Now they want to complete the "trifecta" by adding ...
In doing so we are now left with a liberal republican as a standard bearer. Sorry to all Huckabees's supporters but his populist ways will lead to the exact same end as McCain and the Dems. Romney wasn't perfect but he was a moderate, not liberal, and would keep us from drifting farther to the left. His fiscal and national security stance on the issues gave the conservative hope. We missed a chance.
Now principled dyed in the wool conservatives looking for the perfect candidate have given us all a choice: 1) work hard within the party to bring it back on course or 2) bend over and await the socialist stick.
A new party is not the choice. As I said we are a minority and will be just another one in the sea of Libertarian Party, Constitutional Party, Green Party, and so many others that pop up from time to time on one issue or disagreement ... and then fade away.
There’s Nothing Conservative or Principled John McCain
In other words, stop complaining and swallow this welfare state poison?
--I'm gonna post this several times a day for a long time, I suspect---
What leverage do conservatives have if the GOP knows they will support any nominee, no matter how repugnant?
Doing ANYTHING to assist Hillary Clinton in securing power over the government and military is completely asinine.
Sorry, if John McCain gets beat by Hillary or Obama in November, he won’t have anyone to blame but himself. I wish you people would stop lecturing us about being loyal to the party no matter who the candidate is. If you want to sell out, go right ahead, but I refuse to compromise my values any more than I have over the years, especially for the likes of John McCain. Keep lowering the bar and you’ll eventually end up having a candidate like Kucinich to vote for. In my opinion, It’s no different than the way the educational system has lowered its required level of achievement for students, and how other institutions and agencies have lowered their qualifications to achieve specific quotas.
I can not vote for a man I do not trust.
At this point, it’s about vengeance. They cut out our tongues, and now they will pay.
Besides, McCain is just another Democrat regardless of his actual party registration, so helping him defeat a different one gains us nothing. Actually, it’s worse, since then we become the author of the disaster he will surely bring.
It's tired, old, and broken.
Time to take that dog to the vet.
McCain has already said that he doesn’t need the Conservative vote. And he once said that Hillary would make a good President. Let him fend for himself.
His 11th commandment comes to mind:
"Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."
I’m going to hold my nose and vote for McCain if he’s the candidate. As Newt Gingrich said the other day, “Who do want for POTUS, someone you disagree with 20% of the time or someone you disagree with 90% of the time.”
Clinton or Obama would be disastrous for this country as they would take us further and further down the road to socialism by the time their term ended.
We aren’t running away from the party, the party left us. The religious right went left and the good old boys decided that it was more pragmatic to stay with one of their own.
Ahem to this article! If the people on this site ‘sit it out’ who will be to blame when the taxes go up, when the troops are pulled out of the middle east and it goes to he!! in a hand basket, when the gitmo detainees are brought into this country and given pony tailed jackass lawyers to get them off...who???? Every single person who ‘sat it out’ will be to blame. Think past your anger, think to the security of this nation, not your selfish ideals that came come with the next president
There is little choice in the matter, either vote for the GOP candidate and we are spared the liberal horrors that are Clinton/Obama, or don’t vote and just hand them the keys.
That’s what IS folks. Hold your nose and do what needs to be done. The alternative is NOT worth contemplating.
Hitlery could do a lot less damage.
This has nothing to do with principles or purity as a conservative, it has to do with political character, and who he has sided with, who he has gone against for 8 years running.
He says he will not leave Iraq, but I’m not so sure, giving his stance with the Dims on Gitmo, interrogations, and claiming we have wasted troops lives.
John Hawkins can cry me a river. He should remember the Whigs... that’s where the republican party is going to be in 10 years.