Great post.
Thanks for sharing.
My new mantra — You didn’t like McCain on immigration so you will like Hillary better? You didn’t like McCain on entitlements, so you will like Obama more?
McCain is conservative. So is Huckabee. Just not as conservative as we wish they would be.
I am a consevative, and I am voting for McCain. I will hold my nose.
I like the red herring displayed in your last sentence. Apparently we’re not real conservatives unless we accept every deceit, every deception, and every disrespect that POS has committed against us.
Nice.
Logical non-sequitur. 16 years is four Presidential elections. How was it that Bill Clinton (one of the savviest and corrupting political figures of the last half century) only managed to win 43% & 49% of the vote and could not get another Dem to succeed him?
The real lesson here is: We put up a Conservative and we win the White House. We put up something other than that and we lose. We nominate ‘the next guy in line’ and we lose. Lets take a look at the last 30 years.
Ford - Not Conservative - Loses
Reagan - Conservative - Wins!
Bush 41 - Not Exactly - Wins One - Loses One
Dole - Not Exactly - Loses
Bush 43 - Conservative - Wins!
(yes, Bush has many ethical lapses as a conservative but he didn’t campaign on any of them)
Oh, and anybody who says that Limbaugh is a windbag who just likes to hear himself talk is an intellectual poser and should not be taken seriously. Only the truly uninformed believe that conservatives are sitting around waiting for orders from radio hosts.
Thanks SO much for joining FR today, just to tell me how to vote!
Rather then try to build a bridge to Conservatives. McCainacs are running around screaming insults at everyone who questions their god.
That is not going to win him any votes. Conservatives have legitimate questions based on John McCain's record over the last 10 years. Screaming at them they HAVE to support McCain "because the other side is worse" isn't going to sell.
Senator McCain should go to the Senate and start picking fights with the Democrats on some key Conservative issues. Spending would be an easy one for him to fight on since he has TALKED such a good game. Actions speak louder then words.
He needs to show us he is willing to fight FOR us, not just against us. He has the time to build a bridge to Conservatives while Hillary and Obama slug it out.
Arrogantly demanding our support as his due is not going to work. We know his record. From our vantage point, a GOP Liberal pushing a $ .50 a gallon gas tax hike isn't all that different from the Democrats.
Please let your co-workers at McCain headquarters know that vanity posts are frowned upon at FR, except in extreme circumstances...
IIRC, Dr. Dobson semi-”endorsed” Newt Gingrich after they talked, saying he would not have a problem with him as a candidate. Gingrich estimated that it would cost about $30M to mount a serious campaign and could not get a commitment, was told by many he “had too much baggage”, “could not win”, to “shut up” and to “go home”, so he went.
Fred Thompson also jumped into the race about that time, without Gingrich’s fire or passion, but also without money. Then again, money didn’t buy Romney candidacy (he also seemed to lack a spark plug to inspire the GOP), but for entirely different reasons and he came much closer to winning it than most seem to recognize now (see excellent analysis of candidates and strategy by Michael Barone in OpinionJournal.com “Open-Field Politics” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966312/posts )
GOP is not called Stupid Party for nothing, and we failed to improve it this year because we were too fractured, with few well-financed real conservatives and/or leaders or looking for someone who, we are told, “could win”. Never works, not much different from 2006 or 1996. Stupid Party doesn’t learn from its own mistakes and takes down few people who could be its leaders in favor of those “who can win”.
His political character is, and his gut instincts.
And his instincts to work with and work for the Dims and the NYT, against his President and his party for the last 8 years, trashing them IN PUBLIC, for our enemies abroad, during WARTIME are unforgivable.
His flirting with Kerry for VP in 04 means his judgment was that Kerry would make a good CIC.
I will never participate in electing a man who gut and heart are with the UnAmerican Democrat Party, and the NYT enemy propaganda machine.
A silly article, not worth reading.