Posted on 2/9/2008, 1:47:26 AM by Cluster
------- Conservatives anew prefer Bush, instead of McCain ! (While eyeing Huckabee)... ------------------
- US President G.W.Bush urged today Conservatives to "help" to "elect a person who shares our PRINCIPLES".
Abstaining from endorsing McCain at all, Bush, on the contrary, expressed a hope that "we will have a nominee who will carry a CONSERVATIVE BANNER".
- "Without (even) naming Sen. John McCain, President Bush marshaled the Conservative wing of the Republican Party on Friday", at the annual CPAC.
In an indirect hint to Governor Huckabee's Younger age (53, while McCain is 71), Bush stressed that his call extends "into this election, and BEYOND"... (2008 + 2012).
For now, Bush urged Conservatives to keep "FAITH IN OUR VALUES", "go forward", "FIGHT for victory and keep the White House in 2008"
Obviously Anxious for the Future after McCain's sudden sweep which notoriously exploited a Division among Conservative candidates, CPAC's Conservatives spectacularly prefered, instead, to urge Bush to stay ""Four more years! FOUR MORE YEARS !" (2009-2012)....
Conservatives "clapped and chanted" while asking to keep until 2012 Bush, the man who defeated Senator McCain in 2000's Primaries. Bush was then only Governor, as Huckabee now.
AP reports that "the ballroom erupted in cheers when someone shouted : - "Are there conservatives in the house?"...
- "This conference is called CPAC. And maybe this weekend it might be renamed the Conservative Presidential ANXIETY Conference. (Laughter)", had joked among Conservatives Governor Huckabee in his latest speech at the CPAC
- "The theme might be, "Dude, where's my candidate? (Laughter)" - "'Well, I'd like to think that maybe he's standing in front of you !", concluded Governor Huckabee
Obviously, "Mr. Bush isn't ready to weigh in formally on the election" yet, observed Today, AP.
"Mr. McCain claims he is a true conservative ..."
- "But JAMES DOBSON one of the Nation's most prominent ..Christian leaders, BACKED Mike HUCKABEE's Presidential bid Thursday night"
"Mr. Dobson reiterated ..that he could NOT .. vote for Mr. McCain because of CONCERNS over the ..senator's conservative credentials", AP noted.
+ And "as soon as Mr. Romney announced that he was ending his campaign, ..activists appeared in the hotel lobby with handmade cardboard signs saying, 'Republicans AGAINST McCain.' ", observed ABC News.
- "It remains Unclear whether Conservative voters will stay at home in November, or try to influence McCain's positions — and his choice of a running mate", says USA Today. ------------ Senator McCain was totally ABSENT in Conservatives' latest Conference in 2007 ! Obviously eager, now, to ask to "PARDON my absence last year", he claimed that he "intended NO .. INSULT" to Conservatives.
Governor Huckabee, on the contrary, was present among Conservatives' CPAC from the start, and gave a speech, (together with Duncan Hunter, Mitt Romney, Jim Gilmore, Tom Tancredo, etc).
So, when, this time, McCain, at last, dared participate, for the 1st time, in a Conservatives' conference, he was reportedly saluted by many "Boo"s, sometimes equal or even more that the minimum polite applause..
Careful, McCain now addressed CPAC "accutely aware that I canNOT succeed ...WITHOUT the support of dedicated CONSERVATIVES, ...indispensible to .. success".
- "Many of you have DISAGREED strongly with some Positions I have taken in recent years"; McCain acknowledged. "I might not agree with it, but ..(I) hope that even if you believe I have occasionally ERRED in my reasoning.. , you will still ..grant that I have defended many positions we share, .. as I have made my case for positions that have provoked your OPPOSITION".
- "Yet it is Mr. McCain's Senate record on core CONSERVATIVE ISSUES that will continue to rile conservatives, regardless of his words now", observes "Wall Street Journal".
