GOP to Conservatives: Drop Dead

Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2008 | Douglas MacKinnon

[HappyinAZ]

I hope HE’s not to busy to convince you to vote for the only guy that will protect the unborn.

[HappyinAZ]

Wow...off your meds?

[TheKidster]

You forgot the sarcasm tag, right?

[Gilbo_3]

Give it up already...

I WILL NOT be guilt-tripped into compromising my moral obligations to God and family ever again.

It is your support of the Rin-o-p that will ensure a socialist sleeps in the White house next year, not my conscious vote for honest government and freedom from tyranny...

LFOD...

[Liz]

MEMO TO McCAIN: If you wanna win, baby, you better tell the hyphenate crowd to get lost.....and that includes Mexican loyalist Juan Hernandez.

McCain's got a strange group around him---BUT McC says he won't "pander" to so/cons to get this important constituency behind his candidacy. According to McQueeg, it's called "pandering" only when applied to conservatives.

McC has no problem pandering to illegals McCain chose a dual-loyalty traitor to be his "Hispanic Outreach Director." Talk about pandering-----McCain said he chose Hernandez because he agrees with his positions.

Juan Hernandez was born in Dallas and decided as an adult to become a dual-national Mexican citizen. His last verifiable job was serving in Mexican President Vicente Fox's cabinet as Fox's "American Reconquista Director." Hernandez then worked for Bush hater George Soros' international foundations---(one such foundation published Hernendez's book that taunts Americans).

Hernandez believes all illegal Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the USA should become dual citizens and consider themselves Mexicans first, "to the 8th generation." The "New American Pioneers" proclaimed in his book are the illegal alien invaders he urges to become settlers in the USA for "Reconquista"---the plan to take back the SW.

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Another group switch-hitting to McCain is Billy Kristol (Fox pundit) his daddy, and their crowd.

The Kristols are cheerleaders for the current admin's most destructive polices---including the twice-failed illegals amnesty plan.

The Kristols are also the architects of Giuliani's failed strategy to religiously cleanse the Repub party and kick conservatievs to the curb. They switched to McCain when their boy Giuliani tanked like a deadweight going down a 300 ft cistern.

[highball]

"conservatives are to the republican party what blacks are to the democrats"

Catchy. But I think it's religious conservatives they view that way. Because the Religious Right will keep on being ridiculous in their backing of someone just because he's a Christian. Did we learn nothing from Jimmy Carter?

That would explain their support of Huckabee.

Either the religious right is actually comprised of Christian Socialists, or they're just playing identity politics.

[antisocial]

“I’d rather have a country to pick up the pieces from, than to just surrender to the One World crowd.”

Pay attention, McInsane IS the one world crowd. He has a Napollian complex.

[Eagle Eye]

What is a given... is that you'll usher in a socialist administration teamed up with an equally socialist Congress.

False. "I" won't usher in any such thing, it will ONLY be those who vote for that type of candidate.

Remember, only affirmative votes count and they only count "for" that candidate. They don't show a break down of votes 'McCain received 4 million votes total, and 3.2 million were against the other candidate and the other 8 hundred thousand were for him...'

Pissed-off-stupid is no way to enter the voting booth.

Calling people pissed off stupid is no way to encourage them to vote for YOUR choice!

Besides, I never even implied that I wouldn't vote, just might not vote for the leading contenders.

Wouldn't that be a shock if people stopped trying to vote for the winner and just voted FOR whomever they wanted in office?

Of course, choking on the GOP choice and holding your nose while compromising your integrity is no way to enter a voting booth either.

[LtKerst]

Hey McCain!!!!

Go To HELL!!!!

Get Ready To LOOSE!!!

I Hate Your Rotten Guts you phony Republican, so much I’m going to vote for a Democrat.

[Grunthor]

“GOP to Conservatives: Drop Dead”

That is about what I heard.

[KevinB]

McCain is calculating, extremely intelligent, ruthless and focused.

