McCain to CPAC: What we got here is a failure to communicate.
Posted on 02/09/2008 8:17:28 PM PST by GVnana
(If we can win this culture and keep our children educated.)
McCain to CPAC: What we got here is a failure to communicate.
I saw it. It was a good flick.
Unforgiven was one of the few westerns that took the glory out of the gunfight and made it the dirty killing business it was. I would have loved to have read the book the guy wrote after watching that last gunfight.
On campaign finance reform, however, something from McCain still feels necessary. There's a sense in which social conservatives need from a Republican, above all, certainty about the Supreme Court--and so, when President Bush forgot and nominated Harriet Miers, they quickly reminded him. McCain, however, is trapped by campaign finance reform. Where does he imagine he can find a justice who will both be a reliable conservative and uphold McCain-Feingold? One or the other has to go, and though McCain named John Roberts and Samuel Alito as model justices in his speech, it remains a question whether he thinks McCain-Feingold is worth the price of another nonconservative justice sitting on the Supreme Court.
So far, most of the interest in him comes from Beltway media elite.
McCain lost to Huckabee today in Kansas 24% to Huckabee's 61% - and Kansas is not the Bible Belt!
The facts are, conservatives in the Heartland, not only in the South, don't trust and don't particularly even like John McCain.
The day before the Caucus on Saturday, I received no fewer than 4 "robo" calls for McCain and that was during the 3 hours I was home!
The media write off the South as though it was the hayseeds and red necks are were the ones who didn't want John McCain to represent them in November.
The state of Kansas does not consist of the "duling banjo guys", and runs from suburban areas neighboring Kansas City, MO to the Colorado line (434 miles across)
Yes, McCain came in second in the state but Ron Paul did half as well with very little media puffery and much less money.
Bless Mitt Romney for going out and allowing the truth to shine for all to see - that real Republicans and conservatives do not want McCain and will even vote for Huck to avoid it.
We are facing a real problem for November and Romney may be the smart one in the end.
The problem is that when Republicans win, it doesn’t seem to do us any good.
What did you think of the gunfight scene in “Open Range”?
Received my quarterly request from the GOP for money today. First sentence read something like “Imagine a liberal in the White House.” I scrawled on it “A liberal like McCain?” and returned it to them. With no check of course.
Never saw it. Is the movie worth a look?
Reminds me of this election Kimball, will the GOP show up at the very end like Munney did after he got the heck beaten out of him, and his friend had been killed?
“They got a sign on him down at Greeley’s”
We never get everything we want. The world doesn't work that way, especially in politics.
I am amazed at how short some people's memories really are. Don't remember the Carter years? Don't remember the horrific excesses of the Clintons?
You're going to get losses in your lives that will take generations to undo with opposition we have this year.
The read I get on McCain from conservatives is that it goes beyond policy disagreements. They hate the guy. It’s almost reflexive, now. I think if the vote was limited to conservatives, he’d still have a tough time beating Hillary.
I do not doubt him.
I know for certain he intends to close GITMO and let those muslim terrorists come to the US, give them lawyers, habeus corpus and treat them as petty criminals instead of the America-hating terrorists they really are.
I know for certain he will end any effort at intensive interrogation and will institute "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" rules of interrogation.
I know for certain that he will follow the democrats' lead in foreign policy and continue to poke conservatives in the eye every chance he gets.
No doubt at all.
I am no McCain supporter. I'm still disappointed that Fred dropped out of the race. After that, I briefly considered voting for Romney, only to see him drop out this week.
However, there is absolutely no comparison between McCain and Clinton, or McCain and Obama.
McCain screwed us on some big things - McCain/Feingold, McCain/Kennedy, Gang of 14, etc and I am still mightily POd about it. However, on everything else, he's been fairly conservative, especially the War on Terror.
We have a quarter of a million service members in harm's way, and we have almost 4000 more who will have died in vain, if Clinton or Obama win the White House. They NEED McCain's support. Now, a guy who agrees with us 82% of the time, according to the American Conservative Union, NEEDS our support in order to be president.
If he needs us, then we have some bargaining power - and his past sins should cost him. What price? Simply put - THE FUTURE.
We support McCain, he gives us a solidly conservative VP. A rising star, who will step into the Oval Office in 2012, or 2016, or whenever the Lord calls McCain home.
He'll need Congressional Republicans to get things done, and he'll need all of them, including the conservatives. They'll be pressure on him - have you forgotten Harriet Myers?
Will he be perfect? No, of course not. But, the perfect is the enemy of the good. We can't have Ronald Reagan, so get over it. Let's strike the best deal we can, for our troops now, and our position as conservatives in the future.
That's a mean thing to say about Jack Palance.
Oh, I loved it. Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner. Touted as the most realistic gunfight ever filmed. It’s frequently on cable.
McCain’s campaign finance reform is BIG GOVERNMENT one closer step to ‘government funding’ of elections. One of those things that never seems to get the attention when McCain supporters make the claim he is against government spending.
Conservatives had NO voice or power to prevent McCain from perverting the First Amendment. That being the case I have no reason to believe that he would select anyone to the Supreme Court who would in any way strike down his legacy.
The man is an old man and I have no reason to believe that anybody is going to start changing who he is.... He believes he is OWED the position of presidency much like Hillary believes she is OWED.
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