[McCain's]Progress with Christian conservative elites (Please read)

The Politico ^ | July 02, 2008 | Jonathan Martin

[CDHart]

Good read. I agree with you.

Carolyn

[nina0113]

I am praying a lot that the majority of young voters who look at Obama like he is the second coming will not make it to the polls.

Maybe some nice conservative LEOs could ease up on enforcing the drug laws for a week or so beforehand. That should do it.

[RoadTest]

“I am praying a lot that the majority of young voters who look at Obama like he is the second coming will not make it to the polls. “

I agree with you in that prayer.

[ovrtaxt]

No it doesn’t. It does nothing for neither.

[Man50D]

A John McCain Timeline thanks to DoughtyOne

John McCain's Whimsical World of Conservatism
Food for thought for the Hillary Clinton Wing of the GOP

1982/00/00 McCain enters Congress, with his family accepts first of nine trips some aboard Keating's leer jet, three of which include stayovers at Keating's Caribbean resort (goes unreported for up to 7 years)
1983/09/28 McCain joins 26 other Republicans to vote with the Majority Party Congressional Democrats to demand U.S. Troops exit Lebanon, winds up on the losing
1983/09/28 Cindy McCain and her father invest $359,100 in a Charles Keating strip mall
1987/00/00 McCain has received $112,000 by this time for Congressional and Senate campaigns, from Charles Keating, his relatives, and his employees, the largest amount to any Keating 5 member
1987/04/02 McCain joins four Democrats to intercede on behalf of his S&L Owner friend Keating with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and also banking regulators (2 meetings)
1988/02/11 McCain votes to affirm Anthony Kennedy as a justice for the SCOTUS
1989/00/00 McCain discloses Keating trips as his involvement in the S&L scandal breaks, reimbursing $13,433.00 with no repercussions as late as seven years after the fact
1993/10/10 McCain co-sponsors an unsuccessful bill to cut off funding of United States troops in Somalia
1993/08/10 McCain joins the Democrats and most Republicans voting to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the worst justice on the court today. Three Republicans vote Nay.
1993/01/13 McCain and Kerry release the Select Committee report urging the MIA issue be put to rest so that Vietnam could be granted normalized relations with the U.S., over objections by MIA family and veterans groups. Video1 Video2 ( I do not endorse all of the information presented in video1 here. The video does touch on a number of topics, and I think most are germane ) If I could have found video that contained most of this information without touching on McCain's POW experience I would have posted it instead. Still, there are parts of McCain's POW experience that are troubling. I'd just rather not go there. Video2 shows how one MIA family rep is treated, confirming some of the reports in Video1.
1994/07/24 McCain joins with the Democrats to confirm nominee Stephen Breyer to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS. Nine Senators voted Nay...
1997/00/00 McCain leads the opposition to the Coats Amendment, preventing government funded fetal tissue research ( derived from "a legal act" [abortion] ) Amendment defeated!
1999/08/19 McCain stated, ""Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,"
2000/00/00 McCain joins Democrat Russ Feingold to introduce Campaign Finance Reform, an effort funded by George Soros Article
2000/00/00 McCain was the keynote speaker at the ultra-liberal Philadelphia convention sponsored by George Soros while John F. Kerry keynoted at another Soros event on the same day...
2000/11/20 McCain participates in the production of a gun control spot for Oregon's Proposition Five. (Circa this date, prior to the November election.) Article
2001/00/00 McCain founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros
2001/05/15 McCain introduces the Gun Show Loophole bill S890, with Carper, Lieberman, DeWine, Clinton, and Schumer co/sponsoring Analysis
2003/03/19 McCain joins Democrats to vote against drilling in ANWR
2003/10/30 McCain joins Lieberman again, this time to introduce the Climate Stewardship Act (Gorebal worming et al) Thomas Bill S139
2004/06/04 McCain signs letter with 58 Senators, "We write to urge you to expand the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research."
2004/08/05 McCain announces he deplores the Swift Boat adds against Senator John Kerry, and asks the White House to refute them
2005/00/00 McCain resigns from the Reform Institute he founded with Communist billionaire George Soros
2005/01/28 McCain declares, "I want us in the ICC (International Criminal Court)", but I would like to see more safeguards first
2005/05/12 McCain joins Ted Kennedy to introduce McCain/Kennedy immigration legislation that would wind up making illegal immigrants citizens
2006/04/28 McCain states, "I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected that has become corrupt."
2006/09/06 McCain joins Dole to write op-ed for the Washington Post, states in part, "We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes..."
2007/02/17 McCain states he will close Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainment center on his first day in office video (same as date link on the left)
2007/03/22 McCain gets the pledged support of Chuck and Sue Cobb, Jeb Bush's Florida Director of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement effort
2007/06/00 McCain joins Baldwin, Shays and Meehan to file an amicus brief against the Wisconsin Right to Life organization brief The wrong side of a pro-life issue, helping pro-abort Feingold
2007/06/18 McCains Gitmo problem, close the base, grant Geneva Convention status, stop water boarding...
2007/10/25 McCain still wants us to sign the L.O.S.T. treaty in time, but does have concerns over sovereignty issues.
2008/03/00 McCain makes his first attempt to tell a state (North Carolina) Republican Party what to do. The RNC joins him.
2008/03/24 McCain hires Meg Whiteman to cochair his Presidential campaign. Whiteman is another wishy washy at best Independent, who has donated to leftist candidates and still doesn't have a clue what side to come down on with regard to illegal immigration. She is leaning toward running for Governor in California and being courted by it's Republican leadership. Links to CalCowGirl's comments regardint Whiteman's donations. Article above.
2008/03/26 McCains speech to the World Affairs Council, Europe may get veto power over some of our foreign policy...
2008/04/08 McCain casts last Senate vote during his Presidential Campaign. By the EOBD 06/24/08, he has missed 367 votes or 61.4% of the Senate votes in the 110th Congress. His last vote before the one he cast on April 8 was cast on 03/14/08. Link
2008/05/09 McCains interview with O'Reilly... I won't drill in ANWR... it's pretty... I'm an environmentalist.
2008/05/12 McCain Joins the Goreball Worming Cult, sounding more like Al Gore every day... McCain's Oregon add Video
2008/05/13 2008/05/13 McCain takes an Environmental walk, with the leader of the Cascade Land Conservancy
2008/05/15 2008/05/15 McCain states he will appoint Democrats to his administration, during a Republican teleconference and during a Columbus stump speech
2008/05/27 McCain announces support for severe cutbacks on our nuclear weapons, withdrawing battlefield nukes from Europe and giving our nuclear waste to an international body
2008/06/04 McCain states, "I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq."
2008/06/14 McCain tells Clinton supporters they should back him because he voted for Ginsberg and Breyer Said this to Conservatives on 2008/05/07
2008/06/21 It is announced McCain and Obama will address open borders group in Los Angeles on July 18th, 2008, Communists and worst of U.S. Illegal Alien apologist groups...
2008/06/21 McCain and team realize he has so little credibility on judicial appointments, that they announce he will let Fred Thompson vet his judges. That's 06/21/08's version of truth...
2008/06/28 McCain declares, "I will make comprehensive immigration reform my “top priority,” during my first 100 days in office. He assures Latino leaders that they will have an ally in the White House.

