Posted on 07/02/2008 5:03:38 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels
With so much written and said daily about the upcoming election, I'll get right to the point: John McCain really needs to be elected president in November.
Reason No. 1 – End the tyranny of the Supreme Court: Thursday's stunning 5-4 Supreme Court decision preserved Americans' most precious right – to keep and bear arms. You heard me right: "most precious" – more so even than the right to free speech, or freedom of religion. Why? Because without the right to keep and bear arms – not just to defend against criminals and terrorists, but as our founders knew so well, to serve as a natural and necessary restraint on government – all other rights have no meaning whatsoever.
Reason No. 2 – Win the war against radical Islam: In case you've been too distracted by other concerns lately, let me respectfully remind you that America is at war.
Reason No. 3 – A president needs strong character: Although Ann Coulter describes Obama as having "accomplished absolutely nothing in his entire life except to give speeches about 'change,'" he's not just a young, empty slate with a dazzling exterior. All his adult life Obama has associated with radicals, criminals, communists and terrorists.
When he (Bud Day) was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, "I told you I would make you a cripple."
But it didn't heal that way because of John McCain. Risking severe punishment, Messrs. McCain and Day collected pieces of bamboo in the prison courtyard to use as a splint.
Mr. McCain put Mr. Day on the floor of their cell and, using his foot, jerked the broken bone into place. Then, using strips from the bandage on his own wounded leg and the bamboo, he put Mr. Day's splint in place. …
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I will not be voting for John McCain.
Has Snopes de-bunked this, too?
You know they will...
Reasons not to vote for John McCain:
1. Cap and trade
2. Amnesty for illegals
3. Ted Kennedy
4. Gang of 14
I’ll be voting for McCain. My biggest reason—Obama.
Thanks to SoConPubbie, here are 33 reasons I cannot vote for McCain:
1. Gang of Fourteen (Kept some of President Bush’s best judges from being presented for a vote) See here and here
2. McCain-Fiengold (Assault on Free Speech and Pro-Life
3. McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty for criminal Illegal Aliens)
4. McCain-Lieberman (50 cents a gallon tax)
5. Total support for global warming scam, including the Carbon Cap-and-Trade system. See Here
6. Support for embryonic stem cell research (Murder of unborn babies).
7. Wants to moderate or soften the Pro-Life plank of the GOP Platform. See Here and Here and Here.
8. Has flip-flopped on overturning Roe vs. Wade.
9. Wants to close Gitmo and give Terrorists access to our legal system.
10. F grade from Gun-Owners of America.
11. C grade from NRA.
12. 65% score from American Conservative Union in 2006
13. Wants to bail out sub-prime losers (many of which are either illegal aliens or lied on thier applications) with US tax money.
14. Voted against President Bush’s tax cuts (called them tax-cuts for the rich)
15. Flirted with the idea of crossing over to the Dems in 2004.
16. Wants to implement a socialist Health Care proposal that includes providing tax-coffer monies (your tax dollars) to the states to provide Health Care Insurance for those who either refuse to pay for it, or are unable to afford it (mostly illegal aliens).
17. Divorced his wife after he got back from Vietnam. The same woman who remained true to him and raised his kids while he was imprisoned.
18. Refuses to drill in ANWR. See here and here
19. Agrees with Democrats that our Foreign Policy has been arrogant and we need to be more humble.
20. Thinks and states that Pharmaceutical companies are evil
21. Has accepted funding from Soros and Teresa Heinz-Kerry for his institute
22. John McCain’s Top 10 Class-Warfare Arguments Against Tax Cuts
23. “I think the Democrat Party is a fine and I have no problems with it, in their views and philosophy”
24. Strongly against Same Sex Marriage Ban Constitutional Amendment
25. Voted for Pro-Abortion Bill and Here.
26. Voted against bill that would impose sanctions against foreign governments and companies that invest more than $20 million in Iran’s energy sector until the president certified to Congress that Iran had dismantled its weapons of mass destruction Here and Here
27. Voted against repealing the death tax.
28. McCain-Edwards-Kennedy (Many Democrat inspired bad rules included in this monstrosity)
29. Wants to close Guantanamo and give Terrorists modified military trials with some of the same rights as our civil court system.
