Posted on 09/22/2008 10:55:58 PM PDT by robert david
Now that there are but six weeks left before the next president of the United States is chosen, all Republicans and conservatives need to become united in our effort to insure that John McCain is that person.
I call for a cessation of attacks against McCain. He is our candidate.
We should be concentrating all our efforts on defeating Obama not helping him by attacking McCain.If necessary, moderators should remove threads and posts that are anti-McCain. In this late hour, an attack against McCain is an endorsement of Obama. We cannot afford to lose this election for it will be the end of America as we have know her.
RINO/BARRACUDA 08’
Good Gawd, man! McCain is insisting on beheading Chris Cox and replacing him with Andrew Cuomo!! How stupid is that, huh?
Senator McCain has no idea what caused this crisis. If he did he would be treating all Democrats as though radioactive.
I’m voiting for Sarah Palin. Screw McCain.
Hussein MUST be defeated....we MUST elect McCain and then keep his feet to the fire.....
I hope the Mods agree.....
as far as Cuomo....McCain just says stuff.....that's him.....I think he gets a kick out of busting b*alls ......
I was a Romney, Thompson, Hunter or Tancredo guy, not McAmnesty.
We have to vote for him, that is a foregone conclusion, but he needs to stop the pandering and “middle ground...hate business” garbage.
I really enjoy Palin and her resolve. She bore 5 children and is a governor, who can say that? Obama is a failure and the only reason he is this far is because of the MSM.
McCain will get an earful (like the e-mail I sent his office today) about his three strikes:
1) Attack on business
2) Open borders agenda
3) Global warming hoax
I will NEVER stop hammering him on that...but in reality, Obama will push a Marxist agenda with a Democratic Congress that could see open borders, billions and billions of aid and full-fledged Socialism here, including slave reparations. Gay marriage, SCOTUS Liberal appointees...the list goes on and on.
Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Franks have their fingerprints all over this financial debacle. At the center of this vortex lies FreddieMac and FannyMay, all brought about by politics - currying favor with certain segments of the voting public by providing handouts from Uncle Sugar.
Franks is now advocating that unqualified people who had mortgage loans they couldn’t afford and never should have had, now just be “given” their homes, write off the loans never having to pay them off.
I refuse to vote for McCain.
I’m voting for Sarah!
This isn’t DU or DailyKos. Writing anything more than the mildest criticism of His Holiness or Jumpin’ Joe will get you banned, there.
Reasonably phrased dissent is allowed here.
Shoot, they allow dissenting views at Salon and Huffington Post!
I have been a McCain supporter from the beginning (after Fred Thompson). I don’t want this to become a “yes Johnny” site.
If someone has something legitimate to say against McCain or Palin, I am not afraid to hear it.
The thing to keep in mind is that President Bush—who I support—has created an almost insurmountable headwind for any Republican in this election season.
He did so by refusing for his entire tenure to explain or defend himself, thus allowing his enemies to define him and his policies and, by extension, Republicans and conservatives.
It continues to this day. The president supports the largest financial bailout in global history, but he refuses to go on TV and explain why he thinks it’s necessary. As a result we have panic, rumors, and misunderstandings flying everywhere. It’s just possible that this could cost the Republicans the election.
But President Bush will give his standard cop-out of “We’ll let history decide,” which is another way of saying, “I can’t be bothered.”
So McCain must walk an almost impossible line here. He has to appeal to the electorate, which has been hammered for eight years with lies that President Bush has refused to debunk. McCain has to present himself as “bipartisan,” or else the public will lump him in with President Bush and the GOP leadership.
Just remember that Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson are campaigning their hearts out for McCain. If McCain wins, he’ll owe them, and they won’t let him rule as a liberal.
And McCain’s sense of honor and obligation won’t let him betray them.
If McCain wins, I think we’ll be okay.
Free Republic Opinion Poll:
Would you be for or against McCain?
Member Opinion
against 92.4% 2,989
for 7.6% 247
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Not even the Dixie Chicks can say whatever they want (McCain goes to bat for fat mouthed trio)
How John McCain Threatens the Pro-Life Cause By Douglas Johnson NRLC Legislative Director
More YOUTUBE - McCain On Abortion (UH OH! YouTube Has a Video of Him in 1999)
McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up
Tom Delay On Faux "McCain Has Done More To Hurt The Party" VIDEO
John McCain: "My Conservative Record" YouTube VIDEO
John McCain, Jack Kemp and Hugo Chavez.
MORE GUN CONTROL: McCAIN-LIEBERMAN FR April '01
Gun Owners of America on McCain's Record.
GUNS AND SCHOOLS: THE POLITICS (McCain tries to grab guns, 1999)
CITIZENS COMMITTEE URGES JOHN McCAIN TO RETIRE FROM UNITED STATES SENATE
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
John McCain Losing His Cool YouTube video
Vietnam Veterans Against McCain YouTube video
McCain Argues for U.S. Troop Withdrawl from Somalia Mr. Blackhawk Down (YouTube VIDEO)
McCain Group Got Big Cable Donation Breath taking corruption, Senator!
THE PAMPERED POLITICIAN - John McCain Keating 5 and other things. FR Nov. '99
McCain gives nod to Kerry campaign (MAJOR RINO ALERT!) June 2003
MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHN McCAIN?
McCain married into the mob.
Former P.O.W.: "Why I Cannot Support Senator John McCain for President"
U.S. POW/MIAs Who May Have Survived In Captivity
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate
The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)
McCain Seeks to Change California Primary
John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
McCain-Soros Toppled GOP Candidates Nov. 21, 2006
Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot?
Through The Weeds; John McCain, George Soros and the Reform Institute
McCain’s Reform Institute donor list:
Reform Institute greatfully acknowleges Sen. McCain as past Chairman:
McCain planning climate change tour
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."
