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VANITY - If not McCain, whom to vote for?
2008 May 10 | PugetSoundSoldier

Posted on 05/10/2008 6:24:02 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier

So many FReepers lately are insistent on saying they won't vote for John McCain for President, and love to give their laundry list of why.

OK, so you've said who you WON'T vote for. How about now saying who you WOULD vote for? What do you plan to do with your Presidential vote this November?


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PLEASE DO NOT LIST WHY YOU WON'T VOTE FOR ONE OF THE CANDIDATES, LIST WHY YOU WILL VOTE FOR YOUR CANDIDATE.
1 posted on 05/10/2008 6:24:02 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I will vote for Ronald Reagan, because he’s a true conservative.


2 posted on 05/10/2008 6:24:57 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Who's worried about the Bolsheviks? They couldn't be worse than the Tsar!)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Hell, just vote for me.

I’m running on a reinforced platform.


3 posted on 05/10/2008 6:25:41 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I’ll hold my nose and vote for McCain because anything else will be an act that supports Baraq Hussein or Hillary Rodham.


4 posted on 05/10/2008 6:27:42 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Just write in Ted Danson for the hell of it.


5 posted on 05/10/2008 6:27:47 PM PDT by SIDEWALKING
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
I would/will vote for Margret Thacher. It is a difficult question because I do not like the choices but the thought of Barry being the president will force me to vote Republican no matter who it is.
6 posted on 05/10/2008 6:28:58 PM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

How’s None of the above sound.


7 posted on 05/10/2008 6:29:24 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I am NOT gogin to pull any lever for president, but I will vote (R) across the board for congress


8 posted on 05/10/2008 6:29:27 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Since I consider National Security more important than anything else, I will vote for McCain. Yes, I hate his stance on immigration, but the large war on terror must be won.


9 posted on 05/10/2008 6:30:40 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: svcw

You’re not too far off on that. I’d vote for Boris Johnson the new conservative mayor of London.


10 posted on 05/10/2008 6:30:40 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I’ve already voted this year for an acceptable candidate.


11 posted on 05/10/2008 6:32:17 PM PDT by InMemoriam (This year, your prayers will do more good than your vote.)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I will likely write in Ronald Reagan for POTUS, or possibly leave that race blank. But No Juan McWhacked No How.

I will vote on all down-ticket races and issues.


12 posted on 05/10/2008 6:33:00 PM PDT by webschooner
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Aint it spoda be “who”...?


13 posted on 05/10/2008 6:33:20 PM PDT by t1b8zs
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To: SIDEWALKING

Waste your vote richard head


14 posted on 05/10/2008 6:34:01 PM PDT by t1b8zs
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Kermit the Frog.


15 posted on 05/10/2008 6:34:34 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Janice Rogers Brown.


16 posted on 05/10/2008 6:35:10 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Ron Paul still has my vote. I’ve explained my reasons for favoring a small-government man umpteen times.


17 posted on 05/10/2008 6:35:10 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: t1b8zs

It was a joke.


18 posted on 05/10/2008 6:35:20 PM PDT by SIDEWALKING
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I’d vote for my neighbor, my plumber, anyone at my church.....
...vote for any of my four kids!


19 posted on 05/10/2008 6:35:51 PM PDT by Doctor Don
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I’ll be voting for Alan Keyes in November.

And yes, he will be on my state’s ballot as an independent.


20 posted on 05/10/2008 6:36:27 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Politics is in the truest sense the business of the citizen." - Alan Keyes)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Admin Moderator


21 posted on 05/10/2008 6:38:16 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I was honored to be just one person in the procession that walked past President Reagan’s casket as his body laid at rest at the Reagan library in California. The line was six hours long but we waited in respect and no one complained. I met some wonderful California people as we waited. We waited in a Junior College parking lot in a line that wound around the parking lot and the campus to the spot where we would catch the shuttle to the library.

So called dignitaries would show up and jump the line to get on the shuttle while the rest of us waited. The dignitaries included movie actors and Presidential Wannabes like John Kerry. There was one actor in front of me who stood in the line for the same amount of time as the rest of us to show his respect without jumping the line. His name was Tom Selleck.

If we are going to dream up impossible candidates, lets give this guy some consideration.


