Posted on 02/07/2008 6:04:22 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
Republican John McCain asked disgruntled conservatives to support his presidential bid on Thursday, shortly after Mitt Romney ended his struggling campaign and made McCain the all-but-certain nominee.
McCain assured a conference of conservative activists he was one of them, citing his commitment to win in Iraq, halt Iran's nuclear ambitions and rein in the federal government while drawing sharp contrasts with potential Democratic opponents Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
McCain's speech, which drew boos on the topic of illegal immigration, followed by a few hours Romney's surprise announcement at the conference that he was ending his run to allow Republicans to focus on the November election.
"I feel I have to now stand aside, for our party and for our country," the former Massachusetts governor told the shocked crowd, some of whom gasped and shouted "No, no!" in response.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.co.uk ...
That’s a beautifully designed button, but it doesn’t accurately reflect the true nature of the McCain candidacy. Instead of the American Flag standing alone, it should be shown merging into a Mexican Flag. Also, the eagle should be wearing a sombrero.
Take a good look at McCain. The guy is nothing but trouble.
72 years old, washed up, and he should have let it go. But no, his big fat ego had to have one last shot, to hell with the country. Now its a safe bet we will end up with Hillary or Obama as president.
Hes a selfish jerk, only cares about himself, and the party elite needs to be slapped, no, punched in the face for allowing him to even run.
“McCain asks conservatives for support”
As a proud and vocal Conservative, I say...NO.
Amazing how hard some of the newer Freepers are to not cut McCain any slack... verrrrrrrrrry interesting. We may be conservative, but we are American first.
I’m sure it has been said, but Fred Thompson worked for McCain in 2000, they are old friendz.
Dream ticket: McCain/Thompson. No hypocrisy involved.
I think they had to reset McCain's broken arms and leg when he got back stateside. POW healthcare really sucks.
Yeah, having principles keeps one from doing lots of things. Sorry.
He is political poison. No way around it.
His personality, age .... stories coming out of congress about his nasty temper fits, by his own party members no less.
The DNC has been taking notes. Our side, we didn’t want to embarrass him. We were too nice in the primary. Its over, his goose is cooked way before November, with or without us. The DNC is going to make him look like a fool. Count on it.
You are clueless if you think this is all about not getting our way. Why do you think so many principled conservative voices have come out so strongly against McCain? It's not about teaching Republicans a lesson; its about the Republican party trying to make conservatives irrelevant. They have been moving in that direction for several years and McCain is nothing more than a concerted effort to reshape the party with independents, disgruntled democrats and moderates. McCain has actively run against conservative for years.
We are going to be powerless and irrelevant no matter who gets elected in November. However, we will remain powerless much longer if McCain wins.
This isn't about a hissy fit, its about who is going to control the Republican party for the next generation.
At first I supported Duncan Hunter, then it was Fred. Up until this morning, I was going to vote for Mitt Romney at our Primary Tuesday. Now that he is out I think I will be writing in Mark Levin.
There is nothing more if we deliberately abandon our troops to the Democrats. Do that, and all our principles mean absolutely nothing.
You don’t get around much do you?
“We may be conservative, but we are American first.”
Why don’t you teach me something there smart a$$? Seeing as you’re all up on Patriotism and the like.
Bookmarked, makes perfect sense to me.
Agreed, I will never vote for this scoundrel. No.
And to those who say that not voting for McCain is handing the POTUS to Hitlary, then so be it. The Republican party has been hijacked by socialist moles, and we let it happen.
The more I think about that, the more I question whether I want you guys controlling my party. You’re a bunch of extremists.
We can survive Clinton or Obama -Rangel’s trillion dollar tax increase, Hilliary’s garnishing health plan and her million Ideas... They are over ambitious in a crashing economy.
Just imagine the limits they will try to impose,social engineering projects they have been salivating to implement.
Congress already has an approval rating of what? 19%
They are to radical to fast, they will fumble, fail bigtime and we can pick up the pieces. This will not go over well when the unemployment rate goes up inflation takes off. Amnesty happens.
Midterms we take the senate, 4 years we take the white house
No McPain is Not a choice.
Posted by TKDietz to Checkers On News/Activism 02/07/2008 4:20:41 PM PST · 305 of 312
I support McCain because McCain is going to be the Republican nominee. I’d do the same if it was going to be Huckabee or Romney or Hunter or Thompson.
