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McCain VP short list should be minus one (Crist)
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| June 13, 2008
| Alan Helvig
Posted on 06/18/2008 3:08:46 AM PDT by BigAlPro
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What is it going to take to get a true conservative back in the White House?
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posted on
06/18/2008 3:08:46 AM PDT
by
BigAlPro
To: BigAlPro
Plus, much talk has it that he’s “light in the loafers” which wouldn’t go over too big with most conservatives and evangelicals.
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posted on
06/18/2008 3:13:33 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
To: BigAlPro
Sorry but I don’t think “party rules” trumps legislatures. There was more to the story in Florida than just changing to thwart party rules.
That being said...yeah, Crist is totally unacceptable as a VP choice.
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posted on
06/18/2008 3:17:46 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: BigAlPro
What is it going to take to get a true conservative back in the White House?
1. Americans stop thinking emotionally.
2. Americans stop listening to NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WP, LT.
3. Americans start learning history and the Constitution.
4. Americans start turning off sports and stupid TV shows.
5. Americans learn that Chritians and Conservatives are not the enemy.
PS This is what we have been saying at the FreeRepublic since the beginning. So why do you ask the question?
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posted on
06/18/2008 3:50:50 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
To: bmwcyle; BigAlPro; 2ndDivisionVet
>>>>>5. Americans learn that Chritians and Conservatives are not the enemy.
Conservatives and Republicans need to disavow their identification as a religious party.
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posted on
06/18/2008 3:56:51 AM PDT
by
angkor
(The Elephant In The Conservative/GOP Living Room isn't RINOs, it's The Religionists.)
To: angkor
I see you are the problem. Take God out and you are nothing. You might grow up and learn that some day before it is too late.
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posted on
06/18/2008 4:06:24 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
To: BigAlPro
Michigan and Florida had every right to try and bend the rules to get ahead of two states that have no business being the first in the nation to set the tone of the presidential races. Why a candidate needs to spend a ridiculous portion of their budget on Iowa and New Hampshire for a pitiful hand full of delegates just to get the MSM's attention is beyond me. Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo were pretty much out of it right away, and the rest of the field made me want out of it. Hopefully, the next election cycle will change due to Michigan and Florida going out on a limb in this one. Maybe it will take several more states to do the same thing. Something has to happen to make the process yield better candidates.
As far as McCain's inner circle of friends... none of them are fit for VP.
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posted on
06/18/2008 4:14:02 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: bmwcyle
>>>>I see you are the problem. Take God out and you are nothing.
Our founders (not the leftists) repeatedly stressed the need to keep religion out of the political sphere.
The 30-year experiment of conflating conservatism and the GOP with Christianity is a monumental failure that sits right in front you, right now, with GOP presidential candidate McQueeg (D-AZ).
Thanks for inspiring my new tagline.
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posted on
06/18/2008 4:20:29 AM PDT
by
angkor
(Conservativism is not now and never has been a religious movement.)
To: BigAlPro
Far as I can tell living a thousand miles from Florida, Crist has been a good governor. The gambit on the Florida primaries, supported overwhelmingly by both parties in the Fla legislature has been a pearl beyond price this primary season. I wouldn’t change a thing,
I wonder what this guy’s real complaint against Crist is. Whatever it is, I don’t think this unknown blogger is going to have much impact on the selection progress either way.
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posted on
06/18/2008 4:35:20 AM PDT
by
tlb
To: BigAlPro
Besides, Crist stood by and watched Terri Schiavo be starved and dehydrated to death. Crist - booo!
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posted on
06/18/2008 4:55:34 AM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(For victory & freedom!!!)
To: tlb
I live here in Florida and I have mixed thoughts on Crist. I am not happy that he has bought into the global warming nonsense or his hardball approach to home insurance providers (which, predictably, has caused many to pack up and leave).
On the other hand, he has done very well in taking a chain saw to state and local property taxes. This has pissed off every municipal employee union and court house politician from Pensacola to Jacksonville to Key West, both Republican and Democrat.
