(1/23) If it's McCain vs Hillary in the general, how do you vote?

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[Jim Robinson]

Free Republic Opinion Poll: (1/23) If it's McCain vs Hillary in the general, how do you vote?

Composite Opinion
McCain	37.6%		1,348
Pray	15.5%		554
Third party	12.4%		445
Write-in	12.0%		429
Stay home	11.3%		405
Undecided	4.9%		174
Leave blank	3.5%		124
Hillary	2.9%		103
	100.1%		3,582
Member Opinion
McCain	38.6%		696
Pray	15.8%		285
Write-in	13.8%		248
Third party	11.9%		214
Stay home	8.8%		159
Undecided	6.1%		110
Leave blank	3.4%		62
Hillary	1.5%		27
	99.9%		1,801
Non-Member Opinion
McCain	36.6%		652
Pray	15.1%		269
Stay home	13.8%		246
Third party	13.0%		231
Write-in	10.2%		181
Hillary	4.3%		76
Undecided	3.6%		64
Leave blank	3.5%		62
	100.1%		1,781

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[PA-RIVER]

Dont worry.

I have faith that god will grow a banana, some kid will toss the banana peel on a sidewalk, and McCain will slip on it.... and then beat the kid to a bloody pulp... before the convention.

America has had divine intervention before.

[Right-Wing Champion]

“Why bother?”

Because our families’ futures are at stake.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are far-left liberal Democrats. They are being controlled by and extremist/socialist base and an anti-American PAC called MoveOn. If elected president, either one of them would change our country in the worst of ways.

John McCain is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-fiscal responsibility, pro-gun, and pro-war on terror Republican with an 82% rating from the American Conservative Union. He is also a practicing Christian. And he’s the personification of an American war hero. And he can defeat the Democrats at the national level with ease. (And Mitt Romney could not.)

There’s your difference. He’s not perfect, but he is RADICALLY different from the Democrats.

There’s plenty of reason to “bother” this November. Conservatives MUST leave their homes and vote for the man on Election Day. America just cannot afford a Democratic White House, and only simple-minded “I want purity in my candidate” voters would make it so.

~McCain ‘08~

[AmericaUnited]

That is your uneducated opinion.

Well I'm in good "uneducated" company, along the folks at the American Conservative Union, who agree with me by a mile.

[Robe]

bump

[Renatus]

I don’t think I will ever be able to vote for McCain. I don’t know what I will do when the time comes.

[apillar]

I just want to remind everybody, if you are not going to vote for McCain, thats fine (with me at least). But make sure you don’t just stay home! There are races at the state level and for the house and senate where true conservatives are running and need your votes!

[AmericaUnited]

EVERYBODY votes whether explicitly by expressly voting at the polls or implicitly by not voting at the polls. Its still a vote one way or another.

I think that advanced train of thought will be entirely wasted here...

[A CA Guy]

Pray he dies soon by natural causes so the Republican party could be saved.

[End Times Crusader]

Most Freepers will come to their senses come November and do the right thing. The few turncoats who do not will simply be forgotten. John McCain can pull in plenty enough independents and sensible democrats (yes, they do still exist)to offset any loss of extremist voters.

It's time to forge a new Republican coalition.

[cubreporter]

I’m glad you are so educated in medicine.

[arthurus]

I do think the Clintons are more apt to deal with Iran than any of the three Republicans. The Reps will be looking over their shoulders at the quasicommie Congress and Congress will oppose anything they try to do, even if we lose a city or two to nukes in trucks or freighters. If it happens on the Clintons’ watch then the Hillary rage will kick in at the betrayal by her erstwhile allies and bosom baddies. She will throw nuclear ashtrays. Arabia and Pakistan may well receive her fire, too.

[SoCalTransplant]

The sad thing is I know what a sane candidate in McCain’s position would do here. He would immediately begin running to the right. Go on Hannity, Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham (I dont think Rush or Levin would have him) and begin to try to bridge the gap, preaching the “we arent that far apart, lets unite to beat the Dems” message. I wouldnt believe it, but at least it might make it a little easier to consider holding my nose.

But he wont. Not Lt. Cdr. Queeg McCain. Heck, he will be proud that he stood up to the “gun rack toting, global warming denying, right wing”. He will bask in the drive by media praise and make a point of thumbing his nose at talk radio. Gonna bring in all those moderates and independents. He will be soooo smug until the day after he gets the nomination, when the Drive Bys, “moderate jouranlists” and the Dave Letterman’s of the world turn on him.

Then Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol and the rest of the “right” media who bought into this will all sit around with “who farted” looks on their faces wondering how this could have happened, when he was “So electable”.

And the rest of us will just have to pray that the Clinton or Obama administration doesnt do too much damage before we get to 2012. Mayan calendar not withstanding.

[SoCalTransplant]

I fear you are correct, it started with the compassionate conservative line.

And I dont think this is a funeral so much as it is putting the GOP in cryogenics.

We have become the Ted Williams Party.

[SoCalTransplant]

I’m not saying that I think that he is worse than she is. I am not saying that he isnt a superior choice to her. I am not even saying that I will never vote for him. I am simply lamenting that we cant come up with a better choice than this.
That we are sitting here trying to justify voting for the guy, instead of being excited about our nominee, is in and of itself sad.

I also havent seen this, but am afraid it may be reality: Lindsey Graham as his VP. He would justify it as trying to shore up the southern vote.

[12th_Monkey]

Kobiashi Maroo in real life..

[GB]

AmericaUnited, I said earlier in the thread that I would vote for the man in November ... but as I noted in a thread the other day, you have to look beyond the ACU numbers to see why there’s the animus toward McCain. Overall, his numbers are super. The problem is, he’s been wrong on some very specific and very crucial issues that are dear to a lot of folks here, plus there’s his general demeanor and attitude.

[WVNan]

Well, I certainly wouldn’t want to do anythiing implicit, so I guess I would just have to vote for hillary. There now, is that advanced enough for you?

[arthurus]

There is a qualitative difference that folks don't think about much but we will feel to our great discomfort. That is the Clinton use of the IRS and Fairness Doctrines and the aggressive use of the Bush Security apparatus against conservatives and Christians. McC probably won't do that.

[USMA '71]

Cynthia McKinney /sarc

[WVNan]

Happy RINO hunting.