Bush Signals Support for McCain (to declare him a true conservative)

Washington Post ^

[bshomoic]

Bush Signals Support for McCain

By Peter Baker

President Bush plans to give an implicit endorsement of onetime rival John McCain's conservative bona fides tomorrow as the Arizona senator seeks to consolidate the party behind his candidacy.

In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in the morning, Bush plans to say that the nominee of the party will be a strong conservative, according to excerpts released by the White House tonight.

[coloradan]

So apparently a Conservative is a gun-grabbing pro-amnesty tax-raising political-speech-squelching demagogue. Got it.

[eclecticEel]

McCain has all Bush’s faults, with none of the redeeming qualities.

[oblomov]

This from the signer of McCain-Feingold, the advocate of NCLB, amnesty, Medicare part D, Harriet Miers, and the federal boondoggle in the aftermath of Katrina. Perhaps GWB should vouch for McCain’s credentials as stalwart defender of the welfare state?

[Lord_Baltar]

Oh Geez, well there’s the pay-off for McLame’s support in 2004.

Geez....

[whatisthetruth]

What does he know of conservatives??

Pot-kettle-black?

[Matchett-PI]

The fix has been in for along time. We’re either going to like it or we’re going to lump it. bttt

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966806/posts?page=53#53

[BuffaloJack]

I have already downloaded, filled out and signed a voter registration change form to switch from Republican to Conservative. All I’ve gotta do now is put it in the mail in the morning.
Hillary is more conservative than McCain, and she’s the Antichrist.

[no dems]

Bush plans to say that the nominee of the party will be a strong conservative...

Well, when compared to him........

[smalltownslick]

I’ve begun to feel that Bush’s only real crime is being a terrible actor - all the other Skull and Crossbones/globalists/whatever they are kind of guys at least somehow try to cover their tracks. He just gets so mad when we don’t see things his way, he can’t even play the game.

[Who is John Galt?]

Bush Signals Support for McCain (to declare him a true conservative)

As if 'Mr-Guvmint-Paid-Prescription-Drug-Benefit' would know...

[cva66snipe]

What does he know of conservatives??

Poppy was Vice POTUS under a Conservative POTUS that's about all he does know.

[freemike]

cough,, spit,, hack hack,,,, cough

[goodnesswins]

Where can you register as a CONSERVATIVE? (vs. a Pub or Dem or Indy?)

[cva66snipe]

The whole scenario reeks of a set-up.

really? Well who'd a thunk it? /sarcasm.

Indeed that's just what it was.

[End Times Crusader]

John McCain - Choice of Real Republicans

[Cicero]

Ah, well, let’s be kind. What else can he say? It’s a done deal.

Cheney weighed in earlier, too. What else could he say?

I’m still not voting for McCain, however.

[End Times Crusader]

Lay off the bong, man.

[farmer18th]

This is the fix. In the CFR Bones room, they said it was the Clintons' turn, so they made sure they put up a club member who will lose for sure in the general election. John McCain gets a carrier named after him and he gets to walk around on deck like a real soldier who doesn't make deals with the Viet Cong to keep POW collaborater secrets sealed.

Everybody's happy. Right?

[TCats]

LOL - Birds of a feather or some such thing? Takes one to know one? So much comes to mind at seeing the headline.

The plain and simple fact is that GHWB, by dint of his inability to conduct even a semblance of a campaign and his naivete’ concerning the Dems, gave us Clinton I. Now, his son, W, by dint of his failure to adhere to the principles he espoused in gaining our support and trust, has set the stage for Clinton II. So this brings to mind another saying - “Like Father like son”

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Amnesty for illegal aliens, now there’s a legacy to work for! What’s next, a mosque on every military base?