I am quite sure I speak for very many conservatives who are not convinced by Mr. “Straight talk”, and this has nothing to do with “talking heads and their followers” as your McCain campaign talking points apparently suggest. This has to do with legitimate objections of informed GOP voters, and your condescension in referring to his substantive opponents as such is quite representative of why your candidate is generating such fervent opposition from so many conservatives.
Yes, there are some solid conservatives who I respect that disagree and will support Sen. McCain despite having reservations, and I didn’t claim to speak for ALL conservatives. Unlike the Senator and his supporters, I actually respect opposing viewpoints even if I don’t agree. That being said, I’m quite certain there are also SUBSTANTIAL numbers of conservatives who feel as I do, FAR more than Buchanan got in 2000, and more than enough to make the difference in November.
Keep in mind, your candidate is where he is through a fluke of circumstances and weak opponents. He has not won a majority of actual REPUBLICAN voters in any primary, and about 2/3 of Republicans have voted AGAINST him. If you think that we are such a tiny minority and won’t make a difference in the General Election, then feel free to continue to follow Sen. McCain’s same strategy of diversion, condescension, and misrepresentation.
“Keep in mind, your candidate is where he is through a fluke of circumstances and weak opponents.”
My original candidate was Fred Thompson. I am not using McCain’s talking points because I do not work for him any more than I worked for Thompson. That said, It is a multiple candidate field and you are quite incorrect to assume that all of Mike Huckabee’s votes would go to Romney. I know many evangelicals and conservative Catholics and their second choice after Thompson was not Huckabee but McCain. And many more whose second choice after Huckabee was not Romney but McCain. You may not believe this but after Super Tuesday, you will see that McCain will have outright majorities or heavy pluralities in a number of Red States, especially in the South.
“This has to do with legitimate objections of informed GOP voters, and your condescension in referring to his substantive opponents as such is quite representative of why your candidate is generating such fervent opposition from so many conservatives.”
I have not called anyone or any candidate a name, although many here insist on calling McCain “traitor”, “McCain”, “McInsane”, “McVane”, “McQueeg” and a couple dozen other pejoratives. I have not condescended. I merely point out that in the South (which is the heart of the Republican base), I detect no great outcry against McCain, but no little amount of disgust at the shrill comments of the Coulters who say they prefer Hillary and those who, using vulgar nicknames, spit on McCain, in spite of his service.
Disagreements can be civil.
You know. I used to listen to Mark Levin before this and regarded his support for Fred Thompson, federalism and the Constitution to be eloquent. What I cannot understand is why he praises many of his callers who have sons serving in Iraq, but glosses over McCain’s military record and the fact that he has children and grandchildren over there, and calls McCain “McLame” and worse. I understand that people have some disagreements with McCain. Fine. I even understand, although I think it is foolish, that some conservatives will not vote for him, in spite of his prolife, promilitary, anti tax increase, deficit hawk positions. Fine. What I object to is the “over the top “ name-calling. Show some respect for your fellow conservatives who have made a prudential judgment that it is in the best interests of the United States to elect John McCain President rather than Hillary. Because that is what it is gonna come down to.
I point out in my previous post that I think at the end of the day most conservatives, the vast majority, will look at McCain and Hillary/Obama and will not want to consign our troops to a Commander in Chief Hillary or a Commander in Chief Obama. They will not want to surrender our health care system to them either. They will not want three freshly minted liberals on the Supreme Court. Some conservatives will not mind having these things as much as they mind McCain. But most will choose McCain.