If McCain wins the nomination, will you support him?

01.09.08 | perdogg

[Perdogg]

1) Vote for McCain

2) Vote Dims - Kevorkian vote

3) Don't vote

4) Third party?

[pianomikey]

Can we vote for McCain’s wife to be First Lady without having McCain as President?

Total GLOW... or GILF for those who’re of that persuasion.

[LibLieSlayer]

"There’s a conservative party?"

Apparently not any longer... and I’m beginning to wonder how many Conservatives are left on FR.

LLS

[vaudine]

Grudgingly and while holding my nose. It would make the bitter pill go down easier if he named Fred or Duncan his VP.

vaudine

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

He's also clearly ethical - another difference with HRC.

CoughKeatingFivecough...

[rurgan]

I would never vote for McCain or Huckabee because they are not real Republicans but are pro-Amnesty for illegals big government liberals.

Lets start another party.

And have rules for that party that you must be for taxes, you must be for eliminating most of these government agencies, you must be for securing the borders and deporting illegals and limiting immigration from the 3rd world, you must be for individual rights like gun rights and property rights, against abortion ,and for less government regulation of free market capitalism.

And anyone who doesn’t believe in or follow these principles will be kicked out of the party. McCain and Huckabee would have been kicked out long ago. Problem with the GOP is that any pro-Amnesty socialist like Huckabee can call himself a Republican and everyone will think he really is a conaervativ3e Republican.

[dragonblustar]

I won’t vote for him or Huckabee.

[libscum]

Any chance of Barbour, Demint, or Sessions being VP. This would help MAC with many of us. Yes / NO ?

[Schnucki]

Hopefully third party or write in. Otherwise it’s sit at home and mope.

[devane617]

HELL NO!

[Allan Bartlett]

No I will not support a hack politician that wants to give amnesty to twenty million illegal aliens. I’m funny like that.

[Cracker Jack]

I vote ideaology; not parties.

I vote ideology as well. I vote to defeat the vile and destructive democrat party ideology the best way I know how.

The primary is the time to vote FOR someone. For the general election, if you can't vote FOR the republican, vote to defeat the democrat.

See my tagline. I think republicans are often wrong. Democrats are nearly always wrong. So democrats need to be kept out of office. First, destroy the democrats. Then work on the republicans.

[crazydad]

I am in the same boat... HILDUSA OR MCCAIN- I take Mccain!

[JasonC]

Just wanted to be clear on that. So you consider Bush and anyone centerward, too liberal to be tolerated and anathema. Got it. The country, on the other hand, considers his too conservative. Baring dispensing with democracy, you've got maybe 20% and only need to convince oh about 75 million people. In the meantime you can have holiness tests off in an impotent little wing, while Dems run the country.

[sitetest]

I’ll vote for Sen. McCain, though reluctantly.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Your question exposed a remarkably large number of spoiled little kids who will take their ball and go home if they don't get to pitch. I have never understood how maintaining some misguided sense of philosophical purity is more important than defeating democrats. We have people of this mentality to thank for giving Clinton the presidency on 43% of the popular vote in 1992. There is not one republican, not even Paul, that disagrees with me as much as the most agreeable democrat. A RINO president will hurt the country. A democrat president will destroy the country as we know it. The next 4 years are critical to the war on terror and rebuilding the Supreme Court. I for one am not willing to help the democrats win. December 2008 will be too late to discover that voting for a third party candidate is counterproductive.

Amen to your post. There is no perfect candidate. If everyone said they would only vote for the candidate that supported every position he or she supported to a tee then the field would pretty much be each individual over the age of 35 running. I am no fan of McCain, or Huckabee, but if that is who a majority of Republicans CHOOSE, then I suppose that will be my candidate. I can at least rest assured that we have some agreements on the BIG issues, as opposed to the Democrats with who I have no agreements on big issues. It's not as though the Democrats are choosing our candidate. Republican voters will ultimately choose the candidate on the Republican side. If they choose my guy GREAT, but if not, I have to accept it and move on, and keep my bitterness in check while I vote for the Republican candidate. It may take me a week or two to quit licking my wounds but then I'll support the guy I can find some common ground with (however little it may be) as opposed to the guy who is my polar opposite. And I say this as my candidate performed below my expectations in the Iowa Caucus and NH primary.

[saminfl]

As for the USSC, the upcoming retirees are all libs, who will be replaced by other libs if a dem wins. The court won't change and none of the dims running are more than a 1 termer.

The justices are not there for 1 term. With any Pubbie, we have a chance to change the court. The stakes are too high for "fantasy priciples." Do you think that even if a dim is only a one termer, the court will change? There will be younger dims selected and they will last for a long time.

The stakes are too high to allow that to happen.

We can prevent some things the RINOs do like we did with the amnesty.

[jrd]

I will not support him!

[Reno232]

First of all, those that say they would vote 3rd party or not at all are basically saying they’d vote for Hillary or Obama. In this current climate & w/ the timing issues, a 3rd party would have no chance at winning.

That being said, those that would still hold stead fast to that position have absolutely NO concept as to how damaging a Hillary presidency would be to our nation, & for decades to come. There are a variety of reasons for that but one need not look any further than what would happen to the judiciary under her rule, at the Supreme Court level on down. Us pro life folks could kiss that concept goodbye foresee-ably for our lifetime! And that would just be the start of the mayhem.

I am least of all, a fan of McCain or Huckabee. But as much as they would screw up this country, it would pale in comparison to the carnage that would be left after a Clinton reign. Some of you can stand on principle if you choose. Try explaining why to your children & grandchildren as they live in the waste place once called America b/c of that choice.

Compromise is often the lesser of 2 evils. Reagan taught that, lived it, & governed that way. I think many are acting on emotions here, but once they calm down & look at things rationally, cooler heads will prevail. At least that’s my hope.

[DeusExMachina05]

Yes. McCain over any Dem.

I go with the premise of who will *crew me less.

[roscommon]

1. Would he nominate conservative judges?
a: probably not.

2. Would he remove the millions of illegal aliens in our country?
a: probably not.

3. Would he reduce my tax burden?
a: probably not.

4. Would I vote for John McCain.
a: absolutely not.

The only gentlemen I would consider voting for are Romney, Thompson & Rudy.