Wrong.
Posted on 02/08/2008 5:01:34 AM PST by jmaroneps37
…..I do not like John McCain.
I like socialist women and the most liberal senator in America less, far less. Our party’s primaries have been hijacked by casual voters, liberals, moderates and even Democrats.
Our Evangelical friends have to shoulder much of the blame for giving us McCain. They have unfairly called Mormonism a cult and now all of us will suffer the consequences …I’m damned mad about this, but I can’t do anything about it. [ McCain] will be elected. America will not select either Democrat over him. Many Hillary hating Democrats will vote for McCain.
..the conservative radio talkers did all they could. They are now the de facto leaders of the conservative movement. …accept facts. Some of them insist McCain can’t win. I very much disagree.
Each conservative has to make a personal decision. We can swing wild in blind anger or carefully think things through. If you are old enough to vote, you are old enough to have been disappointed or you really haven’t lived much of a life. We don’t always get our way. If we jump wrong now, out of anger and frustration, we will insure …putting America, no our own families in danger. The danger of picking wrong at this point is history can not be over stated. …grievances against John McCain are [not] unimportant. They are very important. [but]we seem to be losing the fact that vicious Islamist terrorists want to kill us and will kill us and our children if we have the wrong Commander in Chief. ..a willingness to put aside the importance ..war against terror and make believe a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama would keep us safe from further attack is where I step off of the anti- McCain bandwagon. These three people are simply not interchangeable.
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Don't vote for liberals...
PERIOD.
That decision was ruled out Tuesday. What if independents and pro-Israel democrats were able to split the liberal vote in the Democratic primary with two liberal candidates and put Zel Miller as democratic nominee?? Do you think the anti-war democrats (most enthusiastic supporters) who truly believe in surrender would rush to the polls for the lesser of two evils? No, Zel would completely destroy their party as president(due to ideology) , as McCain would do with Republican party. At least democrats have SOME convictions, even if they are all the wrong ones. Don't let the liberals select the head of our party!
Yeah...we should just stay home. /s
He wasn't my first choice either.
He's pro-life (except re: stem cell research) and pro-military, and, at worst, will not make the Supreme any more liberal than it is now. That's really all we have to go on this time around. In retrospect, GWB doesn't really get many more conservative "gold stars" than McCain. And that, IMO, is the real issue that everyone is "venting" about...we wanted a pub candidate that was more conservative than GWB...we didn't get it. In reality...Thompson and Hunter were the only ones that qualified in that category, and, IMO, a vote for Mitt=another 4 years of GWB style conservatism.
At any rate...is letting Hillobama get the WH really worth it? I think not.
Wrong.
Don't overestimate the intelligence of the American vote. The idea that 4 years of Obama/Hillary means a GOP landslide in 2012 is totally unfounded. Ronald Reagan couldn't win the states in 2008 he won in 1980. This is a different political landscape.
What is the use of having the white house if the occupant reaches across the aisle and does every thing the Dems want.
Have you thought about the possibility of 3 Supreme Court Justices retiring during the next term? Do you really want Hitlery or Obama to appoint the replacements?
If one looks at McCain’s conservative rating for the last 10 years, it is not much different than Hillary’s record. This is the reality. The so-called 83% comes from votes taken when McCain was pretending to be a Reagan conservative.
If a sector of our party hasn’t learned anything as a result of the misguided Dole nomination -never going to get elected-then we are in bad shape.
Yeah, I have. McCain will reach across the aisle a pick a Dem acceptable candidate. He almost didn’t vote for Roberts remember.
G’Day, Mel! Wise words ... thanks for chiming in.
And what would ObamaClinton do? And did they vote for Roberts?
And 2, what I did write was not an original argument with me. As a matter of fact, I heard Savage make this case last night, and he can't stand McCains positions on some pretty significant issues..
You know, McCain changed after Bush beat him in the GOP primary in 2000. He became embittered and exacted his revenge by screwing Republicans. He crafted McCain-Feingold in an attempt to shut conservatives up. I have no doubt he would re-enact the fairness doctrine. He doesn’t give a darn about the constitution. He didn’t consider the American people and the effect his legislation would have-only revenge. I don’t think a guy like that should be President. He is dangerous.
They would pick a Dem acceptable candidate as well...but they are Democrats. There is no reason for a conservative to vote for McCain.
I got a lot of heat for saying I would vote for Guiliani over Hillary! I made it a point to say I can’t stand Rudy but to hand the country to Hillary! would be a travesty.
I’m hoping McCain smartens up and gets some good conservative advisers and picks a great veep. If he picks Lieberman, I will have to look long and hard on who to vote for. We survived Carted and Bubba but they nudged the ball towards their end of the goal posts so the next one in line might be the one to push it through.
People say Mcain talked under torture, that doesn’t bother me too much, I can’t in all honesty say I wouldn’t but I would hope I would be strong enough to hang on until my information was useless. His brilliant performance at Annapolis where he came in 5th from the bottom is more worrisome.
But again he's some degrees better than Obama and Hillary who would be dreadful or worse.
Can you imagine either one of them as Commander in Chief?
I bet most of our military can't, while they can imagine McCain in that role.
Sorry, Mr. Allen, but this conservative is not ever again voting for a lesser degree of socialism simply because the name on the ballot is followed by “(R)”.
The current disaffection will create low conservative turnout, with little chance to prevail in contested seats.
My concern with McCain is that the disasterous impact that his policies will have on the economey, the courts, and yes, the nation’s security!
These results will all be blamed on Republicans!
For the marginal difference between his policies and the Dem’s policies, I’d rather see the Dem’s get blamed and then end up in the wilderness, than see Republicans suffer that fate.
I have much greater faith in conservative congressmen resisting the grandiose socialism of Hillobama than keeping McCain in line.
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