Posted on 01/09/2008 8:11:46 AM PST by Perdogg
1) Vote for McCain
2) Vote Dims - Kevorkian vote
3) Don't vote
4) Third party?
McCain is no socialist. Not even close with that one. I don't particularly care for him myself, but I know that much.
But let's for a moment suppose that he WAS. And, from that perspective, think about what you wrote above....
There's an old saying. You may have heard it:
"He may be a son-of-a-b*tch, but he's OUR son-of-a-b*tch."
I suggest you think about that a while.
- John
If Hillary gets rid of one of the five FCC commissioners, and the replacement does her bidding in reinstating the fairness doctrine, what do you think anyone will be able to do about it? Sue her? Impeach her? No, she will have more power than you can ever believe. The Constitution and separation of powers will be turned on its head.
Don't presume to lecture me on what conservatives do and don't, n00b. I've lectured better folks than you on the topic.
Conservatives ... don't enable the election of troop-hating, wealth-redistributing tax-hikers by voting for them when they have the temerity to run for President as Republicans.
Here's a hint for you: Stop talking
Way to go, Josef. And what if I don't shut up and sit down? Hmmmm? Is it off to the Gulag with me?
As a non-Republican
I really wish conclusion-jumping was an Olympic Sport. Really. You'd guarantee the USA a Gold Medal it.
I wouldn’t expect McCain (or any of the other “top-tier” GOP candidates, for that matter) to nominate judges like Scalia and Thomas, but I wouldn’t expect them to nominate ultra-lib judges either. ....like Hillary or Obama undoubtedly would.
Absolutely NOT! - third party or write-in.
I haven’t yet given up on Fred getting the nomination.
I would vote for Romney, possibly Rudy but not likely. BTW, did you know Rudy was Mayor of New York City?
“Am I looking at this all wrong?”
No. You are not.
Those that say that we can get where we want to go by increments don’t seem to recognize that it works both ways.
Probably third party.
Are you going to keep running totals? :)
I can. I cannot do it now.
Oh, what a “compasionate conservative” you are.
Seeing things in absolutes, us vs. them in my opinion is not the best approach. Not all things are black and white, not all conservatives are party line voting, ad Hominem spewing Republicans.
Rudolph Giuliani was Mayor of New York? No kidding?
The Mike Huckabee & John McCain tag team gives me the creeps. One is utterly stupid, the other is crazy and together they will plot to open the borders wide open and declare amnesty.
Whatever happened to the ~92%?????????????
You’re not going to bait me into a fight. I have more important things to do. Like fighting Hillary.
"Pushing back" is only talk. It's essentially a threat, or promise, not to vote for the bugger if he does the thing you oppose, or doesn't do the thing you favour.
What happens when he goes against you ... and then a year or two later, you go and vote for him anyway?
Seems to me, you lose your credibility. Will your "push back" do any good then? Or will the politicians correctly view it as mere empty posturing?
I'll never vote for McRino, the author of Campaign Finance Reform and leader of the removal of our 1st Amendment Rights....among other things.
I’m with Ayn Rand on this. Let people experience the consequences of their actions - in this case the consequence of voting socialists into office. Then maybe we can get back to Constitutionalism.
We have already lost the America we are all here defending. We are so far to the left of center today that our great-grandparents wouldn’t recognize this country. It will take a major restructuring/paring of government to get us out of this hole.
We have a choice of sliding into socialism with RINOs, or getting there more quickly with the Dims. I don’t see the difference, because in another generation, with the socialists running the curriculum in public schools and the left-wing social consciences represented by the likes of Huckabee, we will have no conservatives left in our young and we will see a permanent democrat majority in our lifetime.
In any case, in a decade or two, entitlements in the form of Medicare/SS and the Boomer generation will totally engulf us and we will look like Russia. Before that, the problems in the world financial systems, the WOT and illegal immigration/amnesty will clean us out, and we will be a pale husk of what we were.
I just don’t see any benefit to McCain, other than that he hasn’t enriched himself at the public trough ... since the Keating 5.
The war, SS, abortion, 2nd Amendment, immigration, and any of the other issues facing the country are secondary to SCOTUS appointments. IMHO.
I agree - except that I feel our very freedoms rest on both the SCOTUS and winning the WOT - which we won't if we let the Communists/Islamist collusionists in
I will vote for anyone if it is vote against the beast!!!!!
Sorry, just can't vote for crazy people to be in charge of the Nukes.
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