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McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
His staff set up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.

McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats

John McCain Goes Left for Money

McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing

Sens. Snowe, Collins to head Maine exploratory committee for McCain

John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004

Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP

McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP

Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO

John McCain's Newt Problem (Infidelity to first wife.)

How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team) (McCain used his influence to cover it up.)

McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia

TEN REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN (Free Republic thread from 2000)

McCain Ties to Lobbyists Troublesome - Newsmax Staff

McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape

McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)

The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.

McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate

John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS

It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory)

UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)

The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008

John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin

This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)

Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)

McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION

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McCain says:

"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"

Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)

"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."

John McCain, enemy of free speech

Not Child‘s Play [McCain/Schumer bill could effect FR?]

John McCain, you treasonous bastard, I challenge you or any of your traitorous cohorts... (thread by Jim Robinson)

There are different ways of looking at this. Looked at in isolation, Reagan probably would back McCain against the Democrats. Reagan was a party loyalist and he’d support the nominee. There’s no way on earth that McCain would have been Reagan’s first choice, though.

However, suppose Reagan had been president the past eight years and been screwed repeatedly by McCain in the U.S. Senate. I think Reagan’s party loyalty was strong enough that he’d still support McCain over the Democrat nominee. However, in order to say that one has to note that McCain’s party loyalty has been AWOL for much of the past eight years. It’s the height of arrogance for a man who has rarely missed an opportunity to undermine the party, and who seriously considered switching to the Democrat Party, to demand party loyalty from us now that he’s wrested the nomination away from other candidates (with the help of crossover voting liberals in the frontloaded early primary states).

Michael Reagan cannot 'know' what his father would do in this exact situation, were he alive today. No one can. Michael is speculating, seemingly basing his opinion on his fear that a Marxist Democrat as president will destroy the country. The 'rally 'round the Republican' bugle call the GOP is sounding is falling on deaf ears. Insulting conservatives - who have decided that the nomination of John McCain is simply too big of an insult - and telling conservatives to shut up and vote for him because he has an 'R' next to his name, won't cut it this time. I won't 'stay home' on election day but I won't vote for John McCain - and I'm not alone in that position.

Most observers already realize that the Republicans are in disfavor with the electorate and that John 'Maverick' McCain is not going to win the election. I believe the 'establishment' Republicans are gearing up to put the blame for the upcoming loss (which will probably be by huge numbers) on conservatives who refuse to vote for McCain on principle. Let them try. McCain is his own worst enemy with his half liberal/half 'moderate', often anti-Republican positions and his cranky, off-putting personality. When the Republicans lose in November, it will be their own fault. I only wish it were otherwise.

The one thing Ronald Reagan did do is he did not quit until the race was over. ........... http://www.pbs.org/newshour/character/essays/reagan.html

When we think of Reagan, we think so immediately of his presidency that we tend to forget what came before. What came before 1980 was 1976--and Reagan's insurgent presidential bid against the incumbent Republican President Jerry Ford. Ford was riding pretty high, he was the good man who followed Nixon after the disgrace of Watergate; but Ford was a moderate liberal Republican, and Reagan thought he was part of the problem, so he declared against him. He ran hard. And by March 1976 he had lost five straight primaries in a row. He was in deep trouble--eleven of twelve former chairmen of the Republican National Committee called on him to get out of the race, the Republican Conference of Mayors told him to get out, on March 18 the Los Angeles Times told him to quit. The Reagan campaign was $2 to $3 million in debt, and they were forced to give up their campaign plane for a small leased jet, painted yellow, that they called "The Flying Banana." On March 23, they were in Wisconsin, where Reagan was to address a bunch of duck hunters. Before the speech, Reagan and his aides gathered in his room at a dreary hotel to debate getting out of the race. The next day there would be another primary, in North Carolina, and they knew they'd lose. Most of the people in the room said, "It's over, we have no money, no support, we lost five so far and tomorrow we lose six." John Sears, the head of the campaign, told the governor, "You know, one of your supporters down in Texas says he'll lend us a hundred thousand dollars if you'll rebroadcast that speech where you give Ford and Kissinger hell on defense." The talk went back and forth. Marty Anderson, the wonderful longtime Reagan aide who told me this story, said he sat there thinking, 'This is crazy, another hundred grand in debt....'

....... McCain does not have 1191 delegates yet and until he does the race is not over. If Mike Huckabee has no chance whatsoever then why is the establishment GOP afraid of him? McCain will wrap this up on March 4th if what the pundits and GOP say is true and that is only 2 1/2 weeks away. There will be plenty of time to consolidate against the Dems at that point. I ask again, what are THEY afraid of?????

