Posted on 02/08/2008 5:36:30 PM PST by melt
On the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries that would confirm him as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain joined two heretical members of a party that has made itself synonymous with orthodox conservatism--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, both supporters of abortion rights, gay rights and reasonably functional government--at a solar technology plant in Los Angeles. They talked about their shared commitment to address global warming. And they reminded everyone that the Republican Party of John McCain is not the Republican Party of George W. Bush or Rush Limbaugh.
While Democrat Barack Obama's remarkable challenge to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment may yet be the essential story of 2008, McCain's march toward the Republican nomination is the year's more improbable journey. Since climbing out of the campaign coffin...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
So, let me get this article straight. Those who support abortion, gay marriage, socialism and man-made global warming--- are heroes protecting the pillars of Western Civilization.
And those who are destroying Western Civilization, with bizarre, cultist ideas like "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"--- are now the "GOP Taliban".
Or am I missing something?
I’d rather be a GOP Taliban than to be an “Al Qeada-Crat”
To wit: if we (social conservatives) genuinely are as damned "marginal" and "fringe" as they continually huff that we are... then why, oh, why do they [the Republican party] so desperately need our votes in the FIRST bloody place?!?
It's like strolling past a hard, sullen cluster of gargoyle ugly gals in the high school hall one day, and hearing them hiss out the threat: "... well, I'm not going to out with you this weekend!"
Fine by me, ladies; fine by me. Enjoy sulking at home for the next four years, then.
You'll come crawling back around in '12, all the same. You know it... and, more importantly: WE know it.
Kiss kiss, dolls.
We should ignore McKane and put energy to elect conservative Reps and Senators.
"We only keep on hittin' ya 'cause ya keep on openin' ya damned mouth and makin' us all mad an' stuff, Conservatives honey."
John Nichols: The Ike Turner of the Modern Day Republican Party.
That is the plan. The conservative surge will have to be from the bottom up.
Well for starters, reading the Nation is a bit like sniffing glue, sure you can and it’s legal but it will damage brain cells...
How about “McCain struggles to share values with average Americans”?
Obligatory "Kiss, Kiss Doll" shot. She has the the beauty of her ideology all bundled into one.
And by supporting these RINOs, folks have willingly turned the party over to liberals.
The new "leaders" of the GOP.
The Nation is to the left of the old Pravda.
What scares me, is that the nation is to the left of Pravda...
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