Posted on 02/05/2008 9:31:52 PM PST by mngran2
Just reported on tv. Also said Romney to meet at campaign headquarters tomorrow to have "frank discussion" about future of campaign.
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of Tancredo’s endorsement.
What happened in 2006 to you self styled political geniuses with your moderate, play it down the middle strategy?
Your base stayed home.
What did Karl Rove do in Oct 2004 in a race they looked like losing? Had Bush move to the right and push hard for the Christan Conservative vote.
Like I said we followed your dogma. Where has it gotten us?
Our political patronage, if we have any! More seriously, people who make a stand on principle generally earn greater respect than those who preemptively compromise.
McCain is dangerous IMO. I would rather have Obama in the White House than McCain. If it is HRC vs McCain, I think it is a complete disaster. Saves me a lot of time from not watching politics.
China will take back Taiwan and we won't lift a finger to prevent it.
Pakistan will fall to the Islamic extremists and we won't go in and secure their nukes.
Pakistan will give nukes to Iran.
Israel and Iran will nuke each other, and Armageddan will begin.
I voted for Hunter today. Hey, his name was on the ballot, and choosing between McCain and Romney (I figured Huckabee didn’t stand much of a chance in California) seems a little like trying to decide which bucket to use to bail water out of the Titanic.
I cannot think of anything we lose but just wondered if anyone else could think of anything.
The Anti-Christ is loved and admired and considered decent by most people on Earth.
Not really. Based on their records, McCain is a Social Moderate-Fiscal Moderate-National Defense Conservative while Huckabee is a Social Conservative-Fiscal Liberal-National Defense Liberal.
Well I guess the GOP will be running a Candidate advocating a Tax Hike for the 1st in at least 30 years. Congratulation GOP Establishment. Way to commit political suicide.
IF the GOP cannot even hold the line on tax hikes, what DO they stand for?
Party’s are not indestructible. Since the two party’s seem bent on fusion, there is coming a time when a new political party will have to rise.
Hegel Dialectic in action. 1st you have a thesis, in reaction to which forms an antithesis which over time combines to become the synthesis which then becomes the thesis developing a new antithesis.
In these terms the thesis was the Democrat party, which developed over time the anti-thesis Republican party. With McCain in the lead, the the purging of true Conservative candidates like this, we seem to see the Republican Establishment accelerating a fusion with the Democrat Party leadership. They are becoming a synthesis.
SO it appears the Republican-Democrats will form a globalist, interventionist European Socialist style party. That will be the new thesis.
In reaction to that something new will arise. An new Anti-thesis. It may be that Ron Paul is an out rider of that new trend. Perhaps indicating the coming rise of an Isolationist, limited Govt., Nationalist party of Libertarian-Conservatives to oppose the Corporatist Democrat-Republican party
A lot rides on this election for setting the course of politics for the coming generation. If it ends up being Hillary vrs McCain it will be a matter only of the party’s arguing over the speed to which the US should develop a European style authoritarian bureaucratic socialist style Govt.
Well my first campaign was in 1964, when I was on the Board of Directors of NY Youth for Goldwater. In that time I have voted for the most conservative viable candidate in every election, and often for non-viable conservatives against RINOs (Asbrook for President in 1972, for example) and I have no regrets.
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Real Clear Politics, December 5, 2006
In the midst of all the latest doubt, pessimism and arguing over our direction in Iraq, along comes John McCain, digging his heels in the sand and standing up for what is right. John McCain is fighting the tide.
The tide is defeatist.
The tide is asking us to throw our arms into the air and allow iniquity to win the day.
The tide is asking us to allow ruthless and evil totalitarians in Iran and Syria to seize victory.
The tide is asking us to blow American credibility for fifty years.
Fortunately, in the middle of all this, in the middle of James Baker's wishful thinking Iraq Study Group fog, along comes John McCain, reminding Americans we have two choices: win or lose.
That's called courage. That's called principle. That's called leadership.
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I am gambling on technology undermining a lot of the government.
What the hell, I have little other hope at this point. Simplistic but it helps me get up each day.
That is called BS
Which McCain are you voting for?
The McCain of 2003 who was for the war.
The McCain of 2004 for the war against how it was run.
The McCain of 2005 for the war but wanted 250,000 more American “boots on the ground”
The McCain of 2006. Fathers the Baker Commission. Wants to cut a political deal with Iran and Syria so the USA could slink away from Iraq
The McCain of 2007. Presidential Campaign dead in the water. McCain has surrogates fraudulent start claiming HE was the real father of the Surge strategy when he had nothing at all to do with it. It was Rumsfeild/Bush’s plan from the start.
Will the real John McCain please stand up?
Are you for McCain?
The Baker Commission was a CREATION of John McCain's! It was a Congressional commission, demanded by the GOP Senate Leadership lead by John McCain, as the price for continuing to fund the war in 2006!
Can anyone be that ignorant of McCain’s political record?
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