Posted on 02/17/2008 10:20:04 AM PST by calcowgirl
McCain? No Way!
by Sen. HL "Bill" Richardson (ret.)
Chairman of the Board, GOA
Americans are being told by the mainstream media that conservatives have no other choice than to back the hypocrite from Arizona. All that is required is to pretend he is "really" a conservative. "So, crawl under the big Republican tent and vote for McCain," we are told. "Besides, what other choice do you have?"
We have plenty of choices, none of which calls for casting our vote for the lesser of two presidential evils.
First, the Republican race isn't over. Huckabee is still around and as Kansas and Louisiana should point out, the Romney vote flocked to Huckabee. Not that they loved Huckabee, but that they have zero trust in the promises of McCain. Even if Huckabee loses, what makes anyone think conservatives will vote for McCain?
Don't you liberals get it? The republican conservative believes McCain would be a vindictive president. He's proven his dislike for conservatives and would gut us at every opportunity.
Why do I say that? Because of three decades of experience as a Republican California Senator and a fifty year activist in the conservative movement. I have first hand, in-their-face experience with elitist RINO's (Republican in Name Only) office holders. They are biblically ignorant, power hungry, status seeking egotists who have no difficulty aiding their liberal Democrat colleagues whenever their arms are politely twisted. The one thing they have in common with liberal Democrats is their dislike of all conservatives, especially those who are Bible-believing. McCain, as president, would stifle the voices of elected Republican leaders and try to legislate the conservative movement out of existence.
There is no reason why any conservative should be depressed, especially if they look at past history. I clearly remember the political climate in 1964. We newly-awakened conservatives had a real friend running for the Republican nomination. Barry Goldwater defeated a liberal Republican in the primaries, but in the general election, the mainstream media slaughtered him. In 1964 it was easy to do; we had no effective political action committees, no conservative organizations, few pro-life activists, little religious participation, no talk radio, a handful of articulate conservative legislators, no fax machines and zero Internet. After the 1964 November election, all looked hopeless. Not a bright star on the horizon....But!
In 1966, we conservatives elected an actor as Governor of California. I was elected to the State Senate. The thespian and I were greener than grass but we were both quick to learn. Ron Reagan became a national star, a conservative leader in the nations most popular state. He couldn't be ignored.
I founded Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners of California. We became the second largest pro-Second Amendment organization in America with membership in the hundreds of thousands. We concentrated our efforts on electing pro-gunners to the legislature and stopping anti-gun legislation. We grew rapidly and were quite successful. During liberal Jerry Brown's eight years as governor, not a single anti-gun bill was signed into law. The reason was simple -- although the liberal Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature, no anti-gun legislation passed from either house to find its way to the Governors desk.
The entire gun movement is close to accomplishing that feat on a national level. As long as the gun community hangs together, it will make little difference on gun issues who is sitting in the White House. The same could be true of other major conservative organizations as long as they stay in the fight. We are much better off than in 1964 and much better organized.
The other good news is that some of the weak-sister Republicans are leaving office -- not willing to scrap it out with the liberal Democrats. Hooray, happy to see you go! Call Gun Owners if you need a ride out of town. We have an opportunity to replace them with tough, no nonsense conservatives. Already, some very fine men are seeking these vacancies.
We at Gun Owners intend to be very engaged in Congressional and US Senate races.
I personally will not cast a vote for the presidency -- that is, if McCain is the Republican nominee. Under no circumstances will I vote for either of the Democrats. This will be the first time in fifty years that I have made this choice. I hope it will be the last.
Sorry you are so blind just because McInsane has an ‘R’ by his name. Sounds like if Hillary put an ‘R’ by her name you would vote for her too.
Be alert! America needs more lerts.
Re-typing will.... arrrrrrrrrrrrr
So did I. I was razzed a lot by family and friends over it too. LOL I didn't care. I provided for them too. IF something would have happened, I was ready for it, and then they would have appreciated it.
Common sense dictates preparedness regardless of whether there are danger signs on the horizon.
I agree. Before Y2K, I had never prepared for anything. We never had any earthquakes, tornadoes, or any of that stuff, so I never prepared for anything. Never even 'thought' about it. Three years later, we did get a tornado and it hit my house. LOL What a wake up call that was. Then I realized that natural disasters can strike anywhere, anytime.
Political instability is only one of several possible emergency situations that could arise. Many of them more likely. But it never hurts to throw the idea out there.
