See Ya.
Posted on 03/04/2008 9:42:04 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 03/04/2008 9:44:50 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
..hell freezes over.
But he can start the cooling process.
Here are a few starters:
1) Don't just promise to do it, but as a U.S. Senator he can actually draft a bill NOW to repeal McCain-Feingold. And if he has the leadership ability to be an effective president, he can prove it by getting it passed BEFORE November. If not, he's the loser we all know he is.
2) Immediately drop and forcefully repudiate ALL amnesty B/S. Publicly burn all drafts and plans for amnesty and immediately fire all advisers and staffers pushing this garbage. Secure the borders NOW. No need to wait for the election.
3) Immediately drop and forcefully repudiate ALL global warming baloneyism. Publicly burn all drafts and plans for "fighting" global warming and immediately fire all advisers and staffers pushing this garbage.
4) Immediately learn and understand that as grassroots conservatives we are NOT interested in electing a Republican who wants to work WITH the Democrats. Let's face it. Clinton, Obama, Kennedy, Kerry, Schumer, Reid, Pelosi, Murtha, et al, ARE the enemy. We don't want Republican leaders aiding and abetting the enemy, we want Republican leaders with the cojones to FIGHT the evil bastards!!
Mr. McCain, if you want my vote, you're gonna have to earn it. Unfortunately, I doubt you're up to it.
Can I call him a treasonous bastard?
He is ya know.
5. He must make an immediate huge contribution to FreeRepublic.
I actually would respect him slightly more if he resigned his seat.
I still wouldn’t vote for him, but it would be a start.
LOL you dont ask for much do ya?
On this one Jim...you are a dumb ass.
Great post. My sentiments exactly. Unfortunately I doubt McCain will do such (no matter how much some of the idealists on here dream...)
Thanks. I love you too.
Better question might be
What, Jim, are *you* going to do come election day and must choose between Obama (OK or Clinton) and Mr John?
Hope for a third party?
Better question might be
What, Jim, are *you* going to do come election day and must choose between Obama (OK or Clinton) and Mr John?
Hope for a third party?
Hey Jim, I think it is a waste of time to suggest “he would come to our side.DC is way out of touch as are most politicians everywhere.This is gonna suck for a few years but I sure as hell aint voting for a rino.
Unless McCain selects a strong conservative as a running mate and makes steps in the direction you are suggesting...I will vote third party. I live in Illinois so no matter what the state will go Dem...so it will be the best I can do as a protest vote without violating my conscience by helping elect Obama or Hillary to replace Ginsberg and Stevens.
I don’t remember anybody calling for Fred Thompson to sign a pledge to repeal McCain/Feingold. He certainly never said he would.
I’d love to see it, but it won’t happen.
But I don’t expect any of those other things to happen either. He’ll either win without conservatives, or with conservatives. The only difference will be whether he proves you can win without conservatives, or whether the election shows you need conservative support to be President.
And that pretty much is up to us. We can stay home, or even fight against him. And when he wins, it will show that republicans should run to the center because not only are conservatives not to be counted on as party loyalists, but they aren’t needed to win elections. That will probably lead to a wave of good conservatives getting voted out of office, unless we can manage the herculean feat of getting conservatives excited about showing up to vote for conservatives, while convincing them to vote against McCain.
Or we can work hard to get conservatives to run in the house and senate, and then work hard to get them elected, and to give passive support to McCain so that the exist polls show that conservatives DID show up and do what we always yell at moderate and liberal republicans to do — not turn their back on the party when they don’t get their way.
We can do that while fighting against everything McCain supports that we oppose. It will be easier than with Rudy, because there WILL be things we can support McCain on. We simply have to push those things, and maintain good grass-roots efforts against the rest.
I don’t expect that anything nice will be said about McCain here. I know I won’t have much desire to say anything nice about him. He wasn’t my candidate.
But as an official member of the republican party, I will support my party’s nominee for President. Eventually. I don’t have the bumper sticker on the car yet, and I haven’t put out the signs or added the link to my web site.
Nice way to get zotted.
See Ya.
Question is, what does history say about such things? I suspect the "goodness" of America has left town and "greatness" will soon follow. Our country is in deep doodoo. IMHO of course.
Not going to happen. McCain doesn’t think he needs us. He thinks all his bi-partisan rhetoric and national security credibility is going to win the day. He actually believes the crap in the media and is ignorant enough to think the majority of independents will vote for him in November.
