Posted on 03/22/2008 12:28:47 AM PDT by zeestephen
Robert Novak: "John McCain's team that is taking over the Republican Party has decided on Bobbie Greene Kilberg, a liberal Republican from Virginia long detested by conservatives, to run the party's national convention in St. Paul, Minn., in August." - UPDATE: "Politico.com" - "A McCain aide says that Kilberg has not been tapped to run the convention and is only serving as a liasion with the RNC. McCain has not decided yet on who will run the convention, said this source." http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0308/This_will_get_GOP_insiders_a_buzzin.html
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Hey McCain, you dumbf#_k libtard R-INO Reagan wannabe. We know you don’t give two or even one sh!t for us conservatives. We know you wouldn’t deign to read a conservative website such as Free Republic. But maybe one of your staff just might, maybe on the basis of “know your enemy.” Well, to you, Mr. or Mrs. low level shlub, please pass on this message.
McCain, we will vote for and even contribute to your campaign because we believe Clinton and Obama are truly dangerous. But even we have our limits. Keep kicking us in the teeth, and we will give up on you. Get it? I hope so.
Just wait until after he’s elected. He’ll make Bush look like Jesse Helms.
I hope they hear you!
Just re-read that, and saw something I’m ashamed of. Shouldn’t have done it. What am I talking about?
I mispelled “schlub” as “shlub.” Sorry.
“We” will vote for McNasty? Who said I’d vote for McLame? Oh, you mean 70% of freepers...Okay, then. I’m a proud member of the 30% who won’t.
Say, did you see how McJerk had to have Lieberman, our good conservative friend from the other side, hold his hand when he trekked over to Israel? He looked REAL presidential, I’d say. Real presidential...
Maybe we DON’T wish to keep our republic, Mr. Franklin!
With all due respect, I will never vote fot this border blurring traitor. We do all have our limits with this man. Mine was Juan Hernandez. That's one Juan too many.
Someone like Tancredo or Hunter needs to step up and bury the dead and rotting elephant corpse with an independent run.
The North Vietnamese ruined his mind. McCain was always wild and spoiled and cratered a few aircraft. He’s the same at age 71. He behaved honorably as a POW. And that was the highlight of his career in public service
McCain = wild & crazy liberal
It seems that way.
I mispelled “schlub” as “shlub.” Sorry........
Rush and Glenn Beck mispronounce it all the time. I got the Yiddish straight from horses mouth and it is.... jshloub
This guy had better watch himself. He’s skating on EXTREMELY thin ice with his constituency.
If he starts pandering to the liberal RINOS at this stage, its time to dump the Republican PArty and leave it twisting in the wind.
I just sent a note to the RNC - no money from me. My money will go to individuals who are also conservative. None to those who do not support conservative values.
Your horse speaks Yiddish? I say neigh neigh.
McCain already knows you wouldn’t vote for him even if he bent over and kissed your rear-end on the steps First Baptist Church.
McCain, we will vote for and even contribute to your campaign because we believe Clinton and Obama are truly dangerous. But even we have our limits. Keep kicking us in the teeth, and we will give up on you. Get it? I hope so.
LOL! You sound like a battered wife. “If you beat me one more time I’m leaving”! I’ve already given up on McCain. Rumor is that Bob Barr will run, maybe on the Libertarian ticket. He’ll get my vote.
As an aside. Did anyone see or hear Lincoln Chafee,on Chrissy’s show, call himself a conservative Republican? I nearly threw dinner at the tv.
Yep. That was a "Ransom of Red Chief" moment for the North Vietnamese. McCain, the unruly little offshoot of an impossibly great man, was a bad boy from his cradle. To counter his father's long shadow, he cast a long independent streak.
Whether the Lord was testing McCain, or the Devil was, in the childhood, the Academy, the saloons, the crashes and the captivity, it's safe to conclude McCain fought to a draw with a supernatural Power. No one beats him for sheer cussedness in the bantam class of bad boy.
And yes, there is much to admire in the convergence of such a man and such a series of experiences. Will I vote for him? Hell no, redacted for real profanity.
