Posted on 06/13/2008 7:07:31 AM PDT by shrinkermd
Republicans and conservatives are rallying behind Sen. John McCain's White House bid, but not because they are so enamored with him or his agenda. Instead, their loyalty is based on their perception that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as president, particularly with large Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress, would be utterly disastrous.
Regardless of whether you agree with them about the results of a Democratic presidential victory later this year, a McCain victory might produce its own series of domino-like events that ultimately might hurt the Grand Old Party.
...I don't necessarily agree with Stewart that a McCain victory in November would lead to the "eradication" of the GOP, but it's easy to see how a McCain presidency could end up being a nightmare for Republicans.
In the worst-case scenario, a McCain victory in November could likely lead to a Republican bloodletting that would tear apart the GOP well before 2012, contribute to another good Democratic election in 2010 and hand Democrats such a strong advantage during redistricting that Republicans wouldn't be able to recover for years.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I will vote or not vote how I see fit, and your threats and name-calling (yelling that I am the ENEMY because I don’t vote the way you think I should vote) will have no effect whatsoever on my decision (which can be seen in my tagline).
Go play in traffic.
Im tired of voting for the lesser of to Evils..... Its still voting for Evil. At this point the differences between Obama and McCain are so minuscule it barely makes a difference. I’m in NJ which will go for the Obamanation anyway.... I didn’t vote for McCain in the primaries and I wont vote for him in the General election.
Nope, but here’s the problem...
If McCain wins, we have 40-41 Senators come January (down from 49) and 165-170 Congressman (down from about 200) and if he causes the usual disastrous split by embracing rodent initiatives and causes, come 2010, we could be down to 35 Senators and 140 Congressman.
By 2012 and McCain is defeated (or dead) and replaced with, you guessed it, the false Messiah (merely delayed by 4 years), we may only have 30 Senators and 125 House members (not unprecedented, as under FDR in 1937, we dropped to 17 Senators and 89 House members). It took 10 years to recover and when we suffered our single greatest defeat for Senate members in 1958, it took us 22 years to recover (nevermind the 40 it took to reclaim the majority in the House).
Ultimately here, McCain might merely be a Pyrhhic victory, just a brief speedbump on the way to obscene Democrat supermajorities of 70 Senators and 310 in the House with Obama at the helm in 4 years.
If Obama were to win this year and he embarks on his predictable moonbat course, it might only take us 2 cycles to win back the Congressional majority and install a President to boot in only 4 years. That might be preferable to waiting 40 years after McCain for a sane Congress. Either way, not good for the short term.
Romney can’t be all bad if McCain, Hucksterbee and the radical left hate him so much.
Richard Nixon's wins in 1968 (over the leftist Hubert Humphrey) and in 1972 (over the ultra-leftist George McGovern) did not cement RINOs in control of the Republican Party. Ronald Reagan almost won the Republican nomination in 1976, two years after Nixon resigned. Nixon was the correct choice in both 1968 and 1972, not because of his domestic policies (which were heavily big-government-oriented) but because of his staunch opposition to Soviet aggression.
Similarly, John McCain is the correct choice in 2008 not because of his domestic agenda (which is, at best, a center/left one) but because of his firm stand against radical Islamic aggression.
There is always ebb and flow. There are times the nation’s mood will be more liberal than conservative. That’s not to say they become big liberals. It means that it’s a floating standard.
“I’m tired of voting for the lesser of two Evils ...”
Then you are tired of politics.
No reason for the “radical left” to hate *omney. He just made sure no Republican will ever win Massachusetts again, statewide or anyway else, maybe for decades. The guy is a de facto rodent agent. He at least makes the RINO McCain look like a statesman, and that’s really saying something.
“Republicans and (conservatives?) are rallying behind Sen. John McCain’s White House bid”
Someone is smoking crack. I see some conservatives saying “I’m not voting for McCain, I’m voting against Obama” but I don’t see anyone actually “happy” or “rallying behind” (although behind him is the safest place to be) Juanito.
The way it works is 8 years Democrats, 8 years Republicans,now its time for 8 years Democrats. This is how Obama can say with certainty he will be in office 8 years.
“Many McCain bashers believe McCain’s defeat would result in a second coming of a Reagan clone.”
I don’t believe that, I just don’t believe that given the mans’ recent past that he deserves to be rewarded with the Presidency.
“Rothenberg, then, has company, but the question is how much company. Senator McCain did win the nomination.”
Do you think that the same leftists that voted for him in the early states will stick around after they got what they wanted?
“This website will be shut down by the Obama internet police.”
Of the two candidates, only one has authored legislation that DIRECTLY attacked the freedom of political speech.
Hint, it was not Obama.
Au Contraire that is what he said on one of his programs. He might have changed that.
I note, on another program, someone called in asking how they would deport 12 million illegals and Limbaugh said he never said they would deport the illegals.
Part of the problem here is he knows who he hates—McCain—but has not given us who he loves—but it just might be Mitt Romney of Bain Capital fame.
“He just made sure no Republican will ever win Massachusetts again”
It’s friggin’ *assachusetts. It’s like Berkely, sans the whimsy.
Agreed!
Time for at least one more viable party...
Hard to take this seriously, considering the fact that three of the five judges in the majority were put there by Republican presidents.
Obama has a internet police and guess what happen last night here on the website. A few of OBama’s monitors were OUTED .
Aren't you the one who accused Cindy Mccain of being a Iraqi war profiteer and did not even know that her two boys are Marines in Iraqi or are you the MIA conspiracy guy ?
You are very busy trashing MCCIN and trying to get to not VOTE to keep a Marxist named OBama from shutting us all up.
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