I'm still voting against McCain!!!
Posted on 03/05/2008 10:14:20 PM PST by RussP
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If there's a single thread that runs through the e-mails I receive from peevish Republicans, it's that none of the current candidates possesses the conservative purity of Ronald Reagan. One could almost get the idea that Dutch was betrayed by Pontius Pilate and crucified on Calvary. But that wasn't exactly the case. The fact of the matter is that Gov. Reagan gave Gov. Jerry Brown a run for his money – or should I say our money? – when it came to raising taxes here in California. But, in spite of the additional revenue, he was responsible in large part for the streets of our cities being turned into public latrines by the unwashed, the unwanted and the insane when, to save a few bucks, he oversaw the closing of California's mental hospitals. He also signed the nation's most liberal abortion bill. Although he had a change of heart a scant six months later, one never hears him condemned for flip-flopping ...
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What truly confounds me are those cuckoos who would prefer to see such socialists as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama win the election than to sully themselves by voting for a Republican who was only their second or third or even fourth choice. To them I say, before proving that you place your own ego gratification above what's best for America, keep in mind that most of the Supreme Court justices are in their 70s or even, in the case of John Paul Stevens, fast approaching 90. Do you really want one of those two Democrats stacking the Court for the foreseeable future? Presidents come and go, but justices go on seemingly forever. Kennedy and Scalia have been on the bench since Reagan put them there. Stevens, for heaven's sake, was appointed during the ...
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If Hilllary and/or Obama get elected, it’s all McCain’s fault.
“Conservatives who refuse to vote for McCain need to read this article.”
People who claim to be conservative and yet will vote for McCain should get incurable bleeding piles down to the backs of their knees.
Don't know how anyone might not let everyone else vote as they see fit.
McCainophobes can vote how they want. McCain lovers can vote how they want. And, we can all have a dandy time expressing various opinions about it.
Just like now.
Nope, I reject your premise. I don’t want to see Hillary or Obama be president. I’m just not excited about a liberal republican being president either.
Why do I have to be excited about a crappy candidate that the republicans put up? I don’t walk lock-step like a liberal democrat just because someone tells me I have to.
Perhaps you should read what Jim Robinson wrote before posting this tripe:
McCain gets conservative grassroots support when...
The days of choosing the lesser of two evils are over. McCain has to earn our vote, and my non-vote for McCain does not equal support for Hillary or Obama.
To be fair, he admits that he is really a Rudy lover. Since he couldn't get his #1 choice, he'll now settle for McCain. He then trashes Reagan to try to prop McCain up and tops it off with "Win this one for the Gipper." LOL. It just shows that Hollywood types should stick to entertainment and not serious political discussion. Despite his book, I think there is adequate evidence that he never completely "left the left."
Trying to charm our votes from us, LOL.
In my humble opinion, you need to vote for the lesser of two evils. Why? Because if you don’t, you will get the greater of two evils. Don’t like it? Sorry, that’s reality.
I really don’t understand all this talk about needing someone to vote “for” rather than just voting “against” Hillary or Obama. Sure, I’d like to vote “for” someone, but I’m contented just to to vote “against” Hillary or Obama. I think they’ve earned it.
Unlike the Hillary and Obama camps, I’m not looking for a savior.
I’m no McCain lover, and I’m voting for him.
Or at the very least vote for either Hillary! or B. Hussein Obama and be done with it.
Rush Limbaugh, the god of conservatism will strike you down and punish you in HELL!!
Talk about blaspheme? Rush is not a God, he just tells the truth but I guess maybe you think that anyone that can tell the truth must be God!
Yup.
Yeah, it's amazing how conservatives are always to blame for the GOP's failures. Maybe the GOP should start running early primaries in red states. Maybe the GOP should tell RINOs like McCain to stop "reaching out" to the Dems and they wouldn't have this quadrennial problem of alienating conservatives. Maybe McCain shouldn't be a big fat open borders/campaign finance reform/hot tempered RINO.
Yeah, woo us some more with that sweet talk...!
I don’t need to read this and I don’t need to vote for someone that is third worse.
You need to get the point!
We ain’t voting for McCain!
GOT IT!
“People who claim to be conservative and yet will vote for McCain should get incurable bleeding piles down to the backs of their knees.”
People who claim to be conservative and *refuse* to vote for McCain need to realize that, although McCain has done some admittedly dumb things, he has an 82% lifetime conservative rating according to the American Conservative Union. They know a thing or two about conservatism.
Take a guess what Hillary and Obama’s ACU ratings are.
I won’t take any chance of allowing Clintobama to become the Commander in Chief of our troops. Never. Everything else will be pushed to the side to be sorted out later.
And in my loud-mouthed opinion, continued voting for the lesser of the two evils will only allow that evil to nourish and manifest into greater evil. Sure it won't be as bad initially as the greater evil, but it's still evil, and it'll still get us to the socialist destination regardless.
I think his bigger problem is the majority of conservatives who, although they will hold their nose and vote for him, won't be motivated enough to write a check for him.
They're so manipulative!! ;)
I'm still voting against McCain!!!
Many good points in the article!
Bullcarp. That was the ACLU that did that. The ACLU argued successfully that these mental patients could not be held against their will unless they posed an imminent danger to themselves or others. So they all left the hospitals and many of those Hospitals closed their doors.
