Posted on 06/10/2008 5:41:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has reluctantly come to the conclusion that he will have to vote for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whose immigration reform bill Tancredo blasted as amnesty.
"Sometimes I say to myself, 'Can I really do this?'" Tancredo said of voting for McCain, according to the Rocky Mountain News. "And then you listen to Obama or Hillary and say, 'Yeah, I have to.'"
At a debate last October Tancredo sounded less sure of such an idea.
"You know, I've said I don't know how many times, that I am absolutely tired and sick and tired of being forced to go to the polls and say I'm going to make this choice between the lesser of two evils. I really don't intend to do that again. I am hoping, of course, that whoever we nominate will be the principled flag carrier for the Republican Party. But if that is not the case, no, then I will not support them."
Tancredo told the News he couldn't vote for Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, who has similar views as he does on immigration, because Barr has "a blind spot on radical Islam."
yeah, I know.
I will not vote for John McCain
I hear you. I don't disagree.
But how about voting against Obama?
Tanc and I are on the same page on this one.
Obama will be a disaster in so many ways.
I love these McCain testimonials.
I wholeheartedly agree with Tancredo about immigration. He, at least, knows and admits the expenses throughout his district with illegals is breaking down America daily as well as costing everyone for the benefit of a few.
IS THIS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT????
You are leaving CONgre$$, why not just remain silent and vote anyway you want in the privacy of the voting booth?
Popularity is fleeting…Principles are forever.
I’ll (probably) vote for him, but it will take copious amounts of alcohol.
(BTW: I’m still hoping that someone can tell me whether or not voting while intoxicated is a crime in California.)
Obama is a proto-Muslim, Marxist, inexperienced, Daley machine, terrorist-friendly, anti-American, black separatist, elitist appeaser! IS THAT WHAT YOU REALLY WANT?!!
Not me! I hate McCain
I’ll vote for Obama first!
Campaign "bribes" exceed a billion dollars, and the average person is a non player in such high stakes. The global financial syndicates control who you get to vote for, and they don't give a rat's ass what you want. Don't look for any change. Like in "The Planet of the Apes," not human entities control everything.
lol. Who will support the military?
No, McCain is not getting my vote and no Democrat ever will. Going independent this time.
I know the feeling well!
Sorry Tancredo NO voting for the traitor Juan McPain.No homeland security with the illegal aliens who are murderers, rapists and criminals, Benedict Arnold McPain.
Period.
MI is so messed up that I feel no compulsion to pull the lever for an idiot like mclame. Like it would matter anyway.
This isn't so much an election, as it is a choice to see who gets to flush America down the toilet!
Marxist, or marxist light? Throw your vote away, they're gonna put one of them in charge anyway!
In a word, NO! It is not what I want, but nothing that has happened since the beginning of the primaries has been what I want. I don’t think the outcome of it has been what anybody wanted, at least not enough to justify who won. I truly have not decided what I will do on election day when it comes to the Presidential ballot. I will in the meantime, if and when I can with gas prices and everything else so high, support the most conservative people running for Congress. And vote the the same way, if there are any on the ballot.
If Tancredo can do it, so can you.
After a horrendous betrayal to the conservatives, in protest a lot of them did not vote the next election.
As a result, the liberals took the country in a cake walk election and have destroyed most checks and balances against them. They are literally giving the conservatives homes to the enemy to destroy the conservative voting base once and for all.
It is a disaster of epic proportions. Now they wish they could go back and vote, but its too late. Omert and his crew have raped, pillaged and divided up what is left of the goobermint.
IF YOU FAIL TO VOTE, YOU WILL NOT FAIL TO REAP THE REWARD OF LIBERAL MASTERS WITH NO CONTROLS...
VOTE, PLEASE!
4 1/2 years till shift change!
Ditto too. The fools who can’t bring themselves to vote McPain are voting for Obama.
As Rush said, “don’t do that to our military” at the very LEAST.
And then McLame comes out and says something completely idiotic, and I say, "Maybe not".
Hopefully large amounts of alcohol are not part of the solution...
Don’t do as THEY are doing and not vote for McPain.
If you do you will be, like Obama,
THROWING OUR MILITARY UNDER THE BUS!!
I wish I had a choice, but in my mind I really don’t!
