Posted on 03/05/2008 10:14:20 PM PST by RussP
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If there's a single thread that runs through the e-mails I receive from peevish Republicans, it's that none of the current candidates possesses the conservative purity of Ronald Reagan. One could almost get the idea that Dutch was betrayed by Pontius Pilate and crucified on Calvary. But that wasn't exactly the case. The fact of the matter is that Gov. Reagan gave Gov. Jerry Brown a run for his money – or should I say our money? – when it came to raising taxes here in California. But, in spite of the additional revenue, he was responsible in large part for the streets of our cities being turned into public latrines by the unwashed, the unwanted and the insane when, to save a few bucks, he oversaw the closing of California's mental hospitals. He also signed the nation's most liberal abortion bill. Although he had a change of heart a scant six months later, one never hears him condemned for flip-flopping ...
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What truly confounds me are those cuckoos who would prefer to see such socialists as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama win the election than to sully themselves by voting for a Republican who was only their second or third or even fourth choice. To them I say, before proving that you place your own ego gratification above what's best for America, keep in mind that most of the Supreme Court justices are in their 70s or even, in the case of John Paul Stevens, fast approaching 90. Do you really want one of those two Democrats stacking the Court for the foreseeable future? Presidents come and go, but justices go on seemingly forever. Kennedy and Scalia have been on the bench since Reagan put them there. Stevens, for heaven's sake, was appointed during the ...
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I respect your incredible post Joe. Sounds like good common sense.
If McCain becomes a pro-Constitution, pro-individual liberty anti-statist, I will vote for him. If not, I will vote for a small government conservative.
That’ll work. Thanks.
“I respect your incredible post Joe. Sounds like good common sense.”
Thanks.
That’s all I want is a little Freeper love and understanding. Conservatives can’t be roaming the heartland kicking their faithful dogs, but let ‘em moan a little about the nominee! If they don’t get it right in the voting booth,...well, I can live with that, too.
Let’s all get back together here in November and party over the defeat of Hilary Obama!!
It baffles me why some of the enforcers run around these threads insulting and cursing at people who don’t like McCain.
All that does is make matters worse. There is plenty of time before the election. Since McCain stinks so bad, many will not vote for him. So what? Maybe some will change their minds.
What is true is that it doesn’t help McCain’s case to have people bullying and browbeating nice people. They could probably get more votes going door to door and offering two free dinners at Crab Shack, if people will vote for McQueeg!
“So you’re saying the man who served his country honorably in Vietnam and has fought to protect it since is a scumbag?”
Let me set you straight: we’re talking about a man who served his country honorably in Vietnam, then betrayed it with the worst attack on the First Amendment in the History of the Republic, demonstrated corruption in the Keating Five scandal, showed an utter lack of a moral compass in the Gang of Fourteen incident, showed either stupidity or more corruption with the McCain-Lieberman Global Warming nonsense, and did his best to destroy the Republic with an illegal-alien amnesty bill.
Service in Vietnam does not give a man a free pass on everything he does from then on.
“How does 8% sound? Or 9%?”
Vote Republican because...our scumbag is not as bad as their scumbag.
“Have you noticed how erudite these purists seem to be? - common trait...”
Oh, my doodness, aren’t *we* superior?
You don’t deserve erudition. You deserve the kind of crudity that might shock you out of your obduracy.
It would be real nice if there was something to vote for rather than vote against.
Bears repeating.
I got tired of collecting them. Besides, my hard drive only has so many gigs of storage space. Seriously though, there is plenty more available to add that wouldn’t be redundant.
Unfortunately for us, that’s the hand we’ve been dealt this time.
I hate it, but I’ll hold my nose and vote for McCain. I’ll be damned if I help Obama or She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named get into the White House.
And McCain’s not ALL bad. He’s strong on the war on terror, and he does exhibit conservative tendencies, occasionally, from time to time...
The truth, the absolute cross your heart and hope to die truth, is that McCain is near the mean, the norm.
As much as I like Ronald Regan, the Gipper, the magnificant one, he was an anomaly.
If there is a cycle, RR is the peak of conservatism. It is at best doenhill from there.
.....You need to get the point!....
I would argue you miss the point.
If you don’t vote for McCain, you will get us killed. By default you prefer a leftist liberal antiwar taxraising abortion loving constitution hating tort lawyer loving unionist to a good Republican.
When you wake up in a cold sweat, remember those words...
leftist liberal antiwar taxraising abortion loving constitution hating tort lawyer loving unionist
Please read the following and explain to me why anyone with half of a brain would vote for a leftists piece of garbage like Sen. John McCain?
# 2006- Sen. McCain voted against extending the border fence in the Sessions Amendment (2) to H.R. 5441.
# 2006- Sen. McCain voted to prevent the border fence from being built by voting in favor of the Managers Amendment to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.
# 2006- Sen. McCain voted to allow illegal aliens to receive Social Security by voting to table the Ensign Amendment to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006.
# 2006- Sen. McCain voted against funding additional immigration investigators by voting against the Sessions Amendment (1) to H.R. 5441.
# 2005- Sen. McCain voted against providing funding for additional Border Patrol and ICE agents by voting against the Byrd Amendment to H.R. 1268.
o 2007 ? Sen. McCain was heavily involved in the backroom negotiations of S. 1348 with Sen. Kennedy and Pres. Bush ? this was an amnesty (permanent residency & path to citizenship) for more than 10 million illegal aliens.
o 2007 ? Sen. McCain cast several votes to protect the amnesty in S. 1639 and to move the amnesty toward a vote.
o 2007- Sen. McCain is a cosponsor of S. 774, the DREAM Act. The bill would grant in-state tuition and amnesty to more than a million illegal aliens under the age of 30.
o 2007- Sen. McCain is a cosponsor of S. 340, the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007 (AgJOBS). This bill would grant amnesty to millions of illegal agricultural workers.
o 2006- Sen. McCain voted in favor of S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. This bill would have awarded amnesty to 10.2 million illegal aliens.
o 2005- Sen. McCain and Sen. Kennedy introduced S.1033, an amnesty for virtually all illegal aliens.
o 2005- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor of S. 239, the AgJOBS amnesty.
o 2003- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor of S. 1645, the AgJOBS amnesty.
o 2003- Sen. McCain was a cosponsor the S. 1461 amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
Irrationality!
It wasn’t my idea to run McCain, starting on the east coast where he is most popular. The true conservatives never even got to a conservative state before running out of money!
Tell me that wasn’t planned!
Screw mcCain, I ain’t voting for no backstabbing Rinos!
Don’t try to lay your guilt trip on me!
If It really was as bad as you say, McCain would be promising conservatives everything they want, he doesn’t need or want my vote!
If the GOP ship is going to sink...It’s going to sink without my help!
Apparently you didn’t get the memo.....it isn’t going to sink
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