I, for one, find myself greatly relieved by all of this, quite frankly. Thanks for the reassuring heads-up, Team Juan! WOO-Hoo!
You are the epitome of irrationality. Rush always says that liberals act on emotion, but that is exactly what you are doing if you sit with your thumb in your rear end and do nothing to stop Hillary or Obama from becoming POTUS.
He should vote his mind and let us do the same. A novel concept these days it seems. That's what I don't get, we are seemingly not allowed to disagree with these guys.
Fear (IMO), is why we are in this mess,
Didn't get past this ridiculous title. A little news flash here...primaries are supposed to be an opportunity to find the best candidate within the party, not to look for the worst possible compromise of one's values...well, at least for any party other than the republicans.
The dems aren't worried about compromising to find a viable candidate, Obama is the further left of all 100 senators and Hilary isn't too far from there.
“People who claim to be conservative and *refuse* to vote for McCain need to realize that, although McCain has done some admittedly dumb things, he has an 82% lifetime conservative rating according to the American Conservative Union. They know a thing or two about conservatism.”
When I took the Foreign Service Exam, 82% was a failing score.
Campaign finance restrictions are the worse offense against freedom of speech in the history of the Republic.
He won’t veto anything that the Hildebeeste or Obamalamadingdong wouldn’t have vetoed. The only thing that happens in a McCain presidency is that evil gets the cover of a Republican administration.
No problem Jeff, thats what I suggested in the first place. I noticed you are not telling me who to vote for. That's my point.
Regards
“I won’t take any chance of allowing Clintobama to become the Commander in Chief of our troops. Never. Everything else will be pushed to the side to be sorted out later.
Bingo. These so-called “conservative” who are willing to foist Hillary or Osamabama on the troops are disgusting.
If Juan McCain doesn't really want the job then I don't think he should have it. If he wants the job, he will recognize that he can't win without AVID support from the grassroots conservatives. He'd better pick a solid conservative VP, or its all over.
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he just tells his opinion.
He is a talk radio host; an entertainer. He never had to make any big decisions. He’s not an economist or a constitutional scholar. He’ has a very fun show but I wouldn’t listen to his show for the ‘truth.’
McCain gets conservative grassroots support when...
"Mr. McCain, if you want my vote, you're gonna have to earn it. Unfortunately, I doubt you're up to it".
Sound more than fair to me.
A few weeks back somebody was pressing Pence's Contract with conservatives.
Wonder where that stands?
But, I'm voting for McCain. I have a son in uniform and I'm not going to give Democrats the chance to hand us another Vietnam.
“And in my loud-mouthed opinion, continued voting for the lesser of the two evils will only allow that evil to nourish and manifest into greater evil. Sure it won’t be as bad initially as the greater evil, but it’s still evil, and it’ll still get us to the socialist destination regardless.”
A party whose only slogan is:
OUR SCUMBAG — NOT AS BAD AS THEIR SCUMBAG!
deserves to be destroyed.
“When I took the Foreign Service Exam, 82% was a failing score.”
Well, that sounds like a real light-weight exam. I’ve had graduate-level engineering exams where the highest score was below 82%.
Yup. Straight out of the Team Juan Online Shills Handbook.
Sadly, for the increasingly desperate (and abusive) pro-amnesty parrots of Mrs. Vicente Fox Juan McCain Campaign HQ: their beloved chosen liberal is quickly going broke, without those vital, all-important cash donations coming in from the very voting base he (and they) have spent so much time spitting upon and kicking. Karma's a real b!tch, ain't it, kiddies...?
Great plan. Every day I'm a foot closer to leaving the R party. The I is looking pretty good these days.
“Well, that sounds like a real light-weight exam. I’ve had graduate-level engineering exams where the highest score was below 82%.”
It is notoriously difficult. One is required to achieve a high score despite the difficulty.
Well, I agree that McCain needs to pick a solid conservative. If he blows that one big, then I *may* even abandon McCain myself.
Don’t take it so personally. If you are willing to switch parties over perceived personal slights, what does that say about your principles?
EVIL!!! EVIL I say!!!! if you vote for mcCain you have sinned and must burn for all eternity!!!! You will never erase the stain on your soul.
I have never in my life seen a more politically tone deaf candidate for any office than McCain. I expect him to cross party lines and pick Lieberman or John Edwards. If he picks a conservative, I will vote for that conservative. If he picks a liberal, then I'm going to buy gold.
Not! First of all, the Abortion Bill Reagan signed was very narrow, and he spent years trying to rectify that mistake before running for presidency. Second, Reagan never opposed a tax cut, because it “Benefited the Rich” Come to think of it Reagan never used leftist class warfare rhetoric in general.
So save your breath, I’m not voting for McCain, I don’t care if you produce a picture of Reagan at a Communist Party meeting, it doesn’t change who McCain is. You Republicans selected him, now good luck with that.
He said in the article that he was getting a lot of email from people saying they would stay home. I’ll never stay home—there is always something on the ballot to vote for. In this election, my energies will go toward manning the foxholes in Congress with conservatives. We’ll need it to fight whichever liberal gets elected, whether McCain or HillBama.
Everyone should vote. If they don’t like the R (or D)choices, pick a third party candidate or write-in. At least they should use their voice, IMO.
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