Posted on 02/12/2008 4:27:55 PM PST by kellynla
Just four hours after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's pragmatic decision to suspend his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain stood before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and asked the assembled activists to support his bid for the White House. The "maverick" acknowledged differences he has had over the years with many in the room, offered a spirited defense of his 24-year record in Congress, and made an eloquent, self-effacing appeal for conservatives to unite in the "urgent necessity of defending the values, virtues and security of free people against those who despise all that is good about us."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
No, "we need" Dick Cheney "as commadner in chief!"
Ollie, if you can get McCain on his knees begging for forgiveness for deviating from the conservative cause, I might consider your endorsement worth something.
Conservatives should stand up and be counted = Vote Third. If you are not seen, you don’t exist.
Sorry Ollie. No chance.
We need John McCain like we need a hole in the head.
Sorry Ollie,
I’m not staying on the plantation just so I can be taken for granted and told I better like it.
Read my tagline Ollie.
SORRY OLLIE!! NEVER!! Not after I found out McCain took money from George SOROS!! NEVER!! George Soros has caused the deaths of some of our soldiers in Iraq!!
So sorry Ollie has been snowed along with others we have always admired in the conservative movement, but my eyes are wide open now and if the country has to suffer fools for 4 years..what difference does it make whether they are fools with a D or fools with a R?
FOCUS OUR CONSERVATIVE EFFORTS ON THE HOUSE AND SENATE RACES FOLKS!! That’s what we are going to do!
Dang it Ollie. Are there any conservatives out there with guts? Everybody wants to tow the party line. “I’ll vote for whoever the party nominates” is the mantra.
I’m losing faith in the whole lot of them.
If the election were simply a popularity contest among political parties, yeah, then supporting McCain would make some sense as it would be harmless. Well, it’s not about popularity. This is for the future of the nation. McCain and his two Democratic Senate rivals should all be bounced out the door.
“..asked the assembled activists to support his bid for the White House.”
Did he offer anything in return for any conservative vote?
Now I know what being at the bottom feels like!
When one of my personal heroes lowers himself by begging for votes from people who love him...to ignore their primal insticts, and vote for a POS who isn’t good enough to shine Ollie’s boots.
I’m sorry Ollie, I love you man...but I won’t vote for a backstabbing, power hungry, lieing, POS, even if he pays my house off for me!
Get off your knees Ollie, McCain isn’t worth your loss of dignity!
Do you really believe that you could be more effective at coercing McCain than the NVA was?
This article should be changed to “Another Conservative jumps ship and supports McCain”. I won’t support McCain as he has lost his way.
But he doesn't need us - he has made that clear.
That is fine with me. He can go his way and I go mine.
Anyway, what is this sudden drive to force everyone into some kind of Nazi lockstep in the McCainiac army?
The republican party is starting to resemble the democrat party more and more each day.
We need to bust up the two party system - they believe the country is their cattle ranch and we are their cattle.
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Ollie,
Here’s a novel idea. I agree that the GOP needs to rally around one candidate. How ‘bout if McCain does what is best for the party and bows out? Then we could rally around an actual conservative. But no...it has to be the other guy(s) that bow out.
Not this time. I think I could actually vote for Ron Paul over McCain. Although Paul is a nutcase on foreign affairs, he does actually seem to support the conservative philosophy.
Ok, maybe not Paul, but certainly not McCain.
Not gonna happen, Ollie. You saddled the wrong horse.
RON PAUL!
Republicans, it’s time to come together and fight the dimocrats. (Not fight each other.)
Et tu, Ollie?
Forget it. McCain will lose in a landslide even with our votes.
If conservatives get behind him, as Rush said today, the indies and moderates John needs to have a hope of winning will run to Obama, as they probably will anyway.
So we, who have principles and know a Dem when we see one, are supposed to swallow hard and take it on the chin again, all for the glorious party.
Well, since it won’t matter, I’ll choose to put my lot in with those who oppose the Manchurian Candidate—maybe it will do us some good in the long run.
Just remember, Ollie, it wasn’t the conservatives that did you in, it was the blueblood GOP leadership—you know the same ones giving us McLame that you want us to move on with—that did you in.
This isn't a time to "come together" with people who fundamentally reject our values.
McCain hasn't won anything yet-he's not even close to winning anything-and has yet to pick a running-mate, assuming he does win the nomination.
Everyone needs to chill out and stop playing kissy-face with someone who four years ago was on the verge of playing second fiddle to John Kerry.
As far as I know, Alan Keyes is still in. I voted for him, today. Since he had no delegates, I voted for Huckabee’s in an attempt to jam up McKook.
You voted twice in one day? Quite the democrat, aren’t you?
Listen up you news media Republicans that keep trying to convince conservatives to vote for McCain ...
We know that if he wins this election the entire elite bunch of politicians, media, and corporate types will rush in a mob to give amnesty to illegal immigrants faster then he can be sworn in for president. This is why no matter how much you whine, complain, or beg for us to change our mind you are basically screwed.
