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There’s Too Much at Stake for Conservatives to Shrug Like Atlas
North Star Writers Group ^ | May 19, 2008 | Nathaniel Shockey

Posted on 05/19/2008 5:35:51 AM PDT by Dukes Travels

Conservatives don’t love John McCain, but unless they’re considering abandoning their cause with Atlas Shrugged proportions, there’s no way in hell they’ll vote for Barack Obama.

Sometimes, things have to get worse before they get better. And with that idea in mind, the conservative movement really is America’s crutch.

The most specific example is economics, as conservatives constantly preach lower taxes and greater individual freedom. One would think that the Bush tax cuts, which have yielded continued economic growth (yes, our economy is growing, despite the lies you keep hearing), and the burgeoning economy during the Reagan Administration would provide enough proof to, at the very least, convince people that maybe, just maybe, there’s something to be said for lower taxes.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; boogaboogabooga; conservatism; conservativevote; elections; juanmccain; mccain; obama; paidshills; rinos; rinostampede; scaretactics; teamjuanshills
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To: Dukes Travels

I agree. Though the realities on the ground make it difficult, I will probably LITERALLY hold my nose when I stand in the booth and vote for McCain.

We can hope for a conservative running mate with him, though.

Look, if conservatives don’t hold McCain’s feet to the fire and require him to meet some of our demands, if we abandon him, there will be no one listening to us at all. McCain, whether he likes it or not, needs our votes to even have a chance, and he is going to be willing to cut deals.

We have to stick it to him.


21 posted on 05/19/2008 6:17:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: cripplecreek

While the GOP may have chosen President Bush, it wasn’t the GOP who chose McCain. Moderates, independents and Democrats did.


22 posted on 05/19/2008 6:18:13 AM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: SoFloFreeper

Agreed.


23 posted on 05/19/2008 6:18:56 AM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: cripplecreek

Beautiful tagline.

Thank you sir, I have gotten a jump on the rest of the socialists and taken things away from you for the common good.


24 posted on 05/19/2008 6:19:44 AM PDT by L,TOWM (If the GOP is this desperate to lose, who am I to stand in their way?)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I shrugged on February 7, then made it official by filing for divorce from the GOP in April, one day after voting against McCain in the PA primary:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1966556/posts?page=24#24


25 posted on 05/19/2008 6:20:17 AM PDT by Ogie Oglethorpe (2nd Amendment - the reboot button on the U.S. Constitution)
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To: Dukes Travels

No, we won’t vote for Obama, but we can skip the Presidential ballot and go on to the other races.

Right now, I’m going to vote for McCain but, I’m real close to skipping the presidential ballot (or its equivalent - voting Losertarian or Green).


26 posted on 05/19/2008 6:21:04 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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To: Crazieman

Agreed, I wil not vote for McCain.

I will cast my vote for him or vote against Obama.

I will not drink the Socialist Republocrat Kool-Aid

Screw McCain as he has screwed us.


27 posted on 05/19/2008 6:22:16 AM PDT by stockpirate (Purge the RNC and GOP of ALL SOCIALISTS . Starting with Juan McCain.)
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To: Crazieman
McCain's a moderate, NOT a socialist. Socialists do not advocate lower taxes and smaller government as McCain has.

But continuing to exaggerate the negative unto yourself by painting McCain and others far less conservative than yourself with a broad socialistic brush, gives you the necessary rationalization to abandon and betray the conservative cause. It is a mistake and a twisting of reality to which I am unwilling to adhere.

28 posted on 05/19/2008 6:29:44 AM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: Dukes Travels

VOTE FOR Mr. THOMPSON!


29 posted on 05/19/2008 6:30:08 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Dukes Travels
Keep a list of all these "Principled Conservative Thumbsuckers". If they get their wish and a Marxist or Socialist takes control, they will be the first to whine and moan.

By their actions, they have eliminated themselves from the political discourse. They have nothing to say, except "Good-Bye".

30 posted on 05/19/2008 6:31:37 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: TAdams8591

Socialist may promise smaller governments but deliver it none the less. McCain’s back door is Global Warming.


31 posted on 05/19/2008 6:31:37 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Redleg Duke
You wish.

They have nothing to say, except "Good-Bye".

32 posted on 05/19/2008 6:32:39 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Dukes Travels
Sometimes, things have to get worse before they get better.

In a political environment when things 'get worse' it can take generations before they get better and only then with a lot of suffering and bloodshed. Is that what we want for our nation and children? Vote the Communists OUT!

33 posted on 05/19/2008 6:35:11 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: DManA

Yes, I am painfully aware of McCain’s downfalls. But to label him a socialist is an exaggeration which is wholly inaccurate and intellectually dishonest. He’s a moderate.


34 posted on 05/19/2008 6:37:56 AM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: TAdams8591

You, who swallow wholesale the lies McCain is spewing. And are believing what you want to see. How is his massive global warming bill less government? How is comprehensive immigration reform less government? How is attacking tax cuts for years until 2008 declaring he would suddenly keep them when it became apparent he might be nominated believable?

I am not the deluded one.


35 posted on 05/19/2008 6:38:07 AM PDT by Crazieman (Vote Juan McAmnesty in 2008! Because freedom abroad is more important than freedom at home!)
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To: Dukes Travels

See tagline.


36 posted on 05/19/2008 6:40:09 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: Crazieman

So McCain = Obama? Is that what you’re saying?


37 posted on 05/19/2008 6:41:56 AM PDT by TAdams8591
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To: TAdams8591

I also see in your profile your love of the first amendment.

Gee? Who concocted the first legislation in the history of our government to partially suppress political free speech?

Oh thats right! The so-called moderate!

Oh! Lets vote for him, for he will save our Republic! With the banning of free speech! The implementation of massive beaurocracy and taxation via global warming! The mass amnesty of illegals and accompanying beaurocracy, for they will save the conservative movement by voting dem 75%! Alito’s that he hates, and Souters that will pass an all-dem congress.

McCain! The savior of the conservative movement. He will kill it, and make it better 35 years later. Vote for the R!


38 posted on 05/19/2008 6:42:26 AM PDT by Crazieman (Vote Juan McAmnesty in 2008! Because freedom abroad is more important than freedom at home!)
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To: Redleg Duke
Keep a list of all these "Principled Conservative Thumbsuckers".

Yes please do add my name to your little list. Be sure to note that I didn't vote for McQueeg out of cowardice and that I won't be whining about anything.
39 posted on 05/19/2008 6:42:44 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: TAdams8591

McCain defies labeling. But the issues he gets passionate about are issues that make socialist hearts beam.


40 posted on 05/19/2008 6:43:04 AM PDT by DManA
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