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posted on
06/18/2008 5:01:26 AM PDT
by
bobjam
To: BigAlPro
What is it going to take to get a true conservative back in the White House?
It will take the dissolution of the GOP. The GOP is no longer a conservative party, they are statists just like their Democratic allies. There are very few in Congress who truly believe in limited government and constitutional principles - most just propose a Republican version of big government over a Democrtatic version of big government.
Where are the people calling for the closing of federal departments? Where are the people calling for the gradual phaseout of the income tax? Where are the people calling for massive rollbacks in regulation and spending? They certainly aren't anywhere near the forefront of the Republican Party.
So McCain can nominate whichever fake conservative he wants. Because deep down inside that nominee will be a statist just like McCain.
For the record I believe McCain will nominate Mark Sanford of SC, and Obama will nominate Kathleen Sebelius of KS.
To: BigAlPro
I agree that Crist should not be on the short list. I think he is a slime for interferring in the Republican Primary and endorsing McCain just 2 days before the important primary in his state. I think he should have thought about it and endorsed him in a more timely manner, and not manipulate people’s emotions.
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posted on
06/18/2008 5:38:14 AM PDT
by
rodeo-mamma
(They call her Hitlery for a reason.)
To: angkor
The 30-year experiment of conflating conservatism and the GOP with Christianity is a monumental failure that sits right in front youI am actually in agreement with your tagline, but I do want to comment on the statement you made. In the past 30 years, we have essentially owned the White House (except for Clinton), and have help majority of the House for almost the entire second half of that period. It is hard to say tying religion to politics has led to failure. I would say abandonment of small government ideas is what led to failure. We won the House in '94 of limited government and reform. We lost it when those ideas were forgotten.
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posted on
06/18/2008 5:38:14 AM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: ilgipper
We won the House in '94 of limited government and reform. We lost it when those ideas were forgotten.
Those ideas were forgotten immediately. Bill Kristol urged the new GOP Congress not to do anything major until the GOP took the White House in '96. Congress didn't do anything major and the conservative revolution of 1994 ended in 1994.
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To: BigAlPro
Should McCain’s short list remain secret until Obama announces his VP candidate?
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posted on
06/18/2008 7:01:31 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
To: BigAlPro
Guys:
Please Governor 'Orange Skin' is not gay. Just because he is unmarried is that he had a wife - and they divorced a year later. Some people aren't cut out for marriage, I was and the best thing I got from it are my kids. Never again, thanks.
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posted on
06/18/2008 7:03:48 AM PDT
by
EagleandLiberty
(Psst... Serious questions Conservatives - want McCain or a Marxist in the White House?)
To: angkor
>>>>>5. Americans learn that Chritians and Conservatives are not the enemy.
Conservatives and Republicans need to disavow their identification as a religious party.
How True!! I am not a CHURCH GOING CONSERVATIVE, I am not a SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE (which means I don't care what you do in the privacy of your bedroom , as long as it is legal.). I am a LIBERTARIAN Conservative - a small government, low tax person. Religion is not what I based my CANDIDATES on, that is why Huckleberry was not a choice for me - and he was a SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE, also.
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posted on
06/18/2008 7:09:27 AM PDT
by
EagleandLiberty
(Psst... Serious questions Conservatives - want McCain or a Marxist in the White House?)
To: bmwcyle; angkor
I see you are the problem. Take God out and you are nothing. You might grow up and learn that some day before it is too late.
BMW, you are wrong. I believe that is why the Republicans can't grow, and that is because of RELIGIOUS party. Sorry, I have to disagree with you - IT IS NOT ON THE PARTY MEMBERSHIP FORM To have a religious view.
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posted on
06/18/2008 7:15:32 AM PDT
by
EagleandLiberty
(Psst... Serious questions Conservatives - want McCain or a Marxist in the White House?)
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