30. Socialist Approach to Business I.: Supports Windfall Profit Tax
31. Socialist Approach to Business II.: Will Regulate CEO Pay
32. Missed 60.8 % of all votes. Most of any Senate Member
33. The list of shame: John McCain’s votes against the GOP and conservatism in general. Read them and weep Freepers!
There is no way my vote in Illinois will have any meaningful effect on the election. Why should I not put my support behind someone who didn’t sponsor McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, etc.?
HOW is John McCain going to get a conservative/originalist judge -- whether SCOTUS or Federal bench -- past a radical, liberal, Democrat-majority (possible veto- and filibuster-proof) Senate? How on earth will he get TWO such judges past that Senate?
Don't forget -- John McCain, with his Gang of 14, was one of the architects of "compromising" on confirmation of judges. What makes anyone think he's changed?
I am. I believe in global warming and I just love illegals running rampant and will love paying for their welfare, I hate the idea of drilling at ANWAR too..../s
That's why we're all in this mess because "we" voted for a moderate! Well, that ended in 2006 for me I will never support another rino again just to "hope" they're better than the other canidate.
The GOP made it's bed now they're going to have to sleep in it with hopefully forcing enough conservatives to make a difference and tell the GOP to kiss our rumps, so the moderate/rino's will get the message! !
I will NOT be suporting either McCain, Obama, the RNC, the GOP, the DNC, any nutjob libertarian, or independent.
Give me a Conservative Republican or go pound sand!!!
You are either an idiot or a liar.
I am sorry, but I have just lost all patience for such nonsense.
I am going to vote third party in early voting, then sit home on Election Day and let my stubble grow.
You must be the idiot. This is a conservative forum, not a GOP spin machine. I will vote my conscience. I will never sell out my principles just to win an election.
ping for the “33 reasons” post
I am going fishin’
You really should consider taking your pro-McCain spin elsewhere. You won’t win him any votes here. To the contrary, you are starting to irritate true conservatives into sitting the election out entirely. McCain should have run as the LaRaza Party nominee.
If I vote for McCain, ONLY one reason, Obama. How did we ever end up in a mess like this?
Thank you for allowing us to not vote for John McCain. I am really happy that he does not need my vote.
Here’s my 3 reasons:
Barack
Hussein
NObomba
There’s three more reasons. 1)he’s not a liberal democrat,
2) he’s not a liberal democrat, and 3) he’s not a liberal democrat.
In a perfect world we wouldn't be reduced to choosing the lesser of two evils, especially in something as critical to our future as this elections. But the world is far from perfect and I have to live and vote in that non-perfect world.
I read the article and I’m not buying what they are selling. You can almost duplicate the article and replace McCain’s name with Dole and Bush - we have heard this all before. I’m sure we’ll see the same article again in 2012 written for the next big government Republican du jour.
I don’t have the time nor inclination to come up with more reasons why you are soooo wrong. Obama will be a bigger nightmare than Clinton and Carter combined. Just think - how much did you know about either of them until after they got into office?
Reason Number 4 to vote for McCain - to send another strong message to the liberals and the mainstream media that we intend to take our country back - with every election from here on out!
You forgot the ongoing, unconstitutional “campaign finance reform” system, which McCain helped to create along with a negative laundry list of many other things that people here at FR often bring up on any to all threads related to “anything McCain”. I’m voting for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party for President as a protest vote, because both McCain and Obama are truly too socialistic to deserve any conservative votes. Also, McCain always “politically back stabs” conservatives and conservatism far too often during his entire duration as a U.S. Senator.
You go and pound sand. Keep being bitter, angry and irrelevant. The Republican Party does not need you and McCain does not need you and should pander to you. Your Purist type of conservatism will not elect a dog catcher in the smallest town in America.
I really like that guy. He is really honest!
