It would be nice to have a true-blue conservative who could win and be an effective President, but that happens once a generation if we are lucky. We don't have that option in 2008. It's better to reflect on the harm all the recent Democrat Presidents have done: Kennedy (Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, overthrow of Diem, etc.), Johnson (Vietnam War, Great Society), Carter (Iran, malaise), Clinton (endless string of foreign policy blunders and domestic scandals, plus weakening the military and coarsening public life). Hillary bids fair to be the worst of the lot.
You’re making too much sense.
We are at war. Our obligation should be to the troops, to make sure that those who died in Iraq did not die in vein. That’s exactly what will happen if Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama become the next Commander In Chief. Remember who their constituents are - a kook Left base, many who WANT to see the US humbled.
Failure to complete the mission has come back to bite us. It emboldens our enemies. It did after Vietnam, and it did after Somalia.
I don’t like McCain’s campaign finance reform. I don’t like Rudy’s stand on abortion. But I know where both stand on Iraq and the War On Terror. And if either one of them are the nominee, I’ll vote for them.
As Mr. Rumsfeld once said, you fight the war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.
To paraphrase Patton, I might rather have Hellary in front of me than McCaine behind me. He’s screwed us every time he’s had the chance. He hates us. This is The McCaine Mutiny, and my top priority right now is to stop him.
[The Republican Party has survived moderate nominees in the past—Gerald Ford, GHW Bush, and others.]
Has it survived? Or has it become neo liberal, I say it is neo liberal.