Posted on 01/10/2008 3:40:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson
“People that think McCain will support them on social issues are dreaming.”
General elections are often about defeating the evil of the two lessers. I’d have no enthusiasm for voting for John McCain, but he might get my vote against Bill-ze-Bubba’s wife.
Better than the alternative? Repeal of the First Amendment ... Throwing the borders wide open ... Attempting to kill gun shows ... Gang of 14 ... Opposition to tax cuts ... One of the Keating 5 ... horrendous temper.
He's not "better than the alternative" - he's not better than anything.
(1) Fred — the best! As a statesman he might end up comparing with Ike and Reagan.
(2) Duncan — a very good man.
(3) Mitt — great executive experience, a clean personal life, and could turn out OK, or even better than that.
(4) Rudy — a great NYC mayor, a tough leader for the WOT, and sticks to his unpopular positions.
(5) John — might appoint better judges than a Democrat, but he seems slightly nuts.
(6) Mike — Pardons any killer or rapist who yells Jesus, raises taxes instead of cutting spending, believes in a federal nanny state and the constitution be damned, wants to give tuition breaks to illegal aliens, uses the name of God to troll for votes, still soliciting wedding gifts after 20 years, supports a crackpot 30% sales tax scheme.
I’d vote for one through four. John is a maybe. Mike, no chance.
This is my order of preference exactly, and I will go right down the line and vote accordingly.
How did we get to this? It’s depressing.
Why isn’t there a true conservative who can communicate the values and issues we hold effectively? Reagan was before my time, but his nickname “great communicator” rings so true today.
Endorse McCain?
No sir. I’m with Thompson all the way. The question posed was if there were no conservatives in the race, which of the four RINOs would be best. Answer: none. Then I says to myself, well then, which of the RINOs could I choose to piss off most of the folks. Now that’s a tough question. Try ranking them from the bottom up. Oops, can’t be done. They’re all on the bottom. OK, which one could I live with as Commander-in-chief? Surely not Hillary or Obama. Or Rudy or Huckabee. Like I said, as far as I can tell, of the RINOs on the list only McCain has any experience whatsoever for the job. And I hate him and have sworn an oath never to support him or vote for him.
So there you have it. Without a conservative in the race, I endorse plan B. And that entails kissing my ass goodbye.
Pray for Thompson/Hunter!!
Use technology to replace the need for petroleum without downsizing vehicles to pregnant roller skates or castrating the engines as the paleos wish to castrate our military and you will not need to worry about gasoline prices. Temporary discomfort from high gas prices and heating oil prices make alternative technologies a LOT more likely. At that point, paleoPaulie's Islamofascist love objects can drink crude and eat sand in radioactive deserts for all I care.
Money is not everything and, if currency collapses, you never know whether we will repudiate international debt (which suggests that we would have a very hard time obtaining more borrowed funds making fiscal conservatism absolutely necessary and bankrupting Red China in the process). Likely the "fiscal conservative" bleating about 1920s Deutschmarks will prove as poor a prediction as usual.
"Green Party socialists" will be elected to Congress only if paleoPaulie's policy of autosmooch applied to Islamofascist butts becomes a lot more popular than one may realistically imagine. Shrimp may whistle and pigs may fly but you won't see the paleosurrendermonkey or any of his disciples in cowardice elected as a non-Demonrat POTUS on any ticket.
Republicanism is conservatism. Conservatism and Republicanism are NOT and never will be mindless cartoon libertarianism.
There is. Click on my screenname and you'll find lots of solid information. Especially, click on the pdf and read.
Everything you said is reality but your last line is the only sanity of it. Not your sanity, Jim, the sanity of the reality we face.
The Four Headless RINOs is a great metaphor. The choice between them is like choosing between disease, pestilence, war or famine. (pick your favorite disaster) And then there's Hillobama. I guess that's just the non-stop express ticket to hell. It's a real head scratcher. What do you pick the slow, medium or fast train?
Are you proposing we support Paul?
Yep, you stay home in Nov and when you want to bitch about Queen Hillary et al, Ill be laughing at you and your quest for purity my FRiend Don Quixote.
3. Mitt, and hope he turns out to be no worse than Bush 41, to whom I think he's roughly cmparable
4. Giuliani
5. McCain
6. Huckabee
Obviously JMO -- and choices 4 through 6 are are even further below "Mitt" than "Mitt" is below Fred. (It gets hard to tell the little dots 4-6 apart when they're so far from view.)
I say we just get a boat and go take over France.
You undervote and I’ll go hang some poor guy named chad.
I ain’t staying home but I ain’t voting for McCain, either.
Ronald Reagan SIGNED/GRANTED amnesty to every illegal when he was president. This is a fact. George Bush never signed an amnesty bill, although he certainly wanted to.
Who is more the RINO, GWB or Reagan, or are they equal RINOs?
Sounds like a winning plan to me.
Da**ed straight the paleopipsqueak ain't gonna be nominated since too many patriots vote to allow such an abomination. Since he has the pretension to make believe that he is either Republican, conservative or patriotic or all three (when he is quite obviously none of them), actual Republicans and conservatives and patriots (usually all three) get to have fun mocking the paleosurrenderman and his gullible followers.
No, but I'm saying he's bringing a lot to the table and it would be counter-productive to ignore or demean him.
I don't agree with some of his foreign policy views, like the fact that he doesn't recognize Islam for the evil it is and wanting to pull the rug out from under our troops. But on some of his other views, he's right. We don't need to be giving 3rd-world countries all of this foreign aid and we don't need to intervene in their affairs. Look what Bush is doing to Israel today, for crying out loud.
I’ve got a migraine.
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