Posted on 02/11/2008 9:45:10 PM PST by bshomoic
he numbers add up to John McCain
By Gary Bauer February 12, 2008
In the wake of John McCain's Tsunami Tuesday victories and Mitt Romney's consequent withdrawal from the presidential sweepstakes, a reality has emerged that conservatives must accept: John McCain will be the Republican Party's nominee.
But for more than a few conservatives, this reality seems too bitter to abide. Some have suggested that they would sooner sit out the general election, or vote for an nonviable third-party candidate, than vote for Arizona's senior senator. Other key conservatives have threatened to become "suicide voters" and pull the lever for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in order to send a message to the Republican Party.
As a conservative Republican, I respect those who seek ideological purity from the man who would lead our party. But it is also as a conservative Republican that I respectfully ask conservatives to consider these crucial numbers before they abandon Mr. McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If the numbers add up then they don’t need me.
MDS is the new BDS.
Your name is very appropriate, considering your comment.
If, as the title suggests, the numbers add up to MCain, then he doesn’t need our help.
A brokered convention would be better than a McCain Nomination.
There is no way that either men will have enough delegates before the convention, if Huck stays in and Romney keeps his delegates and doesn't endorse McCain.
Usually the clowns show up last.
Gary Bauer seems to make a habit of selling out Christian Conservatives by endorsing McCain. I believe he did this in 2000 as well. I respect most of the Christian Conservative leaders but Bauer seems like a total political opportunist.
“...ideological purity...”
Here we go with the condescension crap again.
How about “Conservative”? Maybe that is what we are looking for eh.
Dunno Mr papa. I think it might be time for a soul searching int the GOP. Do we want purity to ideal? Are we ready for minority status the next 20 years? Always fighting the bigger system and the media to slow the expansion of government?
OR
Do we stay with the big tent model and try to navigate as best we can? I know there is a war on but everyone in the know said it would be a multi president effort. Is the war and the attached geopolitical importance worth giving up on other issues? Troops vs Abortion vs the Border? The dems are all on the same page of the same book. They just need a face for the cover. We are still throwing around drafts.
That said I don’t think right now after the primaries are done is a good time to get inquisitorial in nature. Take McCain now but hold the congress to the fire and by 2010 just like W had to go (even more) left to work with pelosi McCain will have to deal with the right wing to do anything.
Great Post - Thansk so much for finding it and posting it.
Here is a paragraph that should have all of us excited/worried at the same time:
“Six — That’s the number of Supreme Court justices who will be 70 years old or older on Inauguration Day 2009. That number includes all five of the court’s left-leaning members. Court watchers predict that the next president will appoint at least two, and as many as five, justices.”
Acknowledging reality and keeping the dems from choosing the next SCOTUS judges is now viewed as traitorous, liberal behavior. But being viewed that way by fools concerns me less than keeping up the good fight.
Nice tag. Some of my best nights playing poker I’ve nothing but bum cards.
These numbers....
$ 64 billion — That’s the number of taxpayer dollars earmarked for congressional pet projects in 2006. Polls show considerable voter disillusionment with both parties over their abuse of earmarks, which have grown by 350 percent since 1994. Mr. McCain has been a stalwart crusader against out-of-control spending and is uniquely positioned to continue his leadership in seeking greater transparency of lobbying activities. At the recent Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Mr. McCain reiterated his commitment to ethics reform by pledging not to “sign a bill with earmarks in it, with any earmarks in it.”
Eighty — That’s the percentage by which Iraqi and American deaths fell between December 2006, just before Mr. Bush announced the troop surge, and December 2007. In the face of national defeatism, Mr. McCain stood, virtually alone, as an outspoken defender of the surge strategy. Although he knew his position was deeply unpopular, as he once told a reporter, “I’d rather lose the presidency than lose the war.”
Eighty-two — That’s the lifetime American Conservative Union rating John McCain has compiled in 25 years in Congress, a score comparable to those of numerous other Senate conservatives, including Sens. Charles Grassley, Lamar Alexander, Bob Bennett and former Sen. Rick Santorum. Meanwhile, Mr. McCain has a 4 percent lifetime rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League, voting pro-life 123 times out of 128.
Adding up these numbers helps explain why so many conservative leaders — including Sam Brownback, Tom Coburn, Phil Gramm, Jon Kyl, Haley Barbour, Jack Kemp, Tim Pawlenty and Ted Olsen — have endorsed Mr. McCain.
I’ve done the math, and that is why I have decided to join these and many other conservatives in endorsing John McCain for president in 2008.
Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer is chairman of the Campaign for Working Families.
You are right. Get lost. Go back to DU or wherever you feel most comfortable.
Yeah seriously, all we want is someone to the right of Marx at this point. That really isn’t too much to ask from the Republican Party.
Anyway, as others said, if McCain has such a good chance then he can win without us. As it is, I will continue to oppose him.
I swear these yoeckels are seriously trying to eject conservatives from their own party. Instead of telling us how stupid we all are for not jumping on the McCain bandwagon; how ‘bout first admitting we have legitimate complaints? Or do they really believe that insulting someone’s intelligence is the best way to win friends and influence people?
There is nothing worse for the long-term health of the republican party than for the entire base to be marching in lock-step with the party line.
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