Posted on 04/16/2008 8:55:21 AM PDT by lilylangtree
John McCain is a hero for his service in Vietnam. Most conservatives would be thrilled to support him, if only he would give them reason to.
Why is it that conservatives have such a hard time lining up behind John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president? Is it, as some liberals suggest, just "pique" -- that we didn't get our way, and now we're throwing a tantrum? Or are the differences between McCain and conservatives very real, very serious matters that go to the heart of the principles of conservatism?
The truth is that the differences with McCain are real. They involve matters of policy, of personnel ("Who will make decisions in a McCain administration?"), and of insights into the Senator's thinking about conservatives and the issues important to conservatives.
The biggest complaints expressed by conservatives are these:
SUPREME COURT: Perhaps conservatives' biggest issue is whether future appointments to the Supreme Court and lower courts will be in the mold of Justices David Souter, John Paul Stevens, and William Brennan -- left-wingers appointed by Republican presidents -- or in the mold of distinguished conservatives such as Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Antonin Scalia.
It may be that even a moderate conservative such as Samuel Alito would be "too" conservative for John McCain. According to John Fund of The Wall Street Journal, McCain, in private conversations with lawyers, "indicated he might draw the line on a Samuel Alito because 'he [Alito] wore his conservatism on his sleeve.'"
And, although McCain has promised to appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court, that's highly unlikely, because conservative judges would overturn the Senator's proudest achievement, McCain-Feingold.
For the remainder of the article, see: http://conservativehq.com/news-from-the-front/ravonmccain080416
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3 reasons: McCain hates abortion, McCain hates “pork-barel” spending and McCain is better than the two Communists that the Dems are running.
The other stuff (and more) can be said about all of the other people that the republicans ran in the primary.
My question is how.....how did McCain become the republic candidate?
Everyone claims they wanted a real conservative...why didn’t Thompson or Hunter or Tancredo get the votes? Why didn’t Romney get the votes?
It seems if everyone wanted a conservative, McCain would NOT have gotten as many votes as he did...
Makes you wonder, huh?
He will be rubberstamped by the Dems and the RINOS in congress. There will be no push back against his crazy ideas.
The "honeymoon" period will see more liberal "progress" than the last 20 years combined.
It's my firm belief that we will see more liberal ideas codified under McCain than we would under either Clinton OR Obama.
People on FR can tell me endlessly that he is the lesser of three evils.
I don't buy it.
I think McCain will be a disaster
The only thing we can do is work like hell to get solid conservatives in the house, and then pray that they will slow him up.
Oh yes there is! I'm a conservative and I am what I am!
So what's a conservative to do? I truly believe that no matter who wins this year - America loses. I don't believe that McCain would be better than Obama or Clinton & I'll tell you why. With McCain in office, republicans will go along with whatever whacko liberal thing he wants to do - with a dem president, the republicans may find their manhood again and be opposition for their whacko liberal things.
From 1993 to 1995, without a majority in either House, Republicans fought Bill Clinton to a legislative standstill. They went on to win the House and Senate in the 1994 election -- for the first time in 40 years – and to hold both for a decade.
If McCain is elected, it will be roll-over time for congressional republicans – on taxes, regulation, environmentalism, speech-suppression, internationalism, multiculturalism, civil liberties for terrorists and open-borders. John McCain will kill the republican party, perhaps forever. With him, instead of losing power for a few years, the party could be permanently discredited.
John McCain is a liberal - conservatives don't vote for liberals. I speak, I write, I VOTE - therefore - I DO exist!
Are all the “real” conservatives in the country right here in FR???
During the preliminaries, I looked at the polls posted here...Thompson was around 85%....
What happened when the states had their primaries???
Thompson would get about 11-12%....Were true conservatives shafted at the polls???
>Makes you wonder, huh?<
No, it makes me disgusted that so many FReepers are so damn liberal minded. FR is NOT what I would consider to be a conservative website. It is a republican website.
So? What did he say in his column that was incorrect?
So there is not that many true conservatives? There aren’t enough of us to support a true candidate...That is a shame...
I think many of them have already made their choices. They would be as happy as a peach to see Obama or Hillary in the White House and all that the Marxist left brings with them.
That is after all..... their style.
“Viguerie’s salary depends on fund raising for his pay source du jour. When he submits material on deadline, it’s a deadline defined more by his mortgage payment than his editor’s edict.”
Kind of like the fund raiser letter I got from Senate minority leader McConnell yesterday. They’re ALL whores. McCain just happens to be an old Rino whore.
Where in the hell are we going to find these ‘solid conservatives’ to put in the house? The few that ran for President didn’t make it out the door!
“There’s no point in voting for him. All that will do is serve to encourage the GOP further leftward. “
That’s the way I see it. Why encourage this craziness?
I see...I have thought it was more conservative...I guess I was wrong...
“Well, that’s what it is gonna come down to...Do you want McCain..or do you want Hillary/Obama?
Those are our ONLY choices...”
Yes, and everyone ought to be screaming about it. Why? Why is this what we’re left with? The three worst possible candidates all pulled from the viper pit known as the senate. NO one out of that place should be considered!
The answer to that is that Thompson was shafted by 1) the MSM, which buried every bit of news about him except to say every day that he was “lazy”; 2) he was shafted by key conservative gurus, who foolishly thought that Mitt was more “electable” (Hugh Hewitt, NRO, Ann Coulter); 3) he was shafted by the Republican insiders, who arranged to frontload the primaries with liberal states and crossover states, allowing the Dems to push McCain in order to screw their opponents; 4) he was shafted by Huckabee, who threw mud at him and peeled off the Evangelical vote at a key point in time.
Us conservatives for the most part never got a chance to vote.
Actually I was impressed that McCain was on Chris Matthews said that abortion was a top priority and hinted that being anti-abortion was a litmus test for the VP slot. I think it is a very promising development for McCain reaching out to conservatives.
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