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.
Hunter had his own problems too. He was for the same economic policies of herbert Hoover. He was also involved in some of the things that helped lose the House in 2006.
You have to keep in mind that the House republicans have a really bad reputation from the Hastert/DeLay years. McCain was one of the only ones who distanced themselves from those kinds of politics.
“Our ability to win the White House ended the day Hunter left the field... He was the last Conservative...”
Agree with you on that. And did you notice how little opportunity he was given to get his message out when he was still in the running! I remember one of those “new format debates” (the day we actually have a political debate in this country will be something, won’t it?)...Duncan Hunter was given maybe 2-3 minutes of actual face-time. All the questions were directed to Romney, Guiliani, and a few others. In other words, the conservative position on much of the issues was never aired to the American people.
There is no dog in this hunt for conservatives. Time to think about those elections closer to home.