Posted on 03/06/2008 7:36:06 PM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom
The stakes are not too high. That is what they always say. He gets my vote if I am dead and someone votes for me.
Exactly. Our socialist is currently ahead of your socialist, as far as polling goes.
This is quite depressing. And what is the solution, constitution party?
How are agents Ramos and Compean fairing in the hoosegow?
Surely McAmnesty will pardon them.
Translation: If you vote against Hillary/Obama in the General Election, you are a socialist!
BTW ... no!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
what we have won't work, so we'll have to work for something else.
I will hold my nose and vote for JM *only* for those who are serving in the military and their loved ones..
Time for a sanity check. Most incumbent Reps further down on the ticket hold opposite positions from McCain on such issues as immigration, global warming, campaign finance reform, embryonic stem cell research, closing Gitmo, drilling in Anwar, etc. They will have to run against the maverick standard bearer of the GOP, which will put them more at risk.
Only the Stupid Party [GOP] nominates its maverick to be its nominee for President. If McCain does well, it may very well hurt the rest of the Reps in terms of reelection or being elected.
With all due respect, neither Hillary nor Obama are a Jimmy Carter. Barring a national catastrophic event, either one will enjoy an extremely popular first term, and be virtually impossible to unseat. Expect that to be followed by their vice president (quite possibly the one that loses this year's primary battle) riding into office on the coattails and having at least one term. Let's see...if my math is correct that means it could be up to 16 years before a chance to swing the country's political pendulum back to the right. How many Supreme Court Justices do you suppose will be appointed in the next 16 years?
Don't want to believe me? Fine. But I suspect you are basing your predictions of a poor Democratic term on your wishful thinking and are not taking into account just how easy it would be to be popular over the next four years. For starters, abandoning Iraq would immediately please a large portion of liberals and even some dispirited conservatives. And those that oppose cutting and running were never going to be happy with a Democrat anyway. Follow that up by subsidizing the rising number of mortgage holders that are in over their heads and you've just won over the lower to middle working class, albeit at the expense of lenders and upper income taxpayers.
I could go on. You really think a Democrat wouldn't throw a bone towards building a fence on the Mexican border if it meant securing a second term? All you 'McAmnesty' chanters, answer me this: If Hillary was president and she actually succeeded in securing our borders, would you consider voting for her come re-election time? It could happen. Anti-illegal immigration is hardly a Republican selling point over the Democrats.
Of course, perhaps you are of the crowd that actually want to see our great nation suffer a terrible tragedy after putting a Democrat in office 'just to teach those uppity RINO's a lesson'. Not saying you are - I'm just saying some of the comments I've read around here really leave that impression.
Personally, I agree with more of McCain's views than I disagree with. And even if that were not true, I certainly agree with more of his than with either of the possible Democratic nominees. But then I don't have any one issue that I would fall on my sword over. Your mileage may vary.
Those who will not vote for the lesser of two evils are voting for the greater!
If amnesty passes, this country is finished. McCain, Hillary, and Obama all voted for amnesty in 2006 [S. 2611] and McCain-Kennedy. Once that happens, everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Hillary will not get the nomination, but if she does, she will owe Hispanic voters a tremendous debt. McCain thinks he can pander to Hispanics by selling this country out. He is known as the "Amnesty King" in the immigration community. I for one will not be complicit in the destruction of this country by voting for McCain, Hillary, or Obama.
A bunch of us are doing something about it. RAMM
If John McCain can vote on the basis of principle and conscience over party, so can I.
The only difference may be that he will the the first candidate I remember, that will probably spend his time repudiating and attacking those masochistic enough to try and support him.
old Light Scout here...10th Cav
I visited your ramm site, but don't really see what you and your 'bunch of us' are doing other than slamming McCain, and therefore by default campaigning for the Democrats.
News flash: Despite your opinion of the popularity of your personal ideology, the truth is more people are happy with McCain than you want to admit. He may not measure up as a 'true conservative' to you, but he actually does appeal to a very large number of Americans. Note I didn't just say Republicans, but then again he isn't running to be President of the Republicans of the United States of America, is he?
Bottom line is McCain is just too darned popular despite not being acceptable to you. And that must really piss you off.
With a potential war in South America, and a resurgence of extreme leftist governments in that area openly operating against the US (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador), I’m surely voting for McCain.
Hillary would be a disaster for this nation, and 4 years is an eternity.
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