I don’t know Syncro, I don’t see much evidence that folks here can read lately. Despite what John has been, is, and will continue to be, I see an awful lot of blind support.
He trashes our party and our best and brightest, and then folks fall in line behind him. Whew...
And here I had been telling folks for decades that the things John was supporting, were wrong. Silly me.
I guess they were wrong until John did them.
Resolved: Folks, those things are wrong... unless you see McCain doing them. Then remain silent and hope nobody saw you take notice.
I think the general feeling here is that Obama is so vile, that supporting McCain is an unpleasant necessity.
That is not my view, as I will never vote for such a non-conservative as McCain, but the revulsion to Obama is McCain’s only chance.
The only thing worse than voting for a Democrat is voting for a Republican who is really a Democrat. It's not Hobson's choice; it's NO choice.
Obambi has a way of persueding even rock-solid conservatives to vote for McQueeg.
As Ann says, the moderate middle has won the nomination for John McCain.
But why should the moderate middle support McCain? They have a much more articulate spokesman in Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro. Now bear in mind that Obama is just a spokesman, disregarding that he has neither the inclination nor the capability of implementing any of these “moderate” policies.
This is going to be worse than Barry Goldwater 1964, and the aftermath will be even more disasterous than Jimmy Carter in the brief period 1977 to 1981.
The “solutions” didn’t work then, either.
The GOP is used to leaning liberal and still have die-hard Party-Before-Conservativism Republicans toe the line.
There is a large faction (NOT just at Free Republic) of Conservatives who feel as we do...No more lesser of two evils.
With Party Voters, it is us that do not vote for him that they blame.
The fact is, Americans are too smart to keep pulling the lever when politicians won't listen to the will of the majority of the people here in our great country.
If Barack gets in, it will be the fault of the GOP because they continued to support RINO and liberals.
They have proved it over and over again, they won't support strong conservatives.
Their support of Schwarzenegger over McClintock is an example of that, plus their throwing B-1 Bob under the bus to allow a liberal pro-immigration Democrat to steal the election from him.
The GOP has sowed, and now will reap.
IMO, it's all a moot point though.
Voter fraud will determine this election.
No one will fix it, and the Democrats have a lock on the process.
Ann is gonna catch some real flack from the usual suspects here for this one...
It may very well record that an unapologetic Marxist was elected in the former Land of the Free because good people did nothing to stop him.
Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober-- if not grim-- assessment of where we are.Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.
This year, none of us has that luxury. While all sorts of gushing is going on in the media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of terrorism in the world-- Iran-- is moving step by step toward building a nuclear bomb.
The point when they get that bomb will be the point of no return. Iran's nuclear bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb-- and they can make 9/11 look like child's play.
. . . we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our displeasure-- at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the job.
Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is said and done . . . The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer.
Obama And McCain (Thomas Sowell)
GOPUSA ^ | June 5, 2008 | Thomas Sowell
Yeah, are you the one that hid my cane and glasses?
Gull Island !
Blind vs resigned.... it's a vocabulary thing.
Politics is a team sport - winner take all. McCain will be cosseted and pampered into senescence if the congress stays republican. Worrying about McCain is like worrying about the north wind, pointless....
The future is not with McCain or his ilk but with the remnant of the GOP that is willing to work towards conservative goals.
“Yeah, but what are we supposed to do? It’s not like we have a choice. Voting third-party is voting for Obama.”
GRRRRR! No, voting for Obama is voting for Obama. Voting third-party is voting third-party. They may yield the same result, but the process is somewhat different.
‘Despite what John has been, is, and will continue to be, I see an awful lot of blind support.”
We have two choices for President come November. You either vote for B. Hussein Obama or you vote for McCain. Voting any other way is pure ignorance. Protests votes for some 3rd party are a complete waste. Some people say they wanna teach the GOP a lesson. I’d love to teach them a lesson, but a vote is not a teaching aid.