I understand your point of view and in a way I agree with you.
EXCEPT:
“It’s time to vote for what semblance of conservatism we have LEFT and force the new President to move as far right as we can force him to go.”
But isn’t this what I did twice when I voted for Bush? I got two things for 8 years. Tax Cuts/Lower Taxes and 2 awesome Judges (and one was almost messed up). We will not get that with McCain NO matter what- He’s the “Maverick” and will completely IGNORE us the conservative base. I will not lie to myself to believe otherwise. We won’t get anything with McAmnesty. And we KNOW the Republican’s in Congress will not stand up to a Republican President. To deny that we have a problem, it is wrong. We do have a problem. But we all need to make sure we get all our Repub./Conservative friends to go out and vote for Congress/Senate (State and Fed.) etc. - at this point I don’t Care who wins the Presidency (and I will never vote for McCain - I can’t put my name on that) but I will work to get conservatives elected and to get everyone I know to go out and vote for them. That’s all we can do at this point. We will just have to agree to disagree about voting for McCain.
Yes and no it is what we’ve done.
Bush is still, regardless of what people are saying about him, a good President. He and the current administration has kept another 9-11 from happening here.
I believe he realized that it’s all well and good to kill terrorists on their own soil and a lot of the problems will stop, but I think he further realized that there has to be a fundamental change in the Middle East and it has to come from within, NOT from without.
Iraq is the one place that he can try to make those changes and hope they “stick”.
I don’t know WHAT McCain will do. I don’t think HE knows for sure what he will do about anything.
But - here’s the dilemma - What other choices do we have?
1) Obama
2) Clinton
3) Third Party
4) Write ins
5) Stay home and not vote.
6) McCain
So I can’t think of anything else, and yet there are people on this thread and others who are dead set against McCain, and I can’t BELIEVE they are all Conservatives with their heads up their rectums either. I have to believe there are a boat load of Dummie plants on this site shilling for anyone BUT McCain.
I never liked him much at all, in comparison to Thompson, or Hunter.
But, common sense will win out with me and I’ll vote for him in spite of the bad things you or others say because, well, look at the other five choices.
1) Obama? I don’t think so
2) Clinton? _ oh HELL no.
3) Third Party? That’s going to take votes from McCain and give them to the Dummies.
4) Write-ins? Sounds good in theory. But we all need to chose the SAME write-in and all the states have to accept write-ins, but they don’t.
5) Stay home? Gives votes to the Dummies.
6) McCain? Seems like, under the circumstances, it’s the LOGICAL, CORRECT thing to do.