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?
THANK YOU!!
(Cueing up "Blaze of Glory" as the soundtrack to this thread.)
Exactly. If attempting to scare us is the best he can do, John McCain is a pathetic campaigner.
The GOP left me and it's gonna take more than threats or flowers to get me back.
Making me wonder, too. Personally, I find the apolcalyptic turn these discussions are taking disturbing. This is a far cry from the fighting spirit that drew me to FR during the 2000 campaign, and kept me here through the recount, and again through 2004, till... now?
I think I might put my hazmat suit on and see what's happening at DU. I have an old account there.
I won't vote for an anti-American, anti-Constitution candidate who's a self-absorbed jerk and a shorter, older clone of John Kerry. (I was a POW! That answers EVERYTHING!)
No vote for McCain here.
This is an arrogant slap in the face.
To label conservatives' objections over John McCain "pettiness" is to label the very Constitution "petty". It is to label some of the very core, to-the-bone conservative principles held most dear by most conservatives to be worth nothing more than an eye-roll and a heavy sigh.
John McCain has been far too willing to negotiate away some of the most precious, core conservative values and loyalties for far too many years.
What he has done means something.
The vile and belittling treatment he has handed some fellow Republicans means something.
The First Amendment means something.
Citizenship in the USA means something.
Loyalty means something.
Unfortunately, the only thing that means something to John McCain is John McCain.
Thank you. A salient quote, in this case.
What is this, FLEE Republic?!
You know what happened to the last Rino president that thought he could win by being a moderate? Ross Perot does :D
Yeah, tell that to the 3000+ who died at the hands of AQ, who thrived under the neglect of the Clintons.
A little revisionism, anyone?
But, from here to November, please consider the catastrophic strategic consequences of abandoning the Persian Gulf to Iranian Islamist lunatics.
THANK YOU!
I sheath my sword. A tactical shift. The outrages that were the birth pangs of the Republic are to be repeated. Now...or later. I prefer now. Nothing personal.
Its (sic) time to rally around the nominee.
Love of country? Which country? Mexico?
Bush would have signed amnesty. It took Congress to thwart it.
McMexico McAmnesty McCainnedy wrote it.
It took Congress to thwart it.
No thanks to McMexico McAmnesty McCainnedy.
Now Daddy didn’t like trouble, but if it came along Everyone that knew him knew which side that he’d be on He never was a hero, or this county’s shinin’ light But you could always find him standing up For what he thought was right
He’d say you’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything You’ve got to be your own man not a puppet on a string Never compromise what’s right and uphold your family name You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything
Now we might have been better off or owned a bigger house If Daddy had done more givin’ in or a little more backing down But we always had plenty just living his advice Whatever you do today you’ll have to sleep with tonight
He’d say you’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything You’ve got to be your own man not a puppet on a string Never compromise what’s right and uphold your family name You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything
Now I know that things are different than they were in Daddy’s days But I still believe what makes a man really hasn’t changed
You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything You’ve got to be your own man not a puppet on a string Never compromise what’s right and uphold your family name You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything
You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything
Aaron Tippin
Actually, his record suggests that he will ikely go along with about 10%, will blunt the edge of another 10% and oppose 80%. That is considerably better than the record of Obama (100% socialist) or Clinton (about 80% socialist). In politics 80% is acceptable. Allowing the socialists to work unimpeeded for 4+ years will take decades of effort to undo, effort that could have been better spent.
Thanks-we must take our party back or move out to a conservative party. I think taking the party back makes more sense right now. Lets work at the state and national level to get conservatives into congress.
I absolutely agree with you. Rush has come very close to saying this same things. He talked quite a bit on Friday about how bad a McCain presidency would be and how we would hate it. Lets show RINO’s what happens when we refuse to vote for their flawed candidate.
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