Posted on 02/06/2008 9:02:53 PM PST by pulaskibush
Media elect John McCain will speak at the Conservative Political Action Committee this weekend. It is assumed that CPAC members will be allowed to ask McCain questions, (although McCain has been hostile towards questions in the past). Here are some questions to ask McCain that need to be answered before we choose him to be our nominee.
How can someone who refuses to use our own oil, has a weak immigration record, and opposes the proven method of water-boarding be stronger on the war on terror than any other candidate?
Mexico ’s sponsoring of illlegal immigration kills more Americans than Iran ’s sponsoring of terrorism. The Mexican Government has been an enemy of the United States , of Central and South Americans along it’s southern border, and has been a tyrant of its own people. You have a spokesman of that regime as part of your campaign named Juan Hernandez. Why do you have this propagandist as part of your campaign who demands the US taxpayer do Mexico ’s job while thousands of his fellow Mexicans suffer under drug violence, poverty, and exploitation by a few greedy US companies? 
How can you claim that you will appoint pro-life judges when your gang of 14 deal has blocked more pro-life judicial nominees than any other deal done by a Republican?
How do you plan on winning the general election when you can’t win the majority of Republicans even with Huckabee splitting the Conservative vote for you?
Why did you win less than 50% of your home state of Arizona?
Why did the media bring up Romney’s religion and Guliani’s marriages but give you a pass on those issues?
What makes you think the liberal activist Hispanic groups like LULAC and La Raza will support you when they can get more of their agenda done by a democrat?
Why has this plan not worked with liberal black groups like the NAACP, and liberal women’s groups like NARAL?
How are you going to raise the funds against the 527s that have grown under McCain/Feingold for a General Election?
Why did you almost leave the Republican Party twice?
How much will McCain/Lieberman cost the US taxpayers and how many degrees will it lower the Earth’s temperature?
Since I’m not able to attend, I really hope McCain gets grilled over at CPAC for his liberal record. For those at CPAC, please record and post everything McCain does. The Republican Party needs to see how pitiful of a candidate he really is. 
My question would be:
Due to the Veteran’s Disarmament Act which was recently passed and your history of PTSD, don’t you think a president should have the mental stability to legally own a handgun?
It’s not on the C-Span schedule.
Senator, in every debate, you state (paraphrasing, but close) I live in a border state, I know how to seal/protect the borders. If you’ve lived in a border state and served in the Senate all these years - why haven’t you sealed/protected at least the Arizona border?
You have also stated that you will have every governor of every border state certify that the border is secure. Given that the governors are Schwartzeneger and Perry (who endorsed you) and Napolitano and Richardson (who are Democrats) and none of them seem to not be too concerned with sealing their borders, how can we trust that the borders will be sealed in the near future?
In the debates you’ve also stated that you got the message from the American people and they want the border secured first, and you will do that. However, you’ve never stated, that I recall, that you would not continue to move ahead with the rest of the McCain-Kennedy plan. Will you know agree and state that you will not give anything that even slightly resembles amnesty to illegal aliens? Will you also agree to remove Juan Hernendez from your team and not replace him with anyone that is pro La Raza and pro amnesty?
You’ve admitted you don’t know much about economics. Given that is a huge concern of many Americans, why should we trust you to get the economy back on track?
You’ve seem to stretch the truth about Governor Romney and Rush Limbaugh on at least a few occasions - how can we believe anything you say?
Many of us greatly admire Secretary Rumsfeld, yet you bashed him (and continue to do so) as badly as the Democrats. You seem to forget that not only was he overseeing the WOT on more than 1 battlefield, he was also streamlining the Pentagon and rebuilding the military and equipment that Clinton totally destroyed - quite a job for 1 person! Please apologize to him. Likewise, President Bush.
Will you agree that Gov Huckabee, Rudy, Senator Graham, or Govenor Crist will not be your running mate but, rather it would be a real conservative?
I could go on, but I’ll stop there.
John McCain, how does long-term socialism not replace long-term capitalism throughout the U.S. under a President McCain? How can McCain truly win over the majority of conservative voters after all of anger that he has created over many years towards conservatives and towards the total conservative movement?
This is what happens when the GOP practices Identity, or maybe even Tribal, politics.
This election season we had both the Mormons and the Evangelicals doing this and it split the conservatives right down the middle allowing the moderates and liberals in the party the chance to win.
Mitt should have been smart enough to see the built-in problems Evangelicals would have with a Mormon and never should have gotten into the race.
The Evangelicals should have been smart enough to accept the 95% solution they had in Fred or Hunter, but they were not.
Each of the Candidates, with the exception of Fred, Hunter, Tancredo, and the minor players that dropped out early were playing one group against another and putting their own interests before the well-being of the party and our country.
Way too many political games and not enough statesmanship.
We are really the STUPID party.
I am afraid that the GOP deserves the drubbing that is coming in November.
We are looking at a train-wreck.
1. Blow a gasket on stage
2. Blow a gasket and walk off stage
3. Stay calm but give empty responses/platitudes no one buys
First Question:
How many marachas in a mariuchi band?
Someone should ask DAVID KEENE why he chose expediency over principle and endorsed Willard Myth Romney.
Someone should ask DAVID KEENE why he didn’t endorse the one true conservative in the race, Duncan Hunter.
the gang of 14 helped nominate and confirm Alito without changing the rules of the Senate which could later be used against us when dems have control.
even if fred had the support...he also didn’t have the intangible “factors” of electability. It’s not enough to pick solid conservatives. They also have to be able to win.
nevertheless, the failure to endorse Fred by the movement conservatives shows that they are pretty clueless.
fyi.
You promised to close Gitmo and move the prisoners to Ft. Leavenworth on the day you become president.
How will you fit all the Gitmo prisoners in the prison at Leavenworth?
This past June, a spokesperson said Leavenworth had space for only 50 more inmates.
“I hope he takes questions.”
If he doesn’t take questions or tries to double-talk his way throught the answers, the meeting will be a joke. At this point, if McCain’s serious about winning over some conservatives, he’s going to have to throw himself on the CPAC altar.
What’s that mean? And please, don’t use the story of him being born on a US post in a foreign country. That’s a ridiculous argument.
“At CPAC McCain will:”
That’s what I’m thinking, and if he does, there really is no hope for him.
What a great question.
The whole room should walk out when he gets up to speak.
If you have been a Republican for the last 20 years as you claim, what were you prior to that?
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