Posted on 02/05/2008 10:11:11 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
If the unfortunate possibility of a McCain nomination comes to pass, I will not work for his election to the presidency, nor will I defend him in ad hoc conversations. He is wholly unworthy for that high office, and it is intolerable for my conscience to abide supporting him.
I will face two options once in the voting booth: 1) cast my ballot for a third party candidate, or 2) simply not vote in the presidential election.
I am curious who among you share my sentiments.
Sounds to me like someone needs to get a petition going.
If Rommey doesn’t pull this nomination out (sigh), then McCain’s going to have to pick an outstanding VP candidate.
NOT Huckabee.
Thompson or Hunter would be fine by me.
I’d love to see a young, solid conservative as his veep. He’ll probably need it.
“That is a weak stand. So if I dont vote for a traitor because he sold out his own party and is a dispicable man...I somehow become responsible for his action to deliver our party that he left to the Democrats. I beg to differ, why dont you also blame me for the fact that the media loved McCain so they could draw you weak people into the trap of bringing us to this point of picking between a democrat and a demorat/rino!!!!! you took the bate and now you MY FRIEND ARE THE LUNCH!!!!!!”
Lol. I’m not weak. I’m a Romney delegate in the most liberal state in the Union. I would abandon my pride in a heartbeat before I’d abandon my country.
I actually think she would be better. There would be no “party loyalty” issues to compel Republicans in congress to support her proposals like there would be if McCain were to become President.
You betcha. Totally agree.
I tend to agree with you. The conservative movement can re-group after a couple yrs with Obama messing things up. But should Clinton get in it may take generations. I wont vote for either McCain or huckster. They will be destroyed by the MSM well before the election anyway.
Romney certainly wasnt my choice but now we are stuck with two vile con artist and they will drive the nail into the conservative movement.
Again, what reason would a VP candidate compel someone to support McCain who otherwise would not?
No. The RINOs condemned us to that by choosing a candidate so repulsive to the Right that we cannot and will not vote for him. Don't blame us. We tried to warn people this would happen and you squishies did it anyway.
http://milfuegos.blogspot.com/2006/01/navy-records-on-uss-forrestal-incident.html
Did you miss this one?
Don’t not vote, write in a conservative you admire. Hell, write Rush in! It’ll make you feel good. Vote your conscience.
If the Spartans had said that about the Athenians, we’d all be speaking Persian.
No. A Dem won’t take the fall.
Our country will.
I will not let that happen.
THINK, rather than FEEL, before you vote.
I was just thinking that. Perhaps this thread could be the seed for one, as well as an outside website for this purpose.
SOME DELEGATE!!
It is not over!!! Romney has not thrown in the towel.
MCCain will trip, i am telling you this man is explosive and he will expose his true self. You can only hold it in for so long. HE WILL BE EXPOSED>>> YOU CAN BET ON THIS>
I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THIS AWFUL MAN>
You don’t get it.
With McCain as the nominee, and the Dems voting in droves today, the turnout will be huge, and it will be against the Pubbies.
It will be 1984 in reverse to us.
We need a united party to have a prayer of a chance in November. Having McQueeg just split the party wide open.
Unless something changes, the Dems have won already.
And how is it treason against my country not to vote for a traitor to it?
McCain Feingold, McCain Kennedy, McCain Lieberman, Gang of 14, rights for terrorists, traitor to Vietnam POW/MIAs, scolder of the SwiftboatVets—how many times does McQueeg get away with treason before we call him on it?
No, the elites got what they wanted. A split, impotent Republican party that will be a minority for the next 30 years, and a green light ticket to Marxism for America.
I’m a conservative, not a “libertarian”. I reject their anarchistic isolationist stances, their core philosophy that conflicts with my understanding of Federalism, and their recent bizarre inability to understand basic finance (gold standard cultism & hostility to the Federal Reserve based on rants and incoherent 19th century theorists). I will not grant my vote to them either.
LOL I love it! For months Mitt supporters have been yelping at all those who said the same about Mitt (Ill stay home) they they and not Mitt would be at fault for hillary getting elected. There were calls of ‘if you dont vote gop youre voting for hillary’...
Now that the golden boy with silver medals is on the ropse the ‘Ill stay home’ calls are coming from them..
Conservatives with Constitutional Conservative principles that are not afraid to stand up and say, "Enough is enough" now get the label traitor.
Many of "us" disagree with you in the same manner our forefathers disagreed with the English.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
It seems to this reader that your loyalties lie with Party rather than the Republic.
We all do what we do, hopefully based upon principle. Perhaps you do as well, but to label those of us that disagree with your "party principle" as traitors is despicable.
I suppose the write-in option is implied in proposing a third-party vote. It would be similarly effective, I imagine.
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