Posted on 09/19/2005 2:19:08 PM PDT by gobucks
Your opinion of McCain is my opinion of you.
Stability is one of Senator McCain's strengths.
McCain if is the mental patient, IMO he is a complete disgrace to our party, I only hope the party has more sense than to put him up for POTUS, what a nightmare that would be if he made it.
The only one who I would consider worse is Hillery.
I disagree. McCain is not my first choice, but, if he is the nominee, I will support him unequivocally. He is so far superior to Hillary Clinton that voting for him is a no-brainer.
"RINO'S" have about 55% of the GOP vote in the polls, the true blues have next to nothing (25% collectively at most). Fancy that.
A majority on this site misunderstand what drives voting behavior, in both parties, but particularly the Republican party. They seem to think it is an ideological litmus test; it isn't, particularly when it comes to the presidency.
It doesn't excite me half as much as it does you.
I won't support either one unless there is substanatial and sincere movement to the right on social conservative issues.
You can count on it.
Pence is not on my radar sceen, and I am a political junkie. I barely know what state he is from.
Some of us like our conservatism hot or cold, not lukewarm, especially with respect to the presidency. Frankly, I don't know how you can quaff the tepid gruel you call a political philisophy without vomiting all over your tassel loafers.
My comment was on what drives voting behavior in numbers that matter, not your personal preferences, or for that matter mine. I think McCain is tempermentally ill suited to be president. If he falters, that will be the reason, not his views. Guiliani is my first choice, assuming he has a clean bill of health.
Then you can sit out the election and elect another Clinton. But, if you so much as stick your scrawny neck up in complaint against Hillary, I'll be on your butt like a diaper on a baby.
Guilani isa your first choice? Duck Torie... you're about to get blasted.
McCain's main problems -- he cares what MSM write and say about him and he thinks he's a statesman. He'd have to be a partisan to win the presidency.
No onyx, folks are very polite to me on this site, and treat me well, no matter my views. And I appreciate it. I don't get blasted, hardly ever, even when I sometimes deserve it. And so it goes. :)
And some that do I might add, I manage to defang, and we become friendly, as you know. I should have been a diplomat. :)
Both McCain and Guiliani campaigned hardy for GWB. I will always remember that.
Indeed. I have seen some dust ups...lol.
Explain how McCain changes positions so rapidly!
Sometimes, you have to negotiate with the liberals and other politician's ideas. McCain has the Reagan quality of working with both sides of the aisle. No 2 politicians agree 100% of the time.
Guiliani gave the best speech I have ever had the pleasure to listen to at the convention. You remember that tour de force don't you? The guy has real talent at that. And during the Katrina sloooows, I kept thinking about that what we needed was Rudy, up close and personal.
You know, with GW appointing Clinton to the Katrina relief effort, only to be trashed by Clinton, I think that I might agree with you!
Unforgettable speech and it came so naturally, as though he were merely speaking to a small group of people. I think the world of him, but realize his abortion and gay views are not in step with RWR's GOP.
WOO-HOO! My Drew Bledsoe just threw a dandy.
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