Posted on 02/06/2008 2:04:10 AM PST by plewis1250
Okay, so this evening was like a glass of cold water hitting me in the face.
The GOP is on its way to nominating McCain as our Presidential candidate. If this happens, I WILL NOT vote Republican this Presidential election.
Here is my question, could Huckabee or Romney drop out, and endorse the other candidate, and request their delegates to join them in that support?
Could a VP promise from either of these men, with egos set aside, save the conservative vote?
I am willing to vote for EITHER of those two men for POTUS, and am willing to bet if the two were paired up, most conservatives would be willing to as well, especially considering the alternative.
I find it so laughable that McCain is calling himself the "true conservative" when nothing is further from the truth...
So, once again, is it possible for either of the candidates to do this?
From what I am reading on the Internet, I believe only a very few of Romney/Huckabee's delegates are hard, and could vote either direction once they convention comes around.
(http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/R.phtml)
Just an idea I wanted to see what you guys thought of this, and if it would be possible or not.
- plewis1250
I will not vote for either McCain, nor Huckabee to be POTUS, irregardless (which so should be a word!) of their choice for Veep.
I am with you. I will not vote Republican either. As for what they may or may not do, I don’t care anymore. The Republican establishment is so out of touch I will probably register Conservative now.
But don’t forget the advance of globalism, the economic war that China is waging, the destruction of the dollar, etc etc.
Radical Islam isn’t the only threat to the US. It’s a great distraction however, to what’s happening beneath the surface.
If we can’t afford to wage a war, we’re already defeated.
McCain isnt’ going to do jack squat about that.
Relatively. That's the ONLY positive aspect (but don't forget that he wants to close Gitmo and give terrorists undeserved rights!). BUT he would be selling out completely to Mexico. You can't have National security without enforcing borders and laws. Bush was bad, but McCain and the Dems will pull it through. Beside that McCain would lose to the Dems... he is a no brainer.
I appreciate your world view....but mention the NWO around here and you get wrapped in TinFoil....
I wear mine Proudly
;-)
Why is that?
Well, my tinfoil was carefully crafted by The Word of God. To discern the big picture is the key, not to discern a single incident or election.
prisoner6
I agree, the globalist have won this round...and, that the average American has no clue as to what is really going on.
May God Have Mercy Upon America
McCain is going to be so marginalized by the time that the general rolls around that he'll make Britney Spears look sane.
I'm glad that McCain will get what's coming to him...but weep for what this will mean for this country.
We are sooooo screwed. No matter which way you look at it, we will have a liberal elected POTUS in November. My beloved America is about to get mugged and raped. Chaos and upheaval are now inevitable as America takes a hard left turn into socialism and tyranny.
“I am with you. I will not vote Republican either. As for what they may or may not do, I don’t care anymore. The Republican establishment is so out of touch I will probably register Conservative now.”
And I’m with you.
If McCain is the candidate I will vote for him. He is against earmarks and wasteful government spending. No one, not Bush, not anyone, has seriously tried to cut spending. Raise/lower taxes doesn’t mean anything unless you cut spending — you just defer the payday.
Freeper Uncle Miltie posted this. Now ask me again if I can vote for McCain...no, I can’t.
Senator McCain’s Liberal Record
1. Amnesty = McCain / Kennedy (D)
2. Censorship = McCain / Feingold (D)
3. Gas Tax Increase = McCain / Lieberman (D)
4. McCain’s Proposed Democrat Ticket = Kerry / McCain (D)
5. Turncoats Who Asked to Switch Parties: McCain / Jeffords (D)
6. McCain’s American Conservative Union Rank= 47th / 100 = RINO
7. New York Times (D) Endorsed: McCain
8. Opposed Bush Tax Cuts = McCain + All Ds
9. McCain wants to keep the Death Tax
10. McCain wants to raise Social Security Taxes
11. McCain / ACLU (D) is Pro-Terrorist Rights
12. McCain/Kennedy(D)/Edwards(D) Tobacco = Trial Lawyers Dream Act
Why vote Democrat when you can have
A REAL LIBERAL: JOHN McCAIN!
Top Ten Reasons to Vote For McCain
1. Amnistía Si! Vota Para McCain!
2. Shut Up and Vote McCain / Feingold!
3. $4.00 Gasoline, here we come!
4. Clinton / McCain: The NY Times’ Ticket!
5. RINOs 4 McCain!
6. More Payroll & Death Taxes!
7. Gitmo Detainees Agree: Vote McCain!
8. Kill Conservatism: Vote Liberal, Vote McCain!
9. He Can’t Possibly Stab You in the Back Next!
10. He’ll find out who really stole the strawberries! – Vote Captain Queeg McCain!
Add to this list the Boston Globe’s endorsement, liberal republican’s endorsements and the media’s love affair with this man. I still don’t believe that McCain can beat the democrats without the conservative vote, and he doesn’t have it.
Bingo!
I can stomach Romney, barely, but expect to be voting Clinton/Obama just to help send a message that we should never allow a liberal like either McCain or Huck to take our party.
Is it possible? Of course.
The problem is that McCain is the second choice of most Huckabee voters, and their third choice is probably Obama.
Face it, conservatives were handed their backsides tonight. Even here in Oklahoma, where sanity usually reigns unchallenged, the majority voted for a dour, self-aggrandizing, foul tempered, mentally unstable old turd! Go figure.
I never, EVER thought I’d say it, let alone do it, but I just may “make other plans” for election day—not even an absentee! First time in my life I will not have campaigned, let alone not voted. I just didn’t believe there was any way McCain would get the nomination-—and the fact that the Huckster could be VP is beyond credibility. (Can you imagine, if McCain died, we’d have that leering, empty-headed, drooler as President!) Not with my vote.
Sorry, Doughty, for giving you such a hard time over your decision to not vote if McCain is the ordained one. I, in all probability, will be joining you.
“Raise/lower taxes doesn’t mean anything unless you cut spending — you just defer the payday.”
Not exactly, tax cuts without spending cuts just delays spending hikes by others. Spending will eventually increase because revenue increases as our economy grows. Congress anticipates how much they can borrow from our future and spends the maximum (and then some). Bush and crew just jumped in and grabbed a piece of the pie.
Congress will spend as much as it can no matter who’s elected. It can’t raise taxes much more because it slows down the economy and decreases revenue. It’s a natural barrier, the only barrier left, to our spending.
LOL!
“Look, people. We are at war!”
That is correct, but the real war is here in this country. If there are those in the US that really want the limited gov’t, freedom, and liberty established by the founding Fathers ... then the “reset button” (as one Freeper has put it) needs to be pressed in the US, like it was in 1860. But this time the Feds/liberals are the true enemies liberty.
The terrorists and liberals are one in the same. Until the war at home can be won, we will never win the war abroad.
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