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Posted on 01/31/2008 10:37:41 AM PST by Delacon
But why do you have conservative principles? I presume because you have weighed the varying positions, and found the conservative ones to be the best. You may have even tried other principles and found them lacking.
Your objection is somewhat akin to the school system from that movie “stand and deliver”. The kids got most of the answers right, and the school decided that since they had always been flunking, they must have cheated to get the same answers.
But in the end, it turns out that they got the right answers because someone finally showed them the value of doing right, and they answered the same because it was the right answer.
I actually disagree that every one of his positions is right on. Conservatives don’t have a right on. He isn’t pure on the 2nd amendment. He isn’t quite right on free trade. He has doubts but doesn’t discount global warming.
But to the degree he has adopted our position, why can’t it be because our position is right? It’s not like he wasn’t already on out side on most of the issues, even in 1994. There were only a couple issues he was deftly against us. One is an issue that I see people turn on a dime with — abortion. It’s really a yes-no issue, so it’s simply to one day realise you were wrong.
We’ve seen girls sure to have an abortion, and in one meeting, boom, they change their mind, they are pro-life, they go off and have their child. Confronted with reality, smart people make the right choice.
The gay issue I think he’s in the mainstream of conservative thought, but he’s “liberal” to the more ardent social conservatives, of which I’m otherwise a part except I’m not as dogmatic about public policy of gays (I personally oppose homosexuality as immoral, as sin, as perverted, as unnatural).
But he’d lose no support if he said “I was wrong about accepting gays”, and yet he doesn’t say that, because it’s how he really thinks.
I agree, people can be fooled. But he’d have to fool a lot of people. And frankly, we’ve been fooled by others who we were certain were conservative, and maybe they were but somewhere they got corrupted.
But at this point, we are not talking about abandoning a good conservative for a crap-shoot. We are talking about either voting for a known half-conservative who probably can’t win the election, or picking a solid conservative platform of a man who at worst might be lying about a few of the social planks for which little can be done anyway.
I think that’s an easy bet. It’s like “I’ll give you $10, or else you can take this box which has a $20 bill stuck to it, and might have another $20 inside or not”. The fool says “Well, the $10 is a sure thing, and we don’t know if the box is worth $40 or not — but we KNOW the box is better than the $10 check, and the other $20 at this point is a pleasant extra.
I understand people not voting for a half-conservative because it “compromises their principles”, and “sends a message we don’t care about conservative values”.
But in this case, McCain wins with or without our support. McCain will win WITHOUT conservatives, and will “prove” that you can ignore conservatives and win the nomination.
And meanwhile, people will look at Romney’s platform, see him lose, and the next time around, NONE of our candidates will have a conservative platform — since it was rejected by the voters.
There’s no loss of “principle” in voting for Romney, because he is running on conservative values. If it turns out he lied, we have been fooled, but everybody will know he only won because he SAID he was a conservative, and next time around we’ll have conservatives, REAL ones, willing to run knowing that we will be able to get them the nomination.
LOL. You’ve outdone yourself! “Not just for breakfast anymore...” Geeeeeeeez!
Idiot? You can’t write an ounce of truth. You defended him on his distortion of the Iraq specific withdrawal date spin and you claimed he was endorsed by Nancy. Who’s the idiot? First clue, the guy who can’t read, or choose to not be honest.
Mutt is dropping and that leaves McCain, what a victory! yeah, we get the guy John Kerry rejected. Continue with your spin, distortions, and celebrations, VICTORY!
“Idiot.” Talk about a black pot.
You bet! He told the radical gay Left he would do more for them than the previous world record-holder in that area, Teddy Kennedy, and man, did he come through in spades! Gay marriage, homosexualized schools, gay activists on the court...
I am sure they did, but it was only to make sure the Democrat wasn't elected, not for any support for him.
The smearing of the two isn’t even close. No comparison. Romney has been smeared more than any of the candidates BY FAR.
AMEN, FRiend.
Article by The Great One... Mark Levin.
Re: surviving 4 years of Hillary.
If Washington and NYC are nuked by islamofascists (and these plots aren’t stopped because She ain’t listening in to their conversations anymore), then the country is screwed in more ways than you can imagine.
There are some people around here who don’t have any concept about what a nationwide Katrina effect that would have.
PatriciaRuth, I don’t disagree. Now who will facilitate that? Quite likely it will involve one of the 70,000 plus Saudi Arabian nationals inside our nation at this very moment on student visas.
Who allowed them to come here? Who allows them to travel freely within our nation?
I share your concerns about what Hillary does, but unlike so many republicans these days, I have grave concerns about what republicans do that put our nation at risk. In fact I am so concerned about it that I simply refuse to vote for men who will keep these same policies in effect until the unthinkable does happen.
And then they’ll glibly say, “Oh, we didn’t think of that.” Sound familiar?
Give me a conservative that will get our immigration, all of it, under control or don’t come knockin’ on election day.
I am darned tired of this. Either we are at risk enough to put all sorts of special policies into effect and get our borders under control, or we aren’t and we can quite harassing citizens only.
This is no place for dolts, so hop away little fluff ball.
( and HDT was a poser, a fake, a fraud. )
That’s what happens when you are the John Edwards/John Kerry of the Republicans.
Awesome piece!!! Mark is always the voice of reason - I enjoy his articles. I have researched all of the republican candidates for 6 months now. In my opinion there is nobody as flawed both professionally and personally as John McCain. The facts are the facts - he is what he is. Besides McCain himself being mired in scandal, his wife was caught stealing drugs from her own charity. The two of them have poor track records with regard to personal choice and decision making under pressure. I know how I am voting because I have spent much time in learning about the candidates. There is nobody like Mitt Romney in the intellectual, personal, and professional arenas. Again, the facts are the facts - he is what he is. This election cycle has been very interesting and it actually tells us more about the decline of this great society than it does about the candidates. My parent’s generation could never have overlooked what we are being asked to overlook with a vote for McCain. Actually, McCain would not even be on the ballot 30 years ago - America’s “greatest generation” would never have been fooled by him. This is the scariest of times.
Arnold cannot be the vice-president. He is not a natural born American. A vice-president must be able to assume the office of the Presidency when the President is not able.
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True, but since when did anyone in Washington adhere to the Constitution?
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