[mathluv]

I would add one nitpick. He was the son (and gradson, I believe) of an ADMIRAL, not a Senator.

[mathluv]

I, and a lot of us, agree with with what you have listed. But how would osamabama be better? One of them will be elected (unless something happens between now and Nov). I agree with Rush.

Conservatives stayed home in '06. Tell me how that helped conservatism?

[Man50D]

No, but NOT supporting his candidacy will do a lot for (B. Hussein Obama’s) Communism.

That fallacious thinking is tantamount to saying you can fight socialism by supporting a socialist. The only beneficiaries are socialists.

[txrangerette]

Right, I missed that one.

[RoadTest]

“No, but NOT supporting his candidacy will do a lot for (B. Hussein Obama’s) Communism.

That fallacious thinking is tantamount to saying you can fight socialism by supporting a socialist. The only beneficiaries are socialists.”

So - — - what’s the answer - taking up arms again?

[Man50D]

But how would osamabama be better?

You illustrate my point. Neither one is better than the other because they are both socialists. It's amazes me people fail to see such an obvious point and think the only way to combat socialism is to accept a little more socialism with each succeeding election instead of taking a strong stand for conservatism.

[txrangerette]

This was pointed out to me, that I missed upon first reading of your post, so I'm adding it to my factual nitpicks:

McCain is the son and grandson of admirals, not senators.

[Man50D]

So - — - what’s the answer - taking up arms again?

The answer is taking a stand for conservatism. Why is such a simple and effective concept so difficult to understand?

[Tribune7]

I hate to say it but if Rudy won the nomination and hit the campaign trail wearing high heels and an evening gown, I would still crawl over broken glass to vote for him just to keep Barry Hussein from being our leader.

[Little Ray]

Allowing a racist communist, possible crypto-muslim, to be elected President does even less.

I don’t like McCain, but he got the one endorsement that matters to me from a US soldier who served in Iraq and will, undoubtedly, be going back. For that reason, alone, I will vote for him.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Conservatives did NOT stay home in ‘06. In fact, they shattered records in showing up at the polls for a mid-term, according to actual counts and exit polls.

What swayed the elections in favor of the Democrats, was the moderate, independent and swing voters who also showed up at the polls in record numbers, primarily because of the war.

Add to that, a new generation of College age voters who came into the electorate in record numbers and you have a vastly out numbered Conservative voting block. (Another source, RCP and Quinnipiac.)

Making such an uninformed statement as your last sentence Merely illustrates the ignorance from both sides of the isle that dominate the last two elections.

This election will be an exaggeration of the previous list of facts I posted. All Conservatives in the Republic could show up in Nov. and I doubt it will be enough to make the difference.

[Tribune7]

How does a POTUS Obama help the conservative cause?

it doesn't but it would give some people a chance to feel super holy.

[Tribune7]

I am praying a lot that the majority of young voters who look at Obama like he is the second coming will not make it to the polls.

Dubya should flood the nation with cheap, super-powerful marijuana the week before the election.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

That is one of the most patently bone headed and ignorant statements I have seen on this forum. But from an entertainment standpoint, I give it 4 stars.

[Tribune7]

So you think POTUS Obama helps the conservative cause?