22 posted on 05/10/2008 6:39:18 PM PDT by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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To: SIDEWALKING

So was the Wall Mart dork and look what happened


23 posted on 05/10/2008 6:39:32 PM PDT by t1b8zs
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
I will vote John McCain, God willing I live that long.

Who are you voting for Soldier? Are you active or retired?

Thank you for your service to our country.

God Bless

24 posted on 05/10/2008 6:40:09 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Ann Coulter


25 posted on 05/10/2008 6:40:26 PM PDT by Crazieman (Vote Juan McAmnesty in 2008! Because freedom abroad is more important than freedom at home!)
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To: t1b8zs

That was uncalled for.


26 posted on 05/10/2008 6:42:42 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: w1andsodidwe

Same here, Obamao as CINC turns my stomach with apprehension, and Ron Paul didn’t make it, so that leaves Mad John, and he “knows” National Security at least and is a budget Hawk.

Obama is NRA-ILA rated as an “F” folks, with a Dhimmicrat Congress with large majorities, that is not a risk we should be willing to take with the 2nd amendment.


27 posted on 05/10/2008 6:43:16 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I will give my vote to Ron Paul if a better alternative conservative candidate is not put forward by then.

The reason I will give him my vote is because of his unwavering support and defense of the US Constitution.

That being said, Ron Paul was pretty well near the bottom of my list when the primaries started. Dead last was John McCain.


28 posted on 05/10/2008 6:46:06 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Xenalyte

Grudge votes piss me off


29 posted on 05/10/2008 6:46:30 PM PDT by t1b8zs
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

McCain — Only for the troops.


30 posted on 05/10/2008 6:46:37 PM PDT by OSHA (framing it as though you've magically neutralized any potential negative eventuality)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

ACU Ratings:

Lifetime Rating / 2005 Rating
John McCain 83 / 80
Hillary Clinton 9 / 12
Barack Obama 8 / 8

I am voting for John McCain.


31 posted on 05/10/2008 6:46:49 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: t1b8zs

So go be pissed off, as is your right, but it’s tacky to take it out on people here.


32 posted on 05/10/2008 6:49:56 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Xenalyte
another self appointed moderartor
33 posted on 05/10/2008 6:51:29 PM PDT by t1b8zs
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

“So many FReepers lately are insistent on saying they won’t vote for John McCain for President”

I just knew I wasn’t alone.

BTW, Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party. No, he will not likely win but if you aren’t going to draw a line with the lib/RINO/Repube party THIS year with THIS horrible nominee, then WHEN? Just how bad of a nominee do you have to be facing before you say ENOUGH!??! Before you say, “I am going to pick up what shreds of dignity and principles that I have left and I am out of here!??!

WHEN?


34 posted on 05/10/2008 6:52:07 PM PDT by Grunthor (McCain voters believe that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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To: w1andsodidwe

“Since I consider National Security more important than anything else, I will vote for McCain. Yes, I hate his stance on immigration, but the large war on terror must be won.”

“It is absolutely ludicrous to say we are fighting a war on terror half way around the world when we refuse to secure our borders and ports.”

-Chuck Baldwin


35 posted on 05/10/2008 6:54:43 PM PDT by Grunthor (McCain voters believe that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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To: t1b8zs

Not at all. Self-appointed etiquette maven, yes. Mod, no, since I have no power. But it’s sweet of you to think that, bless your heart.


36 posted on 05/10/2008 6:55:52 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Check out Bob Barr monday when he announces.

I preferred Fred Thompson, but I'll take another look at Bob.

37 posted on 05/10/2008 6:56:46 PM PDT by msnpatriot
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

It is none of your business.


38 posted on 05/10/2008 6:57:29 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Call me polyannaish but I believe that the stakes have become SOOO high with the arrival of Obama and his ruinous stealth anti-Americanism that there won’t be that many neither candidate-third party voters left.

I just don’t buy the comments by some in this forum.

There will be ONLY those voting FOR Obama and everyone else who will vote McCaine by default when they grasp what’s at stake by allowing Obama to get into White House.


39 posted on 05/10/2008 7:00:32 PM PDT by parisa
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I will not vote for Obama and Hillary, both baby killers. Will vote for McCain because at least, he is pro-life. I do think he will change his tune on embryonic stem cell research.

