Are there any Freepers who support John McCain?

02/07/2008 | Checkers

[Checkers]

Are there any Freepers who support John McCain?

If you support Mr. McCain, can you make the case for your man?

Can you make the case without bringing up the War?

Can you make the case without bringing up Judges?

Can you make the case without using any ACU ratings? (Those don't impress anybody.)

Can you make the case without insults or telling people to "calm down"?

Can you make the case without the type of lying and dishonesty we've come to expect from John McCain and his special friend Mike Huckabee?

Can you make the case without trashing Barack Obama?

Can you make the case without using Hillary Rodham Clinton as some kind of boogyman or boogyperson?

Can you?

The ball is in your court.

[GVnana]

"Why are Americans stupid enough to even consider such a degenerate [Hillary Clinton] for PRESIDENT?"

Wow! That link is a real keeper! Thanks for posting!

[patriciaruth]

Thanks for your recitation in post 163 of some conservative positions and votes that McCain has taken.

My husband says he watches the activity on the Senate floor on C-span and that McCain has carried the vote many times for the Republicans.

He doesn’t like him either, but he is a pragmatist and feels McCain is better than he is given credit for here.

I’m trying to be objective here, and this is as good as I can do. I really can’t stand the media hog, egotistical, back-stabbing, one pill short of a psychotic break, faithless, etc. SOB.

[jimbo123]

I will vote for my Party’s nominee. If it’s McCain, so be it. Hitlery and/or Osama must never become President.

[omega4179]

Actually if it was McCain vs Obama, I might go with the Rino. It just seems insane to vote for somebody who spent more than 20 min in a Madrassa.

[bpjam]

I don’t plan on NOT voting. I just don’t think there will be any reason for me to vote for McCain.

If I don’t show up at in November, all the downticket candidates get hurt just because a minority of Republicans picked the guy for the top of the ticket (not a typical outcome, btw).

The groundswell on the liberal/socialist side right now is so strong that anybody on our side who is not exciting is going to get basically buried. And McCain pretty much epitomizes not-exciting. Dole wasn’t exciting. Bush 41 wasn’t exciting. Ford wasn’t exciting. Not everybody is.

But if McCain is getting shellacked by the time the convention approaches, maybe the ‘powers that be’ will look for a replacement or at least a co-candidate so that the majority of Republicans would at least have somebody on the ticket they actually DID want to be in the White House.

If Hillary doesn’t pull it out against Obama, McCain is toast no matter what you or I do. I doubt McCain is going to be generous as to vacate his US Senate seat so we can put a conservative in his place as more than Hillary or Obama are willing to put their own seats in jeopardy. If McCain did win, his seat would go automatically to the other side just as added insult. And if he loses, he will be blaming the rest of us for the remainder of his political life (which will probably end up being something like Robert Byrd but without the pork).

[b4its2late]

I will support McCain over Hillary/Obama or Obama/someone else. So whether I got past your stipulations, I don't care. That is what I will do. McCain is not my 1st choice, but he is 10 times better than either of the other options, together or alone. The country would survive McCain, but would have a hard time with either of the other choices, especially with dems in both houses in control.

[NRA2BFree]

The Krintong mafia is going to crush KILL him!

There now. That's what you really meant. LOL!

[dr_who_2]

What's wrong with trashing Obama or Hillary Clinton? Is McCain as bad as having most of the federal government, including the courts, under the control of Obama or Hillary? Is Huckabee more credible than or even all that preferable to McCain? Are conservatives assured victory two or even four years from now if they sit out the election?

As for the VP choice, Cheney may have been the most influential VP that the country has had in years, but that doesn't mean that McCain's running mate would have say in anything. Whoever gets the Republican nomination needs to hit the ground running and be prepared to relentlessly confront and expose the Democrat nominee on the issues that the voters care most about.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...do you really think the Democrats won’t gangbang the ugly girl if her friends abandon her?

What is with this asinine commentary?

Take me off this ping list. I refuse to associate with such a mentality.

Is this the new level of political discourse?

If this is the new face of the Republican campaign with John McCain as the party leader, I am more glad I have disassociated myself from the party than you could know.

[jurroppi1]

“Of that candidates left in the race, McCain is the most conservative candidate left. He has a lifetime American Conservative Rating of 83.”

You know, I keep seeing people post this, but I never see anyone post his current ACU rating, which is, if I recall correctly, somewhere in the low 60s. IOW, he IS becoming more liberal with each passing day if we are to believe the trend.

At any rate, I’m still undecided as to what exactly I will do - not that it matters since I am in MN and 80+ percent of the voting populace will go for whoever the dem candidate is. Currently I just can’t get excited enough to pull the lever for McCain and even if I was, it wouldn’t matter in my district anyway...

[YdontUleaveLibs]

As I write this I believe the match up will be McCain and Clinton. As one poster so wisely put it Clinton is evil incarnate. I don’t particularly like McCain, but I don’t demonize him either. I don’t think he has a socialist agenda like Obama and Clinton. On a side note, I wish people would stop trashing Obama by insinuating he is a terrorist(come on we can do better than that), he is a lightweight can’t we leave it at that? So, while I don’t wish to vote for McCain, I will do so if it is to save the nation from Hillary. I can’t say that I support him so much as I tolerate him over Clinton and Obama either one of them would be a disaster.

[jacksonstate]

Amen!

