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A contract I wish John McCain would sign
Nevada Appeal ^ | Feb. 15, 2008 | by Chuck Muth

Posted on 02/15/2008 6:15:23 AM PST by jdm

It's all but settled. John McCain will be the Republican Party nominee for president in 2008. That has caused much anguish among many conservatives who knew Ronald Reagan - who was a friend of theirs. And Senator, you're no Ronald Reagan, or words to that effect.

Nevertheless, conservative realists recognize that despite all the chinks in the right side of his armor, John McCain still is far more conservative than either Hillary or B.O. But when President Bush declared that John McCain was a "true conservative" this week - which was kinda like Joan Crawford declaring that Britney Spears was a good mom - true, true conservatives said "Huh?"

After seven years of excess spending and rampant government growth (Homeland Security, No Child Left Behind, Medicare prescription drugs, etc.) under "compassionate conservative" governance, the right ain't readin' anybody's lips again. Trust, but verify. And this time they want it in writing. Preferably in blood.

GOPUSA.com has drafted a "Contract with Conservatives" that it hopes the Republican presidential nominee will embrace. "Conservatives need something more than simple assurances," writes GOPUSA's publisher, Bobby Eberle. "For our time, effort, money, and votes, we need a pledge. We need a pledge from our presidential nominee to uphold the core Republican values that built this party, and which have taken a backseat to politics in recent years."

Right-footed GOP foot-soldiers are flocking to GOPUSA's Web site to sign the online petition declaring that they "will support our presidential nominee and other candidates for high office, only if they uphold the Contract with Conservatives." An extraordinary declaration of grassroots independence. The Contract includes:

Immigration Reform: No "comprehensive" plan. Border security first. THEN we can talk about the rest. And when it comes to dealing with illegal aliens already in the country, they "should not be given special consideration for citizenship and should not be put ahead of those seeking to come to America legally." Pretty reasonable.

Tax Reform: Support for not only lowering taxes, but reforming the tax system to make it simpler. And stop using the tax code "for social engineering." Hard to argue with that.

Limited Government: SHRINK the size and scope of the federal government, not just slow its growth. Earmarks and pork should be eliminated. Limit the government to doing "only those core jobs enumerated in the Constitution." What a radical notion.

Judges: Select judicial nominees who will "follow the law rather than make new laws from the bench." And make sure they get up-or-down votes in a timely fashion - a clear shot at Sen. McCain and his "Gang of 14" that prevented Republicans from breaking Harry Reid's judicial filibusters a couple years back.

Life: Support overturning Roe vs. Wade and oppose embryonic stem cell research. Of course, this is where fiscal conservatives and social conservatives divide their forces, which is how Sen. McCain ended up winning the GOP presidential nomination in the first place. Thanks, Mike Huckabee.

Free Speech: Repeal McCain-Feingold. I suspect this one just might be a bit hard for Sen. McCain to swallow.

All in all, a pretty good treatise. Sen. McCain won't embrace all of it, but then again, no one really expects him to. All this does is put a possible President McCain on notice that conservatives will not support him blindly the way they often did President Bush when W wandered too far off the left side of the conservative reservation.

Fool conservatives once, shame on you; fool conservatives twice, shame on us. We won't get fooled again.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservativism; contract; mccain; mcmexico; muth
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To: ari-freedom

So the fact that he votes with Hillary and Teddy and Obama makes you think he’d be a better choice than Hillary and Obama ?

That’s some kind of disconnect.


81 posted on 02/15/2008 8:53:33 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: HD1200
ASININE. You're giving President Bush a pass for being a drunk, and holding BO up as a pariah because of past drug use, based on percentages??? There are a heck of a lot of reasons NOT to vote for BO, and you are citing the stupidest of 'em all.

And I love that tired ol' line, "I was a freeper with a different name..." Et tu, Ash?

82 posted on 02/15/2008 10:32:46 AM PST by grellis ("Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.” —Ronald Reagan)
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To: grellis

Last post under my other name was 10/17/2007 when some person tracked it down over the internet, got my eamil and gave it to those friends of yours over at DU.


83 posted on 02/15/2008 11:02:39 AM PST by HD1200
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To: jonrick46
I can't believe you wrote that .... crap. You think the US Senate is the only place nasty sharks swim? So, if he's surrounded by nasty sharks as POTUS... like, hmmmm ~~scratching head~~ who could be worse out there in this big ole world, then he repells by selling out and that's okay? I think not. Soften anger? It's a principled reasoned stance.

AND... besides, I don't want Budweiser Barbie for First Lady.

84 posted on 02/15/2008 12:09:15 PM PST by exhaustedmomma (MAVERICK voting against McCain. I don't care what Geraldo says.)
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To: ari-freedom

I wonder if Juan Hernandez is there with him in Laredo?


85 posted on 02/15/2008 12:12:12 PM PST by Sybeck1 (It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
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To: HD1200

And what was your sign-up date then? 10/15/07? Whatever, noob.


86 posted on 02/15/2008 12:18:50 PM PST by grellis ("Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.” —Ronald Reagan)
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To: jdm
From Muth's essay...But when President Bush declared that John McCain was a "true conservative" this week - which was kinda like Joan Crawford declaring that Britney Spears was a good mom...

