Posted on 02/15/2008 9:59:22 AM PST by meandog
With Tsunami Tuesday now history, where do things stand in the Republican nomination race?
At this point we can’t know the winner absolutely but — far more than in the Democratic race — we can see clearly the shape of things to come. The Republican nominee is going to be John McCain.
I can’t vote for him. He’s just so, you know,liberal.
Liberal? In this party?
James Dobson can’t stand him. Sean Hannity wants Romney. Huckabee is solid. Strict libertarian Reason mag has run an article headlined: "Be afraid of President McCain: The frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick." Ann Coulter says if McCain wins the nomination she’ll campaign for Hillary. Rush —
How odd that, far less than it accepts Reagan disciple McCain, the hard right accepts the conservatism of Romney, who came to many of his most adamant positions along about yesterday. It’s impossible to know Romney’s true principles and convictions on any major issue. On health care and judicial appointments, his records as governor of Massachusetts waft somewhere between marginal and dubious.
And Huckabee, though frequently sound, holds statist positions to match the ones the ideologues think they perceive in McCain. Moreover, Huckabee clearly is a regional candidate who has carried not a single Republican primary (his Iowa win was in caucuses) outside the South.
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You forget that McCain wants to close Gitmo, give terrorists the same rights as Americans, and abolish the most effective interrogation tools our side has.
And let's not forget that McCain wants to grant blanket amnesty to tens of millions of foreign invaders already in our nation. What kind of "support" to our troops is it when McCain sells out our nation to La Raza racists who rape, murder and steal from our troops' families?
Considering that McCain wants to extend Social Security and Medicare benefits to illegal aliens, I'd have to say that's a resounding NO.
But in this case you HAVE to get married - there's NO CHOICE. Choose one from Column A or one from Column B - or they'll duke it out with the winner showing up in your bed next January.
You, and virtually everyone else on FR, have the right to vote for whomever you'd like, or to stay home. But if enough people think as you do and act as you say you will, then you had better get used to Hillary or Obama in the WH for at least 4 years, and more likely 8.
As I said earlier - decide whether you love your country more than you hate John McCain.
I don't either.
That's the strategy of every Presidential election since President Reagan stepped down and look where its gotten us.
Keep holding your nose folks. Sooner, or later, you will be voting on the "looks" of a candidate and nothing else because everything else will be the same.
The Reagan disciple voted against the 1986 amnesty bill.
McCain won't pull out of Iraq, thereby wasting the lives of over 3,000 of our soldiers and the many hundreds of billions we spent there, much less sending a Vietnam-like signal that we can be pushed around.
And let's not forget that McCain wants to grant blanket amnesty to tens of millions of foreign invaders already in our nation. What kind of "support" to our troops is it when McCain sells out our nation to La Raza racists who rape, murder and steal from our troops' families?
Will Hillary or Obama be better on that issue?
At least with a DEM President, the GOP will magically grow a spine and we have a better chance of gridlock and slowing down a whole host of evil things.
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you believe in magic...that’s the problem. Reality: if dems win, there won’t be much of a country left
Neither Huckafeller nor McVain is conservative, or honest.
As I have hinted before, I really don’t see a difference between McCain and Hillary/Obama. Voting for either one of them will bring us closer to the Socialist States of America.
As bad as Bush 41 was, would Dukakis have been better? WAS Clinton better?
Bush 43 vs. either Gore or Kerry is a similarly easy choice for me.
I didn't like ANY of those choices - but the alternatives were worse, FAR worse.
Yet you dodge his selling out our nation to foreign invaders. Win Iraq, lose America. Some choice.
Will Hillary or Obama be better on that issue?
Thank you for finally conceding that McCain is no better than those other liberals.
Hillabama will bring us closer, faster. I'd like to have something left to salvage after the next 4 years. I also don't expect McCain to run in 2012, even if he lives that long. His Veep will have the leg up on everyone, so that choice is critical.
If McAmnesty chooses Rice or some other RINO, I may also stay home - there will truly be no hope then.
I feel bad that you all may have a vote that counts. You really do have to work hard to figure out how to cast a vote when you have no dog in the fight.
Thank you for finally conceding that McCain is no better than those other liberals.
I don't dodge the issue. I think that Hillabama will be worse, far worse. They will not only open the nation wider to foreign economic/cultural invaders, but will leave us far more vulnerable to foreign nations that are hostile to us. To me the choice is very clear.
You reap what you sow. Should’ve voted for Fred.
Many, many people just don't like McCain at all, and with great justification.
Everything doesn't boil down to ideology and politics.
To many conservatives their beliefs and moral philosophy trump winning a political contest.
McCain himself is easy to dislike and hard to like, or even to accept.
To me, at his best he is just a snarky, smug, arrogant, irritating, lying, traitorous slime-ball.
Camille Paglia hit the nail on the head with this observation:
"John McCain's courage under torture during the Vietnam War deserves everyone's gratitude and respect.
But as a national candidate, the stumpy, uptight McCain is a lemon.
Oy, that weaselly voice and those dated locutions and stilted intonations.
Who needs a weird old coot with a short fuse in the White House?
This isn't a smart game plan for the war on terror."
Personally I couldn't bring myself to like him if he was passing out free ice cream.
But That doesn't mean that he won't get votes from people that can't stand him.
Many will endure the stink and vote against the democrats by voting for McCain.
For McCainiacs and the Win-At-Any-Cost crowd to ask for our votes to stem the liberal tide is one thing.
To ask us to like McCain and to embrace him, his record and plans for America is quite another.
The constant whining about conservatives and the continuous effort to belittle the conservative movement and conservatives themselves just drives them further away and makes it less likely they will ever be able to bury their beliefs long enough to cast a vote for McCain.
November is a long way away.
The smart thing to do is shut down the Rhetoric.
McCain could win a lot of people over to support him if he did something significantly conservative as a Senator in that time.
I would bet that he doesn't.
I really believe he expects to get what he wants with empty words and promises.
It will not work this time.
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I’m not voting for McQueeg. I won’t be frightened into it, no matter how hard you try.
I suppose that my analogy was not as good as I first thought, but to follow through — I’m joining the priesthood and cannot marry. LOL
I just think that electing a bad pubbie continues to lower the standard and takes us further away from our ideals. A pubbie that acts like a dem — to any degree — says that their ideas are worthy of support and they are not.
I’ve heard many arguments for supporting McCain, but they all amount to putting lipstick on a pig. It’s a waste of lipstick and the pig is still a pig.
“The Reagan disciple voted against the 1986 amnesty bill.”
But we have seen the disastrous effects of the bill. Why hasn’t McCain? Is he stupid or evil?
Is there a good answer?
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