Telling conservatives that their votes are not needed is not a very smart campaign tactic. McCain has rubbed our noses in the dirt for the last time. He has no plans to bring the party together. The strategy this year is to throw the election to Obama and create a pro-Muslim, pro-illegal immigrant Amerika. And I see little difference in the long run between either candidate. America loses no matter what.
Oh, will Obama give us conservative judges?
Or go pay immensely higher taxes.
You are welcome. Please keep your word and do not vote for McCain because many of the Purists will tell us after McCain is elected that they held their nose and voted for McCain when in reality they have not but they will say so to stay and feel relevant.
Enjoy your chest beating. When Election Day comes around, you will pull the McCain lever, just like I will.
McCain was 7th on my list of 8, but at least he was on the list. Obama is not acceptable. One man or the other will be President.
You have heard all this before, of course. You just refuse to admit the obvious, for now. You will eventually, even if it is only in the privacy of the voting booth.
So I don’t expect you to agree with me. I expect you will keep bellowing the same nonsense between now and November. I take great satisfaction in knowing that almost nobody will listen to you.
I think the pro-McCain people are the ones who are bitter, angry and irrelevant. You seem to think we OWE our allegiance to the GOP, no matter what kind of feces they nominate.
You don't know me. I will NEVER vote for John McCain. I think 4 years of living hell under Obama might be what the GOP needs to get their heads out of their posterior.
To me the choice between Obama and McCain is like the choice between conventional surgery and laparoscopic. Both are going to hurt, one is just going to hurt a little bit less.
You Sir have a very poor perception of reality and little or no imagination regarding the differences between the 2 candidates.
“That’s all I’ve got to say about that!”
In 2012 the title of the article will be
Seven of the nine Supreme Court Justices were appointed by Republican Presidents.
John Paul Stevens--Appointed by Gerald Ford. Confirmed on 12/17/75 by a vote of 98-0.
Antonin Scalia--Appointed by Ronald Reagan. Confirmed 9/17/86 by a vote of 98-0.
Anthony Kennedy--Appointed by Reagan. Confirmed on 2/11/88 by a vote of 97-0.
David H. Souter--Appointed by George H.W. Bush. Confirmed on 10/02/90 by a vote of 90-9.
Clarence Thomas--Appointed by George H.W. Bush. Confirmed on 10/15/91 by a vote of 52-48.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg--Appointed by Bill Clinton. Confirmed 8/5/93 by a vote of 97-3.
Stephen G. Breyer--Appointed by Clinton. Confirmed 8/2/94 by a vote of 87-9.
John G. Roberts--Appointed Chief Justice by George W. Bush. Confirmed 9/29/05 by a 78-22.
Samuel A. Alito--Appointed by Bush. Confirmed 1/31/06 by a 58-42 vote.
You Purists are delusional. You are nobody. Your numbers are less than 1% of the vote. You cannot be appeased. McCain must keep rubbing your nose in the dirt because for every one of your nose he rubs in the dirt he gains 10 more votes from normal people.
The author makes a huge assumption that invalidates their argument: namely, that John McCain will pick judges that are an improvement over those they are replacing. That is, in the case of the Supreme Court, Justices like Alito and Roberts, who he said at one point he liked and another he did not, over Ginsburg and Breyer, who he is currently touting as supporting; judges that would overturn McCain-Feingold and disagree with some of his foundational beliefs. Sorry, the man has insufficient truth in him to sway me to believe him.
This is an election where conservatives have no choice but to attempt to stop the worst candidate from getting into office.
People like you at this forum put some misguided principle above that objective.
I understand it. I’ve read the same crap for ten years here.
You are wiling to accept more pain than less, simply as a matter of principle.
Well, elections have consequences, some of them lasting a generation, so I’m not willing to be a martyr.
I’m into mitigating the damage.
You’d rather see and feel the damage than mitigate it. It’s a fundamental philosophical difference, and one that is not going to get resolved at this forum.
But if Obama wins, I will hold everyone who didn’t vote against him accountable. That will obviously include you.
For what that’s worth.
Let's remember this after the Election is over, and the GOP falls several million votes short.
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