Not a bad article, except that the conservatives did not stay at home in 1976 or 2006. The Republican party (and their nominees) failed to offer a viable alternative to the democrat vision and lost the center.

It does not matter who the Republican nominee is if the Republican platform is simply the lite version of the dem platform. The voters will chose the real thing every time.

Change, innovation, growth, and prosperity cannot come from government. However, expanding government can destroy all of them.

Unless the John McCain and the Republican party immediately draw sharp distinctions between themselves and the democrats regarding:

Preserving and restoring individual rights
Shrinking the size of government
Reducing taxes
Fostering a climate of private investment and innovation
Demonstrating that government is the problem and not the solution
Protecting national sovereignty, including securing the borders
Seeking out and destroying America’s enemies wherever they may be
Promoting the rule of law and appointing strictly constitutionalists as judges
Privatising Social Security and Medicaid, ending the entitlement mentality

It is going to be a 43+ state blowout.

The Republicans CANNOT win with a “kindler, gentler” center-left version of socialism. We need candidates who CANNOT spell “bipartisanship” or “comity” and who would only reach across the aisle to clean someone’s clock.

We don’t need diplomats. We need pit bulls who will never pass on an opportunity to openly savage Barack and Hilliary for the stupidity and unreality of their plans; whether it is rebuilding infrastructure, taxing the rich, expanding entitlements, nationalizing health care, or giving away college tuition funding.

Never before have the Republicans been presented such a target rich environment. At a time when they should all have carpal tunnel syndrome from figuratively thumbing rounds into magazines, they literally have their thumbs (as well as their heads) crammed up their posteriors.

If the Republicans REALLY want to win this fall (as opposed to the “go through the motions Pas de Deux” they have demonstrated to date) give the Conservatives sound reasons to vote for them. It is a lot easier then they realize and a lot more fun to be on the attack.

I will know that the Republicans have a fighting chance this fall when the media stop referring to McCain as a maverick and start calling him a fanatic, unfair, mean spirited, and rabid.

With every new Putin speech and fly over McCain looks better.

Yes, all most the party leaders will say they would back McNuts including Reagan, but in the booth he would he would punt, but his son Ron would really vote for McNuts.

Ron said “The reason we have a strong military is to make sure we have no wars.”

Pantload.

This was the VERY thing that drove Reagan to become a Republican in the first place.

“I did not leave the party, the party left me.”

**Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain**

I agree. Ronald Reagan was really a very decent man.

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Yes, he would. I will follow the example of the greatest Republican President of the 20th century (yes, McCain—even greater than Teddy Roosevelt!) and I will vote for the senator from Arizona.

(sniff)

I hope to God we don’t end up with a Hitlery or Hussein in the Oval Office. Think about it folks: Hitlery or Hussein would be commanding our brave troops. I shudder.

Lately I've wondered, while reading FR, if I'm communicating with a lost, 20-something YouTuber.

Too young to remember, or too old and forgotten?

Unlike my father, a lot of conservatives stayed home in 1976, and we got four years of Jimmy Carter, whose main legacy was to drive the Shah of Iran from power and create the Islamic Republic of Iran with a bunch of wild-eyed mullahs running the show. He also gave us 20 percent inflation and long, long lines at the gas pumps. And don't forget 440 days of Americans held hostage by the mullahs.

How can anyone think this war doesn't matter? How long would it take for us to overcome the socialist agendas of a Hillary Clinton or a Barak Obama? These people are VASTLY more ambitious than Jimmy Carter ever was. They don't give a damn about your welfare.

Benedict Arnold was a hero before he sold his soul to King George..
But John McLaim was not/is not and will not be a hero..

John is OWNed by George Soros, the Tides Foundation and the Rockefellers..

[We are still suffering from the legacy of James Earl Carter, thanks to the conservatives who refused to follow Ronald Reagan’s example and instead sulked at home while the nation was being handed over to the worst president in American history.]

As well as;

‘92...Clinton
‘96...Clinton
‘06...minority

What’s the definition of insanity???

McNut kool-aid drinkers are so desperate. The sad thing is that they do not realize they have already lost the election. Sorry no real conservative would ever vote for a like McNut. The only way to save this party is to destroy it, and rebuild it. Promise you McNut will NEVER get my vote. If the Republican party wants to give Conservatives the middle finger, well guess what???? I will do the same.

By staying home those conservatives made possible the future election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

What's that got to do with anything? That's nothing compared to "conservative principles". McCain doesn't have enough. Does he think conservatives are stupid or something?

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