Posted on 05/10/2008 9:11:06 AM PDT by RonnieFan
All indications are the Democrats will pick up seats in both the House and Senate, with the Senate likely being a couple of RHINOs away from the magic 60. McCain is no Reagan but he's the only thing standing in the way of the most liberal Senator in Senate becoming President with a clear majority in Congress and at a critical time with decisions to be made on the war on terror, the war in Iraq, heath care, taxes, illegal immigration and likely the Supreme Court.
Sometimes you do have to pick the lesser of two evils. This is one of them. I am fully aware that I'll be let down by McCain on some key issues but I know I'll be let down on all of them if Obama is President.
Boy, that logic sure does sound familiar, like another poster here,, praising aRnie to no end, and McCain.. Deja vu..
oh there has been infiltration alright, of many types it seems.. watch where ya point yur finger at, someone might pull it.. like those who seek to pull folks legs about who’s working for who and what cause..
Progre$$ives leave little doubt they know how to play hardball.. that they play iot so badly makes it all the more netertaining.
In all FR polls, there are quite a few votes for Obama and I am sure there are some who are smarter than to even admit it in such polls.
NOT all FReepers who oppose McCain are trolls, but some of them definitely are.
Too many conservatives would rather complain than do anything positive. Look at freerepublic, how many childish retorts will there be complaining about McCain. Or the really stupid - there's no difference between parties or candidates. McCain and the republicans are wrong on some important things, but they are also sometimes right too. McCain is right on the war, spending, healthcare, judges. I can vote for someone for those things.
Actually you are underselling McCain by calling him the lesser of two evils. He is, as a matter of fact, one of the most conservative Senators. Secondly, he has a clear idea of who our enemy is. Thirdly, he is a crusader against government waste and spending, which is a core Conservative value. So he is much more than the lesser of two evils. He is a deserving candidate of his own merit.
You do understand that a donk administration will have a COMPLETELY compliant Congress, and the donk majority in the Senate can easily overturn the filibuster - the ONLY thing that could possibly slow them down.
I'll take an 80% ACU rating (check McCain's 2007 rating) versus a 7% (Obama) or 0% (Hillary!) any day.
We have 11 justices now? :-)
Newbie isn’t an insult so much as they are viewed with skepticism. Prior to McCain getting the nomination, McCain supporters on FreeRepublic could have met in a phone booth. There have been a rash of signups since, shilling for McCain. Not speaking for anyone else, but I am skeptical. Republican party paid operatives?
FreeRepublic is first and foremost, a conservative site, not a Republican site. McCain in not a conservative. He even seems to loathe conservatives. Best to understand the loathing is two-way.
Wake up yourself Republicant's Party you're as dead in the water like a boat without so much as an oar. The GOP can give hundreds of reasons for it's failures. But all start with pathetic leadership at the very top of the party. This election cycle is no exception.
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
I'll stand with Reagan and accept someone with an 80% American Conservative Union rating (McCain) rather than what we'd get otherwise (7% for Obama or 0% for Hillary!). And fight to move that 80% even higher. But at least we're starting at 80%, not 7% or 0%.
The following quote from a great American is the best comment I’ve seen on McCain’s run. It pretty well sums up the situation as I see it.
“John McCain, you treasonous bastard, …How dare you even think that you are qualified to sit in the oval office! Ronald Reagan’s office! President? Hah! You miserable excuse for a two-bit political hack, you’re not even qualified to shine Ronald Reagan’s boots. If you do run, I’m afraid you’re gonna be at least one vote short. It’ll be a cold day in hell before a traitor like you ever receives my vote. And that’s a campaign promise you can take to the bank.”
McCain is not the lesser of two evils. He has stated he doesn’t need the conservative vote. I’m okay with that, appears however a little panic is starting to set in with his RINO base.
If McCain wants this conservative’s vote he needs to move to the right, or he can just keep pandering to his Socialist friends.
I have no desire to enable the Republican National Socialist Party to continue.
In other words folks it is time for some tuff love.
McCain will appoint conservative judges.
BS. he hates conservatives and with his amnesty plan the left would not allow him to.
He gets the war on terror.
With his amnesty plan our troops will need to come to defend our country from within.
He is for lower taxes.
His amnesty plan will require billons in new taxes.
He is against drilling for oil in ANWAR, or other prestine areas.
My friend of 40 years and an avid McCain supporter said to me this morning, “You’re right, he isn’t worth our vote unless he moves to the right.
We must all act as one and hold our ground, he will move or his bid will fail.
We can't even get oil refineries built in this country because of red tape. If U.S. citizens have to live with the government red tape crap, so can non-citizen immigrants. If I had my way, illegal aliens would be shot on sight, crossing the border, like any invading army.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.
The code is sacred. McCain LEFT POW'S/MIA'S IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY FOR TRADE. Why does everyone think he is the best for the Military when he has demonstrated he IS NOT?
McCain is not the best of three bad choices he is a choice with a track record of being DELIBERTALY hostile to conservatives. I live to piss on his grave and the grave of Jane Fonda.
Hillary and Obama have excuses they do not know any better - the spoiled Admiral's brat son does.
I repeat;
Screw McCain, and screw anyone trying to coerce, threaten or cajole a vote for that bastard. He doesn’t deserve it.
amen
Why is it an either/or with you guys? Are you all that dense?
You are too funny.
George Soros funded McCains group to push McCain/Feingold.
So, we know who the paid trolls are on FR.
McCain used Soros cash to better his position in 2008.
That’s you and your hero McNasty’s biggest problem, we are awake......And we mean business this time. No more RINOs! Not now, not tomorrow!
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