Republicans Grow More Hopeful About McCain

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Republicans Grow More Hopeful About McCain By Jim Malone Washington 15 August 2008

Republicans who support Senator John McCain for president are growing increasingly confident that their candidate is gaining momentum in his race for the White House with the presumptive Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports from Washington.

2008 was supposed to be a Democratic year. Opinion polls have shown growing voter concerns about the U.S. economy, general unhappiness with President Bush and a desire for change.

Despite those Democratic advantages, surveys also show the presidential race between Senators Obama and McCain to be very close.

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Where?

[hsalaw]

I don’t think “hopeful” is the right word. “Resigned” is how I feel about McCain.

[gridlock]

I’m thinking coat-tails...

[Williams]

I think any writer who starts another article with the same list of reasons why republicans are “supposed” to lose, should have their journalism license revoked.

[beaversmom]

Hope is all I got right now.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

MCcain underwhelms me except in one area and thats is National security. With the Russians on the move I have no choice to vote for him. I still dont trust him on immigration, taxes or judicial appointments, but we cant have another Jimmy Carter who responds to soviet aggression with an olympic boycott.

[SatinDoll]

This McCain is so frustrating!

He starts to look good and then he opens his mouth.

I swear...he better pick a straight-line Conservative for VP - non of this pro-choice or Lieberman for VP nonsense! If he doesn’t, he’s not going to get much in the way of Republican support, if at all.

[rexgrossmansonlyfan]

He will get my support as I am an american first and I want the best president for this country.

This country is too important to me to turn over to Obama.

[Norman Bates]

Name a couple ideal VPs for you. I’d like to hear.

[zebrahead]

Republicans aren’t growing more hopeful, in my opinion. They are seeing the reality of this election and they are seeing that there is only one choice. McCain is running against a deeply flawed and very dangerous opponent that can’t be allowed into office. The thought of Obama with a Democratic Congress (possibly with 60 votes in the Senate) should make any self-respecting conservative cringe. If you actually take personal feelings toward McCain out of the picture and look where each candidate stands on the biggest issues (War on Terror, Taxes, Spending, Judges, Abortion, Guns, and Energy to name just a few), the informed vote is for McCain.

[CottonBall]

If you actually take personal feelings toward McCain out of the picture and look where each candidate stands on the biggest issues (War on Terror, Taxes, Spending, Judges, Abortion, Guns, and Energy to name just a few), the informed vote is for McCain.

I'm sure nobody here is basing their decisions on 'personal feelings' about McCain. It's all based on his voting record, his all-too-common crossing of the aisle to help the Dems pass their liberal legislation, and the stabbing in the back of true conservatives. There's nothing personal about it - except on McCain's side, that is.

[CottonBall]

The thought of Obama with a Democratic Congress (possibly with 60 votes in the Senate) should make any self-respecting conservative cringe.

A true 'self-respecting conservative' would not vote for someone that has sided with liberals more than with his (supposedly) own. Obama will do short-term damage to the country - which can be fixed in the next election cycle. McCain will damage conservatism by having his liberal legislation associated with the term, by putting the true conservatives in Congress between a rock and a hard place by having them chose between their liberal leader, their constituents, and party funding for their next election), and by making the possibility of a true conservative in the 2012 election impossible.

[Polybius]

The thought of Obama with a Democratic Congress (possibly with 60 votes in the Senate) should make any self-respecting conservative cringe.

It should but the "More-Conservative-Than-Thou" McCain-haters on FR are living in their own little world.

America's national security is far less important to them than hating a "RINO".

The fact that Conservatives make up 60% of the GOP but only 27% of all registered voters in America are Republicans does not seem to register with them.

They insist that either America elect a conservative Republican candidate that, unfortunately, only represents the viewpoint of 16% of America's voters or that America become imperiled in order to "teach the GOP a lesson".

Such people, in my book, are political partisans first and Americans second.

True Conservative are Americans first. Always.

[LiberConservative]

“Hopeful”? I’m thinking a stick in my eye is better than a stick up my bung hole.

[Polybius]

A true 'self-respecting conservative' would not vote for someone that has sided with liberals more than with his (supposedly) own. Obama will do short-term damage to the country - which can be fixed in the next election cycle.

A self-respecting conservative does not put America's security at risk because he is throwing a childish temper tantrum.

The damage that President Obama can cause is not easily "fixed". If you believe that, you are just as dangerously naive as Barack Obama is.

In 1979, when I was a young Navy Ensign, Jimmy Carter stupidly abandoned Iran to radical Islamist fanatics that are now, in 2008, seeking nuclear weapons and delivery systems.

Later in 2008 or in 2009, young American servicemen who were not even born in 1979 may have to die to foil radical Islamist Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Stupidity, both on the part of dangerously naive Presidents and on the part of dangerously naive voters that help elect them, has deadly consequences that can span decades.

[csmusaret]

Good VP picks: SC Sen Demint, SC Gov Sanford.

[Norman Bates]

DeMint, no. Fine conservative but no senator. Sanford would be fine. I lean Romney.

[elkfersupper]

MCcain underwhelms me except in one area and thats is National security.

I've already given up too much of my freedom in the interest of national security.

No, thanks.

[SatinDoll]

Governor Palin, of Alaska, for one.

Governor Jindal, of Louisiana, for two. (I know, he said he doesn’t want it but no hurt in asking.)

[no dems]

It’s not that he’s improving; he’s still a little bit of a dullard. He’s in the race because he is running against a bumbling, empty-suited, ex-crack smoking, bi-sexual, confused, closet Muslim who doesn’t know his a** from a hole in the ground.