'W' – the only realistic choice for conservatives

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[He Rides A White Horse]

This leaves some conservatives wondering whether or not they should jump ship for a third-party candidate like Constitution Party nominee Michael Peroutka or even the Libertarian, Michael Badnarik.

That's not going to happen....

[Swanks]

Clinton gave us Ginsberg. Bush gave us Clarence Thomas. Think Thomas would have been nominated by Clinton?

R. Reagan G_d-rest-his-soul got us O'Connor who is more interested in keeping relations with Georgetown Libs that the US Constitution. George Bush .... is no Ronald Reagan.

[writer33]

Hey. I'm gonna be moving your way in about 2 months. And your right, you can change anything with Kerry in office.

[foreverfree]

bump

[dr_who_2]

No alternatives? Rubbish. Bush should concentrate on reassuring conservative voters so that they'll vote on election day instead of hunt for places to hide their life's savings.

[HitmanLV]

hey bub,

Freepmail me when you can so we can compare notes!

Adios!

[Swanks]

Bush will take care of conservatives next year! To prove it: when he needs us most at election time, he stacks the convention platform with [ZERO] speakers. Get the message? Guess what he will do for you, as a lame duck, four year Prez?

As someone aptly said here: My choice is between a party that wants to burn my house down this week, and a party that wants to burn my house down this year.

[duk]

VOTES, are not wasted!! We vote for the one that best represents us on all the issues. That said, Bush did not represent my conservative values, so I voted for the Constitutional Party candidate who did stand on principals I believe and would fight to defend.

Bush still does not represent me, does a vote for the C.P. mean I'm throwing the election to Kerry? No. I believe that those who are voting for Bush to keep Kerry out are wasting their vote! There is nothing easy about this election cycle. It won't get any easier if voters are not sending "THEIR" representatives to Washington.

ALL VOTES COUNT, that was the intent of our founders.

[MarcoPolo]

The real problem here is not with the few, but growing, numbers of conservative voters who dare to vote third party and vote on principle. The problem is with the majority of the conservative voters who don't either have the foresight or the guts to put their party preferences aside and vote for their convictions.

Everybody tells me that I'm wasting my vote because my candidate "can't win." But if they and all the others who agree with me on pretty much all issues would stop talking about defeat and dare to vote third party then a truly conservative candidate most definitely could win.

So long as we continue to vote for short-term victory over life-long, eternal principle we will continue the long, but hastening march towards socialism, communism and loss of freedom. And our descendents will blame the party yes-men, not the bold few.

God save the Republic.

[luvbach1]

Will it matter to the Conservatives who dislike Bush because he's a moderate?

Dems must really be the new Bolsheviks because they still consider GWB an ultra conservative (lol).

[Proud2BAmerican]

I recall a history professor, during U.S. History class, making the point that historically, third-parties generally succeeded in getting their issues incorporated into the party(ies) that defeated them.

That is, their individual candidates may have lost, but eventually their platforms won out.

[Wilhelm Tell]

We'll also have Supreme Court Justices retiring during that period which will affect the country for the next twenty years.

What will happen with the courts is extremely important, and not just the Supreme Court. A judge or Justice appointed by Republicans may or may not be a dissappointment. A judge or Justice approved by a Kerry Administration is sure to be a Marxist who will drive judicial activism to new levels. A Supreme Court with a majority dedicated to pushing a Marxist agenda would be the end of the Republic. With enough halfway decent judges and Justices, however, we will have at least bought some time, and we need all the time we can get to counter the effects of political correctness and postmodernism. If Kerry wins, the last vestiges of the rule of law will be shoved aside and the judicial activists and special interest groups will impose their will by Diktat.

[af_vet_1981]

Everybody tells me that I'm wasting my vote because my candidate "can't win."

I tell you the truth. If you do not vote for Bush/Cheney this November you are doing worse than wasting your vote. You are betraying this country.

