Posted on 02/08/2008 5:32:09 AM PST by pookie18
This writer is a moron.
To suggest an entire party change its principles to accomodate a single meglomaniac is beyond anyting passing for reason.
What about it? What’s voting for McCain going to do about any of it? There’s not a Republican yet that has actually stood up to any of these jerks.
I read so much on FR about Saddam’s papers that were being translated and that there was information in them that proved the left-wing propaganda to be wrong. I have yet to see or hear of ANY Republican fighting tooth and nail to get this information to the public. Seems to me that this would help the troops, help the war effort, shut down the liberal propaganda coming from the media and Hollywood...so why aren’t the Republicans in congress or the President demanding that this information be given to the public? These translations WERE being put on the internet, but the website was taken down sometime in 2006. I never heard a word of protest from one Republican in power.
That is what McCain is betting on. McCain’s $%#! Diana, you have to vote for me anyway seems to be working for him.
He has Bill Bennett betting on him.
“Well, the fact that he was championing the strategy that is now winning the war even when everybody from Rumsfeld to the Media and the opinion polls were against him tells you that he says what he means and means what he says about the war.”
For now.
If things go south, and his presidency seems to be on the line, I have little doubt that he’ll sell out the country.
“Well, ummm .... I certainly care about other issues such as not having a Far-Left Supreme Court for the next 20 years and not having a guaranteed tax hike but I must admit that having America not go up in a nuclear holocaust has always been right up there in my A-List of issues.”
In that Mr. McCain has said he likely wouldn’t nominate someone like Justice Alito, I imagine that he’d give us leftie Supreme Court nominees, too.
Also, I don’t really think that the United States will “go up in a nuclear holocaust.” North Korea apparently has nuclear weapons, and yet, hasn’t used them.
“You allow a nuclear capable Iran to inherit military control of 70% of the World’s known oil reserves and chances are that America will not survive long enough to finish your ‘war’.”
I don’t really think that electing Mr. McCain over Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Obama will be the difference between Iran (or other rogue states) from obtaining nuclear weapons.
“That’s fine. Don’t vote for him now.”
In all likelihood, I won’t in November, either.
“But, from here to November, please consider the catastrophic strategic consequences of abandoning the Persian Gulf to Iranian Islamist lunatics.”
I don’t think that his election makes that much of a difference in that regard.
I DO think that after a single McCain term, the Republican Party will have entered a new wilderness period that will last for a generation or more.
And our people will likely lose heart to continue the battle against Islam. And we will thus lose the war, as well.
sitetest
Good for Bill, but not he’ll have to attend a GA mtg.
We know that McCain was the #1 promoter of the surge & that he’ll be 50x better than the libs re Iraq & the WOT...among other things...
And when he gets the amnesty that he wants so badly and makes citizens of millions upon millions of socialists who’ll be feeding at the trough and voting democrat, I don’t think I’ll really care what’s going on in Iraq because he will have successfully turned our country into an even bigger socialist sh!thole than it already is. How is that 50X better than a dem?
The Dems will not prosecute either Iraq or the WOT, maybe you missed the memo...IAC, just don’t complain when you help put a Dhimmi in the White House to rule over Dhimmi congressional majorities in the house & as well as possibly a (Dem + RINO) filibuster-proof senate...
Good. Let it get as bad as it can as quick as it can. Two cars headed off a cliff, one just gets there sooner.
One’ll leave a trail of a left-leaning SCOTUS for the next 25 years...
There’s Nothing Conservative Or Principled About Helping A Democrat Beat John McCain In November
By John Hawkins
Friday, February 8, 2008
“(Don’t let) the perfect (be) the enemy of the good.” — Voltaire
I keep hearing conservatives say that if John McCain is the nominee — and barring a miracle, he will be at this point — that they’re going to sit out the election or even vote for the Democratic nominee because of “conservative principles.”
As one conservative — and not as a “John McCain conservative,” but as a “I supported Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson, oppose amnesty and abortion, fought to get Samuel Alito instead of Harriet Miers, believe in small government, term limits, tax cuts, and balancing the budget” conservative — to another, let me tell you that I very respectfully, but also very strongly disagree with that definition of “conservative principles.”
