It may not bring Ronald Reagan back from the grave but, then again, a McCain Presidency will not guaranteed that America WILL lose the Iraq War and will not guarantee that taxes will increase by trillions.
Posted on 06/10/2008 5:35:44 PM PDT by MartinaMisc
Few things are more troubling than the notion that the conservative movement and the Republican Party will somehow magically come back to life after four years of a Barack Obama presidency.
Some folks on the right are being willfully naïve by embracing the idea that a President Obama will fail on such a spectacular level that the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan will emerge in four years, trounce Mr. Chump Change and restore order and morality to the United States. While Obama’s failure is certainly likely, it is not guaranteed.
If Obama actually exhibits common sense and governs from the center, instead of governing as the hard-left ideologue he has been for years, the Republican Party and the conservative movement will be in deep trouble. Not only will Obama be re-elected in 2012, he will also severely damage the GOP’s chances of recapturing the White House in 2016.
If President Obama does not disgust and alienate the American people with ultra-liberalism, the electorate will embrace him and his potential successor. America could return to where it was politically in the late-1990s, just prior to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
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Considering the fact that you mug collectors are willing to embrace every liberal policy McCain proposes, what makes you think it could come back to life after a McCain administration?
Conservatives have been threatened before!
Remember Schwarzenegger!
It may not bring Ronald Reagan back from the grave but, then again, a McCain Presidency will not guaranteed that America WILL lose the Iraq War and will not guarantee that taxes will increase by trillions.
He already has, just actually watch, or listen to him sometime.
Yeah, we'd be better off with Bustamonti and the democrat run state legislature./s/
Well, sure, Obama is a danger to our country and the Republican Party.
But that certainly doesn’t mean that McCain isn’t a danger, too, and in some ways a worse danger, because he will destroy the party from within, and there will be no alternative to vote for. And if he is kicking the base now, during the campaign, just wait until he gets into office.
Arnold has left the Republican Party in shambles in California. Everyone was sick of Gray Davis and his tax-and-spend and economic pain, so they voted for a change. Then the RNC imposed Arnold on them. Now they are sick of Arnold and his tax-and-spend and economic pain, and there is no alternative left but to vote for some Democrat instead.
Meantime, after Arnold leaves, California may never again vote for a Republican President or governor. And after McCain leaves, if he is elected, the same will hold true at the national level.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Remember Dubya!
Remember Dole!
Remember Bush-41!
Remember Ford!
Remember Nixon!
I don’t collect mugs and am darn worried about the 2 clowns running for president. What worries me even more is the lady I saw on tv the other night saying that we were promised to get in and get out of Iraq real fast and Bush lied about it. I was always under the impression that the war in Iraq was a 10-20 year commitment. If that is the mind set of the people in this country then we are all lost. No one has the guts to save themselves much less the country.
The group that killed the republican party was the group of congressman and senators who spent their way through the first 6 years of the Bush presidency. Blame no one else more than them. They took away the argument that republicans wanted small government. They took away the argument that the republicans would spend less tax money. It will take years for the republican party to live that one down.
Very true. But not without a lot of help from Bush, who also spent with both hands. And not without a lot of help from Bush, Rove, and the RNC, who supported RINOs in state primaries every chance they got, while undermining conservatives. California was only one instance of many.
NO Juan McPain in 2008 or else No GOP again. Vote third party or write in your favorite conservative.
Well there's a big fat straw man. What conservative has said anything even remotely close to that?
I completely agree.
The last thing I heard about McCain is he wants to set limits on CEO pay... Deep thinker that McCain...
After Amnesty, either Obamnesty or McAmnesty, Democrats will outnumber Republicans by huge permanent margins, not the fluctuating margins that ebb and flow with the fortunes of the individual parties. The Republican Party will be a strictly local phenomenon. Perhaps in 5 years the Congress will extend food stamps and medicaid to Mexico, maybe sooner. The Democrat Party will probably split into something like the Social Democrats and the Socialists of Europe, perhaps as blocs within the overarching Party.
The McNitwits must be getting nervous. Repeat after me. McLame is as bad as B’roke. There is not one dimes worth of difference between the two. McLame is all hot air, all the time, and not to be trusted.
bttt
That’s pretty much what I figure. Bush has been negotiating for a North American Union, and I figure McCain will do so even more eagerly.
It has been very threatening to have the alien amnesty business hanging over our heads with Bush in office, because of the danger that a Republican president can put through things that a Democrat president could not, with bipartisan support.
That danger will increase with McCain. And he could care less if he makes 30 or 50 million illegals into citizens and no Republican is ever elected again. It’s no skin off his nose, any more than the disastrous effects of McCain Feingold on the party have bothered him one bit.
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