- "He OPPOSED Mr. BUSH's TAX CUTS..., although he now says he'll work to make them permanent. He opposed Constitutional Amendments against Abortion and SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, and was part of a BI-PARTISAN "GANG of 14" in the Senate who compromised on ..President's JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS. Mr. McCain also has been one of the few Republicans to side with Democrats against oil drilling in the Arctic", reminds WSJ.
+ Even the Human "EMBRYOnic STEM CELL" Controvercy, where Dangers may affect all Humankind, is included among the "Main Reasons CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE McCAIN", notes Boston Globe.
On the contrary, US President G.W.Bush, speaking now to Conservatives' CPAC, "Bush backed his decision to twice VETO Legislation that would have paved the way for TaxPayer-Funded Embryo research, ...destroying embryos", observed USA Today. ---------------------- - "Today we hear a lot about those who have had what is often called the "Road to Damascus" Experiences, on every Issue from Guns, and Same- Sex Marriage, to the Sanctity of Life, and Taxes", warned Governor HUCKABEE speaking earlier at the CPAC.
- "In fact, some folks have had so many "Road to Damascus" experiences they've had more than a Syrian camel driver. (Laughter)", Governor Huckabee joked, in a hint that obviously fits McCain...
"WHAT MATTERS IS that there is some CONSISTENCY, not in just what we've said, but in what we've done", he stresed.
>>> "If we're going to really help America be the best it can be for its future, ...then we have to have Leaders who understand that BEING A LEADER IS about being a THERMOSTAT, NOT a THERMOMETER".
"The THERMOMETER can read the temperature, and in fact, it does and reports what the ambient temperature of the room is. It's constantly SHNGING depending on the temperature. And I guess, in Global Warming it gets warmer. (Laughter). And then when we have an Ice Age, it gets Cooler"..
"But we don't need thermometers, we need thermostats. And a thermostat can read the temperature and understands what it is. But the sole purpose of a thermostat is to ADJUST the temperature for what it OUGHT TO BE, NOT simply to REFLECT what it already is.
"WE CAN'T AFFORD TO ELECT PEOPLE WHO simply REFLECT a culture and reflect a common view, BUT DON'T necessarily BELIEVE it. We need thermostats who understand what the prevailing winds are, but also understand what the prevailing Winds, and the PREVAILING PRINCIPLES, MUST BE, if this great Republic of ours is going to survive and come to its greatest possible opportunities. (Applause)"
"If Celebrity and Money are the criteria to be president of the United States, then Paris Hilton might be our next president?" (Laughter and Applause)
=> - "THE KIND OF CONSERVATIVE THAT I believe AMERICA IS STILL LOOKING FOR,. ..the kind of Conservative that I think will Lead this Country ..", is "the person (that) will Lift our Nation Up", not "down", that "will Lead our Children's Future to its Greatest Possibility", not "downward to their worst nightmares", and, for that purpose, "I believe that it does matter what kind of PRINCIPLES we take to our candidacies and to public office", concluded Huckabee at the CPAC, using words taken up in 2008 by US President GWBush.. (See above).
=> Governor Mike Huckabee has greatest chances to win in the forthcoming GOP Primaries mainly the States with the largest number of delegates, such as KANSAS, VIRGINIA, etc., until he arrives at one of his most important destinations, for which has been preparing since a long time, (worth 140 Delegates) : Former Governor Bush's State of TEXAS..
---------------------- See, f.ex. : http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/speech_huckabee.asp http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/cpac_speeches07.asp https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/the_winter_of_our_conservative.html http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120243299692452441.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-02-08-bush_N.htm?csp=34 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/07/politics/main3805674.shtml http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/08/main_reasons_conservatives_oppose_mccain/
Why can’t you post a thread link, like normal people???
There are MANY “Thread Links” in our Synthesis...
=> Good reading, for all of them !
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That’s precisely the reaction many real Conservatives had when they heard McCain’s claims at the CPAC...
Where were you, sir, during the November 2004, hard Fight of US President GWbush against flip-flop Liberal Dem. Kerry ?
May be busy counting flip-flop McCain’s flip-flops ?
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 on the Presidential seat, including a democrat in the general election.
