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If McCain wins the nomination, will you support him?
01.09.08 | perdogg

Posted on 01/09/2008 8:11:46 AM PST by Perdogg

1) Vote for McCain

2) Vote Dims - Kevorkian vote

3) Don't vote

4) Third party?


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; marines; mccain; nh2008; vanity
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To: vikingd00d
America will survive Clinton or Obama

after they've turned Iraq/Afghanistan and the rest of the world over to the islamofacists?

A vote put ANYwhere but for a republican, is a vote against our troops - and our flag.

Grow up, get your heads out of the sand, or wherever you have it stuck

561 posted on 01/09/2008 10:39:49 AM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: Perdogg

I tend to vote Republican, not RINO. McCain: I will stay home and have Barry or Hillary President for four years first, at least they make no bones about despising everything I stand for. He’s supposed to be on our side.


562 posted on 01/09/2008 10:39:59 AM PST by McCloud-Strife (Dump John McCain first, the rest of the "gang of 14" next)
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To: nicmarlo; Jim Robinson

I remember an article JimRob posted about mcpain some time back. It was a wonderful article and needs to be reposted because many on FR are talking about voting for him now.


563 posted on 01/09/2008 10:40:41 AM PST by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: Perdogg

Nope. After CFR I opted to never vote for McCain again, not for AZ Senate, not for President, not for dog catcher. I’ll probably go third party if he gets the nod.


564 posted on 01/09/2008 10:40:59 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: Perdogg
Sure, I'd support him. With very little enthusiasm, though.

Which is more than I would do for either Abortiani or Flip Romney. Those two are anathema.
565 posted on 01/09/2008 10:42:32 AM PST by Antoninus (If you want the national GOP to look more like the Massachusetts GOP, vote for Flip Romney)
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To: McCloud-Strife
I will stay home and have Barry or Hillary President

Please don't stay home ... there are congressional, senate, state, local candidates and issues to be voted on.

566 posted on 01/09/2008 10:42:39 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: RinaseaofDs
I won’t. I’ll write in Thompson.
Sorry.

And you'll be the fool. Sorry.

Don't you have any understanding of who you are voting for when you vote for a president?

You ARE NOT voting for the candidate per se - be it Thompson, McCain, Obama - or ANYbody.

When you vote for a presidential candidate, you are REALLY voting for a "slate of electors" who are pledged to vote for that candidate, and NOT for the candidate himself. Have you heard of something called "The Electoral College"? Better read up on how it works!

So, if Fred Thompson abandons his candidacy, and has no electors, you are voting for, essentially NO ONE. Your ballot probably won't even be recorded as a legitimate vote (yes, I know in YOUR mind, you think you voted for Thompson). It will in all likelihood be ignored and register nowhere on the final tally of votes cast.

The only way you could legitimately cast a write-in vote for Fred (or anyone else) would be to write in all the names of a slate of electors pledged to support him.

But writing in "Fred Thompson" on the ballot accomplishes nothing - it won't even be counted.

By the way, this applies ONLY to presidential elections. You could write in for any OTHER election that way. But it doesn't work that way when you're voting for president.

All you "write-in my candidate for prez" kooks better find out how the system works. You'd do just as well to not vote at all.

- John
(by the way, Mr. Thompson would be my first choice, but if he doesn't make it, I'll consider choice #2, and etc.)

567 posted on 01/09/2008 10:43:27 AM PST by Fishrrman
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To: Perdogg

No. I’ll write someone in.


568 posted on 01/09/2008 10:44:00 AM PST by rintense (Thompson / Hunter 2008!)
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To: Chunga

Bravo Zulu You!


569 posted on 01/09/2008 10:45:16 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: JerseyDvl
Yes, anyone who wants to protect us better than every lib.

Absolutely.

A vote for anyone other than the pubbie nominee is a vote against our troops and our flag.

Believe it -

It's amazing, the uber egos who pontificate about voting or not voting in a way that is nothing less that a vote for the enemies of our flag, our troops and a free society.

We stand together or we fall apart...quite simple.

570 posted on 01/09/2008 10:45:36 AM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Shove it, n00b

You're clueless. I've been here for six years.

