Posted on 02/09/2008 10:32:20 AM PST by TenYearLurker
There's an old Groucho Marx riff in which he launches a new career as a stick-up artist -- while worrying that his native cowardice may not induce the requisite fear among his victims. Sure enough, after a little time in a dark alley he springs out to confront his first victim, points his gun to his own head and says, "Take one step closer and I'll kill myself."
Such is the posture today among pundits on the far right of the Republican Party as Sen. John McCain moves closer to receiving his party's nomination. Consider the destructive implications of their pledge to work against Mr. McCain's nomination and even -- in the event he is nominated -- not to vote in the general election. Start with where it would leave our country -- presumably under the leadership of either Democrat candidate -- in the two domains where we will face critical challenges in the years ahead: our national security and the threat of an economic meltdown.
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Washington insider defends a brother.
10 year lurker ? welcome to FR seems inappropriate...but it’s the best we got.
welcome to FR
Welcome.
Once again the idiots can’t grasp the concept that insulting us is not a winning strategy. They can sling insults and jokes all they want but in the end RINOs will need to learn to blame themselves once in a while.
My wife and I both think McCain is a wrong choice for President. I guess two wrongs make us Right!
Conservatives just say SHOW ME JOHN
Being spun to belive in a McCain we know has never existed does not convince us to support him, it angers us because we know we are being lied to.
Right now McCain supporters best tactic is to simply post what the Democrat candidates are saying on any issue that pisses Conservatives off. Your only hope is that the Democrats manage to scare Conservatives more then McCain pisses them off.
I have no doubt most Conservatives will be scared into supporting McCain in Nov by the Democrats. Simply saying “Well they are worse” “or “McCain is really a great Conservative” isn’t going to work. We know better. We know McCain’s real record.
What I suggest is McCain supporters simply post what the Democrats Candidates are saying on what ever issues the person angry at McCain is posting about. If they are mad about taxes, post what Obama and Hillary plans are on taxes. Mad on immigration post their immigration plan.
The Democrats themselves are your best chance of changing peoples minds about McCain. Telling us what a great guy he is isn’t going to sell to Feepers. We know his real record on things like Iraq. His real record differs quite a bit from the air brushed one presented by his campaign
I personally think it is a waste of time. I think McCain’s record has so poisoned the well that McCain supporters are wasting their time. However, if McCainiacs are going to keep spaming the board with McCain ads, they might at well at least TRY to be effective, rather then merely annoying.
WSJ is proamnesty, of course they like mcccain.
HOW DO THEY THINK INSULTING US WILL WIN US?
He hopes we hate her more than we hate him.
For one thing a lot of it is "venting", and Fur Shur no one at WSJ is allowed to vent, nor is someone with a "venting" personality type even allowed to apply for employment there.
Closed shop. Closed little minds. No blood in their veins anyway.
Sure, there'll be some folks who don't vote but there won't be a big campaign to not vote. All of us know that if McCain makes the big office we'll have plenty of time to harrass him, and bring pressure on him, and make him wish for the release of resignation or death.
John McCain's time as President will be a living hell because even his best friends are going to tell him he's nuts until he has a total cerebral blow-out.
Revenge is best served cold you know.
"Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, could be the next Ronald Reagan." (638.60 KB pdf file
We need one page of these that are fronts and, one page of these for the backs, that we can print and cut, to fill the prepaid envelopes from the RNC and the ACU.
There will be a price to pay for supporting McCain.
We can vote conservative on Senate and House primary seats, and vote for anyone other than McCain on the Presidential seat, including a democrat in the general election.
WSJ loves open boarders so it’s no surprise they love McCain.
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`Sup.
WSJ is wrong on conservatives.
Songbird`s ACU rating since 1998 places him as the 5th worst “republican” in the Senate.
( http://www.townhall.com/blog/ )
Dear Mr. Robert McFarlane,
Your points are worth squat after McCain devastates the American economy with tens of millions of new illegals (95% of which will be registered as Democrats) and his adherence to global warming dogma.
50 million Mexicans added to our population in the next 10 years will turn the US into a third world country. So at that point we are to give a crap about Saudi oil?
And it is moot anyway. I don’t see McCain getting elected with or without the help of we on the “far right”. Far right as defined by you. We could all be singing his praises tonight, he still can’t win the general election. Liberals that vote for liberals vote for the ones with (D) after their names, not (R).
The 33% of the Republican Party that gave us McCain, including apparently McFarlane, had best get busy on the phone banks, fund raising, and lit drops; because the folks who have done this grunt work for the last 7 Presidential campaigns will be sitting this one out.
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