Similes such as this are truly priceless!

My only issue with the above contract is that the drafters really should find a way to give McCain a graceful path to comply with the last item.

Something like, "revise McCain-Feingold..." might work.

87 posted on 02/15/2008 12:23:34 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan
It would take a lot of convincing, and I’m not sure McCain can win me over because I would want more than words...which at this point in the campaign is all he can offer.

Words are cheap, and nine months of the finest words will never make up for twenty-four years of betrayal. The military is very important to me, but only because I first hold integrity, decency, patriotism and truth in high esteem. A vote for John McCain, a reward to an arrogant, narcissist a***ole, would be a betrayal of all those things.

McQueeg can pound sand. Let him troll for votes from his good buddies in the Senate Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy, Mrs. Lindsey Graham and Barbara Boxer.

88 posted on 02/15/2008 12:40:40 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: E. Cartman
Words are cheap, and nine months of the finest words will never make up for twenty-four years of betrayal. The military is very important to me, but only because I first hold integrity, decency, patriotism and truth in high esteem. A vote for John McCain, a reward to an arrogant, narcissist a***ole, would be a betrayal of all those things.

I agree with you 100%. I respect those who have decided to vote for McCain, but I just don't think I can bring myself to vote for someone who thinks so poorly of me (as a conservative, not an individual). I've not ever been a big McCain fan, and after the 2000 whining session post South Carolina, I really began to dislike him.
89 posted on 02/15/2008 1:29:16 PM PST by IMissPresidentReagan ("Don't give up your ideals, don't compromise, don't turn to expediency..."Ronald Reagan, 1976)
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To: jdm
Nevertheless, conservative realists recognize that despite all the chinks in the right side of his armor, John McCain still is far more conservative than either Hillary or B.O.

I don't see that. He is only slightly more conservative than either of those hard core Marxists. Anyone who would seriously look into forming a third party to unseat a Republican President after his first term in a time of war isn't conservative and doesn't give a flying moonbat's ass about the military or the WOT.

90 posted on 02/15/2008 1:38:59 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: cinives

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. I don’t think we have a choice. Our freedom is too precious to be thrown away by a bunch of people who don’t care about our troops or our countrymen. They only look for their agenda.


91 posted on 02/15/2008 5:10:46 PM PST by SWEETSUNNYSOUTH (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: grellis

Hey Grellis, I already got on him on his nubeness. I don’t like nubes going off either. Do me a favor Freeper and check out post # 62.

Regards


92 posted on 02/15/2008 5:48:22 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: jonrick46
"We have the advantage."

If you crave Pyrrhic victories then go ahead and vote for John McCain. He won't win anyhow.

We get nothing by voting for this fellow.

McCain's base is a bunch of liberals and democrats who felt a bit frisky and safe by voting for him in a Republican primary.

Those voters will not be there for McCain in November, and neither will true Republican conservative voters. McCains base is/are democrat voters.

It is over.

93 posted on 02/15/2008 6:03:32 PM PST by Radix (I do not want to press one for English.)
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To: devistate one four

If you really wanted the GOP to win in November, which I don’t, you would be better off voting for Hillary in Wisconsin.


94 posted on 02/16/2008 2:07:42 AM PST by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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To: Radix
Those voters will not be there for McCain in November, and neither will true Republican conservative voters. McCains base is/are democrat voters"

This fight between the moderates and the conservatives in the Republican Party has gone on as long as I can remember. I know, it was going on during the Gerald Ford campaign. Look who we got when Gerald Ford failed to get elected.

I have faith that enough conservatives in the Republican Party will unite and elect McCain. I happened with Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr. and GW.

95 posted on 02/16/2008 7:04:08 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: jdm
He won't do it. I'd love to see him support a party and its base he's scorned for so long. Can any one name one real conservative in the candidate's inner circle who influences the candidate's thinking and policy choices? In fact, McCain has a La Raza-Mechista Open Borders staffer as his immigration issues director. I can't vote for a candidate who won't secure our borders, an issue I consider even more important to the country's future than the War On Terror.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

96 posted on 02/16/2008 7:10:55 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ARE SOLE
And post #83. Yeah, I spend all my time at DU...

I don't even care if s/he has been on this forum since '97. Trashing BO because of past drug use is stupid. I can think of a very well known, much admired conservative who admitted, not so long ago, that he was addicted to illegally obtained prescription drugs. I can think of another who has a serious gambling problem, and several who have difficulty maintaining fidelity within their marriages--and those are all recent. Bringing up somebody's drug use from decades ago is stupid, and it makes us all look bad. Noob move.

Heck, I did all kinds of drugs in my teens. Maybe I am a dem!

97 posted on 02/16/2008 5:49:51 PM PST by grellis ("Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.” —Ronald Reagan)
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To: NavVet

I can’t vote for the hill. I don’t want the repubs either. so I refuse to stay home and brood over this mess and I might throw a wrench in the mix this way. However, I still haven’t looked a independent candidate yet.. we’ll see. take Care


98 posted on 02/18/2008 10:46:50 AM PST by devistate one four (nam '68)
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