John McCain: Conservatism's Version of Toxic Shock Syndrome
Posted on 02/04/2008 5:07:07 PM PST by neverdem
With McCain as pres., the Republican party will shift leftward to accommodate his leftist views. This will happen as he will be the de facto leader of the party. (Nixon even got support for his radical left wage & price controls from congressional Republicans).
This will move the entire nation even further to the left and marginalize conservatism to the kook fringe, a position from which it will take generations (if ever) to recover as it will have no legitimate political home.
A Hillary election creates a rallying point for conservatism (in and out of congress). This sets up a congressional force against her agenda as well as a breeding ground for new conservative thought and leadership.
The judiciary argument is a red herring. McCain has Warren Rudman (David Souter’s chief advocate) as his judiciary adviser.
None of this really worries me however as McCain, if he is the party nominee, will not win the general election.
When Democrats & all liberals are faced with the choice between a hard left, Marxist liberal & a soft core liberal, they will vote for the hard core liberal. Conservatives will stay away in droves & there simply are not enough moderates to carry the day for McCain.
John McCain: Conservatism's Version of Toxic Shock Syndrome
Too bad he isn’t as concerned with our borders.
hahahaha!
;-)
don’t think so.
Knife in the back from McCain or knife in the front from the clinton twins.
either way it is unacceptable and an irrelevant choice.
McCain was able to parlay his POW background into 22 years in the Senate. He’s done well.
I have a relative who survived the Bataan death march. He didn’t get elected to anything, which was no different than most former POWs.
Typical drivel from an ex-military guy. the kind of idiot we cannot afford to put in The White House or have as an advisor (this Owens fellow). There is contrary to what he writes plenty of evidence from surviving soldiers and airmen also held captive that McCain was a traitor. How can the media and even Romney put him up as a hero? Absolutely insane...
For instance I think McCain-Lieberman (the Greenhouse Gas bill) has no chance passing the Senate if Clinton or Obama were president, but might pass if McCain were president.
If the Democrats win, the Congressional GOP has no reason to play nice with them any more. IF McCain were to win, the GOP would fracture along “moderate” get along at any cost Congresscritters and the true Conservative GOPers. It would be the worse of both worlds.
Go read McCain-Leiberman. A Republican President purposing a $.50 a gallon Fed Gas tax hike? McCain is virtually a Democrat in his domestic policy.
I don’t buy it that McChurian has many redeeming social values for a minute.
An angry globalist old grump part of the ruling elite is not a true friend of our Republic.
I’ve only known one POW. He was held by the Japanese. He was a much nicer guy than McNasty.
You are right! Republicans in Congress will fight a Democrat president. They will not fight a liberal Republican.
The first in a flurry of - “where you gonna go?” commentaries lol.
Under no circumstances will I vote for John McCain.
If the inept GOP establishment after attempting to run Giulianni down my throat and now “settling” for McCain wants to blame me - by all means I will take the blame.
Romney is my last line in the sand.
10-4
They're in maximum overdrive these days, aren't they? The McCaniacs must be in panic mode right now. And all this time, Captain Queeq believed he could just snap his fingers, and the conservatives would lay down and let him scratch their bellies.
Ah yes. Another talking head telling me to toss aside my principles for what is foisted upon me by the establishment.
No thanks. If this country is going to go down the left fork of the road, I’d much rather a dem be at the wheel. Compromising on a RINO (again) only makes it tougher to stand up to the next one the GOP establishment pushes down our throats.
It’s time to make a principled stand for the long term good of our Country and the conservative cause (I was going to say for our party, but I realize that I am a conservative without a party. It drifted away from me).
either way it is unacceptable and an irrelevant choice.
It's a searing pain felt by the blade.
What difference does it make what direction, in reference to the inflicted body, the blade is coming from?
It's still a deadly blade.
As a Republican in Illinois, I know first-hand it’s better for a Dem to win rather than an unconservative Republican. I voted for the Reform Party candidate when George Ryan ran and won the governership knowing about the problems of Ryan’s conservative credentials, the only time I’ve ever not voted for the Republican candidate for any office in any election. Illinois used to have Republican governers and used to go for the Republicans some in national elections (Bush41 and Reagan) but since Ryan it hasn’t even been close here. We’ve been “California by the Lake” since Ryan. I’m hoping for Romney and will vote for him tomorrow, but if it’s McCain in November I’m going with the least kooky candidate of the third parties (or a write-in if all the third parties are too kooky...Jeb maybe).
Bush has brought the republican party to its knees with McCain ready to plunge the knife bringing a swift end. McCain will not only lose the general he will kill any chance the republicans can have any say in congress.
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