Posted on 03/31/2008 9:57:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 09/24/2008 11:31:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Attn McCain Apologists: Talk all you want!
But he's still a constitution trampling RINO and unless he repeals McCain-Feingold, repudiates amnesty and global warming, drops all support for embryonic stem cell research and stops talking about partnering up with the Democrats and instead swears to fight the evil bastards he won't be getting my support.
You kicked the conservatives to the curb and nominated your RINO, now all you gotta do is get him elected.
However, that shouldn't be all that tough to do. Look what he'll be running against. A corrupt, power hungry Marxist radical feminist control freak or a corrupt, America-hating racist Marxist surrender monkey (oops, can I say "surrender monkey" in this context?). Can't see America going for either of those two useful idiots.
By the way, "change" is a Marxist codeword.
As they say, America deserves better.
Carry on.
P.S.
Or, you can select a kick butt pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-America, pro-gun, pro-drilling, pro-defense, pro-small government, fiscal conservative as your running mate and signal a return to traditional conservatism as the future of the GOP and of America and you will get all the support you need. If she's a moose hunting Alaskan army mom, all the better!
>> A third party run can only effect McCain before the election. My point was that that will have no effect on McCain after the election.<<
If McCain started to use his position as a Senator to keep his CPAC promise, that would be difficult to undo if he became POTUS.
>>I just love how people talk in circles just to get ‘round to doing what they wanted to do all along. You don’t like McCain. I get that. Neither do I. But promoting Bob Barr is just self-defeating nonsense.<<
I would advise you to keep your day job instead of reading my mind, because you are not very good at it. I would rather support the Republican nominee, because I agree with you that if Barr did get a significant number of Republican votes, of course that would help the Dem nominee, and I do think that both Dem nominees would make a horrible POTUS.
The trouble is that I am not sure that, in the long run, McCain would be better. He might be more, or less, effective at pushing amnesty, which would create millions of new Dem voters. I can’t predict the future, but based upon the current evidence, I think all 3 candidates are very dangerous.
I don’t know if I could support Barr or not in November. I just used Barr as an example of how unpredictable politics can be.
On careful reading, I can see how you were not necessarily advocating votes for Barr. Sorry for jumping to conclusions.
In any case the '08 elections are shaping up and I know who I don't want. Therefore I am left with the choice of who I will accept, given the remaining choices.
I've no doubt our friends in the faux press would be more friendly to a squishy Pubbie like McCain, but the Rats on the other hand... Just on the surface it would seem short sighted; that is, a squishy Pubbie could and probably would pull a lot of votes from the Reagan Rats and much of the swing vote. Then again, moving the Pubbies a little farther to the left whenever possible could be a long term stratergery. Hard to follow the action without a program.
Get lost!
... McCain was the last one standing. He wasn't the best candidate. He was the candidate the msm wanted. Glad to hear that Texas isn't thrilled either. Florida gop's telemarketing and I don't think it's a slam dunk in that regard.
As Senator McCain, due to his lefty ways, I was spending so much time opposing him. Once again the national GOP shoots itself in both feet. McCain's worse than Bush. Bush is up front about his positions. McCain's just plain sneaky and I'm afraid we'd be hoodwinked right away and not even be able to fight bk.
There are no good scenarios for this election. I will support republicans but not him.
He was interviewed this moning on FNF....he said “I respect Senator obama and I respect Senator clinton”.
I do not, I cannot. Nor can I respect anyone who claims to respect such destructors of America.
Screw all 3 of them!
Then, maybe a real strong leader whom I can vote for will run against the indumbent.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9361.html
“Bauer describes McCain as “a very private man” who isn’t comfortable discussing his relationship with Christ.”
Mmmmmm, that certainly is no comfort.
I think FR is a very good place to start a Conservative Party. Even those who feel they absolutely MUST vote for mclame this election, I’m sure they would be more than willing to never be put in that position again.
Smells like amnesty to me... MxCain will deliver and that will be the end of the real Republican party. The U.S. will be a de facto One Party system and will accelerate the advance into administrative government. Representative government will be a thing of the past. The 30 million illegal aliens that get an amnesty will vote democrat and the one hundred million chain migration aliens will get the fast track to citizenship and will follow the voting pattern of their sponsor.
At that point we can kiss it all goodbye.
What you describe smells more like the seeds of anarchy to me.
I strongly disagree. There's no sense in supporting a GOP that's nothing but a democrat-lite party. Time to pull its plug and begin retiring it now. It might hurt to lose the White House in 2008, but if MacNutJob wins, the GOP continues its leftward slither and the RINOs/NeoCons become even more firmly entrenched.
A good bitch-slapping to the GOP will either knock some sense into them, or kill them and make way for their new conservative succesor.
MEGA-DITTOES!
I don't think the level of the conflict would be that low.
Hmmmm, well, a little bit of revolution from time to time is not a bad thing. Problem is, due to a life of debauchery and fast living, I wouldn't be much help to the effort. If my generation, the boomers, had any self respect, we'd own up to the fact much of the political chicanery happened on our watch and at least make some effort to right the wrongs. And now many of us are too old or out of shape to even haul out the trash.
He's a throwback all right....it's called a "fake" out. : )
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