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Posted on 07/22/2008 11:16:10 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
At a reception for an emerging artist, a tipsy friend approached me to continue a private chat we had long ago.
"So, you still want John McCain for president?" he said, in the neighborhood of 30,000 decibels above a whisper. Jaws dropped. Conversations stopped. I felt every cultural elitist eyeball in the gallery was on me. Awkward!
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What absolute blather.
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Obama will destroy America and it's value system.
A true conservative won’t support a party that doesn’t represent conservative values. conservatism is limited government. Both candidates push us towards statism and we will hate one for it (Obama) and grumble at (or God forbid, support) the other (McCain).
I would be her “friend” with the shiny piece in my designer bag, next to my Fusion XL lipgloss-—only I don't flash mine-—and I think “pieces”, like dresses, are always best in basic black. What a waste of bandwidth, paper, or any other media!
Hackneyed.
Tipsy is the operative word here. This is the cocktail circuit of the Left. In this state of mind their collective ideas flow as a sickness. They make the same nightly trip to the philosophical toilet where they unload more bile and how to screw this nation even more than they do.
so you arent voting for McCain either then?
—Lindsey Graham, on McCain's campaign
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Yes, but in a circus, not even the most alcoholic clown buries his head up the elephant's backside.
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You can bet the farm that I will vote for McCain.
Yep, as many times as I can pull the lever for McCain before being made to leave the booth.
If you care to check my posts a few months back you will see that I was a staunch supporter of Duncan Hunter my former neighbor and then later Fred Thompson with my campaign donations.
I have young children and do not want to leave their fate in the hands of an unknown quantity in one Baracks Obama.
The current election reminds of one that I witnessed personally in 1998.
I was in Caracas when Hugo Chavez was running for election and heard some of the same kinds of remarks concerning Hugo as I am hearing from misguided FReepers about Obama.
Some of my friends said things like let Hugo have his four years of screwing up the country and then he will be gone.
Well, he is still around and now it looks like a lifetime job no matter what the Venezuelan constitution says.
Four years in a heavy handed revenge mode liberal society is long time to waste, payback is a beach.
I personally despise some John McCains past performances concerning Campaign Financing, Immigration but that is small apples compared to the damage Obama can and will do to America.
No they don't. They just want to defeat him. They're not hard to figure out.
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Well this conservative and registered Independent is supporting McCain because there is no alternative.
I do not see at this time another future Reagan coming over the horizon four years from now.
You mean no viable alternative. I’ll agree it’s either McCain or Obama for the presidency but that doesn’t mean I have to support either one simply because one is “less liberal” than the other. But I see your point and respectfully disagree.
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Mark Davis of WBAP and a fill in for Rush just got through blasting the Libertarians who have turned their wrath against McCain and are actually pulling for Obama thinking that a bad presidency will create changes in 2012.
Davis said he was not willing to support anyone who would cause Obama to be elected.
He said “ I am not willing to do that to our troops”.
We disagree but then again I saw some of the same rhetoric of this campaign used in the 1998 campaign against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
I was in Caracas during that time and heard many friends say well Hugo will screw things up so bad that in four years we will get our candidate back in office.
That was ten years ago and it looks like Hugo will be president/Dictator for life.
I am not willing to trust that the Progressive Radical Left will willingly give up the presidency in four years.
The damage they will do to the Constitution may not be reversible as Mark Davis says.
Few in 1976 saw the greatness Reagan was destined for. Making a Republican mediocrity President will only guranatee that the GOP continues to put up ever more mediocrities, precisely what they've been doing every four years since 1988.
John MacCain: a man yearning to take the GOP back to the glory days of Gerald Ford and Bob Michel.
It's a free country, and there are stillconservatives unwilling to follow party central off a cliff. The folks the GOP poobahs are now blasting are the ones who so faithfully turned out in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. Rather than blame the messengers, they should ask why their base is now in open revolt.
What you support, you get more of. The GOP has mediocrity now, because that's what it's settled for for the last twenty years.
Conservatives fell on their collective arses in 2006 - it looks like conservatives won’t see a majority in The House for quite a long time, which means that liberal causes make great advances while conservatives remain in a minority and ineffective.
I know the conventional wisdom among many conservatives is that an Obama presidency would lead us to better times in 2012, as he will be such a disaster that the people will reject him and the dems in powerful numbers. That doesn’t factor in the contingency of Obama being a successful, popular president, which is certainly possible.
Historically, odds are that Obama would have 2 terms and his party would not see significant Congressional losses until 2014, and even then there’s no guarantee that would mean conservatives gain control in the House.
You don’t approach elections with the idea that you should lose now and come back strong later. It’s silly - liberals understand that the object of politics is to get and maintain power and move the status quo in your preferred direction. Too many conservatives can’t grasp that simple, straightforward concept.
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I personally would accept that each and every day for the next four years over the alternative of DANGEROUS NAVIETY that would inhabit the office of president should Obama win the next election.
I can guarantee you that Obamas handlers have a lot more pain in store for those who call themselves Libertarians than the slight discomfort John McCain offers.
You and I will probably never agree on candidates but it is nice to have a civil conversation about our views.
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