Sure thing. Will do.
Not.
Posted on 03/04/2008 7:56:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, I’m sure there will be hundreds of calls for conservatives to vote for Ron Paul as a protest vote against McCain. Yep, that’ll happen right after juniper berries grow out of Obama’s ears. God forbid anyone vote for Paul, an actual conservative, to send a message for conservatism—though ‘sending a message’ through that hack Huckabee, that was just fine.
Sure thing. Will do.
Not.
“Roundabout that time we’ll see the GOP rediscover its moral compass in time to retake Congress in 2010.”
You’ve reiterated the conservative conventional “wisdom” of course. And it’s possible this scenario will play out as you stated it. After all, the voters elected a Republican congress in ‘94, right?
However, as you no doubt know, the electorate re-elected Bill Clinton in ‘96, over Dole, even after living through fours years of Clinton’s first term, and even after witnessing the implementation of a major portion of the Contract With America.
I’m not at all confident Republicans can pull it off a second time. We’ll see.
Also, PFC Fouty and SPC Jimenez, who’ve been missing since May 12 07.
I don’t personally like McCain, but at this point, it seems I can choose between the frying pan and the fire. As a veteran and firm believer in the War on Terror, McCain appears to be the only viable choice.
It sucks, but we have to vote McCain and then bust our asses to get every conservative we can to run and win in the Congress and the Senate. Start the grassroots now for Huckabee to run for Pryor’s seat...with his cache, he can be a major pain in Pres McCain’s ass, in the Senate...at least on Social Con issues....
We can box McCain in with a muscular Conseravtive caucus in the house and Senate....its up to us to give him those who will obstruct his sell outs...
Just sayin is all....
AMEN....they are crazy.....end of discussion...when you go to vote...ask yourself this...who would bin laden fear...say what you want about McCain but there is no doubt, he wants Bin Laden swinging from a yard arm...like any other scumbag pirate.
I think you are overstating McCain’s problems -
“anti-gun,” he’s got a C from the NRA, and most of his anti-gun votes have not been of the ban-all-guns variety
“pro-embryo-harvesting,” a bad vote, but a consistently pro-life ethic and voting record otherwise. Also as research shows that adult stem cells are much more ‘promising’ this should become a non-issue
“anti-1st Amendment” yes McCain-Feingold was an attack on free speech, but I think his motive was to clean up politics, misguided as it was. We still have the Supremes and I understand most of McCain-Feingold was gutted.
He’s not as conservative as I would like but he is still a good candidate and will be a good president, I think.
“A vote for McCain is like voting for Obama or Hillary”
Tell that to our boots on the ground. How would they vote?
“McCain will pick up 5 independents for every hyperpartisan he loses.”
I hope you are right and the polls seem to be indicating that you are.
“Now that McCain has the nomination, he will move even farther left.”
I predict he will move further right and we will see that reflected in his VP choice.
If he is as smart as I think he is.
The sound of a conservative giving up her principles. John McCain is an opportunist and a traitor—and so is anyone who votes for him.
“John McCain is an opportunist and a traitor—and so is anyone who votes for him.”
I can’t believe you would call me an opportunist and a traitor just because I intend to vote for McCain. Are all the military asking us to vote for him opportunists and traitors, too? That is really too much.
Conservatives make up 60% of the GOP.
Only 28% of all Americans voters identify themselves as Republicans.
That makes "Conservative Republicans" less than 17% of all American voters.
Although we may think it really sucks, the other 83% of America can and does vote.
Expecting a "Conservative Republican" to always win is simply not realistic in 21st Century America.
You may believe that you are pissed off at the "GOP" but you are actually pissed off at 83% of America.
You're not alone, man...you're not alone.
May I suggest that the two of you are more like a German Jewish voter in September 1930 who refused to vote for a viable party in order to stop the National Socialist German Workers' Party because it would be a cold day in Hell before you would "compromise your principles" and vote for a political party that did not agree 100% with you.
I suppose time will tell????
We have 140,000 troops in harm’s way.
Only ONE candidate running for president wants them to achieve victory.
None of them had a vote on Immigration. None of them voted on McCain-Feingold. They were sent to protect us by those we elected. NOw that they are there, some of you want to tell them you want them to lose because you didn’t find the perfect conservative??
A BIG reason I am supporting John McCain is he is the only candidate supporting our troops. PEriod.
McCain 2008
If you'd been less willing to label us kooks and more willing to actually do the research this wouldn't be any sort of a surprise. It's not to me. There are some excellent books on my about page for this if you want to catch up. Folks have denigrated and marginalized the conspiracy buffs for years. Yet now our predictions are all coming to fruition and folks act all surprised and outraged like we've not been trying to sound a warning for decades. Nobody who really understands the true power structure in this country and it's links to similar power structures globally is at all surprised by anything that has happened in this election cycle.
I have zero confidence that the true R's (are there really any left?) will mount an effective resistance to a RINO POTUS. I know my two Senators will fold like a cheap card table and will be standing side-by-side with "their friend form across the aisle", Ted Kennedy, at the signing of the Comprehensive Amnesty Bill.
I can't wait for the globull warming initiatives or the SCOTUS nominees who won't "wear their conservatism on their sleeves" being rubber-stamped in support of Our Party's Candidate. We are playing Russian roulette with an autoloader. The Republic is SO screwed.
If I may: Word.
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