Opinion: a McCain/Ridge or a McCain/Guiliani (McRidge or McRudy)?
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The only way you have to do this is to not vote for him.
I wonder if Michelle hasn’t jumped the shark. She’s beginning to sound old and bitter.
“Is McCain going to screw conservatives (again)?”
What a silly question. OF COURSE he is!
Maybe not on THIS issue, but he WILL screw us (again).
I got dibs on being the first to say “You knew what you were getting when you voted for him”.
Is McCain going to screw conservatives (again)?
I have no reason to think he won’t. He tends to do that a lot and he’s fairly good at it.
I still do not believe this will happen. McCain/Pawlenty continues to seem a likely ticket to me.
If John Kasich is willing, that’s another possibility.
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You can probably count that McCain will screw us 20% of the time. Obama will screw us 100% of the time. In the end, McCain will be better than Bush, IMHO. Except I doubt if it will even be possible for McCain to get any good judges appointed to the court unless the GOP pulls off some kind of miracle in the Senate.
McCain is a RINO. Duh. But he is a liberal republican. If I were voting without a conscience, as I used to, I would vote for the lesser of these two evils. But I’m not... :) Go Ron Go! Conscience clear.
Its certain that McCain is a better choice than obama. But conservatives have to always hold his feet to the fire.
First chance he gets McCain will sell conservatives down the river.
The VP choice is a toughie. Obama is really of a piece with Gore and heinz’s husband. However, after three defeats the dems are likely to choose a new kind of democrat in the next presidential cycle. They’re putting Mark Warner up for keynote.
What kind of republican could beat warner. He is very much like Romney only his story is better.
Maybe our rejection just makes the guy even more "moderate"-- I don't know. In any event, it is what it is, and I am not going whole hog for McCain.
I think this is not the time to risk losing votes for McCain.
On the issues you mentioned:
abortion - McCain is pro-life. He understands that the key is judges. What’s the problem here?
“comprehensive immigration reform” - can’t argue here
“globull warming” - I think he’s being purely political here and there’s no point for his campaign to take a stand against environmentalism. I cringed too when he mentioned it in the debates, but I’m certainly not going to drop my support over just this issue.
McCain is liberal on immigration reform and controlling free speech, but he is not pro-abortion.
Malkin is a bit too busy lately seeing the negative, but I guess someone has to watch that angle.
Ridge would not get my support.
I have been really agonizing over this presidential vote and have come up with the following analysis.
1. During the gang of 14 debacle I called McCain’s ofice and explained that I would never vote for him for anything.
2. I live in California and we will be one of the last states to send our electorial votes to the Republicans. I see my presidential vote as merely symbolic.
3. I am increasingly disturbed by the direction the Republican party is moving.
Therefore I will not vote for McCain but plan to vote for a conservative. Where do I find one? I put the Liberarians into the same basket as the Greens. So I need to look to the Constitution party or elsewhere. I would like to somehow express to the national (and state) party that conservatives are here and we do vote.
McCain has just thumbed his nose at conservatives too many times.
If McCain picks a pro-choice VP, I’ll choose to not vote for him in November.
Is the Pope Catholic?
If McCain wins he will be working with a house and senate with a makeup pretty much like exists today - Dems may strengthen their majorities slightly, but not to a supermajority. Is that congress going to be able to send a powerfully pro-abortion bill (or a powerfully anti-abortion bill) up to the president? I doubt it.
This just seems like a tempest in a teapot. McCain is a pro-life senator, and would be a pro-life President, but he's not likely to be able to do much to advance the issue in either direction. The good news here is, congress is not likely to be able to do much harm, unless there is a much much larger pro-Dem blowout than what is anticipated.
Rush is talking about this today. The only chance Barak Obama has of becoming President is if John McCain selects a pro-choice running mate like Ridge or Leiberman. That’s why the RAT media is promoting them.
McCain should find out which one of his campaign operatives are making these calls and fire him. Of course, Ridge is co-chairman of the campaign. So it could be Ridge who’s making the calls.