[SunkenCiv]

Wholeheartedly agree, FARS.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955546/posts?page=103#103

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1967755/posts?page=3#3

[top 2 toe red]

The only two reasons anyone needs.

Anyone that is reasonable , that is.

[SunkenCiv]

John McCain Campaign Ads I’d Like To See
236 | January 25, 2008 | William Tracy
Posted on 01/26/2008 1:11:41 AM EST by Jeff Chandler
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1959825/posts

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Good Morning Stockpirate,
I myself voted for Mitt, however we cannot allow another (Ross Perot) debacle. We owe it to our country to support McCain, even though he is not our favorite.

The dems will cause a civil class war in this country coupled with massive govt entitlement programs, much higher taxes and surrender to the terrorists.

Summing it up, means choosing between the lesser of the three evils. Mccain is workable and the other two are not. Not voting is paramount to surrender. Please consider America’s sake, I ask your support of (John McCain)

P.S. He might not be the best, but he is the best that is offered to America presently. Huckabee is jockeying for a VP slot.(TMO) that’s my opinion.

With Sincerity&Respect,
NSNR

[M. Espinola]

Well worth reprinting:

"I am NOT, repeat NOT a McCain supporter but to refuse to vote for a REPUBLICAN of any shade and thus help get Hitlery or is it Billery into the White House is a mindboggling mind set.

"Fanatically similar, except for the subject matter with that of a Jihadist’s determination to get their point of view and control over us - even by killing us. Or even killing themselves!!

"What’s the difference in getting Hitlery and her Al Qaeda girl Friday Huma Abedin into the White House (by not voting or voting against McCain on face spiting nose cutting conservative “principles”) and the unthinking Jihadi imposing his weird religious mind set on us?

"We lost the Congress and Senate last time round because so many decided not to vote because they were disgruntled!!! This includes some of my closer friends.

"Or by NOT voting for a REPUBLICAN, even someone like McCain, a RINO in many aspects, to perhaps help Obama as a result, a Moslem till age 16, to control our fate vis-a-vis Iran and the Islamic world and terrorism.

"Are we also so fanatical in our conservative “ideals” that we are ready to scuttle the ship or burn the barn to get/hurt McCain?

"It’s our ship, our barn, our survival, even in a less than perfect format.

Well stated!!

If one looks at McCain, at least on the abortion issue,(most votes) and compare his Senate voting record with the two Dem frontrunner's, the choice should be obvious, if one is pro-life.

McCain on issues of maintaining required levels of heightened national defense, coupled with swiftly countering Islamic terrorist attacks, or highly elevated threats by Iran, Syria, Hugo Chavez, Hezballah, Hamas, the Russians, Red China, etc., once again the country would be better off with a President McCain compared to the two 'liberal' Dems.

On preventing illegal aliens (including jihadist sleepers) from entering & lurking inside America, it would seem the whole lot, with the exception of Mike Huckabee , are the beyond scary. Who knows the GOP ticket could be McCain/Huckabee.

A major issue with a Dem-majority, in both houses of Congress, even if McCain is elected President, the Dems will be seeking revenge by blocking all his Supreme Court nominees, in addition to blocking key votes backed by a Republican White House, but recall a Republican President still retains his veto power.

However not voting, or writing in somebody's favourite pet or grandmother is an automatic vote for the radical, leftist Dem agenda! For those conservatives stating "I refuse to vote" , that's just 'brilliant'....! The Dems are loving it!

Let's see where those who think it's smart sitting this election out.....

There are a numbers of "Peoples Paradises" were one can always "sit this one out" or "I do not care to vote" and neither do the tyrants running the show do not hold elections - ever! And when they do hold an 'election', one's man's is totally meaningless due to fact they are rigged. Or the same beastly dictator is the only name on the ballot.

So, for all those not voting -- the following totalitarian régimes are where the public can only dream of voting in a free elections:

Iran,

Cuba,

Belarus,

North Korea,

Vietnam,

Syria,

Russia,

Red China,

Laos,

Somalia,

Libya,

The Sudan,

Saudi Arabia,

Turkmenistan,

Kazakhstan,

Uzbekistan,

Burma,

Equatorial Guinea,

Kenya,

Zimbabwe

Turkmenistan

Millions lost their lives in World War II defeating the brutal totalitarian Axis Powers thus preventing dictatorial rule where voting is nonexistent, or is a total farce.

With Huckabees victory in Kansas, voters send McCain a message

Will long Clinton-Obama race benefit GOP or Democrats?

Obama wins states; Huckabee beats the odds

Voting in 1922

[Jooge]

The good of the nation must come first. Hillary and Obmana would be a disaster for America. We would suffer a humiliating defeat not only in Iraq but also in the war on terrorism. They would do everything they could to destroy the 2nd amendment, we would be paying unbelievable taxes for social programs. Staying home and not voting in the General election would ensure this nightmare happening

[William Terrell]

Two points.

Your number 1: every despot, dictator and vile manipulator in history has been fourscore in favor in defending his country, such as it is. Just that is not all there is; there is the kind of country to be defended.

Your number 2: there are a number of ways to change this country into something we the people, wouldn't want to defend; Hillary, Obama and McCain guarantee that end, albeit by different paths.

[dartuser]

It doesn't ... I applaud your approach ... I wish everyone on this forum had your sense.