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MCCAIN TO CONSERVATIVES: ‘CALM DOWN’. WHY?
Truth In Conviction ^ | Feb. 07, 2008 | J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Posted on 02/07/2008 3:56:54 PM PST by jdm

John McCain made “dismissive remarks” about the conservative loyalty of Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito per Bob Novak and John Fund per Jed Babbin on HumanEvents.com.

Will McCain then in reality appoint conservative Supreme Court justices? In two years, over half of the present justices will be over 70. It could be that McCain will have four or five nominations in his pocket. To what political slant will those nominations commit?

Can conservative Republicans trust McCain to appoint those like Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito? Will McCain appoint only justices with strict constructionist positions? Will he war against foes to see that conservatives sit on the bench, particularly if confronted with a Democrat-controlled Senate?

What about the Iraq surge? McCain says he is remaining committed to the surge, claiming it is working. Some review the situation as the surge closing out. By 2008 spring, surge troop power will phase out due to strength waning.

What will McCain do then? Conservatives await his strategy. Those pro-staying put in Iraq until victory is realized want to know.

What about America’s evangelicals? McCain has rattled their cages per Focus on the Family founder’s Dr. James Dobson.

Dobson underlined that he cannot endorse McCain because the latter “did not support a Constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage.

“’MCain voted for embryonic stem-cell research to kill nascent human beings.

“’McCain opposed tax cuts that ended the marriage penalty.

“’McCain has little regard for freedom of speech.

“’McCain organized the Gang of 14 to preserve filibusters in judicial hearings.

“’McCain has a legendary temper and often uses foul and obscene language.

“’I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are. He has sounded at times more like a member of the other party.

“’McCain actually considered leaving the GOP caucus in 2001, and approached John Kerry about being Kerry’s running mate in 2004.’”

Further, can McCain resist wearing two garbs—one Republican and the other Democrat? Will he quit playing both sides and become an honest-to-God conservative Republican? His history says otherwise.

Because of this, many conservatives claim they are going to sit out the vote in November. They will not compromise their convictions because of McCain having a history of opportunistically compromising his.

About immigration, McCain claims he’s aware that border security is prime. However, on another day he tells media that he’s not quite sure of its primacy. He’s blurred in his responses.

Conservatives immediately pick up on his hesitancy for those insisting on secure borders don’t waffle.

McCain must put his name on law that rejects citizenship for illegals already housing here—up to 20 million of them. McCain must repeat that commitment over and over again for any conservatives to believe him on that issue as well as all others.

So when McCain requests conservatives to calm down about his “liberalism,” there are many reasons for conservatives to scream at the top of their lungs.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; mcamnesty; mccain; mcmexico; rino; shamnesty; soros
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To: Soul Seeker

NRO endorsed Romney.


81 posted on 02/07/2008 5:39:36 PM PST by Checkers ("McCain Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of RINOCO, a division of DNC")
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To: IMissPresidentReagan
I’m calmly rejecting his candidacy, and I’m calmly writing in my own.

I'm writing in "Bullwinkle."

82 posted on 02/07/2008 5:39:40 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: padre35

“Who do you suppose Hillary or Osama would appoint?”

Who would McCain appoint?


83 posted on 02/07/2008 5:40:54 PM PST by Checkers ("McCain Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of RINOCO, a division of DNC")
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To: Delacon

The “D”.

I love it.


84 posted on 02/07/2008 5:46:33 PM PST by Checkers ("McCain Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of RINOCO, a division of DNC")
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To: padre35

“If 200,000 of America’s finest can drop their lives and join the military to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan, then I think I (we) owe them are support.”

John McCain is OWED the same amount of support he gave to Don Rumsfeld(A true great American).


85 posted on 02/07/2008 5:50:28 PM PST by Checkers ("McCain Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of RINOCO, a division of DNC")
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To: IMissPresidentReagan
Again...I don’t know why Johnny boy is so worried. I’m calm. I’m calmly switching my registration to Independent.

We just did exactly that recently.

86 posted on 02/07/2008 5:54:52 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: TigersEye; jan in Colorado; Iron Munro; Checkers; Ernest_at_the_Beach; potlatch; devolve; ...

CLICK SOROS AND QUEEG OF DIAMONDS

87 posted on 02/07/2008 6:03:35 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Cindy

The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides

But there was one subject that was off-limits, a subject the Arizona senator almost never brings up and has never been open about -- his long-time opposition to releasing documents and information about American prisoners of war in Vietnam and the missing in action who have still not been accounted for. Since McCain himself, a downed Navy pilot, was a prisoner in Hanoi for 5 1/2 years, his staunch resistance to laying open the POW/MIA records has baffled colleagues and others who have followed his career. Critics say his anti-disclosure campaign, in close cooperation with the Pentagon and the intelligence community, has been successful. Literally thousands of documents that would otherwise have been declassified long ago have been legislated into secrecy.

