With nominees like McCain, who needs enemies?
Posted on 08/23/2008 9:37:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cheryl Bynum admires John McCain so much that she did something for him she wouldn't do for just any politician.
She became a Republican.
"He's like your father or brother or someone you feel like you can trust," said Bynum, who lives in Knoxville. "He's the guy you call when you're in trouble."
Bynum considers herself a political moderate and was registered as an Independent before McCain decided to run for president. But once he jumped into the race, Bynum changed her voter registration to Republican, did volunteer work for his campaign and got herself elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
"I have never been a political person per se," said Bynum, who has worked as an educator and a social worker. "I've never done anything like this before, but I was just motivated for him. It was just McCain."
In a little more than a week, thousands of delegates like Bynum will come together in St. Paul, Minn., for the GOP convention, a quadrennial event that kicks off Sept. 1 and runs for four days and nights.
Though the official purpose is to pick the party's presidential nominee, there will be a smorgasbord of other activities, including televised speeches by some politicians you've heard of and some you haven't, performances by country music stars such as Gretchen Wilson and LeAnn Rimes and protests by anti-war groups and others. The climax will come on closing night, when McCain formally accepts the nomination for president.
Tennessee will be well-represented at the festivities. The state will have 107 delegates and alternates at the convention, including Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Nearly two dozen of the delegates and alternates are from East Tennessee.
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With nominees like McCain, who needs enemies?
Big baby
I think you’re going to be surprised on August 29th.
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Common sense should tell us that when it comes to political candidates you support who you support and when it finally comes time to vote you play the hand you are dealt. This is particularly true if “your guy” is not on the ballot and the “other guy” is.
Most FReepers are going to support McCain for the sake of our allies, especially Israel. For the need to keep Obama from being able to pick the next Supreme Court appointment. For the sake of the war on terror. For the sake of the unborn.
There is certainly a small but vocal group of FReepers that believe we should toss away our vote on Bob Barr or some other third party candidate. There are even some of that same group who believe that if Obama wins it will assure a “true conservative” getting the GOP nomination in 2012. Many of these same people though would have told you a year ago (and did) that there was no way a moderate like McCain could win the nomination. Nobody knows what the mindset of voters will be in 2012. Nobody knows what the dominating campaign issue will be. Just because it might be immigration to one person, or the 2nd amendment to another does not mean that the voting moderates in this country (the ones who REALLY decide elections) are going to agree.
We have the election of 2008 in front of us and the idea of letting Obama win so we can get a "true conservative" in office in 2012 is an extraordinarily bad idea. It is a bad idea because it might not come to pass and Obama can destroy much while some here on FR obsess about the Mexicans in line at Walmart.
A reprise of the ‘64 Goldwater platform would be attractive, but the country isn’t prepared for it. I might vote for McCain - skinny legs and all.
It’s not as hard to believe as all the people who claim to have been lifelong republicans who suddenly had some sort of epiphany at the sight of Obama and immediately registered democrat so they could vote for him.
I can understand how some people might strongly support McCain. Looking at the alternative, it does make sense.
But to me, his one and only saving grace is simply that he isn’t the other guy.
In a way, he’s like Bush.
No, I’m not another Bush basher. No president is perfect.
The similarity in my eyes is both of them, are somewhat extreme in their rightness or wrongness.
McCain is said to be very pro-life. That works for me.
That’s right.
But when he makes noise about climate change and amnesty and all that kind of nonsense I just don’t know what to think.
Maybe they’re not really left or right.
Bi-polar?
And nearly 95% of Free Republic agreed.
Did FR change?
Did he?
I defy anyone to say or prove in detail that McCain IS a Conservative! He is a REPUBLICAN. That is all that can be proven.
And nobody can do it without bringing big bad wolf Obama into the equation somehow.
Why on Gods good green earth are Conservatives voting for a RINO and a mod/lib, particularly if they have slates of other electors available??
Mark
Amen to your post.
Well, lets just pretend that Obama doesn't exist!
McCain WON the Republican nomination.
If you are a Republican you honor that decision, that is what being a member of a Political party means.
If you are a 3rd Party guy, then stay with that Party and have at it.
But this nation is a two Party system and the candidate from one of the Parties is going to be President.
I have not agreed with everything Bush has done, but I am sure glad that we did not have Gore or Kerry in the White House!
There is only ONE party now -> The US Senate Politburo. Stop being stuck on stupid.
Stop being stuck on stupid?
You wrote a sentence that makes no sense, though I'm sure you found it amusing to yourself, then you used a tired old cliche.
This is what I suggest you do:
Get the Cheese Whiz out of the cabinet of your trailer. Sit down in your rental furniture under your poster of Dale Earnhardt and enjoy your cheese and crackers.
I understand the rationalizations and the situational ethics, and moral mission creep involved in justifying such action. Although I cannot agree with them, I see them and grasp them from an analytical point of view.
I will not compromise on this issue. So, that's just the way it is, and I am glad you respect that.
“McCain is NOT a conservative.
And nearly 95% of Free Republic agreed.”
There is a large contingent around here (majority) that is NOT conservative. They are anti-abortion, gun totting, evangelistic, clinton-haters. But that does not make you a Conservative.
Is that you Lhindshay?
Let’s just call them Half-Conservatives.
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