Posted on 05/11/2008 10:34:05 AM PDT by AmericaTalks
If I had any doubts about whether to vote for John McCain in this year's presidential election, those doubts were laid to rest this past week when McCain sat down for an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. McCain solidified for me the fact that he is not a true conservative and not worthy of my support.
McCain proved that on some of the most crucial issues, he will let down a base of constituents that are looking for answers.
O'Reilly addressed the question of rising gasoline prices. Anyone with a brain in their head knows that only two things will help this nation break free of its dependence on foreign oil; drilling domestically while developing alternative fuel sources. But McCain is an environmentalist wacko who is opposed to tapping the supply of oil in this country because he wants to keep the land pristine. Utter nonsense.
On the use of waterboarding suspected terrorists for the purpose of gaining vital knowledge which would help prevent an attack on our soil, McCain is also opposed. Waterboarding has been successful in the past. It should not be discarded as a valuable tool in the war on radical Islam. As a matter of fact, other forms of torture should also be used. After all, these maggots are not part of an army. They are enemy combatants and are not covered by the Geneva convention.
The issue of illegal immigration was also covered in the interview, and once again McCain proved he's a one-worlder like George W. Bush who feels we should give amnesty to those who have broken the law to get into this country.
These things I just cannot abide.
We need a president who will work to round up the approximately 30 million illegals living here and ship their asses out. We need a president who will use whatever methods it takes to protect this nation from another terrorist attack, and we need a president who will break us free from the stronghold of OPEC by drilling in ANWR, North Dakota, and wherever else there is oil domestically.
John McCain is not that candidate, and I will not vote for him in November.
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Good thinking, that.
Great, don’t support McCain. And keep your checkbook handy, those higher taxes, and reparations for slavery will be paid soon after President Obama is sworn in. You should enjoy seeing America align itself with Syria, and Iran as our closest allies.
The political process is broken. McCain is as good as it’s going to get for a long time coming.
I’ve heard the strategy: “He’s the least of the evils, so vote for him.” Sorry. The Repubs better find an excuse to eliminate this clown and get a real candidate. Don’t worry, we conservatives are not children like the lefties. We won’t riot. We’ll just vote... instead of sitting this out. I’ll put in simple words so that our Club Repubs can understand: “THROW THE BUM OUT AND GET A REAL CONSERVATIVE IN THERE! NOW!”
Damn, we’ve lost Zublick!
Indeed, the list of “I told you so’s” will be long, very long indeed starting Jan of 09 and ending in Jan of 13.
Be prepared for 8 to 12 years of euro-socialist rule in this country, and 20-30 years of judicial activism on the Supreme court.
Perhaps he’ll vote for a third party candidate from the Libertarian or Constitution parties. That’s why I plan to do. You may do as you wish, but many of us are sick of making bad choices.
Foolishness. McCain is hardly our first choice.
But Obama is all these things and much, much worse.
We are truly the stupid party.
I'll take my chances with McCain. I think we can oppose him more effectively. That's the key to thinking about the next president. I think Obama will be even more destructive and much harder to oppose. Please reconsider.
Soooo... David Zublick
you’d rather see B.Hussein O. and his Marxist gang get in or (long odds) HRC get in.
Smart,.. NOT!!!
Anyone who says ANWR is off limits to drilling doesn’t understand the problems facing America and can’t be trusted.
So far McCain is failing to earn my vote.
McManiac is a jackass, not to be trusted under any circumstances, by anybody. The other 2 are worse.
Too late already a fait de compli. The US has been drifting
leftward for decades. Pick your poison, socialist death by
a thousands cuts ( McCain&liberalGOP ) or instantaneously
by Barry Hussein.
Aw sheez...
From my observation McCrazy has gotten completely off the Straight Talk Express and now seems to believe that flagrant and outright lying to his constituents, his Party, and to whomever he wants is totally acceptable because “it’s only politics”.
The man is of very bad character. I’d never vote for him.
yeah, i would much rather have obama picking judges and in control of our military. as much as i dislike mccain on a bunch of big issues, i can’t sit out and let obama win... to me, that is much worse
>>>>>McCain can be trusted on the war and better on taxes and judges than Obama
The last year has merely confirmed to me that McCrazy is a flagrant and enthusiastic liar. He no longer even cares when he’s caught red-handed, as he has been several times this year.
Citizens Against Government Waste
2008 Congressional Pig Book Member List
Clinton 296.2 million dollars in pork
Obama 97.4 million dollars in pork
McCain 0.0 NONE
McCain’s lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union is 83.