McCain Is Booed by Labor Activists
Captains of Industry Could Populate McCain Cabinet ( Lieberman Potential Cabinet Member)
McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)
McCain calls Jeffords' switch lesson for GOP FR May '01
McCain Antics Weary Arizonans in G.O.P. FR June '01
Believe NYT on McCain corruption scandal
McCain Ties to Lobbyists Troublesome - Newsmax Staff
Billboard owner bars ad targeting McCain Viacom refuses anti-Amnesty billboard because it bashes McCain.
How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great Escape (Gave floundering McCain 2000 campaign a direction.)
McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
His staff set up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.
McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats
John McCain Goes Left for Money
McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing
Sens. Snowe, Collins to head Maine exploratory committee for McCain
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004
Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP
McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP
Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO
John McCain's Newt Problem (Infidelity to first wife.)
How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team) (McCain used his influence to cover it up.)
McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia
TEN REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN (Free Republic thread from 2000)
McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape
McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)
The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate
John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory)
UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)
The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008
John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin
This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)
Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
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McCain says:
"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"
Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)
"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."
John McCain, enemy of free speech
We should be way past our issues with McCain.
The American way of life is about to be flanked and slaughtered by hard-core leftists.
You had better shake-off the mass-media-haze and really look again at Obama and the real-deal leftists who have hijacked our country’s second political party.
The “It can’t happen here” denial game will end with you and yours standing in some government food line, or under a boot.
These people are as serious as a major heart-attack. They mean to get what they want. They are intent on seperating you from the life you have known—from the America that you have known.
If you stop and take-in just how precarious is our present situation you’d see we are at a critical juncture in our history.
Consider our economy—who brought us here? Was it Wall Street? Or something more sinister—a “problem-reaction” scenario brilliantly executed? HAVE WE BEEN FORCED INTO MOVING OURSELVES TOWARDS SOCIALISM (bailout)?
It’s perfect: Create a quasi-private abomination and give it a warm and fuzzy name.
Then, kind-heartedly, provide large numbers of loans to those who couldn’t possibly be relied upon to pay it back.
While you’re at it put pressure on legit lending institutions to loan to “underrepresented” poor people.
It’s a time-bomb from the get-go!
Then you wait for it to fall.
There are only two possible outcomes: total financial collapse of a capitalist system or you have guaranteed a HUGE swing towards socialism with a “bailout.”
Either way, it’s chaos, stress and anxiety that can be an awefully useful tool for “CHANGE.”
And all the while you will “HOPE” there is a way out of it.
Here comes the annointed one to “save the day”: “We are the ones we have been waiting for!” and “Yes we can.” Isn’t it such a beautiful contrast—a SIGHT for sore eyes?
It’s absolutely masterful—if it happened that way.
The other explanation is even more frightening—our leaders are completely corrupt and/or completely ignorant and we’re doomed even without the unfriendly nudge of the left.
So what’s the problem, Boucheau? We’ll just print more money, no problemo compadre, relax.
Consider our military—how thin are we?
Consider Social Security, Medicare, the dumbing-down of our population, healthcare costs, etc., etc., etc.
Consider your reaction to what I’m writing here—Do you think I’m over-the-top? Think that our Republic couldn’t possible fall? Do you believe that it couldn’t be radically altered by the real-deal far-left? The plans drawn while you worked to pay your taxes, or watched your big screen TV?
I’m sure you wouldn’t deny the heavy clouds over America right now—any yet you might believe it couldn’t possibly rain.
Look at Obama’s teachers and friends.
What will better predict a man’s future behavior than his past and the company he keeps????? And by company, I mean people he has kept CLOSE over the years.
You are being told it shouldn’t matter—that it’s wrong to conclude he’s “guilty by association”—how dare you pass judgement.
As humans our only tool of survival is our ability to pass judgement folks: “Is this good for me, or bad for me.” Trust your judgement—his beliefs and his character REALLY ARE that dangerous.
The media will not show you the real picture here. No, not even Fox News will come near the reality. They are too “high-road” for that one—too measured—far too “reasonable.”
Step back, take a pause and really examine what is unfolding.
We’ve had it good for so long I’m wondering if we can no longer fathom a real threat to our loved ones, our livelyhood, our liberty or our country.
How many ways does Obama and his ilk need to blatantly reveal their un-American and anti-American tendencies?
I’ll take the war hero with an uneven voting record ANY DAY.
And so should all Republicans.
Let’s unite and defeat them!
Republicans! It is time to form a cohesive group and nail it down.
Nothing is more pitiful than a fallen hero, and nothing more despicable than a champion who has vacated the field. John McCain and the Republican party represent that in spades.
When Republicans start acting like the House of Reagan, I might give them the loyalty they look for, but not as they are, and certainly not under the baleful glare of the despicable Mr. McCain.
Sorry, I'm obviously a little upset this morning.
Time for some prayer...
I think people need to get over themselves and understand that online, particularly in the comments of a post, people can express their opinion. Urging people to self-censor themselves on an online political message board kind of misses the point of online message boards.
Maybe you should take the lead by ceasing to call people who disagree with McCain on illegal immigration “nativists” and “fringers”. You come off as a hypocritical lackey otherwise.
There was a poll done before your arrival this summer that showed 92% of Free republic wanted another nominee instead of the one we got. This has never been a pro McCain board.
Ain't that the truth! The poster in question has come right out and said that he "can't wait until the party rids itself of you right wingers" and then comes on here spouting "unity", I guess that's only if we agree with his point of view. A newbie trying to tell everyone what they should think and suggests censoring our thoughts! Wants the admin moderator to censor anything bad said about McCain. Give me a break!
I see you came back and posted elsewhere this morning. Whatsa matter? Too chicken to come back to this thread?
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