I agree. A McCain presidency while not ideal is still a hell of a lot better and more conservative than Guiliani. I don’t see why people don’t grasp that here. He still has an ACU rating of over 80%, and is a direct link to being a Reagan Republican.
My experience on FR is that freepers, like most Americans, care more about how a candidate sounds on TV than their ACTUAL record in office and what they've accomplished. Fred is a celeb who SOUNDS great giving rehersed,straight-shooter conservative soundbites on the radio,whereas McCain sounds grumpy,cocky,and arrogant,and mainly gets media attention when he disagrees with the GOP.So Freepers will rant and rave about McCain being an evil RINO traitor all day,and Fred being the new Reagan,no matter how many times you try to explain to these numbskulls that Fred is a huge McCain fan and SUPPORTED most of the ideas (amnesty for illegals,CFR,etc.)that they denounce as "treasonous" when McCain pushed it)
And wonder why they can't get any traction trying to lynch the more conservative Lindsey Graham in SC by arguing he needs to be drawn and quartered for his past support of amnesty & McCain.Kinda hard to make that point when they're simultaneously arguing Fred deserves a PROMOTION to leader of the free world when he did the EXACT same thing in office.They're ever go so far to scream "liar" if you point out that Fred & Lindsey agree on virtually every issue except Lindsey is a tad to the right of Fred in several areas(marriage protection amendment,Clinton Impeachment,abortion,etc.)
It's getting to the point I'm just going to have to post a detailed issue-by-issue analysis of both Fred & Lindsey to prove how swallow the sheeple are on this forum.
Well said, FRiend. I don’t see it either.
John McCain is standard GOP POTUS material. Middle of the road conservative, foreign policy credentialed, pro-life, pro-military, traditional values supporter, service veteran. It’s not some mystery. If you don’t like McCain for this or that reason, fine. But he falls squarely in line with the candidates the GOP has been nominating (and the country has largely been electing) POTUS for the last couple decades.