Posted on 01/31/2008 6:44:15 AM PST by Brices Crossroads
Just ... months ago, the 2008 presidential contest seemed predetermined. ...Giuliani and Hillary Clinton were far ahead... .... Sen. Clinton was all but declared the foreordained winner a year in advance.
But not now. [snip]
The result of all this has been that while Hillary still polls ahead of the surging Obama in most states, in hypothetical general-election polls she runs behind Republican frontrunner, Sen. John McCain.
End of story?
Hardly. In reaction to McCains own surge and the Republican windfall, the conservative base went ballistic. Soon a Republican civil war broke out over how best to lose the election.
Despite McCains 82-percent career ranking by the American Conservative Union, and his support for balanced budgets, an end to pork-barrel spending and earmarks, strong support for the war, and expressed regret over once supporting the Bush illegal immigration reform package, McCain was branded by the conservative media as a sellout and a near liberal. Not to mention that he was supposedly too old and hot-tempered to be the Republican nominee. The more McCain was discovered not to be a perfect conservative, the more he was accused of not even being a good one.
Even stranger, the various Republican candidates began invoking Ronald Reagan...
Were conservatives supposed to forget that a maverick Reagan raised some taxes, signed an illegal-alien amnesty bill, expanded government, appointed centrist Supreme Court justices, advocated nuclear disarmament, sold arms to Iran, and pulled out of Lebanon but to remember only that John McCain was not for the original Bush tax cuts or once supported the administrations offer of a quasi-amnesty?
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Novembers vote may hinge on whether moderates and liberals are nauseated enough by the Clintons...to ... vote for a decorated Republican war hero that is, if his own flag-waving party doesnt destroy him first.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Already Posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962536/posts
Reagan would compromise on 50% of what he wanted, and come back for the other 50% later. But his BELIEF SYSTEM was CONSERVATIVE.
What we’re seeing in McCain is someone that believes it’s OK to infringe on the first amendment at election time, it’s not OK to use harsh interrogation techniques (due to his own experience), and that we should allow everyone and their dogs in from Mexico despite what it does to our economy and culture.
THESE ARE MCCAIN’S CORE BELIEFS, AND THEY AREN’T CONSERVATIVE!
The comparison to Reagan’s compromises is fallacious.
I agree. This sniping by conservatives is destroying us from within. I agree with a lot of the issues they bring up, but it’s time to unite now and DEFEAT the DEMOCRATS.
It’s NOT time to unite yet - once the nominee is chosen, THEN we defeat the Dems.
Right now, we’re fighting to preserve the definition of conservatism, and defining the party. That’s what primaries are for.
We have enough hate filled unstable people in the Republican tent already. I think I’m going to step out of the tent for some air for a couple of years.
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LOL... This is amazing and exactly whay I have been saying for quite some time. John Mcain is so much like Ronald Reagan...However that may scare some Republicans... And the Talking Heads like Rush and Sean are hell bent on not supporting Mcain... I truly know that Mcain is the true Conservative... Romney is fake as the day is long... He abondoned core conservative principles for political gain in the leftist state of MA. I also don’t want the big dig in DC... No thanks Romney... I will invoke Reagan and vote for Mcain...
Save your breath, those that need to hear your message will not listen... they are determined to marginalize themselves into oblivion.
“This sniping by conservatives is destroying us from within. I agree with a lot of the issues they bring up, but its time to unite now and DEFEAT the DEMOCRATS.”
Glad to see you’re on board with defeating McCain.
Actually, as a conservative I’m more interested in defeating liberalism. McCain is just another liberal to defeat...
I agree.
So let’s unite behind Mitt.
A McCain presidency would be no victory.
Sincerely,
Conservatives
I don’t care how you slice it...the Clinton’s need a smackdown. They are destroying our country, our children, our ethics, our belief systems, our political process, our general way of being (I could go on and on) with their own self-absorbed narcism.
It’s time for them to go...
Earned Income Tax credit, proposed by Nixon, signed into law by Gerald Ford and increased under every administration since, without exception. the monster that can never be killed is one of the most truly communistic measures ever.
McCain like Reagan? No dice. Do you want me to count the number of ways McCain has screwed the conservative base?
“they are determined to marginalize themselves into oblivion.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xou-FpDTHSE
The big threat from McCain is amnesty. He keeps saying he’ll secure the borders “first.” But after that we suspect, with good reason, an amnesty bill. That will legalize 20 million or so illegals, with 80 million more to come through family reunification. Given that these illegals are Mexican nationals, used to corrupt machine politics and left wing socialist solutions to problems, “we” conservatives will likely be out of power for many decades to come after amnesty. With any luck the borders can’t be “straight face” declared secure before a McCain first term ends and he’s too old to run again.
My “solution” is to urge every Republican and conservative to get involved in the anti-amnesty groups. We’ll have that fight on our hands if McCain, Obama, or Hillary ends up president . . . Romney as well since he is a big-business, go with the flow, Rockefeller Republican type. Getting involved and organized on the issue gives us the chance to flame the effort out again in the Senate or Congress even with a President that is pushing the bill and ready to sign it.
That does it.
I am going to have to get a TV for the shower.
I miss so much when I am in there.
The "Bush" illegal immigration reform?
Must be akin to Bush-Feingold and the Bush-Keating 5 and the Bush Gang of 14 and......
I think you seriously underestimate the real intelligence of true conservatives.
No true conservative will vote for Hillary, under any circumstances, in lieu of McCain.
As bad as McCain is for true conservatives, he is leagues away from a Hillary or Hussein.
I will do as all other true conservatives will do...I will hold my nose and maybe puke a little into my mouth...and pull the damn lever for McCain, if he is the nominee.
Hillary and/or Hussein are the real dangers to our republic and to even suggest that a true conservative would entertain furthering a presidency by either of them is wrong.
As far as abstaining from voting...the same applies.
A non-vote is a vote for Hillary or Hussein.
I think we'll all do the right thing.
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