Posted on 02/04/2008 2:39:42 PM PST by joeclarke
Yet, if he is the Repub's candidate, please, give me the strength to vote for him.
Yes, Senator McCain is better than Hillary and Obama, but has our country slidden so far left that we can do no better than this Bob Dole redux?
The NY Times loves him. Arnold loves him. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe love him. Talk about bad company. The past performance of John McCain as war hero does not indicate his future success as President of the United States.
Unfortunately, as a former Catholic and long time Bapticostal, I was mostly taught that Mormonism was a "cult." This undoubtedly hurt Mitt right out of the chute. The more, however, I delve into the doctrinal intricacies of some non-Mormon denominations, they could also be accused of doing some really weird things which I will not go into now. Would Romney bring these cultic(?) practices into the White House? Would hidden holy underwear be a great bother to his performance? Bill Clinton brought in a whole lot more in the form of his bacchanalian rituals which provoked incoming President Bush to fumigate and replace carpeting. Its fair to assume, though, that Clinton was a Bino - Baptist in Name Only. Could Romney, as has been taught by my fellow fundamentalists, really be Satan's representative? I think not, and the more I compare Romney with the Episcopalian turned Baptist (he has not been fully immersed, yet, which is obviously very important to Baptists) McCain, old Mitt is looking much better.
As of now, on the eve of Super Tuesday, I am in Mitt's corner, and not because of the shrill, super conservatives who have been boring me to death on talk radio with the McCain badgering.
Scariest of all - McCain has pledged to "reach across the aisle" to Democrats. What, the Dems can never reach across to Republicans? John McCain has too many negatives on immigration, taxation, freedom of speech retarded by McCain-Feingold, objections to oil drilling in Alaska, hoodwinked by the global warming scare tactic people, treating terrorists like "average American Joes" in Gitmo and elsewhere, allowing Dems to deter judicial nominees, and Clintonesque temper tantrums.
Despite his foibles, I generally have liked John McCain for his heroism and so-so conservative voting record. [I would take anyone over Hillary and Obama at this point]
Let this cup of John McCain for president pass, oh Lord. Amen.
Amen.
Slide. Slid. Slud...as Dizzy Dean used to say.
John McCain is most assuredly not "Bob Dole redux".
Bob Dole was a loyal Republican who would've signed any conservative legislation that a GOP Congress sent him.
John McCain can't be counted upon to do that. He is neither loyal, nor trustworthy...nor conservative.
Give me Bob Dole everytime.
Can’t we just have nobody for four years or so. The empty chair is better than any choices we are offered.
Just put an automated veto machine on it and we’ll be way ahead than with any of the candidates offered to us.
Maybe two houses of empty chairs in Congress, too.
The only way that things won’t get much worse.
It is in God's hand.
Also a side note to McCain supporters:
You are my enemy.
Hear hear!
et Cum Spiritu Tuo, I love the Secular Messianistic Cults that surround our political leaders. Who needs Jesus? (sarc)
Maverick Juan McPain
With credit to Paul Shanklin on Rush and the continual inspiration of Doug from Upland
Who is that nut case Senator?
Maverick Juan McPain!
Taking the country who-knows-where
Schmucks are his supporters,
Wants to run the show!
Nuts as dingbat, that’s for sure,
Maverick Juan McPain.
Has a head full of wild hairs,
Stuck right up his rear end,
He wants to make his name!
The Constitution can go to hell,
And we’ll lose the Congress as well,
Juan is a nut who loves himself the best!
With a spirit petty and mean,
Calls conservatives extreme,
He appeals to the center of the left!
And as far as we can tell,
The country will go to hell,
Juan is a fool who loves himself the best!
Treats conservatives with disdain,
Certifiably insane,
His politics are the center of the left!
Maverick’s not the name that fits him best!
Thy will be done.
AMEN
I will not vote for McCain, period.
now you've got your feet on solid ground, eh?
...You are my enemy...
And the enemy of conservatism as well.
Yeah, pray that the member of an anti-Christian cult gets the nomination. I'm sure that is a prayer the Lord will honor!
You took the words out of my mouth. Bob Dole ran a poor campaign and made a number of strategic errors in judgment. But he was a decent guy and a real conservative, if not the best one on the block.
McCain is an egotistical madman.
AMEN
AMEN
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