There is no such thing as a conservative.
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.
Voting against another, even worse, candidate might be feasible, but McCain is an unvarnished disaster waiting to assume power and work very, very hard against us, and with the support of much of the GOP as well.
Such is his history and I see no reason at all to assume that he will not openly cut the conservative values out of his administration and his future proposals in legislation.
That sums up a great deal of my opposition to him in one line.
I disagree. If Democrats remain on the road they are going , he has a chance to win without my vote which he ain't getting. If Obama gets the nomination, McCain's smartest move would be to nominate Leiberman as his vice-president because he could get some Democrat Hillary votes who are just plain scared of Obama. There is no conservative VP candidate who will sway my conservative vote his way. McCain can win if he does not try to be what he ain't. And what he ain't is no LOYAL conservative Republican.
McLame is not a conservative Republican. He is a liberal Republican.
I will support and vote for McLame only to stop Obamma Lamma Ding Dong or Mrs. Bill Clinton from ascending to the presidency.
I would gladly support many many other REAL conservatives besides this was hero but it seems the Republican party has shoved another Bob Dole type up our collective rear ends.
If McCain wants to be on top......start talking about income tax reform. Have you noticed that not one the candidates is talking about that? They have totally dropped it. It needs to be brought up front again.
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.
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.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Vote McCain: Souter is better than Ginsburg!
McCain is a reflection of Arizona politics.
1. He hates us.
2. He loves the Left.
3. He gutted the First Amendment, eviscerating free political speech and grassroots political activism, and would scrape the stomach cavity given the chance.
4. He has taken actions that are a direct affront to the Second Amendment, such as trying to shut down gun shows. (Rightfully earning an "F minus" from Gun Owners of America.)
5. His funding, without which he never would have made it to the nomination, was from perhaps the biggest enemy of our republic and our Constitution in the entire world, George Soros.
6. He is the leader of those who are intent on rewarding tens of millions of foreign nationals who have invaded our territory with one of the most precious possessions on Earth, United States citizenship. This is a demographic, economic and political nightmare that is fast destroying the rule of law and our institutions - with the worst effects still just ahead.
7. He is a proponent of the globaloney warming cult, which has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with domestic and foreign elites stripping away what little is left of our liberty, our sovereignty, and our wealth.
8. He thinks states' rights trump the unalienable right to life, in complete opposition to the Reagan pro-life platform, supports the destruction of nascent human persons at the earliest stages of development, the ghoulish use of the bodies of murdered (aborted) babies for "scientific" experimentation, and has been a consistent supporter of the use of our tax dollars to fund Planned Barrenhood abortionists.
9. He has used his political power to empower the election of leftwing Republicans all over this country.
10. Did I mention he hates us?
Moderate conservative?? MAY BE?? McCain has ALREADY said he wouldn't appoint a justice like Alito, because Alito "wears his conservatism on his sleeve".
“Most conservatives would be thrilled to support him, if only he would give them reason to.”
B-I-N-G-O
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?
Can’t it be both?
Great article.
Between McCain, Clinton or Obama, I don’t care who wins. The advantage of having a good McCain showing is coattails and the conservatives that might ride on them. If McCain can bring conservatives in with him, good. If not, my family is prepared to weather the storm that is going to come no matter which of these three losers wins.
I can understand why people have problems with McCain. I do myself. But I’ll be voting for him in November because the alternative is just too scarey.