Posted on 02/01/2008 2:03:45 AM PST by MartinaMisc
What could be wrong with a presidential candidate who is a longtime Republican senator from a conservative state, a certified war hero with a great smile and a wisecracking sense of humor? Nothing at all, except the last time one ran against a Clinton, he ended up filming Viagra commercials while Bill was rehearsing his inaugural address.
The media have created the fiction that Sen. John McCain, alone among the Republican candidates, can beat Hillary or Obama this fall. This is a fiction because only a conservative can unite the Republican Party this year and win. Call him “maverick”, call him “independent,” but please don’t call McCain “conservative.”
In nuclear physics, every subatomic particle has an opposite. When they collide, they combine to produce another particle that resembles neither. McCain is the political antimatter that collides with conservatism and produces “liberal republicanism.” If John McCain is the Republican nominee, conservatism will be where we were in 1965: having to feed the conservative phoenix rising out of the ashes.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
The lemming-like mentality of so much of the GOP, will lead to it’s total irrevelence as a political party.
irrelevence!
irrelevence!
Maybe you meant “irreverence”, LOL!
I don't know that McCain has swallowed the global warming baloney so much as that it is expediant for him. It helps to attract liberals and it makes him msm friends, and works as a pay off for those creating a carbon market.
The cap and trade programis a whole other thing. The senators see a way to legislate a market and profit from it. Carbon trading is comming, if it wasn't Senator Dick Lugar would not have planted acres upon acres of hardwood trees on his farms in 2006 and then registered those farms on the chicago carbon exchange.
Follow the cash.
The problem with McCain is he would be no different from Hillary. Look at his behavior.
McCain is self-centered and spiteful with an explosive temper. Add to that the fact that he has shown many times as a senator that he loves to side with leftists.
I think if McCain became president, he too would be crapped all over on by his liberal buddies.
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I think if McCain becomes the nominee the crapping all over will begin before November. Why would people want to vote for someone whose prime qualification is being able to work across the aisle, when they can vote for the person who is already across the aisle!
Well, the theory is, a president is for all people of this country and should work with all sides to get stuff done.
This is only a theory mind you and sounds good on paper BUT not how things really works with the liberal left. You start giving into them once, they demand more by 10 fold. Their idea of “working with” is nothing short of doing everything they say or they’ll do everything in their power to destroy you.
McCain have not figured that one out as yet. He’s only worked with the left on a few projects and figures he got them figured out.
I believe McCain will find this out real fast if he becomes president.
I’m hoping for Romney than I am for McCain.... neither one of them would be my first choice but from my view, by far a LOT better choice than Hillary or Obama.
I couldn’t agree with you more...about everything you said. Any Republican, even McLame - though God knows he’s not really a conservative and may do a fair amount of damage as president in terms of the border, illegal immigration, judges...STILL, he’s not the outright socialist nanny-stater that Hillary is...and so I’ll crawl through glass to vote for him against her.
You purists out there -— look what you accomplished in November by staying home. We got Pelosi et al. The worst Congress in history. Please please think carefully about what you’ll be doing if you stay home in November.
I think your point is interesting and may come to pass - that the Left may push McCain over to the right more if he is elected, just by being who they are. I hope for that.
And I’m with you: I’ll vote for whatever Republican is left standing after all is said and done. A Clinton/Obama ticket or Clinton/Anyone would be unmitigated disaster. Then you can say hello to the Nanny State — for your own good, you know. Oh, and for the children, of course.
I think McCain will probably beat Hillary. Those Dems aren’t coming over to the GOP side to vote for him because they think he will lose. They are coming over to vote for him because they can’t stand Hillary.
Unfortunately, we Republicans don’t trust McCain any more than those Dems trust Hillary, though.
McCain would not survive the MSM onslaught that would begin the day of his nomination.
Just how many glowbull warming moonbats, (McCain/Lieberman) free speech hating loony's, (McCain/Feingold) amnesty loving one worlders, (McCain/Kennedy) and anti tax cut proponents, (voted twice against Bush tax cuts) will leap from their beloved avowed socialists, (the Democrat Party) to vote for McCain?
No, what we will see from the MSM is a McQueeg like resemblance of McCain rolling two steel balls in his hand as he is pilloried by the press.
Shades of that little girl in the field of daisies add in 1964.
Romney has always been my first choice because Fred Thompson talked conservative, but when he was a senator he also was ineffective at sticking to conservative principles. I saw a weak man in the Senate who would be just as malleable in the hands of a dem majority congress if he ever got into the Oval Office.
I agree - good post.
Sheeple in both parties will be the death of this nation. These GOP lemmings will follow McLame to the OZ of the leftists. It’s amazing these people are such automatons, despite having immediate, repeated access to his record, his words, and his positions.
Time for a Conservative Party...
Lock and Load.
Thank you. Lol - I like your tagline. If only we all had those grade-school desks — they were amazing for protection against nuclear disasters — and if Ahmadinejad has his way we may need them again soon!
Is there any of the three remaining who haven’t swallowed the baloney? The only problem I have with this article is it addresses McCain in a vacuum. I don’t see Mitt Romney as having a more conservative record than McCain. He just doesn’t say as much to piss us off yet is record in Massachusetts was nothing near what we would call conservative. McCain has never compromised on his social conservatism. He fully supported judges Alito and Roberts. I don’t like his form of politics. I didn’t like the way he or Bush tried to push Amnesty. Let us not forget that the President we voted for twice also signed campaign finance reform and supported amnesty.
I don’t like any of the remaining three but McCain is the strongest which I think reveals the weakness of the Republican party today.
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