Posted on 01/11/2008 9:21:39 AM PST by Delacon
I asked today why Fred, after stomping a mudhole in Huck’s butt, didn’t go after McCain. Another Freeper said: “No need; SC Conservatives aren’t going to vote for McCain.
To that I say, don’t be too sure.
Fred endorsed McCain in 2000. There’s a friendship there, but don’t judge Fred by McCain.
Somebody better take the gloves off and sucker punch McCain SOON.
If all these great conservative minds think Romney's is a good choice for conservatives (Rush, Peggy Noonan, National Review, Hugh Hewett, Laura Ingram, etc.), is it not possible that you may be the one who's off, and not them?
Objectively, Romney's only recent conversion was on abortion. He gradually moved to the right on gay rights over a period of 14 years. And he slightly deviates from the conservative position on guns. But that's it. On everything else he's always been a solid conservative.
On gay rights, you've got to give him credit for always staunchly opposing gay marriage. You also have to give him credit for fighting hard to stop it in Massachusetts, at great political cost, even though he ultimately lost that fight. Yes, 14 years ago he supported gays in the military, but now 14 years later he supports the current policy. Hardly a recent change.
His position on guns hasn't changed and is pretty much the same as that of president Bush: good on everything except the assault weapons ban.
He's not without his flaws, but if he's been a consistent conservative on all but three issues, can you not forgive one recent conversion on abortion and small deviations from the conservative view on two other issues?
“A deadlock Republican convention turns to the most qualified Republican of them all to be president on the fifth ballot, Dick Cheney. And he wins in a landslide in November.”
Bill Kristol
12/23/07
Fox News Sunday
BTT! Time to end this McCain surge.
Agree 100%. He's the most loathsome figure in American politics.
Don’t forget he screwed over families of pows/mias who weren’t satisfied with Vietnam’s claims that all our soldiers were returned. He with John Kerry spearheaded the normalization of relations with Vietnam.
Well said. I’d add that we should keep it in context that Romney had to govern a very liberal state. If he were to be president he will be free to find policies that are more conservative because the rest of the country as a whole is more conservative than MA. I’d like Thompson to be president, but Romney would be my second choice.
Suppose it came down to Clinton VS McCain? That would be the
most ghastly choice in my lifetime!
Yeah, call it “Democrat Primary: Round 2”
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