Pence Challenges McCain at CPAC(Rep. Mike Pence)

humanevents.com ^ | 02/08/2008 | Rep. Mike Pence

[Yosemitest]

Human Events is a good rag, BUT ....

I will NOT support McCain!!!

"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.

[claudiustg]

Fight! Fight! Fight!

“If you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat!”

— Ronald Reagan

[misterrob]

Most of us cherish the opportunity to lift high the Reagan standard. Yet we cannot just emulate the policies of Reagan without appreciating the politics of Reagan. Ronald Reagan knew when to fight and when to join ranks.

After a bitter and bruising battle with Gerald Ford, he accepted defeat with grace and kept his eye on the future as he endorsed the moderate Ford. While he did not give up the fight, as evidenced by his stand for a party platform that was “a banner of bold, unmistakable colors, with no pastel shades” he also recognized the necessity of unity when he stood before GOP delegates and said:

“This is our challenge and this is why here in this hall tonight, better than we have ever done before, we have got to quite talking to each other and about each other and go out and communicate to the world the message they are waiting for.”

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Food for thought......

[FR Class of 1998]

There is a profound disconnect anytime anyone treats as plausible the idea that McCain would defend our borders. People who don’t get this have spent too much time in DC and have lost touch with the man on the street. He has been the single most fervent supporter of the Mexican invasion, and has as his chief advisor a full-throated Mexican nationalist.

We need real leaders not beholden to the niceties of going along to get along in Washington, DC.

[Anti-Hillary]

Did you actually read the speech? Your inability to look beyond your hatred for McCain will result in the greatest victory for AlQueda to date. Take Mr. Pence’s word to heart. No doubt that McCain will have to rise to the challenge that Mr. Pence has posed to McCain. Take a look at Mr. Pence’s words again:
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“Senator McCain, if you continue to embrace the right, the right will embrace you.

And let me add, to my fellow conservatives here at CPAC and throughout the nation: If we are to ask this from our nominee, we must be willing to accept it when it comes.

If we reject out-of-hand the good faith offerings of the candidates now as too little, too late, we destroy all chance for the candidate to make good on them.

Will we disagree with a President John McCain? You bet.

One year in the minority in Congress has taught me that I would rather be occasionally arguing with a friend on the inside than standing on the outside watching everything we fought for at home and abroad being dismantled before our eyes.

Most of us cherish the opportunity to lift high the Reagan standard. Yet we cannot just emulate the policies of Reagan without appreciating the politics of Reagan. Ronald Reagan knew when to fight and when to join ranks.”

[Digital Sniper]

Conservatives don't have to agree on everything. But we do need to agree on one thing: There cannot be a President Obama or another President Clinton in the White House.

So our choices are either to vote for Hillary/Obama(R) or Hillary/Obama(D).

Sorry...that's no choice. Both are Global Warming morons who think that there should be a "Fairness Doctrine" and that evangelical conservatives are "agents of intolerance" and that our nation can only be great if we tax ourselves into prosperity and roll out the welcome mat for the illegal invaders.

That, sir, is no choice at all.

I'll be voting for the conservatives in the local and congressional races, but no liberal will have my vote...even if they do have an 'R' by their name.

[kellynla]

I will continue to fight for conservatism but given a choice between McCain & a ‘Rat, I’ll hold my nose...again...and vote “R”

We just need to start electing conservatives to governorships in the next four to eight years so that we have a field to choose from.

[CRBDeuce]

Please read the speech again....it had nothing to do with ‘humanevents.com’...It was simply Rep Mike Spence being very Reaganesque! Thanks.

[Gene Eric]

>> But we do need to agree on one thing: There cannot be a President Obama or another President Clinton in the White House.

One could argue that’s two things, but I still count three.

[MNJohnnie]

If McCain were smart, he would go back to the Senate and pick a fight with Democrats on a solidly Conservative issues. Something like Earmark Reform or Spending Caps. Something that would show his commitment to fight FOR us, not just against us.

It looks like Hilly/Obama are going to slug it out for months yet. He has the time.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Another V.P. wannabe. Also, don’t forget about Rep. Pence’s amnesty for illegal immigrants legislation. Pence is conservative with the exception to the illegal immigration issue. Pence also better continue to fight against the full implementation of the Fairness Doctrine if he’s truly serious about the future of conservatism, and I truly question his seriousness to the cause with this pro-McCain article.

[D-fendr]

Unfortunately, prenupts aren’t binding in politics.

[DoughtyOne]

How many ways can they repackage this democrat?

How many times do they really think folks are going to sell out their beliefs?

These words no longer hold power over me.

I serve one master in politcs, and it is conservatism.

The found fathers, the founding principles, Sovereignty, Self-Determination, the Federalist Papers, the U.S. Constition, the Amendments in particular, these are what interest me.

John McCain is an eight year old temper tantrum waiting to explode. Even if he did represent my views, he is not fit to be president. He doesn’t represent my views.

This guy is DOA as it applies to the election in my household. I’m sorry my former fellow Republicans, I can no longer go down this road to destruction with the party I have supported since 1969.

IF, good candidates come along, I’ll vote for them. If more McCains are the rule, I can’t tell you how dead the party is to me.

[kellynla]

“One could argue that’s two things, but I still count three.”

Yep...

We just need to start electing conservatives to governorships in the next four to eight years so that we have a field to choose from.

And in the meantime, maybe, just maybe, a brokered convention will yield Dick Cheney.

[El Gato]

Talk radio makes up the signal battalion of our movement.

Yea, and they are in full mutiny against the RNC's Annointed One

[Digital Sniper]

I will continue to fight for conservatism but given a choice between McCain & a ‘Rat, I’ll hold my nose...again...and vote “R”

By rewarding liberals just because they have an 'R' by their name, you only succeed in further marginalizing the conservative base.

Ever notice why the Democrats can always count on the black caucus, no matter how terribly they treat them? It is precisely because they know the black caucus will also "hold their nose" and vote for their latest abomination.

If you want to see conservatives get the same treatment from the RNC, then by all means...continue holding your nose.

[kellynla]

I understand your point.

But Pence does make a lot of good points.

We just need to start electing conservatives to governorships in the next four to eight years so that we have a field to choose from.

In the meantime, maybe, just maybe, a brokered convention will yield Dick Cheney.

[Edit35]

McCain was the “anonymous” source behind many of the anti-Bush stories the national media published from 2000-2007.

His claim to be this big proponent of “American prestige and honor” falls flat when I consider all the embarrassment McCain has caused the Administration the past eight years.

Gitmo, “secret CIA” safe houses, waterboarding interrogations, illegal immigration, and on and on.

McCain has such a deep-seated hatred of GWB his mental capacity has been clouded.

The only thing good about McCain is that sleeping pills will be reduced, because the man is so boring, voters will fall asleep just listening to his speeches.

[JSDude1]

Cheyney’s just as bad!