He has been ranked favorably by other conservative organizations: National Federation of Independent Business — 100 percent; Concerned Women for America — 100 percent; Family Research Council — 100 percent; National Tax Limitation Committee — 94 percent; Citizens Against Government Waste — 91 percent; and the National Taxpayers Union — 88 percent.
Apparently not. :-)
But, hey, this is America. You may most certainly vote as you wish.
I heard the interview and I agree with you.
Then I hope you're happy with the Supreme Court picks Obama makes. They'll dominate the Court for the next 25-30 years and will turn the Constitution inside-out.
Exactly. McShame is a ‘Rat Socialist.
—to quote Ronald Reagan—”If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff”—
David Zublick needs to learn all that.
Somehow you believe that McLame is different that Hiltery or Osama.
Therein lies your mistake.
Don’t tell pugetsoundsoldier, he will start praising the 83% conservative rating of Mccain, like he has in the past few days of posts here, calling Freepers fringe conservatives that whine irrationally. I would have called him a DUmmy, but he has been here since 2004.
The pork thing has been debunked. McCain’s fellow Senator and House buddies cover the pork for AZ. McLiar is a fraud.
I’ll unenthusiastically vote for McCain, hoping for the best on two or three key issues, and fully expecting to get the back of his hand on all the others.
John McCain is not a a true conservative and not worthy of our support.
But of course, that is not the real question that needs to be answered. Can the USA survive 4 or more years of Barack Obama without lasting damage?
Hmmm. Good point.
Personally, I’d prefer an instantaneous death... as opposed to the suffering involved being long and drawn-out.
Which rules McCain out.
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However, I am not suicidal, so I will not vote for anyone wanting to ‘kill’ me - or our nation.
It’s a free country: You are certainly welcome to go into the sanctity of the voting booth and vote third party or write-in Daffy Duck or even Ron Paul, or not vote at all. But please don’t come crying to me a year from now because of your taxes going up to pay for reparations, Muslim indoctrination in your kid’s schools, and the martial law that President Obama declared after the gun confiscation riots.
Good one! The insanity of sitting out because McCain isn’t with you on 2 of your 6 hot button issues thereby electing someone who is against you on all 6 is mind boggling. This is irresponsibility at its zenith.
I think not.
New FR platform:
1) Send all our jobs to China.
2) Send all our money to Saudi Arabia.
3) Elect Obama.
I wouldn’t believe this, if I weren’t watching with my own eyes.
Sitting it out to not vote another Socialist is a great idea.
If McCain wants my vote he knows how to get it.
I trued to watch the same show and had to turn it off each night.
I am a conservative, we are our own base, not the RINO’s base.
We need to all trust in God to bring our country thru this.
Alrighty, just what would you suggest? Because we can have $5.00 gallon gas, 35 million "amnesty-Americans" that will promptly vote Democrat anyway, a government screwed health-care system, a empowered radical Islam faction, etc, from a Republican President or we can have all that loveliness from a Democrat President.
The thing is this. All three "candidates" are going to shoot for amnesty. As soon as that occurs two things will happen. Chain migration and amnesty-Americans voting for Democrats.
So, all this noise about Supreme Court appointments and taxes and rah, rah, rah, doesn't mean anything, it is going to happen.
I suggest you start getting ready for what will result.
The question is not where we will end up or how bad it will be, but who got us there.
If McCain succeeds, it will be the Conservative Republican Party who's policy guided America into the final disaster.
Mean Conservative Republicans who forced the oppressed heroic Muslim freedom fighters to detonate plutonium weapons in major American cities to demonstrate their commitment to freedom and honor, and awaken the ignorant population to the plight of the people oppressed by America all over the world.
Sadly McCain isn’t going to give us anything any better then the dems.
I'll take my chances with McCain. I think we can oppose him much more effectively. That's the key to thinking about the next president. I think Obama will be even more destructive and much, much harder to oppose because of his liberal base and his race.
Obama would support everything liberal that McCain would support plus usher in new hate crimes legislation, expand affirmative action, make nice with Hamas and Iran, pull out the troops too early, raise taxes significantly, empower unions so we can't compete overseas, greatly liberalize the liberal curriculum in public schools, and on and on.
The choice is between being very uncomfortable and an intolerable situation. It's going to take a lot of maturity and willpower for conservatives to vote for McCain but we're going to have to find a way.
Character. Absolutely.
I find McCain’s contemptuous.
But it beats starving.
Our country is screwed no matter which one wins the WH.
McCain will allow 30,000,000 new voters sign up as democrats.
This in turn will render it imposible appoint conservatives to SCOTUS.
This will also cause taxes to skyrocket to pay for all of the new immigrents.
No. America will not survive Obama, with a Democrat congress.
America will never be the same, again.
No. Absolutely not. And 4 years will turn into 8.
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