Also see:

Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain

Sen. John McCain wants to give citizenship to illegal aliens as fast as he possibly can,

Now.................

I hope the following 14 reasons are read so many times that the readers get sick of reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Homeland Security Report
http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf

12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States’.
http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals

The total cost is a whooping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !

88 posted on 02/07/2008 6:13:58 PM PST by B4Ranch (("Life is a food chain; if you're not at the top, you're on the menu." ))
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To: B4Ranch

Thank you B4 Ranch.

You are an astute poster.


89 posted on 02/07/2008 6:17:43 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Williams

Ruth Ginzberg was never young ~ she’s been a poisonous old bat from the beginning.


90 posted on 02/07/2008 6:19:49 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: dragnet2
Did McCain really tell conservatives to "Calm Down"? Even if he did, what he really had wanted to say (and I'm sure saying behind closed doors) is "Shut the f*** up!".

Johnny, we already know you too well.

McCain has sown the wind, and now he will reap the whirlwind.

91 posted on 02/07/2008 6:21:07 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckabubba will never be president.)
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To: Checkers

Rumsfeld was against the surge, on that, McCain was correct.


92 posted on 02/07/2008 6:27:16 PM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: B4Ranch; PhilDragoo
Both of you guys have done great work on your posts.
My links are a little dry in comparison but I'll post them once more anyway.

Free Republic Opinion Poll:
Would you be for or against McCain?
Member Opinion
against 92.4% 2,989
for 7.6% 247

More YOUTUBE - McCain On Abortion (UH OH! YouTube Has a Video of Him in 1999)

McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up

McCain and 'the Constitution' The Real McCain

SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"

SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II

John McCain Is No Hero

John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate

JOHN MCCAIN, WARTS AND ALL

The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides

John McCain's Skeleton Closet

A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)

McCain Seeks to Change California Primary

John McCain Gets Soros Cash

McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero

Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)

McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)

The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)

Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)

McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]

McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT

McCain Is Booed by Labor Activists

Captains of Industry Could Populate McCain Cabinet ( Lieberman Potential Cabinet Member)

McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)

McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats

John McCain Goes Left for Money

McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing

Sens. Snowe, Collins to head Maine exploratory committee for McCain

John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004

Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP

McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP

Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO

John McCain's Newt Problem (Infidelity to first wife.)

How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team) (McCain used his influence to cover it up.)

McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia

TEN REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN (Free Republic thread from 2000)

McCain Ties to Lobbyists Troublesome - Newsmax Staff

McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape

McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)

The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.

McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate

John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS

It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory)

UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)

The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008

John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin

This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)

Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)

McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION

*************************************************************

McCain says:

"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"

Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)

"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."

John McCain, enemy of free speech

Not Child‘s Play [McCain/Schumer bill could effect FR?]

John McCain, you treasonous bastard, I challenge you or any of your traitorous cohorts... (thread by Jim Robinson)

93 posted on 02/07/2008 7:39:49 PM PST by TigersEye (MxCain is lying liberal trash. Don't believe it? See my profile page.)
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To: Delacon

Did you play with that pic or is FOX News just Fair and Balanced? LOL


94 posted on 02/07/2008 7:46:47 PM PST by TigersEye (MxCain is lying liberal trash. Don't believe it? See my profile page.)
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To: jdm
McCain is acting as though the Republican Party has already held its convention and he is the official candidate.

It hasn't met ... and he isn't the official candidate.

95 posted on 02/07/2008 8:01:42 PM PST by syriacus (McCain promises to transfer all Gitmo prisoners to Ft. Leavenworth on his first day as president.)
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To: Iron Munro

I want McCain to see and feel the conservative base he has lost. That is why I’m going to contribute $.02 to his campaign; and promise to work as hard for him, as he did during W’s first term.


96 posted on 02/07/2008 8:09:59 PM PST by 4auh2o64
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To: gracesdad

ok now who do you want instead? ultra-liberal quasi-communist Barack Obama?


97 posted on 02/07/2008 8:10:33 PM PST by reagandissiple
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To: anglian

Post of the day.... applause for Rabbi Spero.

John McCain has indeed brought the Republican Party crashing down to the ground, a dying elephant in its last throes.


98 posted on 02/07/2008 8:16:28 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Ruh Roh.... Mitt-Mobile is stalled...developing...)
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To: indylindy; jan in Colorado

Besides the fact that Libertarians have never appealed to me and Ron Paul is a certified nutburger, I could not vote for an anti-war spoiler in war time.


99 posted on 02/07/2008 8:18:30 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Ruh Roh.... Mitt-Mobile is stalled...developing...)
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