I will not reward McCain for his treachery, but I will be voting down ballot for true conservatives.
My heart is heavy for the conservatives that got sacked in ‘06, but I have a real hard on for the rino’s that caused it!
I recently saw an honest to goodness license plate with that name on it.
IF YOU FAIL TO VOTE, YOU WILL NOT FAIL TO REAP THE REWARD OF LIBERAL MASTERS WITH NO CONTROLS...
Well said.
I don’t trust McCain but I KNOW Obama will do what he says, and we cannot afford to have that happen.
The Republican Party survived the liberal/moderate wing running it during Nixon/Ford and the Bushes. It's gone conservative with Eisenhower and Reagan. It will bounce back from McCain.
HOWEVER, if Obama becomes President, there will be no undoing nationalized healthcare, repealing the Fairness Doctrine, or reversing the nationalization of the oil companies. This FDR but with an extremely Marxist bent.
Some things are bigger than just a Party.
Even more DITTO, thanks tet 68!
Our military has been fighting and dying for us. If we simply have to choose between the lesser of two evils, one of which will destroy our military and all it stands for, then by gosh we can hold our noses and vote for McCain,
for the sake of those who have fought and died for us!
And McPita is better than Obama how? Tell me what do you think McPita, after stabbing you in the back, is going to do different than Obama? You already know what Obama's going to do, what about McPita?
How do you think McPita's going to screw you like he's done every conservative and this country thus far?
Go ahead stick with rino and be with the minority for 40 more years as the country has no chance for recovery.
That's what I hope every conservative does, because if we support McPita we're asking for more of a disaster than can ever be imagined. I don't want Obama to be President, but I also don't want 40 more years of rino, liberal policies ruining this great country!
The kids are tastier...
Every one of us has to decide within our hearts who we will vote for in November: I wouldn’t presume to tell you how to use your franchise, bought & paid for with the blood, wounds, injuries and anguish of millions of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coastguardsmen and other patriots. All I know is that I cannot let our troops be saddled with 4-8 years of Mr. Obama.
OK, so none of us like McCain, and we all acknowlege Obama would be worse. So what is your brainstorm here?
And gidget7, yes, I, too, was a supporter of Duncan Hunter. No matter what happens in November, I will look back and be proud I was able to support him in my state’s primary. Too bad our choices now are so far away from Rep. Hunter’s ideals.
"I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not! But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!"
/python
I see where you're going and it is a fair point. However, If we 'support' McCain then we support rino/moderates who do the same thing as Obama will do. I say vote for a conservative, vote for conservatives locally, and let McCain try to tread on his own. He's going to get the fense sitters anyway, most likely.
4 years of Obama (Hopefully not) this country will spew this marxist out like sour milk!
So you won’t settle for a lesser evil...
You’ll take the known and larger evil - and are ready to watch our military and country be destroyed. This isn’t 1976 anymore, we can’t afford four years of Carter, our enemies aren’t waiting anymore. In fact, they are endorsing Obama openly.
But you keep on advocating silliness... Cthulu indeed!
The fence sitters are going to most likely elect McCain.
Obama going to be an absolute joke to everyone come election day!
All conservatives will have to make a hard and painful choice in November. I for one, absolutely refuse to decide until much further down the road. All I know for sure is that conservatives with actual down ticket conservative choices best show and vote for them at least.
Actually it was a Maryland tag, LOL.
Lighten up, Francis.
Vote for the conservative in each race; I agree. In the race for the Presidency, that's McCain, not Obama.
The time to fight for the most conservative candidate is during the primaries; after that, it's a fight for the most conservative candidate. That may not be conservative enough for you or me, but it's better than the alternative.
4 years of Obama (Hopefully not) this country will spew this marxist out like sour milk!
And the programs created? When was a Government program killed? Especially something as big as nationalization of healthcare and the oil industries. If that happens, it's all over - the Government would get another 27% of the GDP. Add that to the current 21%, and essentially the Government DIRECTLY controls 48% of the GDP.
There's no way coming back from that, short of a revolution or civil war, both of which I would not wish on this nation at nearly any cost.
No, take the hand we're dealt now, vote for the candidate who will at least support our military, vote against increasing taxes, and supports nuclear energy. And work the next 4 years to build up a conservative candidate.
Oh, I like that one!
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