By signing this Bill into Law Bush violated his oath to the U.S. Constitution. Doesn't a President generally have a constitutional obligation to use his powers, including the veto power, to prevent what he sincerely and after careful reflection deems to be a constitutional violation? Certainly the presidential oath set forth in Article II of the Constitution suggests that a President owes a special duty to "protect and defend the Constitution."
It was at this point that I began to become skeptical of this President and questioned his conservatism, He moved even further to the left after that point.
There is one thing that stands out among all but one of our choices left in both parties that all the candidates but Ron Paul have in common....Their silence...
In his Farewell Address, George Washington reminded succeeding generations of Americans that, “Honesty is always the best policy.” From the bottom of our hearts, we wish that we were not forced to make an issue of the moral weakness—the integrity deficit—of Ron Paul’s opponents. Yet no one can listen to the posturing of the other contenders in both major parties, without remarking the absence of reference to the specific language of our written Constitution.
There are endless appeals to the interests or demands of particular groups or factions of the population; endless pandering to what are perceived as voting blocks; but no discussion of where the authority is supposed to reside; none of legal bases for the programs, schemes and policies being promised.
Ron Paul, alone, recognizes that the Federal Government has no power—no legal existence outside the Constitution. Yet each of the other candidates, at one time or another, has been required to swear obedience to that Constitution—to swear to uphold that Constitution. If they care so little about those solemn oaths, as to fail even to discuss Constitutional questions in seeking the most solemn office under that Constitution, how can one trust them in anything? Ultimately, the determinative issue in 2008, must be the integrity of Ron Paul versus the shameless, amoral, opportunism of his foes. Those who chose to ignore that issue, turn their backs on duty, wisdom and providence. No personal interest, no rationalization, no excuse, can possibly justify that betrayal.
>Where were you, sir, during the November 2004, hard Fight of US President GWbush against flip-flop Liberal Dem. Kerry ?
Oh that made sense. Begone troll.
“... We can vote conservative on Senate and House primary seats,
and vote for anyone other than McCain on the Presidential seat,
including a democrat in the general election.”
Hi, Yosemitest.
Don’t fall to any sly trap : We don’t need any Liberal, Dem. or other flip-flops.
=> For real Conservatives, we have Governor Mike Huckabee,
who is the only revelation of 2008 Presidentials, with consistent Principles, and a charismatic personality, able to win against Obama.
While everybody knows that McCain will lose if he faces Obama.
Truth be told, REAL conservatives are disgusted by all three of them.
If you really want “integrity” against “opportunism”, as you said, dear KDD, then, ...
=> .. Welcome to make Ron Paul join the Values-motivated Conservative Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee !
His natural place is there. Not to be expoited by “opportunist” flip-flopers” who divide Value-motivated Conservatives.
Particularly those who really care for CITIZENS’ Rights, as Mike Huck.
You read too fast.
You missed "anyone" "other than" "McCain in the general election."
I can guarantee you that they already have most of their stories about him already written and pretty much complete. All they need to do is plug in the date, location and the subject at hand when he lost it, because we all know it's gonna' happen.
The liberal media will take credit (much of it deserved, as they slipped this past us) for his pre-election crash.
All we can do is pray this will not happen, because, at this point, a prayer is just about all we have left.
The media is trying to herd us (conservatives) into as many different factions as possible using the old but successful "Divide & Conquer" technique.
They want the Republican Party to field the most vulnerable (the one they have the most damaging info on) candidate possible.
Try posting them as HTML links, like this:
You might find that link helpful, by the way.
If I want someone running for President to quote the Bible to me then perhaps I would turn to Huck. But what I am looking for in a President is someone who can quote the U.S. Constitution to me. I think I’ll stick with Ron Paul.
McCain-Feingold sucked in a lot of people. The first round of proposed changes actually would have brought in some much needed reforms. By the time the thing left the committees, it should have been aborted. It sucked in a lot of people like Thompson that started fighting for one thing and ended up “trapped” by their prior support in the end. I wish someone had grown a spine and opposed it.
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