Posted on 07/19/2008 6:29:13 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
President McCain in 2000 I must be one of the few conservative writers in cyberspace who never feared a McCain presidency. When Senator McCain looked like he might win the Republican nomination in 2000, I asked what, exactly, my friends were so worried about. McCain was honest, like Bush, while Clinton and Gore were steeped in moral slipperiness. McCain was pro-life, like Bush, while Clinton and Gore were pro-abortion. McCain, like Bush, supported a strong military, while Clinton famously “loathed” the military and Gore followed him like a trained poodle. McCain’s ACU (American Conservative Union) voting record is conservative and was even more conservative in 2000. Who did I favor for the nomination in 2000? Bush, because I liked him more and I thought he would win, but was I afraid of a McCain presidency? No, I was afraid that the nation could not survive a third Clinton term. Has anything happened in the last eight years to change my mind? Not, not really. September 11, 2001 has driven all politics since then, even energy (remember how recently gasoline was cheap?) and while I can conceive of McCain handling the war on terror differently, in some ways, than Bush, I cannot see either man being particularly better than the other. Although we are sometimes loath to admit it, McCain appeared more prescience than Bush on Iraq: McCain supported the Surge, asked for the Surge when Bush was reluctant, and McCain was dead right. The Left would have vilified President McCain just as it vilified President Bush and for the same reasons: It wants America to lose all its wars.
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I’m with you. McCain is not the candidate we conservatives were looking for but even the Bible says that Obamanation brings desolation...
No thanks.. I am done voting for the lesser of two evils.
Agreed. I’m supporting John McCain for president.
I don’t like McCain at all, but I’m beginning to agree with the author. Obama has shown himself, and I believe an Obama Administration would be a complete and total disaster that could take a generation to correct. Sure, McCain believes in amnesty for illegals, among other things I detest, but with Obama I will get those things and much much more.
(it may be getting time to change my tagline)
Well, that is the worry of many conservatives: that the only way to make McCain look conservative is to compare him to immoral marxists, and ignore his tendency to enjoy working with the marxists over conservatives in Congress.
Mad Jon escaping death during the Forrestal accident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxGV-eRUC_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuiyXQKw3I&feature=related
IMO, “If” John McCain stresses his budget hawk record, and pro life record, and his War Support record, he is acceptable to Conservatives, when he leaves for “Global Warming” taxes, he losses me...
Real mature. obama thanks you.
McCains is owed a than you.
Five Choices
1.) Vote for Green Party
2.) Vote for BHO
3.) Vote for McCain
4.) Write In
5.) Stay Home
# 3 SOUNDS LIKE THE SAFEST TO ME
So, voting for a candidate because he sucks slightly less than another candidate is the ‘mature’ thing to do? BTW, I’m not planning on voting for Obama, so who does that count for? I have to ask because I didn’t get the Happy Meal with the election vote counter decoder ring like the McCainiacs.
The troops thank you.
How insulting. McCain doesn’t “suck slightly less than” Barack Hussein Obama, that’s not even close. But you just stay home and keep patting yourself on the back for being so “mature”.
Now not going along with voting for McQueeg is “childish?” Is this what passes for quality rebuttal in your school?
obama is THE MOST LIBERAL SENATOR now. A virtual 100% hardcore leftist record.
McCain at WORST is about 50%.
To me there’s no question, not even a little on who to support.
I won’t be staying home, thank you. My vote will go to each and every conservative candidate on the ballot.
How did that work out for you in 2006?
Yep... I agree... 4 years of Hussein should bring about the rise of true conservatism again. McCain will destroy the United States quietly, and we’ll go like lambs. With Hussein, at least people will get mad and fight back...
McCain doesn’t suck “slightly less” than Obama. You been hiding in a cave for the last year or so??
Fine. You can support a candidate that is a fifty percenter, yet you want to call a conservative immature for disagreeing with your choice. That makes abundant sense.
“Obama has shown himself, and I believe an Obama Administration would be a complete and total disaster that could take a generation to correct.”
On the contrary, I don’t think the United States can survive an Obama presidency, much less take a generation to recover from.
You are not wrong. ;-)
You won’t be able to get cities back after hussein guts the military/intelligence on a scale that clinton could only dream of..
At least we know McCain won’t do that stuff. That *alone* makes it worth voting for him. If you gotta have a 100% rightwinger or nothing, that’s incredibly childish.
To me, he does. Your mileage may vary. Void were prohibited.
Now, there you go with the name-calling again. And, if you can, point to exactly where I said that I had to have a 100% rightwinger. Geez, if you gotta make up a bunch of crap to get your point across ....
Think of what he would do to the Supremes? If he is elected, say good bye to the Second Amendment. He is rabidly pro-abortion. He would gut the military in time of war.
Sure McCain is a weeny, but at least he is pro-Military and wouldn't trash the nation outright with stupid socialized medicine.
Liberals in Canada and Europe are begging US voters to elected BHO so they won't be alone in the land of nanny statism where Big Brother knows best.
Good luck with that !!! Ron ?
That some people on this thread don’t understand the damage obama would inflict stuns me. Either they’re incredibly selfish or they just do not care what this guy will do to everyone down the road.
Here’s what I said to another Obama enabler on another thread; I believe it applies to most of them:
I like McCain about as much as I like a punch in the nose. But Obama is a different story. McCain is a liberal but Obama is a Marxist. It’s like choosing between JFK and Krushchev.
The refusal to vote for McCain is purely emotional. You’ve made it all about yourself and and your perfectionist view of who you should vote for, according to an idealized image of yourself. That tells us who has to get over what.
#4 sounds safest to me.
LOL - 2006 happened because people percieved no difference in the two parties and voted for the one acting Liberal and not claiming to be otherwise. 2008 is likely to be a worse result because the Liberal Republicans took the wrong lesson from 2006.
Nice choice of a user name.
Vote for who you like but hopping like a bunny on every article favorable to McCain to state your high-minded refusal to settle for anyone who isn’t on your ‘perfect list’ is childish.
And repetitive.
And annoying.
And boring.
Give it a rest, could you?
Agreed. The “suck factor” differential between McCain and Obama is more along the lines of neglible.
The discussion on this thread is merely more evidence that the do-nothing “popular vote” for President needs to be eliminated.
Don’t tell me, let me guess: another McCain supporter?
He would do the same thing to the Supreme Court as McCain.
Actually, I believe McCain's conservative voting record is more like 85%.
I think what you are missing is that many of us believe the damage under McCain to be the same or worse.
It’s “all or nothing” “conservatives” who gave us this miserable Congress in ‘06.
No. The Democrats ran to the RIGHT of the GOP in 2006 but didn’t mean it. That party took “the wrong lesson” and nominated that socialist, telling (lying to) themselves the whole while that the country had “moved left”.
Smeg off. It's a free country.
Absolutely wrong if you go back and look at the exit polling and other post mortem data. Intuitively first: if the 100% Conservatives taking their marbles and going home were to blame, why did so many heroes of that same group go down in flames? It was the Reagan Democrats and other Social Conservatives that saw no difference between the two parties, much like the two head candidates this year, and they voted for the newer or more genuine Liberal.
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