I’m a very serious Fredhead but a McCain/Thompson ticket would erode alot of the good I see in Thompson. I would lose a tremendous amount of respect for the man.
Poll manager Gary Gardner, right, a retired member of the U.S. Navy, helps Steve Denniston, a member of the Goose Creek Rural Fire Department, prepare to cast his vote in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary at Goose Creek High School in Goose Creek, S.C., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)I’m a very serious Fredhead but a McCain/Thompson ticket would erode alot of the good I see in Thompson. I would lose a tremendous amount of respect for the man.
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And I’m not sure I’d ever forgive Thompson for it either.
Fellow conservatives there is no way I’ll cast a vote for John McCain. There is no torture known to man, no amount of Hillary cackles, no Dean Scream loud enough..... you get the drift. The election of John McCain is the end of the Republican Party.
I can’t even deal yet with the idea of McCain being the GOP nominee, BUT ... back in 1980, the contest was fierce between the conservative Reagan and moderate Bush (41) factions of the party.
Reagan chose Bush as his running mate because ultimately what they agreed on was more important than where their positions diverged. If he’d chosen his political soulmate Goldwater, who was still ocnservative in 1980, he never would have been elected, but I guess he could have stood on principle.
Did choosing Bush make Reagan a sell-out, or diminish respect for him?