Posted on 05/08/2006 8:06:33 AM PDT by meandog
WASHINGTON The Reverend Jerry Falwell has thrown his support -- but not quite his endorsement -- behind Senator John McCain if he runs for president in 2008.
Falwell calls McCain "the kind of conservative candidate whom I would have little trouble supporting" and "one of America's most profound heroes."
Still, he says that's not an endorsement of a McCain candidacy.
Falwell wrote in a column in Sunday's The New York Times that McCain hasn't asked for an endorsement and he hasn't offered one.
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An embrace McCain is sure
to run from!
Did you really support CFR?
Why would McCain run from Falwell? He thinks that Jerry speakes for all conservative Christan.
If McCain is the candidate, I'll stay home. He's crazy.
Don't worry, he won't be!!!!!!
Let's see, who would I rather have for president: hillary clinton, John McCain, or Jerry Falwell?
None of the above, thank you very much.
So, Pinch Sulzberger, Jerry Falwell, and John McCain are having a Lovefest. The odd trio.
If you think that way, you owe it to yourself to vote (not to mention the rest of us).
A good chance for Gary Bauer to make a comeback, too.
For whom should I vote? The crazy guy? or the Democrat? And will I be able to distinguish between the two?
Pinch and his band of Democrat enablers are just using McCain like they have so many times before. If they get enough Conservatives to "sit it out" they win.
Did McCain slap Duct Tape on his mouth?
Just one authoritarian to another.
Actual effect: lower evangelical opinion of Falwell
I think you will be able to distinguish between the two. However, I haven't given up yet and don't think it's a given that McCain will win the nomination. However, if enough people are convinced he's unstoppable (as the MSM hopes) he may just end up with the nomination because Conservatives will be so whipped. I find it interesting that George Allen is being slimed as a neo-Confederate now. What is it the MSM really fears from Allen? Not that he's a neo-Confed bigot but that he's a consensus candidate that the GOP can get behind.
The world should run from John McCain. Think something weird happened to him in that POW camp. He mucks up everything and stands for nothing any more. That's a very dangerous man to entrust the presidency to--might as well get a democrat if we're going to do something that shameful.
I feel your pain. Which is the lesser of two evils between McCain and Hillary? Almost like asking you if you would rather be beheaded or buried to your neck in an ant hill.
I'm sure that those resting beneath the Stone Garden in Arlington and elsewhere appreciate this. (/s)
I think the MSM's love affair with McCain will come to a quick end!
Smart strategy for McCain, gracious of Falwell to be forgiving, but no possible way I will vote for McCain no matter who endorses him. Only my endorsement will result in my vote. McCain is out of the question.
Don't stay home, just don't vote in that race. We need you for the other races.
Pinch and McCain have always loved one another. But it's a bit odd to see Jerry Falwell invited to join the party. Anything to split the Republicans. Next thing you know, Pinch will be giving the commencement speech at Bob Jones University.
Exactly and from the looks of things around here, that job is being done. Now, I'll just wait for someone to inform me that it's all Bush's fault the Republicans are split becuase of (fill in the special interest blank of your choice) :-)
What McCain says and what
McCain does are miles apart.
McCain would be out to
capture the disillusioned
Democrat voters; and there
are plenty of those just as
there are of Republican voters.
McCain's votes in the Senate
are frequently alined with
Kennedy/Kerry. He votes
on his own side of the aisle
just enough to retain the label
Republican...RINO.
From Wikipedia. Certainly sounds like presidential timper, huh?
The MSM knows Allen is the man of the conservative base that will determine the nominee. Try as they might, McCain will not be the nominee. He's been AWOL on Arizonas border for as long as he's been in the senate. He opposed the Bush tax cut agenda that helped set this economy on fire. He stepped all over the 1st amndt. with CFR. He constantly bashes evengelicals when in front of an adoring press, yet now wants back in their good graces. We are not that easily fooled and forgetful.
Falwell is as crazy as McCain.
Timper = Timber
Yes. Plus he's the sterling pilot who managed to crash five of his own planes. His class ranking was a pretty good predictor of his military career, I'd say.
No one would want to be a prisoner in Vietnam. But his claim to being a war hero is very questionable, indeed, especially since he used his military service and his political position (gained by dumping his faithful wife and marrying a rich dope addict) to betray his fellow POW/MIAs.
What concerns me the most are not the Republicans who vote in the primaries but the independents and cross-overs. Why does any party allow non-members to vote in their primary? Anyway, it didn't work to stop Bush and hopefully it won't work to nominate McCain.
Timper = Timber
Cross overs and independents cannot vote in a primary that is not of their own party in florida. It varies by state.
So is this a decision that is up to the state parties or has Government intruded its ugly snout?
Yup! Still do...but would really love to see some kind of federal funding of elections and absolutely NO corporate, union or party funding (along with federal funding, private donations okay but capped at $2,500)
Don't recall that Grant as having finished very high at West Point either...but he sure beat second-in-class Lee!
I'll admit I am a McCain supporter.
However he does not refer to himself as a war hero- he states it took no heroism to be shot down.
Now its possible that this is false humility only to get people to think he is even more a hero. If so Kerry would have been more sucessful with that tactic.
Let the Dims have it, I will not vote for MORE OF THE SAME.
Years ago I thought Jimmy Carter was a good man. It turned out that he was crazy. McCain is crazy going in, how bad could that get in the future?
Falwell may be willing to support McCain, I won't.
Ther is no way, I will vote for McCain for anything.
I couldn't disagree more! The whole point with CFR is to ensure an even playing field. Today, it takes megabucks even to run for state or local offices...time was in America, that a candidate for state and local office could pay his/her election fee, get a couple of friends together for backing, make up some signs and run. The best man/woman with the best message won--and not the one with the most money. The political process has run amok and the current process stinks. It shouldn't take a million dollars to run for Congress or to head a state as govenor.
I am fully aware of the argument that most conservatives make about the right to free speech--but it is my belief that money is not speech and I'm tired of seeing groups like the Christian Coalition, NOW, NARAL, NRA, AFD, etc. (far right and left) groups deciding who is worthy to be a candidate.
Please don't! Vote in the primaries! Vote in the general elections! There are always decent local Candidates that deserve support.
I can understand not "pulling the lever" for McCain, I certainly won't.
Hillary thanks you...as for me, I vote my country when confronted with two candidates I really don't want--as in Gore (a pampered pol's son with weird ecological ideas who excused atrocious behavior by his president) or Kerry (an extreme liberal who gave aid and comfort to America's enemies while we were at war) and Bush (a hard-partying and spoiled rich kid who joined the ANG to avoid Vietnam). I voted to Bush (twice) with nose firmly held.
Two nuts on the same sundae.
Don't get me started... Just yesterday I was sitting in the rain, listening to a re-enactor playing the part of Gen. Lee in his farewell address to the Army of Northern Virgina. I cried at the though of such a great general surrendering to avoid more pain to his troops, and surrendering to a butcher who sent many of his men to their death because he knew they were replaceable while the Confederacy was running out of men!
Are you talking about the same group that has wonderful plans for the United States of the Americas?
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