Posted on 01/28/2005 8:23:00 AM PST by crushkerry
Let's worry about getting through this Presidency first. We need to keep the GOP on track and turning the campaign promises into realities.
Why we are worried about 2008 I'll never know. McCain could be dead for all we know by 2008...
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Amen brother! The BIG JOB is right now. Iraq, our borders, illegal immigration, a jaundiced eye on China, taxation..etc,etc. Screw McCain -- he is not a conservative, and as far as I am concerned, he is NOT a Republican. He is whatever he has to be, to get into the White House, his ultimate aspiration, which really makes him no different that John Kerry or Hitlery Clintoon, excepting the apparent lack of radical Marxism and his experience.
Let's get on with TODAY running America!!! I agree.
All McCain has going for him is incredible name recognition. It's too soon to rule in or out any good conservative candidates to run against him, but there will inevitably be some, and one of them will beat McCain in the primary, just as W did in 00. A sizeable majority of GOP primary voters will flock to the first decent conservative who emerges as McCain's opponent.
<"I suspect, too, that some equivalent of the Swift Boat group might finally stand up and say what military people really think about him after his betrayal of the POW/MIAs, not to speak of other problems.">
This is true. Last time he snuck by on this. He did not help himself by attacking the Swift Boat folks. My quess is his war record will be an issue, if he runs.
As people have said many times before, the problem with Condi is the abortion issue. She's great in every other way, but that would sink her, unless she can really and persuasively change her position to pro-life.
I know that's only one issue, but it's an absolutely basic issue. It would undermine and possibly destroy the Catholic/Evangelical coalition that GW Bush has managed to build and that is essential to preserving our current momentum.
If she came out with a strong and heartfelt pro-life statement, I would consider switching my views. After all, many Democrats who were pro-life all their lives switched over to abortion and stuck by it for political reasons. She's a decent lady, and maybe she can be made to see the realities of this issue, both moral and political. But it would have to be a real switch, because there are widespread, deep suspicions of the Republican Party on this issue, and they simply can't afford to lie to their base yet again.
I think McCain will be a little old in 2008. Equally worrisome is the health issue. The re-occurence of the cancer on his face required major surgery.
I agree wholeheatedly with your policy differences with McCain. Too buddy-buddy with some egregious leftists such as J. Effin Kerry. And there's that Keating Five ghost in his past which might make for a whopping October Surprise.
I don't think she has a chance in hell of winning any nomination. They will look at her and wonder whether they want a completely unelectable candidate.
Like I said, George Allen. McCain is widely despised, just like Hitlery.
There will be OTHER conservatives running for Prez in '08--they just won't be Republican (they will be TRUE conservatives). The Constitution Party, Independent American, & other conservative parties will have candidates. Oh, yeah....& so will the Libertarian Party!
A vote for Democrat? Come on!!!!!! You can't be serious!
I agree with you from top to bottom, except that Hitlery will not be the Rat candidate. She is unelectable.
I'll vote for whoever the Democrat is over McCain.
I'd rather have an enemy whose behavior I can count on than an ally I can never trust.
McCain would be pro-gun control, he is already anti-free speech (McCain-Feingold), pro-illegal immigrant, pro-UN, pro-socialist, and (not least of all) he's almost as pro-Democrat as Jim Jeffords.
If the USA will elect George Bush then we do not have to put up a traitor like McCain to attract Democrat voters.
We need a REAL Republican in the 2008 race.
John McCain is not a real Republican and he proves it every time he opens his mouth.
I'd like to see a groundswell of support for former Rep. J.C. WATTS begin to take shape, especially in this early stage of Pres Bush's 2nd term. Methinks he'd be an EXCELLENT choice.
Does anyone know Kyl's feelings on immigration? For example, did he support the initiative to restrict benefits for illegals?
I've never been impressed with Allen. Don't know why exactly. He's just not very exciting.
In 2008, people will not be looking for "exciting."
They'll be looking for peace and stability and boringness.
Being a constitutionalist, I'm gonna vote 3rd party regardless if it's Hillary vs. McCain, but if that really is the matchup for '08, I wish that others would follow along w/ me. DON'T vote for a RINO (McCain), & DON'T vote for a socialist (Hillary): find some TRUE conservatives, who will in all likelihood will not be in the GOP until the GOP becomes a conservative/pro-American party again.
"We need a real Republican in the 2008 race".
NO, we need a real CONSERVATIVE in the 2008 race...& the GOP is locking the door so they can't enter.
I hope the GOP is reading FR: I am NOT going to vote for a mushy Reep.
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