No...John McCain is political death for the wacky far-RIGHT fringe.
Not mainstream fiscal and social Conservatives. Like me! Like 90% of Freepers.
The Islamic Religion has supposedly 1% of their believers who are 24/7 jihadists. The Conservative base in the GOP has about 10% of their believers who are one-or-two issue political jihadists.
Both need to be condemned by their majority of faithful.
We have what? 200,000 registered members on FreeRepublic...but about 200 of them are responsible for painting us all as 'scary extremists' who want to peek inside our bedrooms and tell a woman she has no personal rights.
Ladies and Gentlemen here.....please? Let's win the damned election. Because if we don't...we're all in for a bad time.
Remember....if Gore had won in 2000...the 2nd Amendment would not have been saved by a 5-4 vote. It would be repealed in it's present form.
WAKE UP! For the sake of the United States of America WAKE UP!
“No...John McCain is political death for the wacky far-RIGHT fringe.”
Here we have another Bob Michel Republican, longing for forty more years of minority status. Yep, get rid of all those right wingers and you’ll be back to the good old days of the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties.
I'm going to read between the lines & translate that your comment means that you are pro-abortion. I am against it, and supposedly, so is McCain. THAT IS NOT MY BEEF WITH HIM. His stance on illegals and amnesty is my biggest beef with him, but my goodness - there are so many other issues that I cannot abide with him.
It's people and politicians like you that are the reason that I am no longer a member of the Republican party. You have made it clear that you don't want people like us around. Good luck with that, I don't think it's a successful strategy for you & I think that it's that kind of thinking that will ultimately destroy the party. I would like to see a poll done here on FreeRepublic - if what you say is true, and if 90% of Freepers agree with you, then I will leave this site.
Your points are well-taken in some respects, but I disagree that McCain is political death for even the “wacky far-right fringe.”
The same thing, for example, was said after the election of Eisenhower (another military man who was elected as a Republican not because he was a Republican, but because he was the right man for the times). Yet Ronald Reagan came along.
This is part of the ebb and flow of history, not Armageddon.
Fine then. I have been, reluctantly, been planning on voting for M