Conservatives to the GOP, Calm Down.
It isn’t fat cats or the Eastern elite or any such which is telling conservatives to drop dead; it’s the ordinary rank and file pubbie voter. Conservatives need to examine all of their positions and see if there might be any sort of a rational cause for it.
Since the Republican party left me I was worried I wouldn’t be able to find a new party....now I have.
I’m now a registered Squirrel (not the Huckabee kind)
Another snarky, McCain Derangement Syndrome thread...
Conservatives to GOP: We hear you loud & clear ... dropping.
As conservatives, we are particularly invested in the survival of our culture and our country. We see that voting the status quo has gotten our country nothing... nothing but broken promises. McCain is a status quo vote. It is true he has vowed to finish the Iraq conflict to the satisfaction of the United States; however, we have to see beyond that one facet in the war on terror. How is the future of America affected if win in Iraq, but pass a law giving voting rights to 65-140 million avowed Marxists with no respect for the law? How is the future of America affected if LOST or the SPP, both of which McCain supports, come to fruition? Moreover, how is the WOT affected if we treat terrorists as civilian criminals, granting them full legal protection under American law along with a free defense by the ACLU... as McCain advocates?
The GOP is and will remain a plantation for conservatives. The GOP and it’s apologists need not worry. I think the vast majority of conservatives will get on Sen. McCain’s bandwagon shortly.
Conservatives aren’t referred to as the battered wives of American politics for nothing.
maggief to GOP. Here’s what I think about your recent request for contributions ...
*shread*
The GOP leaders know the conservatives will flock back to vote for McCain or whomever they put up.
The cry will be something like:
You don’t want Hillary in the Oval Office or
You don’t want Obama in the Oval Office.
Unless the conservatives swallow a bitter pill and take a stand, the GOP leadership wins—they crammed McCain down the conservatives’ throats.
Of course, McCain is going to lose in November as bad or worse than Dole of 96, but the GOP leaders showed the conservatives that THEY are still in control.
It really doesn’t matter for them. There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference amongst the 3 top contenders. Most of the policies the contenders endorse and the same policies the GOP leaders endorse.
Game. Set. Match.
Conservatives lose, even if they vote for McCain or Clinton or Obama.
As opposed to waiving the white flag on the border, enforcing immigration laws, the First Amendment, Global Warming Hysteria, an up/down vote on judges, etc.
Fear-mongering your opponent is a clear demonstration of weakness and a lack of ideas/vision.
So we defeat a Marxist in November, only to fight a semi-Marxist everyday for the next four years?
Paybacks can be a bitch. Be careful in your choices, they can have repercussions later. Prepare the articles of impeachment.
The Title of this article suits me just fine.
I actually got a fundraising call from the RNC last night. Gave the young lady and earful. I told her that until Republicans started acting like Republicans again that they’d get nothing else from me.
She tried to tell me “but we’re trying to change that perception.”
I said “SHOW me the change. Then call me back.”
no, Voters to Conservatives: ‘Drop Dead’
"Unfortunately, the message I’m getting from the Republican establishment is that conservatives should bite their tongues, do their duty, and await the crumbs that may come their way in a McCain administration. Is that what it’s come to? Party loyalty before principle?"
The author makes many good points, primarily party loyalty before principle. Understandably, the ruling GOP wants Americans to choose its liberal but slightly less liberal the other party McCain instead of the extreme left Hillary or Obama. But a vote for this newest version of McCain is a vote for positions I vehemently disagree with and that he might be better fighting the war on terror is not reason enough to ignore that fact.
If McCain picks a true conservative VP, I will vote the Republican ticket in the hope that McCain will have a physical or mental breakdown shortly after taking office. Other than that, I will not vote for McCain as I despise him politically and personally. That being said, it makes little difference because McCain is going to suffer an embarrassing defeat in November.
Conservative to GOP: Constitution Party