Posted on 03/04/2008 7:56:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If you look at the Romney, Hunter, Fred (and probably half of the Huckabee votes), what you have is the core of the core of the Republican party refusing to support McCain.
It does not bode well for McCain, really.
I am a big Republican supporter; the kind that flies candidates around and hosts dinners. (Went to one for Cornyn the other day, in fact -— got my pic with the VP, which is really why I went.)
I won’t give McCain a penny. I doubt I will vote for the man. (I might if it mattered, but given that he’ll still lwin in Texas, I’ll vote for someone else.)
Just a lowly peon here...LOL...but the other races, such as Cornyn’s, were the reason I thought it was foolish for anyone to cross over and vote on the Dem ticket. Some of the Republican races were pretty tight here and immigration enforcement was a factor in one of those races (Nathan Macias/Doug Miller). Looks like Props 1 & 2 on immigration enforcement and voter IDs passed overwhelmingly, which is great news. But you are right, McCain should not consider the Texas vote a mandate any more than Perry should for his 39%, but be assured that his arrogance will win out as it has with Perry, so we must keep a fire under him to do the right thing.
Nice try. Principle? You think you’re being principled by handing over our miltary to those who wish to gut our military? You think it is principled to hand over the POTUS to the dims who will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in this war? Go ahead and take your marbles home and cry about your loses. People who play this “I won’t vote for anyone but the perfect candidate” BS make me want to puke.
I'm with you here. The war has to be won, and we all know that we will have defeat snatched from the jaws of victory if the Dim's win the WH. Once the war in Iraq has reached a favorable conclusion, the GOP will have to make a decision for it's future.
Props 1&2 did pass? I didnt stay up last night to watch Texas results.
Where can I see all the results?
I am in the Dallas TX area.
It is the search engine for the results, you can find info for the whole state or by county.
Thanks!ravingnutter will check it out.
I can and I suggest you bust your butt to help get rid of McCain before September 1.
The US doesn't need a liberal president like McCain destroying our country from within while others are sacrificing their life from without.
Get rid of the angry little liberal!
Agreed
"Nobody running is running for me." floriduh voter; I nominate myself for quote of the day.
Yes, the GOP nominated Bob Dole as the opponent to Bill Clinton in the ‘96 race. IMO, Dole was quite a bit more conservative than McCain is and yet, even after actually watching Clinton and his cronies in “action” for 4 years, the voters walked right into that voting booth and pulled the switch to allow BJ to govern for another 4 long years.
My only point, I suppose, is that the people may not be so “quick” to elect a conservative congress in 2010. I would love to see it, but I’m just not at all sure it will happen that way. We’ll see.
Hi FV... haven’t run into you in a bit! Hope you are well and taking care!
Yes, cartoons! The honest truth is, that when I think of the condition we are in as a country it brings tears and emotion that I can hardly deal with.
Oh.... a side family note. We go to court on Friday. Adopting our last foster daughter , age 16, and our 9 year old grandson... ( gs is a long sad story)...needless to say for a pair of ol seniors we are keeping active !!
Polly
If things get nasty in the Democrat race, the GOP would be better off running Bob Dole (again) than running McCain. McCain would draw Democrat voters who would then vote Democrat down ticket. If Bob Dole were on the ticket, the Democrats who were alienated by the eventual Democrat nominee would be more likely to stay home.
Bill Clinton was not nearly so liberal as many people made and continue to make him out to be. He actually signed a lot of the conservative legislation that Congress passed in 1995-1996. Unfortunately, when Clinton took credit for signing all that stuff, the Stupid Party proceeded to bash Clinton (and effectively repudiate the agenda they themselves had actually initiated) rather than remind people that to continue Clinton's agenda they needed to elect Republicans to Congress.
A "ban all guns" politician is less dangerous than a "reasonable restrictions" one. The former is so much more likely to actually get stuff passed that despite the smaller size of the incremental infringements, their cumulative impact over time is much greater.
yes McCain-Feingold was an attack on free speech, but I think his motive was to clean up politics, misguided as it was.
Any particular basis for that belief? I can believe Fred Thompson might have believed that was the objective, but given how it's written I can't attribute such belief to the author.
How often do most people hear any real conservative ideas? If the Democrats propose a program and the Republicans only want to give if partial funding, what are people supposed to think? The Democrats will paint the Republicans as greedy nasty people who want to keep more than their share of wealth, and the Republicans will do nothing to counteract that.
The reason that so few people are conservative is that the supposed spokespeople for conservatism refuse to actually preach it. We're supposed to believe that it would be bad for GOP spokepeople to preach conservatism because not enough people believe in it? Isn't that supposed to be the whole point of trying to spread a message?
A small quibble would be that if we have the MOJO to get a muscular conservative caucus in congress, then we could box in anyone, including hillary or Obama.
In fact, they might be easier to box in. - But I really doubt that we have anything like that clout.
The trend is your friend as I say in investing, and it doesn’t look good to me.
It may be a very long wait... If ever.
Thanks for abandoning my son ...
Ouch. Come on guy. No one is abandoning our children.
You cannot seriously state that we have to accept any crazy liberal just because they have an R beside their names and support military action at this time.
McCain’s strong negatives are legion.
Your son’s service is applauded.
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