Would you vote for Barak Hussein or Hillary Rodham if they were Republicans? I vote policy, not party. The RNC is in the pocket of big business, their deep pockets are easier to pick than millions of individual conservatives, therefore their agenda is following the money. I have no problem with big business except when they buy anti-American legislation with their political contributions. You stated "Screw this. I’m done. I don’t hang around with losers" regarding those of us that refuse to stay on the left-marching RNC plantation. 2004 was a republican disaster because of the creep leftward, 2008 will be as well. You're hanging with a loser party regardless of your claim.
Let the cleansing begin.
http://www.constitutionparty.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States)
Each republican candidate for president in the last six presidential elections (including this one) has been less a ‘republican’ than the one who preceded him. George Bush is less a Constitutional scholar, and reveres the Constitution and the sovereignty of America, less than did his father. George senior was less of a Constitutional scholar, and revered the Constitution and the sovereignty of America, exponentially less than did Ronald Reagan. And John McCain doesn’t know the meaning of reverence for the Constitution, or allegiance to protecting America’s sovereignty.
Each time we genuine conservatives support one of these turncoats, we define-down the republican party. It has now reached a point at which I no longer even recognize the party in which I have been registered for forty years. It has become a party that shares more with the democrats than it does with those courageous anti-slavery activists who painstakingly laid the party’s sublime foundation in an act of defiance against a tyrannical federal government more than a century and a half ago.
The only genuine republicans I can name today who are either currently serving in Washington, are serving as voices of conservatism in academia or the media, or who have been participants in this primary election cycle (James Inhofe, Rick Santorum, Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, Thomas Sowell, J.C. Watts, Alan Keyes, and John Bolton, among them) represent a dying breed. They are throwbacks to what conservatism used to represent, and, as such, they are no longer welcome as leaders in today’s republican party. Their voices are stifled by their ‘fellow republicans’, and they are perceived as part of a ‘fringe element’. As things stand now, none of them would anymore stand a snowball’s chance in hell of gaining powerful political office, let alone the presidency.
What does that say about the republican party of 2008? It says that, over the past two decades, we registered republicans have allowed our party to incrementally exclude true conservatives for consideration to hold the highest offices in the land. And how have we done that? We have ‘gone along to get along’. We have held our collective noses and agreed to put in office men who are less and less like genuine American patriots, and more and more like leftist democrats, with each election cycle. And the phony republicans we have put in office have consistently worked with the democrats to stifle any efforts made by genuine conservatives to re-ignite the conservative voice in Washington. And the Constitution and America’s sovereignty be damned.
When Rick Santorum was the third most powerful man in the senate, John McCain invariably sided with the democrats every time Santorum or another conservative attempted to bring legislation to the floor that would steer this republic back in the right direction. McCain often wouldn’t allow conservative legislation to even see the light of day on the senate floor. For that reason, Santorum despises McCain, and has stated that he will never vote for him, commenting that McCain has been as much an enemy of conservative, pro-American thought as most democrats on the Hill.
My husband, who is every bit as conservative as I, plans to vote for Hillary in November. He is going to do so because, should McCain win the election, the mainstream media will continuously paint him as a ‘conservative’ (just as they are now), and, when he makes toxic mistakes (most likely in decisions regarding illegal immigration, abortion, stem cell research, tax increases, global warming legislation, granting due-process rights to terrorists, and the like), those mistakes will be portrayed as having been committed by a ‘conservative’ president. After which, you can count on the fact that no genuine conservative will occupy the White House again in our lifetimes.
Whether Clinton or McCain occupies the White House for the next four years, America is in for a rude awakening. I would prefer that a liberal democrat/avowed socialist be blamed for the geopolitical/economic earthquakes that are looming over the horizon. At least that way we will have the whisper of a hope that a genuine conservative may be able to eventually take the reins and pick up the pieces.
I could not, in good conscience, cast a vote for Hillary (my voting finger would spontaneously combust for sure). But neither will I continue to vote for leftists-in-conservative-clothing. Such imposters have succeeded in re-defining my party, handcuffing their genuine republican counterparts, and corrupting my government beyond recognition. And if an avowed anti-American leftist must damage our beloved republic for four years in order for the republican party to recognize that it had better return to its roots, then that may well be the terrible price we must pay in order to embark on that long-overdue journey.
I’ll be sitting out the election in November, at least where the presidential ballot is concerned, for the first time since I became eligible to vote – forty years ago. I will no longer play an active role in the hi-jacking of the republican party … or the suicide of our beloved republic.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
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