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Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Posted on 06/14/2008 9:58:14 AM PDT by wagglebee
This link is very graphic but it shows a lot.
From a Catholic to a Catholic! :-)
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I hope John McCain has the sense to pick a pro-life running mate.
Giuliani, Bloomberg, and yes, Charlie Crist are antilife (although Charlie Crist is more sneaky about it).
So true, and the ONLY way there is even a remote chance of that happening, is to elect McCain in November.
Then you'll be shooting yourself in the foot with those arms you want to keep and bear, because NO third party candidate is actually going to get elected, and will only result in Obama being elected. When that happens, two of the most liberal Supremes, Ginsburg and Stevens, will immediately resign, and Obama will replace them with two even MORE liberal Justices. If we continue to bicker, and demand absolute purity of our Republican representatives, and we let Congress and the Senate get loaded up with even MORE Democrats, there will be no way to stop him.
I trust McCain when he says he wants Justices who won't legislate from the bench, so, though he may have a fight with the Dems in the Senate, at least it will be HE who is doing the nominating, NOT Obama.
“Then you’ll be shooting yourself in the foot with those arms you want to keep and bear, because NO third party candidate is actually going to get elected, and will only result in Obama being elected”
Of course no third party candidate is going to get elected. Even if a third party candidate were by some miracle to win the popular vote and a plurality of the electoral votes, the GOP and Democrats would steal the election in the House.
“Winning” the election for a third party is not the point. Signaling viability is. As it stands, Sen. Obama is going to be the next President. Yes, conservatives will vote for Sen. McCain, and probably in fairly sizeable numbers. The problem is that most of Sen. McCain’s supporters have about as much enthusiasm for him as they have for going to the dentist. And there is a core constituency of 15-25% of conservatives who absolutely will not vote for him. That’s more than enough to swing the election. Remember that Pres. Bush won re-election by a relatively small margin, and he was arguably more popular with conservatives at that time than Sen. McCain is with conservatives today.
This election is not going to be a pretty one for the GOP. And I’ll go so far as to predict that it will be a fairly devastating loss. Probably on a par with 1974 or 1932.
By voting for a third party what you’re doing is voting for the future of conservatism. The GOP is past it’s sell-by date and needs to be replaced. By voting third party, you’re simply voting to replace ithe GOP rather than continue with a failed political party.
Yeah, just like they did Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She got 96 "yea" votes...
We really didn't have the Internet then, only a few really well-off people did. Now, everybody's got it. We managed to "bork" Harriet Miers, didn't we? Obama thinks the Internet is a jim-dandy place to raise campaign money, but it will be his worst nightmare should he assume the office of the Presidency. How far would Clinton's impeachment have gone without the Internet, and the good-old-boys press corps just keeping Monica quiet, like they did for JFK with his dalliances?
Only if we allow it. Much has been learned about him in the last couple of months, and more will be known before the election. I don't think it is inevitable that he will be elected, even if he is the media darling.
And there won't be a 'viable' third party candidate, especially after Ross Perot gave us Bill Clinton. Too many regret their vote for him, because they saw what resulted. Some say that it wasn't SO bad, because we got a Republican Majority in Congress. But we also got a couple of liberal judicial activist judges, and attacks from Islamic radicals who saw what a weenie x42 was. They see the same man in Obama, and will believe they can attack us without fear of any retribution. The stakes for the security of this country are much higher than they were in 1992.
The GOP will only change from the ground up, and the inside out. It won't change by folks staying home, or voting for a third party. That's evident by the fact that here we are, even after Ross Perot, still struggling to make the GOP pay attention to us.
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