I think so too. I've kept up supplies on a lot of food items, etc. Most of what I've let get down is 223 ammo because it's been used. I've still got a lot, but it's not what I want to have on hand. Now, more than ever it's important to stock up while we can. I even plan to learn how to reload and then I'll get all the supplies I need to reload. That bunch of traitors in DC will do anything to control us, and we're going to be needing to defend ourselves. If not from them, from all the crazies out there.
Be alert! America needs more lerts.
That's for sure. We can all do our part to make sure we aren't part of the problem if a situation arrises where things prevent supplies from reaching the stores.
FWIW, it's just not good to let perfectly good ammo lay around doing nothing. ;^)
LOL. Nope!
But I think your chances are pretty good by hanging around here. In different times, I bet RR would have been a freeper. ;-)
I’m sure he would have enjoyed the quips and would have written some of the best ones.
FWIW, it's just not good to let perfectly good ammo lay around doing nothing. ;^)
Yep, imagine my surprise when I found out that 223 works in deer hunting rifles too. ;o) I bought it for my Mini 14, which, btw, I got for Y2K too. LOL! It's no wonder that I got so much teasing. ;o)
I would like to get 1,000 rds of 7.62X39 (or more) then I would feel free to burn up a bunch of what I have. Until then it's in administrative lock down.
Also a few bricks of .22 lr and 200 - 300 rds of 12 ga. (slugs, 00buck and #4buck)
sighhhhh I guess now is the time.
Best reply I've seen so far on the whole morbid subject!!!
You touched all the poisonous points!!!
P.S. Speaking of "poison," we in CA have an elected Insurance Commissioner who will soon be running as another "RINO" for Governor and his name is Steve Poisoner!!!
What percentage did Obama vote with the Republicans? What percentage did Hillary vote with the Republicans? What the hell? You demand that McCain vote %100 with his party. You should join a cult! I don't care for McCain, but I will vote for him over Hillary or Obama. Who has a clue? You angry and bent because you didn't get the perfect right wing conservative nominated. Remember the Rollin Stones, "you don't always get what you want." Stop crying and make the best of what you have! Believe that God is the Sovereign and believe He knows what He is doing, even though you may not understand it nor agree with it.
Excellent post, Phil!
Unfortunately, everything you said is true.
It makes me want to hide under my bed for four years...
During the reign of Marcus Aurelius the celebrated Pax Romana collapsed - perhaps this made the emperor the most forbearing of all Stoics. An important feature of the philosophy was that everything will recur: the whole universe becomes fire and then repeats itself.
All things, the coat of despair, the boots of dread, road maps, briefcases full of promises quartered and quartered again.
Into the fire. Once more into the fray.
Walking on the heads of the sinking senators.
"Walking on the heads of the sinking senators."
Yep.
I've been trying to find a reason to get rid of my tagline for a very long time.
I've given up...
Ha!
We are about to nominate a Martian? lol
Great graphic, Phil!
That's the choice, and if you don't believe it come to California and see what Arnold did to a formerly conservative California Republican Party.
Read the tag line.
Oh goody, you're just as dumb as our dear departed FareOpinion.
Your assertion isn't even arithmetically correct.
Let a vote for McCain = +1
Let a vote for Obama = -1
No vote for either = 0
Your vote for McCain plus my third party vote is 1 + 0 = 1
No change.
Were my third party vote equivalent to voting for Obama it would be 1 + (-1) = 0
Therefore the outcome of my voting for a third party is not the same as my voting for Obama because 0 ≠ 1.
Therefore your assertion is false.
Nor is it the same as not voting, because it sends a clear signal to the GOP of how many more votes they could have had, not to mention that they'll pay for their mistake in taxes because they can't seem to add any more than you can.
I understand that we may never win another election because borders would be dissolved but McCain would have done that anyway. The ONLY advantage of letting Obama win is to let the idiots who think goodies come from the grubbamint for free will finally get their comeuppance in the total chaos that will ensue. Even if McCain would not have pulled out of Iraq, preferring to bankrupt ourselves fighting Islam by exclusively military means instead, the outcome would be the same. I prefer to win a war because, unlike McCain, I know that anything short of total surrender will NEVER please the Muslims any more than it will ever please the left.
The only way to win against either is to defeat them. The one thing we've got going for us against the left, although we don't have a death wish (unlike the Muzzies), we are willing to die defending our freedom. The leftists don't really believe the bull they spew.
Strawmen arguments are so fracking weak.
Strawmen arguments without basis in fact are so fracking weak. So is condecension after having been refuted. Get it through your thick skull: McCain earned his GOA F-.
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