Posted on 07/19/2008 6:29:13 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
President McCain in 2000 I must be one of the few conservative writers in cyberspace who never feared a McCain presidency. When Senator McCain looked like he might win the Republican nomination in 2000, I asked what, exactly, my friends were so worried about. McCain was honest, like Bush, while Clinton and Gore were steeped in moral slipperiness. McCain was pro-life, like Bush, while Clinton and Gore were pro-abortion. McCain, like Bush, supported a strong military, while Clinton famously “loathed” the military and Gore followed him like a trained poodle. McCain’s ACU (American Conservative Union) voting record is conservative and was even more conservative in 2000. Who did I favor for the nomination in 2000? Bush, because I liked him more and I thought he would win, but was I afraid of a McCain presidency? No, I was afraid that the nation could not survive a third Clinton term. Has anything happened in the last eight years to change my mind? Not, not really. September 11, 2001 has driven all politics since then, even energy (remember how recently gasoline was cheap?) and while I can conceive of McCain handling the war on terror differently, in some ways, than Bush, I cannot see either man being particularly better than the other. Although we are sometimes loath to admit it, McCain appeared more prescience than Bush on Iraq: McCain supported the Surge, asked for the Surge when Bush was reluctant, and McCain was dead right. The Left would have vilified President McCain just as it vilified President Bush and for the same reasons: It wants America to lose all its wars.
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‘If there is a single persn on this planet that the party will never fall in line behind, it would be John McCain.’
Pretty funny since he’s the party’s nomination for president.
Because they gave him all the votes (half) that he missed.
For I cannot seem to recall of any instance where the United States was attacked by terrorists under a REPUBLICAN president and administration.
Probably makes sense to elect McCain on that basis.
He is traitorous and dishonorable, and he lies through his teeth. His promises are worthless.
Not that funny... Won it in RINO country. How many of those blue states do you think he is going to win in? And how many of the red ones he lost do you think he can afford to lose in? Everyone is all worried about taking the upper midwest and ohio when the Rockies and the south are in play. Foolishness.
I agree with you, pretty much right down the line... It does my heart good to see there’s still Texans in Texas, though I admit, it seems your breed is getting fewer and farther between... Y’all take care.
But not, evidently, done getting the greater of the two.
Outstanding response! This should become the standard retort to the exponents of the "we have to destroy the country in order to save it" theory.
BRILLIANT!
“America hating scumbag liberal, Mitt Romney”
I agreed with your but I would ask you what led you to this opinion of Romney.
“Obama is not “slighlty” worse than McCain.”
I completely agree.
I can live with McCain. Oboma will ruin this country.
No I never disputed McCain missed votes. He certainly did - he’s running for POTUS afterall. What I was saying is taht regardless the ACU has him at 80% for 2007. But it’s a new day - let’s put this behind us.
I’ll never fear you as a voter because you can never be counted on anyways.
Duncan Hunter supports McCain.
McCain-Feingold is the most criminal violation of the Constitution ever. No politicians who wants to regulate my right to criticize him will ever get my vote.
Powerful, spot on post.
We don’t need no steenking ACU ratings to know McCain ain’t no conservative, why, he is really not even a republican.
Someday the McCain Deranged will love their country more than they hate McCain.
You GOP Kool-Aid drinkers have got to get a new play. You've been using the same one since 1988, when Poppy Bush first ran against Michael Dukakis: "Sure our candidate, {Fill in name of GOP candidate} is a smelly pile of cat vomit, but his democrat opponent, {Fill in name of Democrat candidate) is a bigger, smellier pile of cat vomit." It's just not working any more. Was it too much to ask that in the two decades since 1988 you could have found a candidate you could speak well of?
I went along with the GOP party play for 20 years. But, asking me to vote for MacCain is a line this conservative will NOT cross.
Real conservatives are on the same page with you, brother. They didn't vote for BJC. They're not voting for BHO either.
BTW, I haven't heard many conservatives say they're voting for BHO, have you?
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