actuality I stated at the beginning of the primary process that there were three candidates that I would have a hard time voting for. One of them got the nomination. He’ll get my vote contingent upon his VP pick.
No conservative, no vote.
I’m betting the coward skips it.
The majority of the provisions in the Lieberman-Warner bill are just a rehash of what was in the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Acts of 2007 and 2005.
If McCain votes against it this time around, he’s doing it for political purposes and is a hypocrite.
If he votes for it, he’s consistent in his stupidity for promoting this destructive nonsense.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that McCain is a real conservative.
Add to the list: a sane fiscal policy that prevents the government from simply printing new money because it spends too much. $9 trillion dollars of national debt is insane. Every year we spend over $250 billion dollars IN INTEREST. It is a suicidal policy especially when countries like China hold much of our debt. Plus, the creation of new money forces the dollar down, a key factor in rising prices (oil and gas anyone?), and one reason our economy is not progressing as it should.
The one thing I am wary of is “enforcing” treason and sedition laws. REAL treason needs to be punished absolutely. But it is important to remember that we have freedom of speech and that simply because we may find certain speech offensive or seditious, it is not treason unless the speaker knowingly gives information that directly harms the US. I say all this just because I think people get caught up when they perceive some left winger to be seditious. Good post.
I'm always in favor of enforcing the laws that are on the books, not, as the Libs do, invoking some "new interpretation" when it suits them. If a law is faulty then revoke it via the legislative process. If we aren't going to enforce the laws, we end up being Mexico, Venezuela, etc. I'm not recommending being heavy-handed, I just think that treason/sedition are serious offenses and jeopardize our safety and sovereignty.
Mark my words McCain is a traitor to conservatism. Screw him.
You and everyone else IMO will be wasting their time.The old bastard is liberal thru and thru and will screw us in an instant.I’d just as soon have the rat in office screwing it all up for four years and take it back with a conservative at the next election.Would you buy vegetables at market that were as F%cked up as any of these candidates?I wont.
If you vote for the man as a write-in rather than as a party nominee, I fear your vote might not count toward getting electoral votes for him. Not sure of how the law works on that, but at the very least you would seem to be leaving a loophole for Demonrat lawyers to exploit, a la Florida in 2000.
he just wants to go down in history with the title. it is all vanity and feels he deserves it.
he will take us down.
That should be interesting since it used to be the McCain/Lieberman bill.
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
My suggestion to get McCain’s attention.
Make your contribution check out to the McCain campaign and send it to a third party—— maybe Rush could be the third party. After the third party collects a substantial sum, the checks would be given to the McCain campaign. Maybe McCain would get the idea of our dissatisfaction with some of his positions. Its better than just sending the check to McCain with no message at all.
just trying to find a way to salvage SOMETHING from the next 4 years. Better than just conceding, IMHO.
Why not send him a voided check with the message “close the borders” or “drill our own oil” in the memo line.
As much as I disagree with McCain, I am truly scared on an Obama presidency. Obama’s speech last night was frightening. We need to send McCain a message without increasing the probability of an Obama presidency.
Not rewarding McCain because of his stance on global warming, or open borders, ad nauseum, is the same as a vote for a Democrat?
But you're absolutely right, of course. Some people are too breathtakingly stupid to reason with.
I think the gop and mcnutts are one in the same and that is rino.Its the country club for those people and more gubment control over us and this from the gop.I think you are just beating a dead horse.We need a new horse in this race but it will take time.
I absolutely agree. I’m just cautious of labeling everything that might seem seditious as such because people can get very worked up about it. Obviously treason offends and disgusts most Americans (especially conservatives), but one of the reasons I am so careful about it is because of Woodrow Wilson. Under his leadership and with his support, hundreds (many Republicans) of people were imprisoned for speaking out against the war and Wilson was a Democrat. But I agree that laws must be enforced and repealed (if deemed necessary) through legislation. I was not at all trying to argue that we should ignore the law, just that we as citizens should be careful to call certain things treason/sedition.
Vote for him. And send him money.
he will take us down.
You are so right. Another Hillary.
Why vote for the lesser evil, vote Cthuhlu in 08!
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