There is no shortage of comments like that here on FR. But the data show otherwise. The following is from a recent Pew poll. (All numbers in the boxes are percentages.)
Posted on 02/01/2008 7:31:58 PM PST by Richard Kimball
Thanks.
I wouldn’t fault you for voting for McCain in the general election. But my prediction, based on all the policy positions McCain has been espousing antithetical to free-market conservative principles, showing deference to liberals when drafting legislation, is of a disastrous administration. I’d rather the inevitable disaster be pinned on a Democrat. If it’s McCain it will be pinned on all Republicans in general. THAT will be the destruction of the party for years to come.
I'm pondering that myself. Rationalization though it may be, my thought is that I would vote against Hillery or Obama and not for McCain.
Many conservatives have tried to avoid criticism of Bush because he was at least nominally Republican. They have been polite. If elected, I doubt that McCain will receive such consideration. Both the right and the left will be after him from day one.
This time I'm voting McCain, no matter what - I can't take another 8 years ...
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I know the coalition can't continue to hold together much longer when the ONLY reason we have to vote for Republicans is that the Democrats are so much worse.
That's my sense of all this too. They think they've figured out how to win without us. We'll see.
“This time, there is no leader”
On Wednesday night, at the debate, I saw in Mitt Romney a man who can lead. This may not be his year, but he has a future.
Mark Levin is another with leader potential. Not as a politician, but as an inspiring force.
Rush’s mission seems to have shifted from conservative leader to media warrior.
Just some thoughts. Thanks for the ping.
I will be one of them. I will do everything I can to elect a republican conservative opposition to obstruct this mentally unbalanced angry man
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“That’s my sense of all this too. They think they’ve figured out how to win without us.”
They are hedging their bets that security moms like me will hold their noses and vote McCain in November. They are correct.
I was a fan of Pat Buchanan’s for a few months. But it gradually became more and more evident that he was a nut case. In fact, I first began getting the clue when I had lunch with an associate editor of First Things around the time of the New Hampshire primary. I learned that they had looked at Pat. They were troubled by the accusations of antisemitism and went to their Jewish connections, who are not ADL types but sensible conservatives who work with Catholics and Protestants toward restoring religion in the public square. Not one of them was willing to support Pat, and it turned out that they were right.
I don’t think that can be said of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and James Dobson in their comments about McCain. They are NOT nut cases, although occasionally they can go astray (but Rush does so very seldom). What they have said about McCain, however, happens to be true.
If anyone is a nutcase here on the order of Pat Buchanan, it is McCain.
I liked a lot of the culture war speech, and didn’t think that was what hurt him. Over time, the racial overtones and the meanness just bled through. For a guy that has spent as much of his life on camera as Buchanan, he seemed to have no idea how to present himself in media to win people over. He did one photo op that didn’t get as much play, but in my opinion was as bad as the Dukakis tank moment. Someone had given him a rifle, and he put on some hat that looked like the one Walter Brennan wore in the old westerns. He always wore his pants too high, and he looked like a bootlegger from the Andy Griffith show.
On the plus side, if McCain is the candidate, win or lose, we've got an open field in 2012. McCain would be 76 by then, and he is NOT in the same shape that Reagan was at his age.
My first clue about Buchanan's anti-semitism was when he started talking about the middle East. Although he couched his arguments in terms of isolationism, it was obvious there were unstated reasons, and those reasons turned out to be problems with Israel, and that the problems went beyond politics.
Thanks for pinging my post to your list.
There is no shortage of comments like that here on FR. But the data show otherwise. The following is from a recent Pew poll. (All numbers in the boxes are percentages.)
This is factually incorrect. Turnout for conservatives was fairly high.
If voting were mandatory and John McCain were the only candidate on the ballot, I still wouldn’t vote for him.
Big deal...November is a long time away. I will never vote for McCain and neither will many other conservatives. They don’t need us, well let’s see how well they do without us.
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