Posted on 02/14/2008 1:28:18 AM PST by MartinaMisc
Why do so many Republicans pound the table and shout, "I'd rather vote for a Democrat than the 'insufficiently conservative' John McCain!"?
Are these the same Republicans who cheerfully voted for then-Gov. George W. Bush in 2000? Ronald Reagan, in 1980, campaigned to shut down the Department of Education. Bush, however, promised to be "the education president" — and then delivered by expanding the federal government's role in education with No Child Left Behind.
Bush promised a prescription-benefits bill for seniors — and then delivered the largest expansion of Medicare since the program began. Bush promised — and delivered — increased taxpayer funds for faith-based initiatives.
Are these the same Republicans who, pre-9/11, empathized with President Bush as he agonized over his decision to use federal funds for research on pre-existing embryonic stem cell lines? Federal funds! Are these the same limited-government Republicans who, post-9/11, sided with Bush when he expanded the Cabinet with the Department of Homeland Security — demonstrating the Washington, D.C., axiom that another bureaucracy cures inefficient bureaucracy?
Are these the same principled states' rights Republicans who applauded when Congress big-footed its way into Florida's Terri Schiavo case? And how many conservative pundits still cheer when President Bush — as he does often — promises to use American power not merely for self-defense against Islamofascism, but to promote "the spread of liberty" throughout the world?
But McCain, why, he just tears it!
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Why does this not surprise me?
The more Putin talks the better McCain looks.
Duh...
Bush is a boyscout compared to McCain.
Well, Larry, these are the same conservatives who were a)not going to vote for fricken Al Gore after 8 years of Clinton, and b)give George just a bit of slack for that 9/11 thing.
they are the same conservatives that allowed clinton to be president for 8 years because H W Bush and Dole weren’t good enough
1. G.H.W. Bush lied to us in an obvious way, and was fired for it.
2. Dole couldn’t articulate a reason to be president other than, “I’m not him”. This didn’t excite the base.
Well, if so many Republican losses can be readily explained by conservatives refusing to vote for the GOP candidate, what does that tell you?
Any lightbulbs going on over there yet?
Of course, the fact that Bush and Dole were listless, almost disinterested campaigners who make Fred Thompson look like a rabblerousing demogogue in comparison, well, no sir, that didn’t have anything to do with their losses.
Say what?
So I hope the DC elites and establishment republicans plan on going door to door, and use their car to take people to the polls.
Bush was sound on national defense and on some of his domestic policy such as taxes. McCain is a step to the left, who will close Gitmo, and give us massive tax increases in the form of carbon taxes.
Bush sought to at least court conservatives, McCain spits on them. I might vote, November is a long way away, for McCain as the lesser of two evils but I am not doing the second item, "work for" him.
Second, Larry, the Republicans that are opposing McClame are the ones that opposed the President’s pandering prescription drug program, and who weren’t happy when the President did a 180 on creating the department of Homeland Security. These are the same Republicans that have had 8 years to see what happens when you elect someone who gives lip service to being a conservative, but then governs like a “moderate democrat”.
Elder has made a career of “... stay in shcool, don’t have kids until you are married, get an education ...”
Who could argue with that? Not me. Elder is a mile wide and an inch deep. For years he has advocated any willing employee (from anywhere on earth) matched up with any willing US. employer at any mutually agreed on wage. He hates borders and loves illegals. I don’t have any use for his Loosertarian BS.
Well, I certainly don’t want Barack “Chauncey Gardiner” Obama as president.
Currently, not one Supreme Court justice on the bench recognizes the unborn as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Not even Scalia.
And anyone who believes McCain is going to rock the boat and seek Roe's defeat, rather than yield gleefully to bipartisanship, is delusional.
Vote for Bush and Dole, they said, b/c they're not Clinton. So I did, got 8 years of Clinton and now I register as an independent.
Then, they said vote for Bush because he's not Gore or Kerry. I did and he's been better than either of those two, but we've watched the republican party fall from power in Congress largely due to their and Bush spending and acting like democrats.
And now we are told to get over it, stop whining and support McCain b/c he's not Hillary or Obama...oh, and also he's strong on the WOT?
No matter how many times it's tried, complaining about the voters being sick and tire of being sick and tired of their so-called republicans is not going to make me swoon for McCain. He may claim to love America, but he's not in love with the Constitution, two traits he shares with Hillary.
Just how close to being a democrat does a so-called republican have to be before the republican establishment decides enough is enough? Apparently we are not at that point yet and that's surprising considering how the last Congressional voting went. Any bets on history repeating itself in November?
Still waiting for “something wonderful”...
We may have some "sittin'" to do while we wait. I'll go get the "Jack"...
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