Why are so many Republicans freaking out about John McCain’s primary success?

Townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2008 | Lorie Byrd

[Gondring]

Yes, I've taken some liberties with the meter and rhyme, but please remember the idiosyncracies of Joe Jackson's pacing and delivery...you can add/subtract a few syllables here and there if it you want. Besides, some words were just too good to change!

Wish we could still embed sound...but here's an old video of the original, in case you don't know it..


Are They Really Going to Vote for Him?!?
(by Gondring, with apologies to Joe Jackson)



GOP faithful votin' for the lefties in my state.
In my jammies, I'm FReepin' while my lifeblood runs cold
Look over there! (Where?)
There's that McCain that we all-well know.
He's crazy now, or left-wing, or something, as we all know.



Are they really gonna vote for him?
Are they really gonna go RINO today?
Are they really gonna vote for him?
'Cause if the people believe him,
There's something going wrong around here.



Tonight's the night when I watch all of the returns on my screen.
I pop the corn and I kid myself Ron Paul has a shot.
Look over there! (Where?)
Here comes Giuli with his new boyfriend
Just shows that truth don't count for much--
Too bad he can't get *ZOT!*



Are they really gonna vote for him?
Are they really gonna go RINO today?
Are they really gonna vote for him?
'Cause if the people believe him,
There's something going wrong around here.



But if looks could kill
There's a man there who'd have us all dead.
He really needs to chill...

Better watch out, you'll blow up your head!
You're so uptight, and pickin' fights.



Are they really gonna vote for him?
Are they really gonna go RINO today?
Are they really gonna vote for him?
'Cause if the people believe him,
There's something going wrong around here.

[null and void]

McCain would be a terrible president. A McCain presidency would bring:
1. Massive tax increases
2. Huge government subsidy programs for illegal aliens
3. Huge carbon tax programs to combat supposed global warming
4. An end to the ability to interrogate terrorists.
5. An attack on business and the private sector.(except for corrupt people like Keating)
6. Ted Kennedy and other Democrats controlling the agenda.

And the stench would stick to the party (and be stuck to Conservatives) for a generation or more.

The demon-crats ran against Hoover for 50 years, and against Nixon until the clintons.

How long would they be able to run against McCain?

Just how much long term damage to our freedom are we willing to accept for a temporary illusion of security?

[callisto]

We should never forget our Founding fathers often said it best.

John Adams:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798

[freeangel]

Well, apparently there is, of late, a difference between those who call themselves Republicans and those who are real conservatives.

[USS Alaska]

If he is the nominee, I would feel compelled to vote for him because of my son’s service in the military.

Hillary might be a better choice, in that case.

My son is also a military man, and he and his pals {the ones that I've met, hate the bitch}.

There is no way a demonRAT is better for the military.

[Owen]

This article is written by yet another of those inside the beltway mindsets that refuses to understand the depth of passion about illegals.

Supporting McCain is spitting on the victory last year that stopped his Amnesty Bill. Nominating McCain not only fails to honor that victory, it defiles it.

There is only one way to stop him and everyone knows it.

[bmwcyle]

AMEN

[Jane Austen]

Unless the Democrat is against somebody who is not of sound mind and smiles and talks to himself as if hearing voices in his head.

[TigersEye]

How could anybody not know?

[Jane Austen]

You are right.

[Rennes Templar]

“I was not happy about McCain’s opposition to the Bush tax cuts.”

I don’t support MCcain, but I will give him this: He didn’t want to go to war with tax cuts, it’she first time it’s ever been done in history. W thought the US would have a quick victory in Iraq and be out in one year. W has had to stick with the tax cuts while at the same time running up the deficits - caught between a rock and hard place. The tax cuts haven’t crewtaed enough gov’t revenue as he predicted.

While I’m on Bush I’ll say this: I wonder what he thinks when all of the GOP candidates talk about deporting the illegals.
As he has said, Americans do not want those jobs. I could see my teenage daughter working the fields with her cell phone: “Hey Pam, I’ll meet you at Bennigans as soon as I finish picking two more acres of tomatoes.” AINT gonna happen.
He also said the economy would take a hit if all these workers were deported.

If I were Pres, I would give amnesty to all illegal agri- workers, after penalties. They are paying their dues by bending over in the fields all day. (In Mexico: ‘Hey Juan I’m going to sneak over the border to achieve my life dream in America.” ‘What are you going to do?’ “Pick cabbage for the rest of my life”) I would only deport illegals who are taking skilled jobs, and penalize their employers, and prohibit lateral movement of agri workers, except back to Mexico.

[Friend_from_the_Frozen_North]

"I’ll do so (vote for McCain)... Obama and Clinton are not options and a Presidential election is too important not to vote..."

I agree with you about a Presidential Election (being) too important not to vote but there is no difference between Obama, Clinton, and McCain! Absolutely None! The differences are illusory and are apparent only if one uses his or her imagination.

John McCain has clearly indicated how he will vote in too many instances and on the issues he hasn't clearly defined his core beliefs, we can still infer from his other position that he is a Liberal. Calling himself a Republican does not make him one (and it most certainly doesn't make him a Conservative)! My grandparents used say that a Leopard does not change it's spots.

I do find some humor in the fact that left and center-left press continue to harp on talk radio 'balking' at McCain's candidacy; I do like Rush, Sean, Laura, and the rest but they have not convinced me to be in opposition to McCain. I managed that chore all my myself. I've listened to him speak and he's angry and abusive and his explanations for why he votes the way he does are Liberal. Here is the secret - I don't believe John McCain can be elected because too many Conservatives (whats left of the Conservative Republicans and the Independents) simply will not support John McCain. We may end up with Hillary or Barrack but, again, I agree with something Rush said, "If a Liberal is going to ruin this country, I'd rather they get the credit for it."

I voted for Bob Dole once as the lessor of two evils knowing he probably wasn't electable and that he wouldn't win. I won't do that again. I will vote in all of the state and local issues and I will look for a third party candidate to support BUT I WILL NOT VOTE FOR McCAIN!

[E. Cartman]

McCain and anyone who supports wide open borders betrays America and the very idea of a SECURE NATION.

Add to that his opposition to waterboarding, his wish to shut down Gitmo and trying to bring the terrorists into the court system. Only supporting military action abroad is NOT supporting the WOT.

[Gondring]

What form of government do you propose for our current population?

[Mr. Brightside]

In order for the Republicans to win the White House with a more conservative person than GWB, we would need the right candidate, with the right message at exactly the right time.

We have none of those things in our favor this time around.

[april15Bendovr]

John McCain A- -For and the left-wing media-

[nicmarlo]

Only supporting military action abroad is NOT supporting the WOT.

Exactly right!

[Tall_Texan]

If the GOP nominates McCain, I am through with the party. You can’t justify supporting a party that is so stupid as to nominate their own Judas. Not one dime and not one vote goes to Republicans from me if John McCain is their standard-bearer.

[NittanyLion]

Some cite McCain’s positions and past votes and say he is on the wrong side of too many issues, but the same can be said of George Bush.

Knowing what I now know, I wouldn't vote a for a Candidate Bush this year either.