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.
1972 was a safe year to throw a tantrum in. A very solid majority of voters in the rest of America were not about to allow the national disaster of a President George McGovern. God only knows where such an alternate history would have left the survival of America at that phase of the Cold War.
You had "no regrets" about Ross Perot in 1992 either?
The best sales job that you can do for McCain is to leave us alone, you know, that we know, who he is, you can not sell him to us let us work through this on our own.
Our struggle is to keep from throwing up as we vote for him, as most of us will unless we get too cornered.
You saw how we reacted to the Romney jerks, if you mimic them we will rebel against your guy.
“Can anyone be that ignorant of McCain’s political record?”
In seconds a McCain guy managed to unite two opposing die hards (me and MNJohnnie).
I’m telling you Polybius just leave us alone and watch as we accept your guy, if you push us, you will unite all most all of us (FR) against John McCain, no matter what.
Perot was no conservative. I regretfully voted for a minor party in '92. I felt that when George H. W. Bush said 'Read my lips, no new taxes', then asked for tax increases, he had violated an explicit contract with the voters. It was my feeling that enforcing the terms of a contract is morally binding on both sides, and I couldn't justify voting for someone who had defrauded me.
HAAAA! Great one. I guess maybe McCain is good for something after all! I am planning on honoring Reagan's 11th Commandment once we have a nominee but I got better things to do with my time and money then support him. They say they can win without us icky right wingers?
The only hope for America is enough pubbie senators to stop legislation via filabuster and a true conservative who can win in 2012.
Sigh.
Even more medication. This is more serious than I thought!
No more threat of Saddam seeking WMD's is there?
The McCain of 2004 for the war against how it was run.
How many of us have been railing for years about how the war started with Shock and Awe and then was fought with one hand tied behind our backs?
The McCain of 2005 for the war but wanted 250,000 more American “boots on the ground”
If a Surge of that magnitude had been carried out in 2005, the war might very well have been wrapped up by now. As it was, lack of progress in the war allowed the Democrats to gain control of Congress with Cut & Run promises and we are now one Presidential election away from losing a war that should have ended with victory already.
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
Did you make up this lie, MNJohnnie, or did somebody else make it up for you so you could "cut and paste" it?
The link I posted and that you "cut and paste" responded to WAS what McCain REALLY said about the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group:
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.
Sorry, MNJohnnie. The historical record says that you are bullshitting once again.
Here is an article dated December, 2006 where even conservative columnist Robert Novak is saying that McCain's " McCain's aggressive advocacy of a 'surge' " was costing him politically.
Published: Wednesday December 27, 2006 ..... Novak: McCain's 'aggressive surge' stance backfiring
Busd did not officially anounce the Surge until January 10, 2007
In September, (2006) Rumsfeld had rejected the idea of a surge...
Will the real John McCain please stand up?
In regards to the war, fellow FReepers, the "real McCain" will be found in the documented historical record and not in MNJohnnie's bullshitting.
We also know he has zero chance of ever getting elected.
Instead of clinging to your adoration for McCain try thinking about this country’s current political situation.
Whole Country is in a foul mood. They hate the Political class with a passion. Everyone from the President to the least member of Congress has record low sustained political approval numbers.
The GOP, because they hold the WH, is seen as the party in power.
Given the country’s furious Anti DC mood who has a better chance of winning against Clinton Inc?
A tired broke old 25 year member of the DC Establishment who is running on a Leftist agenda with a long politically corrupt history who virtually no one in the Conservative Movement likes or trusts who’s stated political agenda is to be Democrat Lite
or
an articulate successful business man and former Gov with a $250 million war chest who at least is running on a solidly Conservative agenda who can credibly run a Reagan style “we got to go clean up DC” campaign?
9 months ago according to all the National Polls the only person who could beat Clinton Inc was Rudy G. Where is he now?
That is where the GOP and McCain will be in Nov 2008. The GOP will be lucky to win 10 states.
But do hang around after the election please McCainiacs. It going to be funny watching you try to rationalize away what you are saying now after McCain loses a 1980s style landslide defeat in Nov 2008.
Free Republic has a much wider audience than just "us".
If you turn on the TV, you will hear the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC talking about how "conservatives will never vote for McCain" and you have Ann Coulter saying on FOX that she will vote and campaign for Hillary.
When others besides "us" read Free Republic, I want to make it perfectly clear that some of "us" have no intention of deliberately losing a war whose loss would have devastating strategic consequences for America just so that we can have the narcissistic luxury of a political temper tantrum.
P.S. I truly appreciate that, at the end, you will vote to win the war.
First off America’s military success has nothing to do with your old liberal disaster.
McCain has never been president to date, so it is clear that we don’t need him.02/06/08, America OK.
A man that we have never needed yet, and that we may never get into that job, will not change America’s military much, one way or the other.
>>The democrat turnout makes republicans look like a third party.
In fairness, they have an interesting race. Many, many Republicans are pretty unenthusiastic about the whole thing, at this point.
Truer words never spoken.
You didnt listen."
Perfect summary of my frustration, and sounds just like something Rush would say.
What is the deal with Arkansas anyway?
So did I, until I started to think about how he characterized this race as a battle for the soul of the conservative movement and for the fate of America and our grandchildren...then abandoned his troops in the first skirmish.
In protest I will probably still vote Thompson, and frankly I'll be relieved if I don't have to think about voting for Romney. In no event will I ever vote for McCain.
See Post 568.
If you truly believe that putting a Cut & Run Democrat as Commander-in-Chief in the Oval Office in January 2009 to work with a Cut & Run Democrat Congress will have no effect on "America’s military success" in the Persian Gulf region, then .......
Okaaaaaay. Whatever.
Don't worry. Be happy!
Go ahead and encourage others to join Ann Coulter's temper tantrum as far too others many on Free Republic are doing.
After America Cuts & Runs from the Persian Gulf, I am sure that the Islamist nutjobs in Iran will leave the ripe fruit of military control of 70% of the World's known oil reserves right on the silver platter we left it on, that they will no longer seek to acquire nuclear weapons and delivery systems and that they will also change their religious beliefs that suicide will bring them Paradise for all Eternity as long as they kill the Great Satan.
Sweet dreams, or nightmares, in the years to come.
You have a unique view, thank you.
There were FReepers here who hated Allen before macaca, and IMHO helped him lose.
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