The conservative base is picking the nuclear option when it comes to McCain.
Voting third party is the epitome of not existing. I know, I've done it before, in a presidential election. Have you? It's a total waste. I don't think people who advocate 3rd party this year have any clue what they're talking about. It's the only guaranteed lose-lose option.
If you vote third party, and McCain loses, we get a DEM. If you vote third party, and McCain wins, he won without your help and owes you nothing. Either way, if you vote third party, the winner owes you nothing. If you vote McCain and he wins, you helped deliver victory, and he owes you for that. If you write him off, you guarantee that you have no seat at the table. It's the DUMBEST option of all.
So you'll trade surrender for a tax cut? Pathetic.
yea. helping to elect a democrat. idiots.
You have no clue what you're talking about.
Re: your tagline. It’s a Senatorial nicety. Get a grip.
Yes you are right, it sucks that a democrat is going to be the next president and the congress is going to get wiped out. The media guys are high-fiving each other for finally getting McCain through the primaries. They will slice and dice him so fast he will make Bob Dole look invincible. If by some bizarre chance he wins, they also win, because then the message becomes “look the conservative base picked McCain, that means no one no longer opposes amnesty”. They are already floating that idea and can’t contain themselves taunting the base. This is the worse case scenario for the Republican party.
Our country is being systematically absorbed into the globalist framework and American citizens better get used to the fact that the guys running the country are perfectly happy with dissolving our national sovereignty. They have effectively checkmated the conservative base by getting McCain in and there is no stopping this from happening with the remaining three candidates. It is a win, win scenario for the globalists.
The conservative base has been forced to make a last stand by rejecting McCain and fighting the Democrats tooth and nail over the upcoming amnesty plunge that will dissolve the southern border. Living in Texas, I can tell you the southwestern states are being buried by the flood of human beings pouring into this country. That is why conservatives are refusing to budge on McCain who is the champion of amnesty.
That sums it up FRiend.
Let the fools and morons sell out their principles for some faux-’conservative’ who has been ‘endorsed’ by our own “compassionate-conservative” RINO-in-Chief.
If the GOP collapses due to their ill-fated turn to the left, so be it.
“I didn’t leave the GOP, the GOP left me”
McCain is indistinguishable from President Bush on illegal immigration and I didn’t see too many conservatives rejecting him.
That must be why so many Vets vote for him. /s
Sorry Ollie. NO.
By putting the DEMs in charge of everything?
ping
AN uninspiring speech at CPAC, and list of endorsements from Washington insiders.
Doesn’t this guy realize without trust and commitment from the base he’snot going anywhere? And all he does is goes after the mushy middle.
Great Nations rise and fall...
The people go from bondage
to spiritual faith
from spiritual faith
to great courage
from courage
to liberty
from liberty
to abundance
from abundance
to selfishness
from selfishness
to complacency
from complacency
to apathy
from apathy
to dependency
from dependency
back again into bondage...
Alexander Tytler
Dear Ollie,
Not a snowball's chance in the hot place. Time for you to get outside the Beltway for a little while. 'Pod.
It’s not going to happen, even if you jump up and down and hold your breath.
It’s either McCain, or Clinton or Hussein and if conservatives want to hand over the White House to a socialist or a muzzie on principles, I want nothing more to do with conservatism.
So be a good, principled conservative. Stay home this November and let the dems take the House, Senate and WH.
I like his website!
Excerpt:
Asked about Senator McCain, Keyes said,
“He [has] betrayed conservatism in the name of bipartisanship, but actually in the name of trying to serve his own presidential ambition. And that includes the McCain-Feingold bill, a direct assault on freedom of speech, on the ability of conservative grassroots organizations to raise money, on their ability to communicate with the electorate.”
Continued Keyes, “[McCain] has made a determined effort to shut down true democratic self-government in this country, so that people can’t organize, can’t raise money, can’t associate, and can’t communicate about the records of their representatives. And that kind of assault is a deadly blow against the possibility of self-government and constitutionalism in America.”
“And we’re just supposed to forget about it now,” Keyes said, “and listen to his words that his pollsters tell him he’s got to say to please and placate people, but I don’t think people are that stupid. I really don’t,” Keyes said.
“The same is true of the border security issue,” Keyes remarked. “[McCain] fought tooth and nail against the Minutemen and others who wanted to see the barriers put up and border security assured. Instead, he promoted an amnesty bill that would have devastated the sovereignty of the American people and would have produced demographic changes that confirm the invasion that, in effect, has taken place on our nation’s territory and soil.”
Said Keyes, “And now he wants us to believe, ‘Oh, I’m in favor of strong border security, because I know you people won’t vote for me if you know the truth.’ Are we that stupid? Have we really become that gullible as a people that we let these politicians change their words and will ignore their actual work and record in the process? I hope not, and don’t think so.”
Dick Cheney ‘08!
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