Vehemently disagree.
McCain would be more damaging to conservatism than Obama. The next 2-4 years are going to be very, very hard. Regardless of who gets elected. However, the man in charge takes the blame.
McCain will be up against a 70 vote majority house and filibuster proof senate. Anyone who thinks a conservative judge will get through is smoking crack. And its entirely possible they’ll defund the war anyway. So what would we end up with? A global warming believing, gitmo closing-captured terrorist coddling, tax hiking (and lying), free speech suppressing, angry socialist.
VR shrugs.
“Free Trade” conservatives already shrugged, by exporting America’s factories and manufacturing to Communist China.
Atlas cannot shrug, twice. Atlas no longer holds those pillars. Those pillars are now being held up by factory owners named Wang, and Li.
Either conservatives get back to Reagan’s brand of blue-collar conservatism, or democrats will win perpetually from here on.
/rant off
You can always smell a McCainiac a mile away. It's the smug odor that screams shut up, sit down, and grow up. Besides, this guy doesn't even look old enough to vote, much less castigate conservatives for not supporting a liberal weenie like McCain.
This same argument has been posted countless times in the last several weeks. The author of the article makes so many false or half truth statments that it’s hard to say where to start. Let McCain go his own way. I will take no part in voting for him.
Indylindy also shrugs.
Face it. We all are not going to agree on this election. Some will vote for Juan, some won’t.
Get over it and quit asking folks to vote for a person they do not respect on important issues. Those issues are non negotiable for many.
Obviously Juan does not need our vote anyway. The GOP and the Rat party will be the responsible parties for enabling Obama. They have only themselves to blame.
And the country will move to the left with McCain also, only a little slower.
Therefore, conservatives should abandon their principles and vote for McCain because slow suicide is preferable.
What convoluted, incoherent "logic."
I feel like I need Dramamine after forcing myself to read this mess twice.
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.
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).
VOTE FOR Mr. THOMPSON!
By their actions, they have eliminated themselves from the political discourse. They have nothing to say, except "Good-Bye".
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!
See tagline.
I seem to recall similar articles written on May 19, 2004, May 19, 2000, May 19, 1996, May 19, 1992 -- just about every election year. "Too Much at Stake!" "Hold Your Nose and Vote Republican!" And I believed them.
But, as Roberto Duran once said, "No más". I will go out and vote Republican (so the party can't blame the lack of turnout), but I will not vote for McCain.
“The fact is that America is moving to the left. We haven’t reached European proportions yet, but our direction is clear, we’re accelerating and it’s time conservatives grasped it.”
I’ve predicted this right here on FreeRepublic numerous times over the past few years. Most recently:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2017269/posts?page=83#83
Shockley continues:
“Part of me is really interested to see what will happen if Obama becomes our next president. How much of his liberal agenda would he actually achieve, and how would the country react? I worry that things will get much worse, that we’ll lose much of our freedom, and the generally strong Christian presence in our country that I believe is among the primary reasons for our strength over the last few centuries will rapidly diminish.”
One watches crowds of 75,000 (as in Oregon on Sunday) with the trepidation that German Jews must have had, watching the Nazi rallies in Nurnberg in the 1930’s....
I’m not interested in seeing what’s going to happen, period - for exactly the reason in the previous paragraph.
- John
I’ll wait to see who the bum picks as his running mate.
Good article...thanks for posting! He’s been good for Az and we’ll be proud to have him as President.
BB Shrugs
Numerous people I have talked to say the THREE choices are horrible for our country, so not only will conservatives not vote, but there are dems that refuse to vote for Hussein Obama!!!