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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And your point is?
And Lindsey Lohan supports Obama. But, I'm not voting for him.
Are you comparing Duncan Hunter to Lindsey Lohan?
There’s quite a big difference there pal...
And probably a lot sooner than you GOP Kool-Aid drinkers love truth more than power.
No.
But I know that many intend to keep silent.
They will contribute, by their silence, to his advantage.
As they did in 1996, BTW.
Indeed. I'm just not in the habit of automatically supporting anyone simply because someone says I should.
You GOP Kool-Aid drinkers have got to get a new play.
I'm just stating the fact that McCain votes conservative about 60% of the time while Obama votes conservative 0% of the time. At this point I've endorsed no candidate.
Your above remark is stupid.
It’s certainly not the ONLY factor.
But it does contribute to the decision making process.
Bob Dole, I could support. I still have too many principles to give my support to an asshat like John MacCAin.
Get your wife to read you The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
I'll tell you what. When you have something to say to me that isn't dumbass, give me a ping.
Truth hurts?
That statement is false and fails to hold up to scrutiny on many levels.
It also reeks of the last, failing argument of one who is ashamed of what they are doing and wants others to share in the shameful activity.
Your statement also assumes that all votes are owned by either Democrats or Republicans. Sorry, I reject that assumption.
In reality, you seem to define "Sheeple" in that you are going into a losing situation with your eyes wide open and in full acceptance.
With your 'Here I am, lead me, I need and desperately desire to be led and I will not challenge the burdens you make me bear' you will only continue to get government that is increasingly worse.
I’m not debating you.
I don’t despise McCain on *most* of his issues; it is his character and treatment of the GOP that disqualified him from my vote.
He craps on you GOP supporters, laughs at you, then makes you grovel at his feet while he further humiliates you.
You have no self respect and I cannot side with such losers that will do anything to be near power ala Hillary Clinton.
McCain in the White House is not a victory for the GOP or America.
EE: “McCain in the White House is not a victory for the GOP or America.”
But Obama in the White House IS a victory for the GOP and America?! THAT is what you are saying.
The reality is that only the R or D candidate has a chance of being elected, so we will either have an R or D president, in this election, that’s either McCain or Obama.
Any conservative voting for third party or not voting IS helping Obama, by keeping votes away from McCain. As I mentioned before, if a little over 500 conservatives had stayed home in 2000 in Florida, we would have had President Gore. And we don’t know whether a few votes may make a difference between President McCain or President Obama. Anyone who sits idly by, while Obama gets elected, will be responsible for the destruction of the country, that WILL happen when the Dems will take over the country, by taking over all three branches of the government.
Amen. Well said.
Blah, blah, blah... ad infinitum.
You seem to be under the false impression that you need to keep repeating the same thing, over and over.
You don't.
People don't agree with you.
Get over it.
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