Posted on 06/21/2008 10:40:17 AM PDT by kingattax
Excellent idea. Actually, McCain should put smart Conservatives on his staff to make the right decisions and then just sit in the Oval Office and sign papers and stuff.
Referring to anti-illegal immigrant hardliners as ‘the yahoo vote’ should give some indication of where RC is coming from. Feh.
Best campaign decision McCain’s made so far. I hope this means McCain’s realizes the importance of us Conservatives.
Yes he does. And someone who can win in 2012.
If Fred can continue to make the conservative case from the VP spot perhaps doors will open for someone else come the next election.
Bear in mind that the "centrist" Dwight Einsenhower was even less of a Republican than McCain, and we ever managed to get a few good judges out of him (John Marshall Harlan II, who would have never been selected by a RAT President)
I have to admit I trust Fred to "vet" judges moreso than Harriet Miers or John Sununu, Fred's longstanding support of "asshat liberals" notwithstanding. :-)
Bear in mind that the "centrist" Dwight Einsenhower was even less of a Republican than McCain, and we ever managed to get a few good judges out of him (John Marshall Harlan II, who would have never been selected by a RAT President)
I have to admit I trust Fred to "vet" judges moreso than Harriet Miers or John Sununu, Fred's longstanding support of "asshat liberals" notwithstanding. :-)
hmmmm. FT is a good man....
I’ve never viewed Thompson as anything more than a McCain Republican. Hence my lack of excitement.
Making Fred the VP, might be the only way I would ever consider voting for Juan McCain.
I too never understood how these freepers can honestly believe McCain is an uber RINO but Fred is the second coming of Reagan when their records are 95% alike.
Lindsey Graham gets crusified for being McCain's buddy, Fred got a free pass from legions of freepers. They constantly scream about Gang of 14 and the amnesty bill, knowing full well the only reason Fred can't be tied to that is that he was retired from the Senate by the time the legislation was introduced. We all know how Fred felt about McCain's unconsitutional garbage when they were "serving" together.
Yep. I don’t harbor a single doubt that if Fred had still been in the Senate, he would have been standing there proudly next to his best buddies at every point.
The Conservative movement can’t decide what it wants and what issues it should prioritize. Right now, the conservative movement is in a tug of war between various single issue crowds that want their pet issue to take center stage. If candidates don’t “kiss the rings” of the single crowds, then they are RINOs.
I’ll just let the fella answer the question. Don’t want to be accused of putting words in its mouth. ;-)
You people are desperate to believe he is a conservative, he is not and he cannot be trusted.
McCain and Fred were not 95% alike. If they were, do you honestly believe I’d have voted for him after 1994 ? I told FReeper Norman Bates (McCain’s #1 booster on FR) that I’d not have voted for McCain after 1986. The difference between their personalities is considerable. McCain tended to view things through the prism of what was best for him, Fred through the prism of what was best for the country. Fred never went whoring after the Presidency like McCain did (especially as he did in 2000). Fred may have respect for McCain, fine, but these are very different people.
As for the judges issue, who knows ? I’d presume he’d do a good job with that, but it’s hard to tell until we see the potential pool of applicants. At least Ike deeply regretted putting trash like Earl Warren on the court (contrast that with Jerry Ford, who NEVER regretted putting the equally odious Constitution-shredding activist liberal puke Stevens on the Supremes). I wouldn’t be happy until I see our courts lined with people that make Scalia look like Dennis Kucinich (Roy Moore I’d love to see on SCOTUS).
BTW, Billy, did you know Graham is the most liberal of the three Senate candidates running in SC in the general ? With Witherspoon’s defeat, I endorsed Mark McBride, the Independent running, yet the Democrat who narrowly won his primary appears to be actually running to Graham’s right. That’s truly embarrassing.
Fred’s main focus, even in this election cycle, was always “bipartisanship.” His first few speeches right out of the gate last year even keyed on this fallacy. After that, not so much, because we rightfully toasted him on it.
If that isn’t McCain-like squishy Republicanism, I don’t know what is.
If that doesn’t set off your alarms, they’re likely broke...
You weren’t even here during FRed’s campaign.
Fred won nearly every FR poll AND was endorsed by the owner.
I don’t particularly care if someone uses that phrase while campaigning, it’s almost a given when running for President. What I care about is if they actively undermine the party through their actions in or out of office (as Huckster and *omney did, and Rudy in his early years as Mayor). Fred never did that and he always went the extra mile to help the party, even when there was nothing in it for him. Was Fred 100% right ? Nope, but he was right enough that I could support him for President without it causing grave damage to my conscience (why I’ve still yet to endorse McCain).
I certainly wish he was the candidate now. I have no energy to fight for someone like McCain.
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