yes he did peddle compassionate stuff at the 2000 election. Just because he called it conservative doesn’t mean it actually was. And he had no clue about foreign affairs.
Now McCain is a guy who voted to cut medicare and bring school choice but the anti-mccain conservatives had no problem with Romney who wanted mandated universal health care that subsidized abortion or Huckabee who cozied up to the NEA and raised taxes and wanted to pay college tuition for illegals...and none of them had a clue about national security. Why is that ok?
I know, and now, so do we all... And we should be doubly cautious to be sure we elect Republicans of the highest integrity, lest we make that mistake yet again.
Now McCain is a guy who voted to cut medicare and bring school choice
WooHoo! ...Except his amnesty will add half a trillion dollars to medicare and force states to school all those new citizens in one fell swoop.
[...] but the anti-mccain conservatives had no problem with Romney who wanted mandated universal health care that subsidized abortion or Huckabee who cozied up to the NEA and raised taxes and wanted to pay college tuition for illegals...and none of them had a clue about national security. Why is that ok?
It wasn't, and all the Conservatives I know were pretty much out of the game once Tancredo and Hunter were out of the game... Another quarter of Thompson' supporters refused to go on to anyone too.
Romney lost in the South, Huck lost in the West, and McCain's entire support with little exception comes from blue states where no one will vote for him anyway. None of them were fit, and none of them were 'electable'.
Our ability to win the White House ended the day Hunter left the field... He was the last Conservative, and the last one able to bring together the formidable Reagan Coalition. All the rest of this has just been shadow boxing and hot air.