[GailA]

It's something I don't understand. They want things better, but will sit home to punish Dubya, and let hanoi john make it 100 times worse, then when we do get a conservative in the WH again, it will take 100 times as long to fix the mess. GW has done a lot of good. Partial Birth Abortion ban, will go out the window with a stroke of the pen. It took us YEARS to get it. But some are willing to throw it away.

Sitting home got us slick willie for 8 long, long years. And look how much worse things are today than they were under Bush 1.

We got 9/11, the USS Cole, and many other terrorist bombings all because slick gutted the intel communities.

GW is a modeate with a Right of center view point. He is to the right on some issues, in the center on some. But does not go to the left on any.

People also forget he is the president of ALL, not just conservatives. So he has to do things to appeal to the middle as well.

You will never please the LEFT until pure marxism is installed.

After a few weeks of hanoi john, they'll be gripping big time about their loss of gun rights, the return of PBA, and the gays getting married in all 50 states and the increased taxes.

They are throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I don't like the border situation or some of the social spending, the military spending was a MUST.

But I sure as HECK would like what hanoi john would do to the USA even less.

We thought slick willie was bad, hanoi john is WORSE!

[Sofa King]

Here's the problem-

Letting the Republican party go left is hurting, not helping, our chances of getting our guys in office.

It's not just the far right that will vote for a third party over Bush, it's swing voters who will object to some of his polices and vote for the other guy. Take spending for example- Kerry will spend more than Bush. That's obvious. But deficit spending is not a strong position to be in, and Kerry can attack Bush for it (having no shame helps out). Kerry's record will never see the light of day as long as the left controls the media, so people who are to the right of Bush on this issue might wind up voting for a guy who is to the left of Bush on the issue.

RINO's do more than just help advance liberal ideas, they damage our party's credibility and make it harder to stand on our principles. There's a reason that Clinton (and now Kerry) pretended that he was more conservative than he was- it's because conservative values will slaughter liberal ones in a nation wide election. Liberal values no longer sway most of the public. That's why liberals have had to resort to lying and strawman tactics to stay in power. So, to win big, what we need to do is not just try to play to the middle, but to win the middle over to our side (the left is a lost cause). Liberals can play to the middle as well, so they have an equal chance if we do that- but not if we try to win over the middle. Liberal ideas can't do it. Strong conservative ideas will, as Ronald Reagan proved.

But, that's hard to do when your candidate isn't conservative enough.

So we're caught in a trap- do we want to win this election, or the next one?

[MarcoPolo]

Not so, sir. Not so.

If I vote for a man who stands for God, family and the Republic, then I count myself to have voted for the RIGHT man for the job. If I vote for a man who, believe it or not I actually like as a person, but puts politics ahead of what's right (a.k.a. the Medicare entitlement, amnesty for illegals, No Child Left Behind, allowing limited fetal stem cell research, etc.) then I count myself to have voted against my conscience and against what is right and best for this country.

It's not I who has deserted my country. It's those who vote RNC or DNC without regard to principle who have done so.

[Capitalism2003]

Bush has increased NON DEFENSE spending 12.5% each year he has been in office...After bragging abotu signing campaign finance reform, kennedy's education bill, a few hundred billion in increased farm subsidies, and a new $700 billion dollar medicare entitlement....no thanks.

The GOP has abandoned conservatives. They need to EARN my vote.

[Doohickey]

Bush 41 sealed his fate when he broke his "no new taxes" pledge. Bush 43, while I disagree with him on several issues, does what he says he'll do. You don't have to parse what he says to figure out what he means. That's why he gets my vote.

[Capitalism2003]

"Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, loops around in some universe of his own, in favor of disengaging the Federal government from all but its stated powers as enumerated in the Constitution" **GASP!!!**

[goldstategop]

Yep. Its Kyle Williams. He doesn't think Bush is a true conservative but John F*ckin' makes Bush look restrained by comparison. Its a choice between a milquetoast and and a Hard Leftist. When it comes right down to it, the answer's obvious. Conservatives who think there's an alternative to "W" are fooling themselves and with their votes would be helping the Left back into power just like they helped Clinton.