You are describing the republican party. The process they have in place gave us McCain...not one of those other candidates you listed. So are you suggesting that the conclusion one should arrive at is since the republicans did have a few conservative candidates and yet are now putting forth McCain as their representative that the republican party is not the party of conservatives? It looks that way to an objective observer.
Quit blaming McCain on the pubs and GOP it was you IDIOTIC ONE ISSUE VOTERS who couldn’t see past your nose and you’re doing the dsame thing noe you did during the campaign...
You're wrong in many ways here. Firstly, you have no idea which issues energize me, nor how many issues energize me...so you're just utilizing an ad hominem. Secondly, the republican party selected their 1 candidate LONG before my state had a primary vote...so it's irrational to blame me for who the republicans have selected to represent them. So it's the republicans who are screwing American, in my view, by fielding a very weak candidate. You want to win...select a viable candidate.
THREATENING TO HOLD YOUR BREATH AND TURN BLUE UNLESS YOU GET YOUR WAY.
This shows your arrogance and stupidity. You (and the republicans) have no RIGHT to my vote...if you want it, earn it. Don't blame me when you field crap and I don't salute it.
I don’t want your vote, your vote is too freaking hard to satisfy. Take your vote and go live in a libertarian cave somewhere because you bore all the rest of us.
“The process they have in place gave us McCain...not one of those other candidates you listed.”
And did you just come to this realization now? That you’re preferred candidate might not win? What have you done in every other election because bro, my personal candidate hasn’t won since Ronnie, but you don’t see me stamping me feet and holding my breath.
“Don’t blame me when you field crap and I don’t salute it.”
McCain has platform positions on about 15 issues. Which ones are “crap” to you?
Amen, highlander.
McCain “slipped in on name recognition...”. Partly true. Also, ‘Rats by the thousands went to New Hampshire to vote for McCain. As I understand it, and according to Rush, all one had to do to vote in that primary was to declare intent to move to New Hampshire!
We don’t get conservative candidates by bemoaning the fact that we don’t have conservative candidates, we get them by getting involved in the party machinery at the local levels, getting ourselves appointed as delegates to state conventions and central committees, and working our asses off for conservative candidates. It has to start with us and locally!
I ran for state house of reps. in 2000 and was narrowly defeated in a district that was 5-3 Democrat. At that time, ‘Rats were seeing that Republicans were the party, generally of power, and they began running as Republicans in my (former) state. For instance, a school superintendent, who was a liberal and big NEA man was elected to the state senate as a Republican, because no real conservative would run against him.
Conservative Republicans have to learn that POWER VACUUMS WILL BE FILLED and if they are filled by default it won’t be good. By nature of the fact we are conservative we are too busy making our livings, raising our children, etc. to run for political office or work to advance conservative candidates. Liberals, on the other hand, live to pursue power because political power is the only vehicle for personal advancement that most of them have.
Conservatives must learn that we have to find the time to serve our country politically. Most conservatives are adverse to the dirtying that will come to them from politics, but if we won’t do it, then liberals will. We get the candidates we work for.