Posted on 02/08/2008 5:32:09 AM PST by pookie18
Since many conservatives say they won’t vote for John McCain, and some say they’ll even vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, it might be worth looking at some of the people whose power and influence will be far more potent as a result of such pettiness. To wit:
–George Soros. A multi-billionaire with megalomaniacal ambitions. Financier of some of the most virulent lunatic-left organizations in the country. Just revealed as the chief funder of a recently debunked “study” by the British medical journal, Lancet, which claimed 650,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the war–ten times the actual number.
–MoveOn.Org. Do you like it when George W. Bush, a wartime American president, is hated more than the Islamic terrorists who perpetrated 9/11? How about when Gen. David Petraeus, leader of the turn-around in Iraq and man who has dedicated his life to the country is called “General Betrayus?”
–Michael Moore. Propagandist film maker, dedicated socialist. Mr. Moore has called Americans the “stupidest people on the planet.” Believes communist Cuba has a better health care system than our own. Given a seat of honor next to Jimmy Carter at the 2004 Democratic convention.
–Jimmy Carter. Worst president of the modern era. Never misses a chance to bash America, especially when traveling abroad. Says Israel is an “apartheid” state. Why? For having the “gall” to defend itself from ongoing Palestinian terror.
–The mainstream media. Already leaning left, already “massaging” any info that accrues to the benefit of conservatives. A Democratic Congressional majority coupled with a Democratic administration might be more than willing to re-visit the “Fairness Doctrine”–tipping the scales even further leftward.
–Hollywood celebrities. A deadly combination of brain-dead, America-hating, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-loving socialists. Sean Penn? Danny Glover? Barbara Streisand? Susan Sarandon? The list is endless–and gag-inducing.
–Academia. Other than Hollywood celebrities, no one embraces a dimmer view of American values and traditions than the “ivory tower intellectuals” who poison the minds of our youth.
–Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. A resurgence for the two race hustlers whose livelihoods depend on maintaining the black “victim of racist society” myth while shaking down guilty white liberals who head major corporations. With a Dem majority in Congress and an Obama or Clinton administration, bet the farm that “reparations for slavery” hits the front burner.
–Anti-war protesters/appeasers. Despite all evidence to the contrary, there are those who believe Islamic terror is an “exaggerated threat,” and that “nothing is worth fighting for.” 9/11? America’s fault. Atomic Iran? No big deal. Reactive better than proactive? Better an American city under a nuclear halo than continuing the fight against “peace-loving” Muslims abroad. One more domestic attack away from irrelevancy–but who gets to “take one for the team”–first?
–Conspiracy theorists. The Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center, the war in the Middle East is only about oil, Haliburton, et al, controls the world. ‘Nuff said.
–Enviro-whack-jobs. We don’t drill for domestic oil now, despite funding both sides of the terror war. Our economy is already shaky without global warming “mandates.” We’ve already lost incandescent light bulbs. That’s just the tip of liberal-inspired, environmental tsunami which would hamstring our economy for decades.
Supreme Court Justice “X.” Or maybe Justices “X,” “Y,” and “Z,” all of whom believe the Constitution is a “living document” to be “interpreted” as a means of securing “social justice.” Presidents come and go in four or eight years. A Supreme Court appointment is for life.
This is only a partial list. But it ought temper the “hate-McCain,” “stay home on election day,” “my principles or nothing” conservatives who are willing to bite the bullet and let the liberals take over. There are far worse things than a flawed candidate. The empowerment of the above would be a paradigm shift away from virtually everything that has made this country stand above all the rest.
Are conservatives genuinely ready–with spite as their primary motivation, no less–for THAT?
exactly
Our only hope for what exactly? A slower descent into socialism? Not for me thanks very much. Talk to the hand, I’m too busy according to some here, peeing on the graves of servicemen to listen to the crap any more. Funny thing about principles, most good folks won’t sell theirs.
Take a majority in the house & senate?!!! Who’s going to give that to us?!
For our sake, I hope you’re right...
I was turning in some papers to the local Republican Party office yesterday and mentioned I would never vote for McCain. One of the guys there said, “You have to support the Party!” I was tempted to give him a Hitler salute.
This sounds altogether too much like the Dems hoping we'll fail in Iraq so they can get a Democrat elected. It's the fate of our poor country we need to be concerned about, not hoping for it to suffer a political and cultural disaster to "teach it a lesson."
If, God forbid, I have to vote for the lesser of two evils, I'll have to do it, on the probably simplistic grounds that less evil is better than more evil.
You forgot to add the part about his website and the Muslim groups that have links to it. They want a national Muslim holiday, days off for all kinds of muslim holy days, etc.
That may very well be, but the idea that the current system was rigged specifically to benefit a moderate Republican is ridiculous. There is no reason why a good conservative candidate could not have outdone McCain with the current system.
The problem was that we did not have such a candidate, not that the system was rigged to produce a McCain victory.
Spot on.
It’s bizarre...but true. Republican congressman will follow a liberal Pubbie straight over the cliff, but will stand ground to a Rat Prez.
It might be possible to do this in more states than do it now, but at least a dozen states have no party registration. That would make it impossible to restrict the primary to Republicans.
I might vote in our RAT primary next week since there is no point voting in the GOP primary.
He tried to get on the ticket with Kerry.
You trust that “character” if you want.
I will NOT.
-it’s high time for a new party. A conservative one.
The more extreme the better. After 8 years of Hillary, the country will be begging for a conservative. Maybe 4 years if they're really goofy
D. McShane wrote:
This sounds altogether too much like the Dems hoping we'll fail in Iraq so they can get a Democrat elected. It's the fate of our poor country we need to be concerned about, not hoping for it to suffer a political and cultural disaster to "teach it a lesson."
I could not agree more. It's comments like paulson's, and there are many, which lead me to believe there are liberal trolls at FR. I don't think paulson is, other than a raving nutter whose ego has been bruised by the rejection of any of the "real conservatives", and there are many of those here, too.
If you aren’t part of the solution, you are a big part of the problem and I personally don’t want to hear a peep out of you.
I like to think of it not so much a vote for McCain, but a vote against a democrat.
That’s ridiculous. McCain will have Kennedy choosing the judges.
If only McCain had decided to switch parties. Then we would be voting against a democrat.
Here it comes. . . the politics of 'fright'.
It is very telling that the case to vote for McCain isn't being made based on his record. Instead, his supporters are trying to stir up fear and/or hate.
I don’t understand what the McCain backers think is actually going to happen. How deluded can they be? We said it was a bad idea to nominate that moron, but they didn’t listen. The whole time it was “What are you going to do let Hillary be President?” Well the answer was “yes!” They just didn’t listen. Now your man is going to get destroyed in the general and you blame us?
You can call me a supporter if you want to...as he was my 5th or 6th choice. OTOH, some detractors don't see anything good about him...as their blinders are on...
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