[Mygirlsmom]

We need to fight this one like it's our last hope.

Because it probably is.

[Sybeck1]

Personally, I won’t vote for McCain. John McCain stands against everything this board was founded for - personal liberty and justice. It’s inviting the liberal fox into our hen house and I will not join along.

[Graybeard58]

The field of candidates from both parties is a complete disaster.

[ClearCase_guy]

Republicans and conservatives (as should now be clear, they are not always one and the same) need to do as Ronald Reagan did and settle on a few major goals and stick to them.

Nice idea. But I'm not sure that Republicans have any ideas that I, as a conservative, can support.

[central_va]

Better an enemy in front of me than an enemy behind me.

                          -- unkown

[LonePalm]

I understand the frustration but the Supreme Court appointments alone are enough to prevent ANY of the Democrats from becoming POTUS.

RINO appointments would be better than a bunch of Ruth Buzzie Ginsbergs on the bench.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Ingtar]

Actually, I’m voting in the primary. Chances are that I am writing in for the general election.

[central_va]

Put me in the tantrum throwing, kamakaze flying, self-destructive republican column.

[central_va]

If you vote McCain-Be under no illusion. You are voting for somebody that detests you, to him you are a red neck racist closed minded bigot.

[American_Centurion]

If the rino/moderate wings of the republican party really care about the troops as much as this writer suggests, then maybe they should all take extreme care ow where they decide to take a dump. Crap on the base, lose the support necessary to support the troops. I won’t be cowed into voting for any of the remaining candidates and if that means the troops get shafted by hillobama that’s the fault of the republican moderates.

The party is saying loud and clear “we are democrat lite”. I can’t support that and I won’t. Don’t try to pull me in with a “CRUCIAL” issue that none of the RINO/moderates are even discussing during their campaigns. If it was that important it would have been talking point one and a real conservative will always carry that banner to victory.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Nothing but (very) thinly veiled McCain-shilling.

Here’s my advice: If you don’t want 15% of the party sitting this one out, don’t nominate the man, don’t make excuses for his years of treachery in the Senate, don’t play this bogus “do it for the troops” card. Just work to get someone else nominated.

Pretty simple, really. Many of us will not vote for McCain under any circumstances. And many of us will go out of our way to vote against him. If, knowing that, you still insist on nominating this unbalanced narcissist and turning the party over to him and his ilk, blame yourself for the end result.

[JoanVarga]

I'm not sitting it out. I'm writing it in: Fred!

It's the only voice of protest I've got, I'm not wasting it.

-Joan

[central_va]

Bush 41 and 43 have set us back a generation. Maybe irrecoverable. Socialism is coming on the next major economic downturn.

[Ouderkirk]

Rants of frustration such as these, while understandable, are baseless

Really? I don't think that they are baseless, as much as they are factual. Where else are we going to go. And if we're going to get a d'RAT, might just as well get the real M^cCoy.

[citizen]

There is no way I sit out this election. If McVain is the Republican nominee, I will exercize my free will and vote 3rd party or write-in.

I trust that meets your satisfaction, Mr. Wynton C. Hall.

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Straight Talk: Thad Cochran, U.S. Senator (Miss) who endorsed Romney, recently said his choice was prompted partly by his fear of how McCain might behave in the Oval Office. "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Cochran said about McCain by phone. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me." (Source: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/)

[GOPsterinMA]

The way it looks now is that it’s Romney vs. McCain for the GOP.

Being from MA, and seeing what Mitt had to work with (6:1 ratio Dem vs. GOP in the state legislature), I’ll give him a pass on most things. I personally prefer him - imagine him on stage at a debate, with his attractive wife, children and grandchildren vs. the Clinton trash or whatever familial arrangement Osabama has.

McCain, by most accounts is a liberal Republican. I would still take him over any Democrat (Zell Miller excluded). Hopefully, if he is the nominee, he will:
1. be a one termer and
2. have a strong VP in place (a Mark Sanford type IMO) to succeed him. This is something GWB failed to do, which has left us with the situation we have know.

To lose on purpose is a ridiculous strategy...it worked well in the 2006 elections didn't it?

[longtermmemmory]

WOW!

The mccainiac areo out in force!

Rush is going to be very very good today.

[TheZMan]

Perhaps one day when I’m old and gray I’ll look back on this day and realize I was wrong. Until then, and just like another poster said, I’d rather have an enemy in front of me than one behind me.

I’m either going to enjoy the election from my couch, or write Fred Thompson on the ballot.

[OB1kNOb]

Kamikaze Republicanism

vs. what? Suicidal Republicanism? This is what the 2008 election has been reduced to.

[Obadiah]

John Paul Stevens - Ford - Liberal
Anthony Kennedy - Reagan - Mostly Liberal
David Souter - Bush I - Consistently Liberal
Ruth Buzzie Ginsberg - Clinton - Uber Liberal
Stephen Breyer - Clinton - Consistently Liberal

Antonin Scalia - Reagan - Consistently Conservative
Clarence Thomas - Bush I - Consistently Conservative
John Roberts - Bush II - Consistently Conservative
Sam Alito — Bush II - Consistently Conservative

Unless Rommney starts making clear in no uncertain terms that he will appoint judges in the Scalia/Roberts mold then there WILL be a lot of people sitting home on election day planning for the enemy in front rather than the diabolical enemy behind them.