It will be hard to lose to Hillary or Obama, but Republicans sure picked one that can make it happen. He better get to work on precisely the areas you singled out for him. If he turns off voters in the South enough for them to stay home, this could get ugly quickly.
After long hard prayer,
Obama or Hillary would be worse.
Free Republic Opinion Poll: (2/16) If it’s McCain vs Obama in the general, how do you vote?
Composite Opinion
McCain 62.2% 7,185
BUMP for standing on principles. [as the McCainiacs tilt their little heads and think “what are these things they call principles?]
Doesn’t matter what I do personally. Just as the RINO Rudy Giuliani learned the hard way, I sincerely doubt that the RINO John McCain will gain enough support from the conservative grassroots to win the presidency. Unless, of course, he takes some drastic measures NOW to EARN their support. He ignores them at his own peril.
“McCain gets conservative grassroots support when...”
Never.
how about putting a poll on Mccain and Obama and Mccain and Clinton...with the none of the above in each...lrt it run a week...
I’ll support his leaving the presidential race 100%.
There is a lot about McCain I don’t like and since he doesn’t know what the word “amnesty” means, I want to hear the “No Amnesty, Deport” Pledge.
Damm.. you hit all my main points
Winged primates depart from my nether region.
Those are the two points that keep me from ever wanting to vote for this bastard.
5) Pledge that his first act as President will be to grant a full pardon and apology to Ramos & Compean, offer them their jobs back with back pay and generous hardship bonuses.
I don’t see anyway that he can earn support, to crawfish now would be unbelievable, quite simply no one would believe that sort of pandering.
About the only thing McCain can do is stick to his record and let it play out as a choice between cutting and running out of Iraq and a Massive Tax increase or...Mad John’s contempt for Conservatives.
#4 was the best of all, however.
If he wants the Presidency, it will be on OUR terms--and he will do so in a clear, unequivocal manner which will not allow him to double cross us and backtrack later. For starters, from now on and in the General Election, he will run as an unashamed CONSERVATIVE with cearly recognizable Reagan-style CONSERVATIVE solutions and answers in all the debates, campaign ads, staff, etc. vs the Democrats, for example. He will not give us "Me Too" Liberalism and Compassionate Conservatism. If he loses RINO votes as a result, well, tough. That is just the simple deal, lump it or leave it, Senator McCain.
He will concede to us on all major big ticket items.
CFR, Amnesty, Border Wall, Supreme Court, CFR, Pro Life, Guns.
If he does not, no deal.
Simple as that.
Why vote for a RINO vs. a Lib Socialist, when one has perhaps a Conservative choice on the ballot, too, in one's own state.
Well said!
:)(((Hugs))) WE want it in writing.
I think you stand a better chance of seeing the second coming than McCain doing even one item on your wish list.
I never considered Mr John as a RINO - more like a conservative Democrat.
I guess we will all soon learn more about that old saw of a ‘Chinese’ proverb —
May you be cursed to live in interesting times.....
don’t hold your breath...
No he's not! He's a political hermaphrodite just like his CA endorser Arnold Schwartzenswindler!!! (you can call him a "herm" for short)
Bookmark.
Pipe dream on my part.
But might as well set the parameters.
I put it out there anyways, since his campaign people, maybe even he himself, read(s) Free Republic.
Whatever is in the water in Carbon County, let's be sure to avoid it. :)
I would also like to add to your list, lord McCain for one and all time end his plan to move GITMO terrorists to Ft. Leavenworth, KS. Especially if lord McCain will not make our borders secure. I live about an hour’s drive from Ft. Leavenworth and I am NOT willing to support making Ft. Leavenworth a tourist trap for terrorists.
Gosh, when will Hillary thank Rush and the Republican crossover voters, for her Texas "win". And ... McCain gets to lose to real Democrat as that RINOs back returns in kind .... his backstabbing.
If Hillary is on the democrat ticket, then I suspect that by November both you and I will be willing to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure" the defeat of the Hildebeast.
I think McCain knows that, so I'm not optimistic that he is going to be actively seeking conservative voters. In the end, I don't think he will be a worse president than Bush, who has signed every idiotic bill that McCain has sponsored and was actively involved in pushing for McAmnesty.
Both Bush and McCain are politically tone deaf. We can only hope that he picks a relatively conservative VP, as I don't think he has the stamina to run for reelection in 2012.
Let us all Pray that he chooses his friend and former colleague Fred Thompson as his VP pick. It would make sense, since he needs the support of Southern Conservatives if he wants to ensure that he gets all the "red" states.
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