If you think its bad now, how about then
American Covenant Seminar 2.5
Posted on 01/13/2007 1:56:54 PM PST by Reagan Man
If the Nov 7 stay at home Republicans had gotten of their lazy asses and voted we might very well not be in this mess.
Over the last six years Pres Bush, a social conservative btw, and other powerbrokers in the GOP Congressional leadership moved the GOP leftward on domestic policy. Fiscal conservatives did't like it and for most part, social conservatives didn't like it either. You see, most social conservatives are by nature supportive of fiscal conservatism. Conservatives in general didn't support the leftward shift that Bush has accomplished on domestic issues since taking office. Bush`s liberal spending habits, his expansion of the federal bureaucracy, enlarging the welfare state with his "free" drugs for seniors, doubling the education budget and promotion of liberal immigration reform, AKA. amnesty, has turned off most conservatives.
Think about it. Why do you think Republicans were handed such an historic loss on November 7th 2006? Bush, Frist, Hastert and the rest, ignored their conservative base, and the GOP paid the price. If Bush&Company hadn't ignored their conservative base, Republican candidates who lost might have been able to better weather the gathering storm over Iraq, and held onto power. Instead, the entire GOP leadership failed their constituency and the Democrats won.
Unless Republicans want to see the same results in 2008, that we had after the 2006 election, ALL conservatives best wake up and get behind the best candidate available. Right now ALL the candidates who are in the top tier have questionable records. Only Newt Gingrich represents Reagan conservatism. And that northeast liberal, Rudy Giuliani, is not the answer either.
Baptist Ping
McCain may be Republican, but he's no conservative.
bump
Again, there would be no conservative Republican party without the Evangelicals. Pure and Simple!!
None of those is one whit worse than McCain.
Actually, my views encompass all of the Republican categories that are actually conservative. :-)
ok
If it's Giuliani or McCain vs. hillary clinton in '08 and you vote 3rd party or sit out the election, you will be placing a de facto vote for hillary clinton. Period.
To think otherwise is delusional.
To fail to think through the consequences of placing a de facto vote for hillary clinton is smugly self-serving.
Ironically, it is also self-defeating.
You may not care that the clintons were the proximate cause of 9/11. You may not care that the clintons rape and otherwise abuse power.
But I suspect you care about your religious freedom... in which case I can only assume those of you on the Religious Right who, like Dr. Dobson, would so cavalierly place a de facto vote for hillary clinton simply aren't aware of her view of Evangelicals... or her plans for them....
It would be wise to educate yourself about what the clintons think of you and what they intend to do to you before you so nonchalantly place that de facto vote for the lovely couple.
WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT MUST MOBILIZE AGAINST HILLARY:
CLINTON CONFLATES EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMO-FASCIST TERRORISTS
AFTERWORD: A Note to the Religious Right
JIM TOWEY DEBUNKS KUO BOOK
BOOK ANOTHER CLINTON-SIMON SCHUSTER MACHINE EFFORT
TO MARGINALIZE EVANGELICALS, SUPPRESS TURNOUT
What's black and white and read all over and is more self-destructive than pre-9/11 thinking?
Pre-clinton thinking, that's what....
Putting doctrinal purity ahead of making sure a defective and dangerous clinton never again controls this country is pre-clinton thinking.
We no longer have the luxury of time or circumstance to massage our sensibilities, to indulge our indignations.
We will not survive another clinton. (We may yet not survive the first one.)
Nonsense. Right now it appears that either Edwards or Saddam Hussein Obama will beat Hillary.
Lo, how the mighty have fallen.
I'm not going to let the hatred and fear of a Hillary Presidency force me to vote for a McCain or Giuliani under any circumstances. It is up to the Republican Party to nominate a uniting candidate to defeat the Democrats, not blackmail us into voting for a compromise liberal RINO.
I believe he claims to have said these things, but I don't believe he actually said them. Sort of like how DUmmies make up stories about their encounters with FReepers or some random right wing person.
I don't give a Godd**n. I hate mccain with every fiber of my being as much as I hate hillary. I am from TN so I know the clinton bloodsuckers before the rest of the country did. If the Rebulican party picks mccain, they are committing election suicide.
I am not alone in this feeling. Continuing to stick your head in the sand will not make mccain any better. I refuse to be held responsible for the stupidity of the Republican party any longer. I have done my bit in my 45 years on this planet. I have always been a Republican. I voted for President Reagan in 1980 with my very first vote at 19 years old. I voted for Corker in TN in 2006 (who was not my first choice) and he won the only close contest for the Republicans in the Senate.
But NOTHING in this world will get me to vote for mccain. Not even a suitcase full of cash. Can I make this more clear?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.