Note to Republican Party hacks: If you want me to vote for your guy, make sure your guy is one I can vote FOR.

Note to fake conservatives everywhere: If you can't vote Republican given the current crop of Democrat candidates, you aren't a conservative.

'rat-lite timid socialists don't count.

Not one Republican candidate running for president is a socialist. Every last one of them is a capitalist. Huckabee has the worst record as a wealth-redistributor, so he's my last choice...but even he looks like Herbert Hoover compared to the Socialist scumbags permeating the Democrat Party.

You needn't pretend to be a Republican, Bustard. It's okay. Just give the rest of us a little Truth-In-Advertising.

571 posted on 01/09/2008 10:50:21 AM PST by Chunga (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Perdogg

The primaries are too far from being over so I am not ready to consider that scenario. Right now I am sticking with Fred.


572 posted on 01/09/2008 10:51:05 AM PST by rob777 (Personal Responsibility is the Price of Freedom)
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To: Puppage

That is the problem isn’t it, if enough of us can’t vote entusiastically for the republican canidate, especially conservatives who are the back bone of the party, then there is know way we win.

I stayed home for Bob Dole, after he railed against the movie Train Spotting, it became quite clear he was out of touch and had not actually seen the movie.


573 posted on 01/09/2008 10:51:52 AM PST by qman
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To: Fishrrman

I know EXACTLY how the system works.

Read this and understand it:

If we can’t come up with a conservative, I’d rather have Clinton, or someone even more liberal. Got it?

When a conservative commits socialism, he/she is a centrist. When a liberal does it, he/she is overreaching. Witness Pelosi.

As for SCOTUS, does it matter? Really? I’d direct you to read Levin’s book. The sane ones on the bench are beset by the centrists.

No more centrists. Give me either a conservative, or let’s have a liberal. Truth in advertising.

Centrists are neither hot nor cold, so I spit them from my consideration. At least with Liberals, once they get elected they deadlock themselves, being a collection of diametrically opposed interests anyway.

I know, and endorse, how the electoral process works. It’s the party process of picking a nominee that is idiotic. Until I can tell the difference between the parties at the CANDIDATE LEVEL, then I will do my duty and vote.

But I official withdraw from the party process.

The party can kiss my grits at this point.


574 posted on 01/09/2008 10:52:56 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Chunga

“Why do so many ignorant posters at Free Republic ask this asinine question?”

Why do you think?


575 posted on 01/09/2008 10:52:58 AM PST by Grunthor (I will NEVER vote for Juan McCain for POTUS.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Oh, yes:

Fred's a good candidate.

Please quit associating his name with your assinine, socialist-supporting drivel.

Fred's going to support the Republican nominee, as am I.

He knows what's at stake in this election, unlike the mental midget fakes inhabiting this thread.

576 posted on 01/09/2008 10:53:41 AM PST by Chunga (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Laserman
I will just NOT vote if he wins. And it is hard for me to believe I am saying that given that I have been a Republican all my adult life and never missed an election!

I would vote for you and all your like thinkers to have to stand at the airports and face our returning troops whose mission will be thrown in the toilet = the troops that the Socialists will pull back, sabotaging their hard won victories to date, throwing dirt on our lost heroes, and = I would pray that every day, after the disaster sure to come if we let the traitor Commies back in power, that you will recognize an aider and abettor of that disaster every time every one of you look in a mirror.

A vote put anywhere but for a republican is a vote against our troops and against our flag and our freedoms

I pray you people can swallow your ego long enough to vote for the country

577 posted on 01/09/2008 10:54:42 AM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: Perdogg

Don’t vote for President.


578 posted on 01/09/2008 10:54:48 AM PST by Hattie
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To: Perdogg
If McCain wins the nomination, will you support him?

Of course.

579 posted on 01/09/2008 10:55:12 AM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: ItsForTheChildren
I'd rather get some of what I want than all of what they want.

Based on past experience, with McCain you will get all of what they want and you'll get the blame for it as well.

What a deal!

580 posted on 01/09/2008 10:57:17 AM PST by CMAC51
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