There is NOTHING conservative about working with the Democratic nominee against most of your fellow conservatives in order to grow government, socialize medicine, lose the war in Iraq, tilt the Supreme Court to the Left, and make Roe v. Wade the permanent law of the land. If you are conservative and vote for the Democratic nominee or even just refuse to vote for McCain, who is by any and every objective standard, considerably more conservative than either of them, let me tell you what you are NOT doing,
* You are NOT doing the logical thing. When faced with a choice between a moderate who holds some conservative positions and some non-conservative positions and a liberal who holds no conservative positions, the logical decision is to take the moderate. After all, half a loaf is better than none.
* You are NOT helping conservatism or your fellow conservatives. To the contrary, you are helping liberals defeat conservative ideas. Isn’t that what conservatives are saying that they’re furious at McCain over? Well, who’s less of a conservative: John McCain, who, if he were in the White House, would help conservatives win some battles and would help liberals win others or the conservatives who want to help a Democrat get into the office who will go against conservative ideas every time?
* You are NOT looking out for the best interests of the country. If you believe winning in Iraq is better than losing, if you believe balancing the budget is better than higher deficit spending, if you believe that having a Supreme Court that is tilted to the right is better than having a Supreme Court tilted to the left, and if you believe that Roe v. Wade is leading to the immoral murder of millions of children — and the overwhelming majority of people reading this column certainly believe all those things — then you are certainly not putting the good of the country first if you oppose John McCain in November.
Some might argue that having Hillary Clinton in office would be better for the country and conservatism because she would screw things up so badly that it would actually help conservatives in the long run. But, if people haven’t seen through Hillary Clinton after 16 years in the public eye, what makes you think another 4-8 years in the White House would do it? How many Americans saw through FDR? Even as his government policies extended the depression for years after it should have ended, he was voted back into office. Yes, he was a capable war President, but he also did more damage to this country domestically than any other President in history, short-term and long-term, and he’s still considered by many people to be one of our greatest Presidents.
But, we don’t have to go all the way back to Roosevelt: just think back to 2006. What did we hear then? “We should stay home and teach the Republicans a lesson. They’ll take a big beating and it’ll be great for conservatism.” How did that turn out? From where I am sitting, we have a lot less Republicans in Congress, more squabbling than ever, and we’re going to have Republican nominee John McCain. Why? Because sometimes a loss leads to better things, but in politics, as often as not, losing just begets more losing and it can sometimes take a very, very long time for movements to learn from its mistakes. Think back to Roosevelt, whose victories started a 40 year-long dominant cycle for the Democrats and that party’s shift to the left in 1972 that started a long slow slide for them that may have finally ended in 2006.
Along those same lines, it’s also worth noting that after Barry Goldwater was destroyed in 1964, Richard Nixon, who was even less conservative than McCain, was elected to two terms in the White House. Then, in 1980, Reagan became President. So, there is absolutely no reason to think that if a moderate Republican gets into the White House that it will prevent a conservative Republican from getting in later — and since I mentioned Reagan, I have heard his name invoked many times in the past few weeks to justify not supporting McCain in the general election.
If Ronald Reagan had been alive and had chosen to endorse a candidate in the primaries, even McCain fans should be honest enough to admit that candidate probably wouldn’t have been John McCain. But, McCain’s most ardent opponents should also be honest enough to note that Ronald Reagan campaigned for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, both of whom were to the left of John McCain. So, were he still alive, Ronald Reagan would almost certainly campaign for McCain against Hillary or Barack and you can be sure that he would not approve of conservatives who say that they’d rather have a liberal Democrat in the White House than a far-from-perfect Republican. So, whether the question is “What would Reagan do” or “what would a principled conservative do” in November, the answer would be the same: vote for John McCain.
John Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs Conservative Grapevine and Right Wing News.
You vill keep your papersss in order! You vill submit!
We need one page of these that are fronts and, one page of these for the backs, that we can print and cut, to fill the prepaid envelopes from the RNC and the ACU.
There will be a price to pay for supporting McCain.
We can vote conservative on Senate and House primary seats, and vote for anyone other than McCain one the Presidential seat, including a democrat in the general election.
McCain is beholden to George Soros since he got so much $ from George. I’ll be voting for Obama this Tuesday in Virginia. So will many other disaffected GOPers. Go Obama!!!
CB
Re your post #17. Another reason NOT to vote McCain, the liar.
I’ve made an oath to turn off “conservative” radio talk show hosts who start lobbying for McCain. I don’t even want to listen to them prostitute themselves.
You couldn’t get rid of Romney fast enough, normy. Now you and your ilk can live with a Dem president just like the rest of us.
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