Prayers for him to do just that.


40 posted on 05/10/2008 7:02:08 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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There will be ONLY those voting FOR Obama and everyone else who will vote McCaine by default when they grasp what’s at stake by allowing Obama to get into White House.

I agree, the last thing anybody wants in another Jimmah Cahtah.

41 posted on 05/10/2008 7:02:12 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: t1b8zs
I will most likely vote for Chuck Baldwin of the constitution party as a protest vote against McCain.

McCain has in recent years:

  1. attacked the first amendment with the McCain Feingold bill. That bill, by design gives incumbents a great advantage over challengers.
  2. was part of the gang of fourteen that prevented a rule change in the senate and ensured that only a handful of judge nominations would be brought to the floor for a vote while the vast majority would never be seated.
  3. adamantly supported the amnesty bill to weaken US sovereignty and keep our southern border open to the invading force form Mexico, drug traffic and terrorists.
  4. has been more friendly with Ted Kennedy than conservatives.
  5. has been spineless on moral-social issues and in general leans toward a socialist federal government.

He is closer to Ron Reagan Jr. than to Ronald Reagan the leader. Conservativism is a three legged stool and McCain's stool has only one leg. That is one more leg than BH Obama or HR Clinton, but I do not believe conservatives can be this flexible.

I do believe a protest vote is in order, even if it gives the White House to a Marxist. Under McCain no one would oppose the march to socialism. With a democrat in the oval office - the Republican party would fight tooth and nail opposing the president, who would be ineffective and a single term president. The Republican party would repent of running to the center and would once again run on conservative principles not "compassionate" conservativism.

If McCain's running to the center successfully results in a big win, it will be decades before conservatives regain influence, by then it will be too late. If Republicans do not repent of their run to the center (left) then there in little hope for the future of the republic and the future of liberty on planet Earth.

42 posted on 05/10/2008 7:06:08 PM PDT by DaveyB (Land of the taxed and home of the slave)
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To: org.whodat

I’m voting McCain. National Security and the thought of this country with a Pres Obama makes me want to throw up.
People that waste their votes will be the first ones to cry when *it hits the fan. Make you Vote Count! (Even if you have to hold your nose).


43 posted on 05/10/2008 7:07:17 PM PDT by MarineMom613 (Appreciate Your Mom Extra this Mothers Day.! Life is too short. One day she won't be here...)
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To: MarineMom613
Make you Vote Count! (Even if you have to hold your nose).

BS, there will never be another day when I vote for what I consider the less of two evils. They both can go to He**.

44 posted on 05/10/2008 7:11:00 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Grunthor

Well, you won’t be alone in voting the Constitution Party.

:-)


45 posted on 05/10/2008 7:12:43 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Xenalyte

I’d like to see proof that voting for h im isn’t going to throw my vote away and give the other stupid candidates by the name of Hussein, and Shrillery a chance at the bit.


46 posted on 05/10/2008 7:13:41 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Xenalyte

I’d like to see proof that voting for h im isn’t going to throw my vote away and give the other stupid candidates by the name of Hussein, and Shrillery a chance at the bit.


47 posted on 05/10/2008 7:13:55 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

Micky Mouse.


48 posted on 05/10/2008 7:15:15 PM PDT by CapnJack
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To: Grunthor

The Constitution Party (as well as the Libertarian Party, BTW) is for quick withdrawal in the WOT, just like the Democrats are, and that’s a problem. A lot of conservatives also don’t agree with the Constitution Party with either their protectionist views on all trade issues and/or in their isolationist views on all foreign relations issues. Also, like it or not, people in general seriously need to see some true political inroads by the CP, by the LP, or by anybody else if they are ever going to truly become credible alternatives to both the Democrats and the Republicans, and, up to this point in time, nobody has truly become credible political alternatives to both major political parties.


49 posted on 05/10/2008 7:16:24 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Vote for conservatives AT ALL POLITICAL LEVELS! Encourage all others to do the same on November 4!)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier

I will vote against Obama or Hillary.

So that leaves McCain, in my mind. Third party candidates just split the vote.

Maybe if we can get enough down ticket wins, all will not be lost.


50 posted on 05/10/2008 7:20:19 PM PDT by berdie
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