[kindred]

[President Bush questioned those on the right who question McCain. He called such criticism “grossly unfair” and an “unfair attack.”]

Who cares what that rino says, he has proven himself unwise by being but another rino of the moderate disaster the GOP now is.

[MaggieCarta]

MaggieCarta to GOP:

Yeah, I’m a SQUIRREL, alright.
Seriously
Questioning
Ultraliberal
Inane
Reasoning (and)
Rhetoric
Everday
Let’s roll!

[sauropod]

I’d rather be waterboarded than vote for Juan McCain.

[EternalVigilance]

John McCain is a good person.

Right. And Benedict Arnold was the hero of Saratoga.

[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.

[Grunthor]

“GOP to Conservatives: Drop Dead”

That is about what I heard.

[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.

[MEGoody]

As with small children, many of the entrenched, beholden, or power-hungry hierarchy of the Republican party, simply wish conservatives could be seen, but never heard.

I agree that the GOP seems hardly a conservative party. But sadly, if they were to become truly and only conservative, they would never win elections. The unfortunate reality is, most of America is not truly conservative. Many lie on the spectrum somewhere around the middle, and far too many are far to the left.

While I am perturbed that they seem to think we should just shut up and vote for the "R", I find it unlikely that they are going to change.

[WOSG]

We have literally hundreds of fantastic conservative elected officials who are proud Republicans at the national level and in the 50 states. Most conservatives are Republicans and most Republicans are conservatives.

we conservatives need to show more confidence and recognize that the non-conservatives cannot run us out of the party nor can they control, if *we* stick together and stand up under a unifying conservative banner.

This should not be about what we are against, this should be about - what are we FOR.

Unify around that set of principles:
- lower taxes
- judicial conservative judges
- secure the border, enforce immigration law
- less spending and regulation
- protect life, born and unborn
- protect American sovereignty from depradations by UN, global warming treaties, ICC etc.
- etc.

We can get 90% of Republican officeholders to support on 90% of this.

[Mamzelle]

re: For those conservatives or talk radio hosts who still don’t get it, or who are still not prepared to compromise their principles for the party, then some elder statesmen have some names they’d like to call you.))0

LOL!!

[Luke21]

Sounds like the posts we read here. They blast us in every way possible for not falling into line behind our enemy of the last ten years who these Rino’s all nominated.

[Gaffer]

“McCain Refuses to Pander.”

So do I. GOP, take a hike and see me after November 2008 when you're wondering what went wrong.

[Yaelle]

Great column.

Since we are now stuck with McCain, is there any way that we can tell HIM to get with the program? Do conservatives have any power here? Is there a way to get him to consider conservative policies to be the only mandate he must follow once he gets in there? Is there ANYTHING we can do?

Because Obama (or Clinton) is not an option.

[AllseeingEye33]