LLS
“LOL! You sound like a battered wife. “If you beat me one more time I’m leaving”!”
That was my thought too and after many years of enduring their march to the left I’m finally over the GOP. Voting for one party because the alternative is worse just doesn’t appeal to me any longer. 2006 was the end of that era for me. McCain’s nomination is just the nail in the coffin.
I’d like to be at least mildly excited when I haul my rear end out of bed on election day to head to the polls and it just ain’t there this time around.
I know that a majority here will vote for McCain simply as a vote against HObamanation. That’s cool—I’m not going to begrudge anyone that. I just hope that an apparently small number of us here are afforded the same courtesy for deciding that we’ve had enough.
Where did you hear the rumor that Barr may run? Is he still working for the ACLU?
Why should he care about securing conservative votes?
He’s probably more excited about wooing the liberals who are threatening to cross over and vote for him if their candidate doesn’t get the nomination.
Not always. I wouldn't call Rutherford B. Hayes or William McKinley big-government liberals. And Warren Harding seriously downsized the federal government, after two decades of growth, during his presidency.
Harding and his successor, Calvin Coolidge, were, arguably, the last Jeffersonians to occupy the White House.
Even if McCain wins the democrats win. He has spent more time on their side of the isle than on the republican.
I will vote for John McCain only if someone holds a loaded gun to my head while in the voting booth.
No freakin’ way.
Thank you.
Plenty to think about there.
Tell us again, one more time...... who are you not voting for?
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What's not to love, eh, McQueeg?
You will never win with a simon pure candiate. If put forward, he will be defeated. The national numbers are currently not in your favor.
Learn to live with it.
Zealotry is counter productive.
Guess you can’t read — I exlicitly said that I (like many if not most freepers) WILL vote for him to keep Hiilary or Obama out, but NOT if he keeps kicking us in the teeth. No kissing or bending over needed, just stop making us his whipping boys/gals.
Sheesh. Read much?
“You sound like a battered wife.”
Apt analogy. There are limits, though. Think “Burning Bed.”
LLS
BTW, that was an ANALOGOUS reference — the political version of the burning bed is staying at home or even voting third party on election day.
/just in case there are some thought police about
Really? I wonder if Congressman Sam Johnson behaved as honorably as MeInsane during his nearly seven years as a POW?
Plus I could swear I read they knocked his teeth out and/or they rotted due to malnutrition so he got complete dentures when he got back home. I think this shows in the way he grits his teeth when he smiles. He's about 5 foot 6 I hear
I can just imagine what he thinks when he sees a bright and shiny and well coifed Mitt Romney with five healthy strapping boys. None ever in the military. McCain is thinking---You faggy little millionaire businessman with your big ass business deals and your 300 mil in the bank. You never got in a place where you welcomed death. F U! damn right I'll lie about you. You have years ahead anyway where you can run for president after I screw you out of it
McCain has a son in the military. McCain is a cross between old school + wild Vietnam Warrior
McCain is just stuck on stupid.
RINOS are proof yo can’t fix stupid.
LOL. I’d be proud to call him family. Still, I’m not voting for him.
You are correct. I have said repeatedly that one year into the next administration, no matter who wins, you will see the most vitriolic of anti-Bush Freepers longing for the “good old days” under Bush.
A big, big misstep by John McCain. This campaign is starting to look like Bob Dole's 1996 campaign on steroids, and with more retards running the show.
If John McCain isn't interested in Conservative outreach (the whole of his Conservative outreach so far is to TELL Conservatives that “Conservatives are supporting me because...”), then he should at least avoid major, bull-headed, thumb-in-Conservatives’ eyes mistakes like this. He has to realize, at some point before Obama’s swearing-in, that many Conservatives are considering cutting their losses, and many others are teetering on the brink, basically one misstep like this away from sitting-out 2008.