Wow, you don't know much about him do you? At a minimum, read his Wikipedia biography, which will likely convince you otherwise. Extremely intelligent, focused people tend not to graduate five from the bottom of their college classes or to have a military career consisting almost solely of crashing airplanes. He is a lifelong loser who is only where he is because of who is father and grandfather were.

[Eva]

In addition, if the GOP has any thoughts that Hillary voters would prefer McCain to Obama, they’re even dumber than I thought.

I’ve been told, in no uncertain terms by the McCainiacs on this board that there will be no deals with conservatives. So, it seems apparent that the conservatives will just have to sit this one out because falling in line behind an inevitable loser would marginalize conservativism forever.

The best that we can do is concentrate on our state races and get conservatives elected in both federal and state legislatures. Make a strong energy policy and sensible environmental regulation the focus because that can be influenced at the state level. National security is a federal issue.

[KevinB]

... or you can support a canidate that is conservative 85% of the time.

I would happily do so if there were one still in the race.

[Grunthor]

“Conservatives need to examine all of their positions and see if there might be any sort of a rational cause for it.”

When a husband beats his wife do you blame her for it? When a young woman walking in public alone at night gets raped, is your first question; “what was she wearing?”

[rycharn]

When driving a car with a tendency to veer left, is it better to fix the car, or to redefine "road" in such a way that the road is always under the car? The GOP is asking us to redefine the road. Conservatives are trying to fix the defective car. Both solutions appear to keep the car on the road, but only the conservative solution gets the car to its desired destination. The GOP solution only creates the illusion of having solved the problem.

The GOP establishment wants conservatives to back McCain. The problem is that the GOP has forgotten that conservatism is rooted in principle. There is only so much conservatives can do to "reach out" without abandoning their principles. That said, it makes more sense to hold McCain to conservative standards than to redefine conservatism such that McCain fits the the new definition. And that's what I see happening -- Those who keep calling McCain a conservative are trying to redefine "conservative" to include someone who truly doesn't fit the definition.

Attention GOP: Instead of conservatives joining McCain, McCain needs to join conservatism. Yes, conservatives will ultimately choose McCain over the Democrat nominee -- but I'd rather elect McCain because he promotes conservative values, not because he's "better than the alternative."

The headline I want to see: Conservatives Refuse to Pander.

[Liz]

Repubs NEED conservatives to win and they know it. Parties want to win. Period. The Repub party can be dealt with.

They need to be reminded about the party’s harrowing defeat of Nov 2006......when they chased away conservatives.

They tried to foist Giuliani on us-—he’s gone. They tried to foist Mehlman on us-—he’s gone. They tried to foist Mel “open borders” Martinez on us-—he’s gone.

That is all.

[Grunthor]

“More than likely it will be our troops that will suffer”

I keep seeing you McCain supporters post these things. I wonder what exactly you think a Democrat POTUS would do to the troops in Iraq or Afganistan other than bring them home where...well, where NO ONE is shooting at them.

I really believe that you are taking the wrong tack here and that perhaps you need to be pushing completeion of the mission, touting how well things are going, how close our troops are to coming home victorious anyway and that to bring them home prematurely would be like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Or was your point that Hillobama is going to put every last one of our troops up against a wall and shoot them?

[ksen]

Just vote your conscience. God will put who he wants in office.

That's the very reason I can vote third party and not worry myself to death about who will get elected.

Thanks for the reminder CD! ;^)

[Republic of Texas]

Exactly. Don’t worry GOP, we won’t bother you with money or votes anymore. Message heard.

[The Citizen Soldier]

So, it seems apparent that the conservatives will just have to sit this one out because falling in line behind an inevitable loser would marginalize conservativism forever. The best that we can do is concentrate on our state races and get conservatives elected in both federal and state legislatures.

Spot on Eva. That is exactly what I intend to do. Sit out the top of the ticket and vote for conservatives at other levels.

I think the RNC and their ilk are going to be very surprised after the election when they see many more votes for republican candidates for congress and state offices without the "coattail vote" for McCain. Maybe they'll get it then, but I'm not holding my breath.