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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I’m with you. McCain is not the candidate we conservatives were looking for but even the Bible says that Obamanation brings desolation...
No thanks.. I am done voting for the lesser of two evils.
Agreed. I’m supporting John McCain for president.
I don’t like McCain at all, but I’m beginning to agree with the author. Obama has shown himself, and I believe an Obama Administration would be a complete and total disaster that could take a generation to correct. Sure, McCain believes in amnesty for illegals, among other things I detest, but with Obama I will get those things and much much more.
(it may be getting time to change my tagline)
Well, that is the worry of many conservatives: that the only way to make McCain look conservative is to compare him to immoral marxists, and ignore his tendency to enjoy working with the marxists over conservatives in Congress.
Mad Jon escaping death during the Forrestal accident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxGV-eRUC_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuiyXQKw3I&feature=related
IMO, “If” John McCain stresses his budget hawk record, and pro life record, and his War Support record, he is acceptable to Conservatives, when he leaves for “Global Warming” taxes, he losses me...
Real mature. obama thanks you.
McCains is owed a than you.
Five Choices
1.) Vote for Green Party
2.) Vote for BHO
3.) Vote for McCain
4.) Write In
5.) Stay Home
# 3 SOUNDS LIKE THE SAFEST TO ME
So, voting for a candidate because he sucks slightly less than another candidate is the ‘mature’ thing to do? BTW, I’m not planning on voting for Obama, so who does that count for? I have to ask because I didn’t get the Happy Meal with the election vote counter decoder ring like the McCainiacs.
The troops thank you.
How insulting. McCain doesn’t “suck slightly less than” Barack Hussein Obama, that’s not even close. But you just stay home and keep patting yourself on the back for being so “mature”.
Now not going along with voting for McQueeg is “childish?” Is this what passes for quality rebuttal in your school?
obama is THE MOST LIBERAL SENATOR now. A virtual 100% hardcore leftist record.
McCain at WORST is about 50%.
To me there’s no question, not even a little on who to support.
I won’t be staying home, thank you. My vote will go to each and every conservative candidate on the ballot.
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