Posted on 01/21/2008 8:05:29 AM PST by jan in Colorado
Because McCain is a “maverick" - the media encomium reserved for Republicans who reject important Republican principles - he would be a conciliatory president. He has indeed worked with Ted Kennedy on immigration reform, with Russ Feingold on restricting political speech (McCain-Feingold) and with Kennedy and John Edwards - a trial lawyer drawn to an enlargement of opportunities for litigation - on the “patients' bill of rights."
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“mccain, 2008’s best democrat...”
and a good one he is.
Well since Hillary and Obama have zilch in the way of real experience between them...we could offer the Dems McCain as a better Rent-A-RAT candidate. In retunr we could take a couple of 2008 Gubanatorial positions for the trade.
If Mccain became president he would micromanage the military as if he was the smartest general. Hiring his yes men and firing great men/
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There are a dozen valid reasons for Republicans to Not Support McCain.
Far more than any other candidate, when you add them up.
the good senator climbed into an airplane cockpit and flew missions to bomb the daylights out of communist thugs countless times. he gave up being freed from communist captivity because of his status as the son of an admiral. he suffered grave wounds, pain, adversity and unspeakable treatment by communist swine without cracking and losing heart.....but he compromises with democrats.
All of the Republican candidates have their faults. Liberal legislation they once supported or liberal social movement they did not stand up against, - but McCain was by far worse than the others. He was an OBSTICAL standing in the way of Republicans time and time again. From Voting against the Bush Tax Cuts - to lining up with Democrats to opposition to a Bush Appointee he has shown his true colors.
Of all the things he has done that I can never support, illegal immigration tops the list, it's his "gang of fourteen" that prevented us from getting the judges appointed, that I will never forgive him for. He is just as much an obstructionist as Daschle ever was.
Neither McCain nor Huckabee will get my vote, EVER!
I don’t trust McCain at all. I think his loyalty lies with Teddy Kennedy and the rest of the far left liberals.
It wouldn’t suprise me if he re-registered as an independent or chose a Democratic VP once he got the nomination.
I don’t know what it is but I can’t even sit through one of his speeches without wanting to throw something at the TV. He gives a new name to pandering, self-centered, liberal diatribe.
It is a joke that he is even running as a republican candidate. Or maybe better, it is a slap in the face to the base that he is running, and yet people are voting for him.
‘....but McCain was by far worse than the others. He was an OBSTICAL standing in the way of Republicans time and time again. From Voting against the Bush Tax Cuts - to lining up with Democrats to opposition to a Bush Appointee he has shown his true colors.’
Exactly.
Whats odd about McCain is he KNOWS why he lost in 2000 to Bush...and has continued the exact same political behavior in spite of it.
I won’t vote for him, under any circumstances.
Absolutely. That's why he should either be on their ticket, or run as a third party candidate. He does not belong as the nominee for the Republican Party.
That’s a great idea!
"People" is the key word. Independents (translated: Democrats who aren't as far left as their leaders) are voting for McCain.
Conservatives aren't voting for him...except for those that have bought into the ENEMEDIA propaganda that McCain is the only Republican that can beat Hillery!
LOL. I feel the same way. The only one I have a harder time listening to is Huckabee. His dishonesty makes me physically ill to listen to him.
I don’t understand why anybody would even vote for the man that gave us the ‘Campaign Finance Reform Act’.
He will never in my life get my vote.
“neither mccain nor huckabee will get my vote, ever!”
that makes two of us.
three of us. If McCain is the nominee, there are essentially 2 scenarios:
1. He wins. Then we are stuck defending his repudiation of conservative ideals for at least 4 years. And he’ll make lots of crummy deals with the RATS. The first thing he’ll do is break his word on making the tax cuts permanent, foolishingly cashing them in for promised spending restraint, which will never materialize. mcCain’s domestic policy will be so awful as to make Richard Nixon’s look good.
2. He loses. Conservatives can then start over. Frankly, for the good of the party, I think it would better to lose in 2008 than to be stuck with McCain as president; we can then recapture Congress in 2010 given the revulsion of a Hillary presidency after just 2 yesrs.
I don’t care if people feel McCain is “owed” the nomination. He has gone out of his way for 8 years or more to stick his finger in our eye and prostitute himself with the MSM at our expense. Moreover, to this day, he REFUSES to say anything comforting to conservatives when given a preeminent platform to do so. During his victory speech in both NH and SC, he failed to promise to make the tax cuts permanent; he failed to promise strict conservative judges. The reason: he has no intention of doing either thing.
McCain is totally untrustworthy.
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