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Posted on 05/08/2008 11:13:54 AM PDT by jmc813
In this situation it would say to McCain (should he still win) that conservatives clearly are not happy with him, but he has a chance to win them back should he veer right as President.
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If the Republican party can’t come up with a better candidate than John McCain - they don’t deserve to win.
The party is pathetic and getting worse every day. I am no longer a member of it & have no loyalty left for the Republican brand name. It sucks. They had their chance and they blew it. It’s time to start a new course - think ahead for the future - not just to win an election.
We’re screwed no matter who wins, in different ways - but still screwed.
My original candidate for ‘08 was the only adult conservative running.
One could argue that Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo and the other marginal candidates that stayed in the race even though they could never rise above 1 or 2 percent - only served to split the conservative vote up & actually, were a huge reason that we now have John McCain as our candidate.
Is that being an adult? To stay in the race & draw votes against another candidate that might possibly have a chance to win? I liked Hunter, but frankly - I think he stayed in way too long. We were too divided, when the smaller candidates should have been the "adults" and dropped out to help to unify our cause.
Now, we're stuck with a candidate that I cannot, in good conscience vote for. He is not a conservative - he doesn't even try to pretend that he is. Sometimes I think he is a "spy" for the other side - he is that bad.
or you could say the vast majority enterd the race after Hunter and they didn’t have a chance to start with.
I'm not sure I'm willing to continue viewing the election of liberal Republicans to be "victory."
ACLU Contract Lawyer -— enough said.
Tank was a me too. Took credit for Hunters work.
I am sure the dems will not let it drop. I also know that the lawyer mccain hired to write the difinitive brief on this several weeks ago has not published. Based on what. I’ve read, it is not a slam dunk.
That was "the most liberal Senator" description by the National Journal for Kerry in 2003 and Obama in 2007.
Somehow it goes around the Internet and becomes "the most left-wing in history."
That National Journal description is certainly plausible.
Kerry and Obama missed a lot of votes when they were running for President.
The votes they did cast were presumably for things that were very important to the Democratic leadership, so they'd have made a lot of very liberal votes and few votes that didn't follow the liberal line.
In 2005 Obama was the 16th most liberal Senator, and in 2006 the 10th most liberal.
But in 2007 he cast votes on only 66 out of the 99 questions NJ considers, and 65 of those were for the more liberal side.
McCain didn't cast enough votes that year to be rated, according to the magazine's editor.
More here.
The most liberal in history?
I don't know. The assumption may be that liberals are getting more liberal all the time.
But according to some pundits, Richard Nixon was actually the most liberal President of the US.
I’m glad there. Will be one candidate in the election that has conservative principles and will defend the constitution, aren’t you?
Please explain how republicans became entitled to conservative vote? Did they earn them with conservative policies and practices? Looking better than obama is not a reason, once a candidate is out off bounds it dosent matter how far.
“This is how conservatives snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Only if you think a win by McCain is a victory for conservatives. I don’t.
If Bob Barr or Ron Paul were to somehow (Please, God, are You listening???) to be elected, do you not suppose that the whole Congress would fall all over themselves, at least for a while, to pay attention to what We, the People, had said by electing one of those two instead of the party hack? Especially if the new president’s coattails pulled in a few CONSERVATIVE congress critters???? I suspect they’d be all over the Conservative/SMALL GOVERNMENT agenda for a while, so a lot COULD get done.
Plus, of course, the VETO and judicial nominations which would shore up conservatism for a long time to come.
Look here, folks, we have the post of the week! So it’ll be OUR fault if McLame doesn’t win, ‘cause it’s our JOB to waste our vote on him... whether or not he has EARNED it.
Good point. My principles are all that matter in this enterprise. Hence the reason I will not vote for Obama, Hillary or McCain.
“As this country polarizes the lefties become more lefties.”
What is it that makes Obama “the most left-wing in history” anyway? Is that just more MSM talk? When you look at him and Clinton, there’s hardly a dime’s difference between the two on all the issues.
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No, I don’t see that happening. At all.
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