I am a man desperate to keep Obama and/or Clinton out of the White House, especially with the SCOTUS changes that WILL happen in the next administration. But let me tell you, John McCain's appointment record so far, when given full control over who runs what, is DEVASTATINGLY awful. I mean, it would be hard to do worse if you tried. It makes me seriously question his judgment on important appointments, and whether or not he is even interested in reconciling with Conservatives. I greatly fear that this man is going to let his good friend, Lindsay Graham, push his choice for SCOTUS - Karen Williams - to be McCain's nominee. For anyone who is paying attention, Karen Williams has all the makings of being another mostly Conservative but Pro-Roe (either by agreeing with the verdict or by stare decisis) SCOTUS justice, and Graham has been pushing her HARD to the Bush administration.
I have to say, as a man ready to pound the pavement for John McCain to defeat the Democrats, he is working OVERTIME trying to take away all of my Pro-McCain arguments.
I will still work for and vote for John McCain because of what's at stake. But at some point - sometime before he goes down like Dole - he has to realize that he needs Conservatives to win. The liberal GOP is already behind him, they don't need more presents from Santa Claus to stay on board.
This woman ran a solid Conservative, and good Conservative outreach member of the Bush administration, out of his job. She has been an active enemy of Conservatives, not just a passive Social Libertarian or something of the like. This is a colossal blunder by McCain, and yes I'll say it: it's a punch in the jaw to Conservatives, and an intentional one at that.
I hope he rethinks this one big time, especially before he names Giuliani, Graham, or Hutchinson his Veep candidate.
Man, this is a bad, bad, BAD move by McCain. But yes, I am still going to work to defeat Clintbama.
Yeah, true. Although Lincoln was big, ditto Teddy, America’s first ‘Progressive’. Nixon, Ford, both Bush’s. I’m on the fence with Ike. Hoover, very big. Blank spot on Taft.
That only proves this nation moves leftward every year. Ronald Reagan was the best rolling back of this drift. Then George Bush was neutral. Clinton was a commie scoundrel. GW Bush continued leftward except for his war on terror and Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But open borders all the way...the multi-kultis love him. Aye arriba!!!
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I think your right...MC Cain is not a pure conservative, but as the nominee he is all we have.. writing in a candidate is as bad as staying home on election day!
It's a mixed bag. You could also argue that there were virtually NO borders prior to the 1950s---certainly in the 1800s, any Mexican who wanted to could cross and set up a farm in the interior of the country. Now, becoming a citizen was quite different. But they didn't want to cross, in general, because there was no welfare, and working in the U.S. was not much different (then) than working in Mexico.
So it's one thing to argue leftward drift in terms of big-spending government and socialized medicine, quite another when it comes to civil rights and personal intrusion laws. Jefferson would be far more in tune with our 2008 personal liberty laws than he would have with the laws of the 1950s or 1890s.
LOL!
Nothing else you said matters, you've fallen into his trap, you have no leverage..
America has been moving left ever since Franklin Roosevelt and the laws he changed adopting many socialist measures in the Great Depression. Perhaps some socialism was necessary to get out of the Depression. I’m not sure
There have been respites and rollbacks but the left has steadily been taking over cultural institutions such as education arts journalism. Even lawyers used to pretty much middle of the road to conservative. Now they are leftists.
That’s why John McCain is as as good as we can get these days. Reagan was the last great president. Too many people get government checks these days and too many work for government. Too many pay no Federal taxes. Too many get a lazy socialism preached to them in public schools
The right has brought on some of this with a hyper capitalism that sees nothing wrong with exporting skilled jobs and running up huge trade deficits that kill the US dollar and kill respect for America. The poor and middle class would not be inclined to Hillary/Obama if there were more good paying jobs out there and I’m not talking about office jobs because lots of guys have too much testosterone to handle that shit. Plus they’re not as smart as you and me. Smart mechanically but not as intellectually and as paper jockeys
That personal freedom means little when we hit a depression. And we seem to heading to one. Matter of fact people gave up freedoms during the Great Depression and men bunked and worked communally in great socialist works projects building dams roads and our National Forest accommodations. Many which date back to then
Plus the civilian conservation corps
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