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To: Cluster
Anyone who votes for McCain is not a Conservative.
4 posted on 02/12/2008 7:23:36 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Man50D

That’s not entirely true. Whether or not you are conservative is decided by your overall stance on the issues based on where the political center lies. Now, conservatives shouldn’t vote ofr McCain, but to say that anyone who votes for him is not conservative is, well...silly.


18 posted on 02/12/2008 7:27:00 PM PST by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: Man50D

Any chance we can get a Dunkin Dounuts political top 4.


20 posted on 02/12/2008 7:27:15 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule (I wish there was a baseball game on.)
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To: Man50D

I am a conservative and I will vote for McCain if my choice is Obama or Clinton. Simple math. Sorry he is not what I wanted on all issues but plain and simple, he will not be the liberals that will destroy this country.


26 posted on 02/12/2008 7:29:02 PM PST by Mere
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To: Man50D
You know, I'm with you on the FairTax (or a flat tax - I'd take either), but here I have to say you're wrong. If you refuse to vote for McCain, then you're going to elect a President Hillary! or President Obama. Something a Conservative would never accept.

McCain: 82% lifetime American Conservative Union rating
Obama: 8% lifetime American Conservative Union rating
Hillary!: 9% lifetime American Conservative Union rating

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.

"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.

"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

President Ronald W. Reagan

I think I'll agree with Reagan - I'll take the 80% with McCain rather than hold out for the 100% that is NO WHERE TO BE SEEN, and end up with an 8% Obama. THAT is the Conservative position.

63 posted on 02/12/2008 7:50:58 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: Man50D
I'm a conservative, and when he is nominated I'll vote for McCain. And you can pound sand.
70 posted on 02/12/2008 7:55:09 PM PST by JasonC
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To: Man50D

Doesn’t this article mean that McCain is responsible for the Republicans’ defeat this year?


125 posted on 02/16/2008 10:18:03 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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