Posted on 02/07/2008 10:29:29 AM PST by Dane
Zot me if you wish, but after all the vitriol towards me on FR, the last two GOP candidates left are McCain and Huckabee, the irony was too good to pass up.
JMO, but a lot of Freepers acted like the left with their stern demand that every person must adhere to a 110% litmus test.
With now McCain's sealing up the nomination and blaming everyone else and their dog, maybe you all should look at yourselves, despite the claims of 20 million listeners or being a top web site, the results are in and your brand of conservatism is not selling where it counts, the GOP primaries.
That is not even the biggest issue. I may or may not vote for McCain. However, there has not been a presidential election cycle since 1980 that I have not written checks, manned phone banks and pounded the pavement in support of the Republican candidate. If McCain even gets my vote, that is all he will get.
Sorry, but there were no endorsements up until this past week.
It’s the precincts that are infiltrated with anything but real conservative Republicans in many areas across the nation.
This needs to be weeded out by 2012.
Actually, nobody came calling to collect our votes.
And they haven't come calling since G.H.W. Bush took us for granted and "moved his lips" to kiss Democrat butts and raise taxes.
Our brand of conservatism is to the Republican Party what the Black vote has been to the Democrat Party. And both we and Blacks have been treated the same.
The main difference is that we have now decided that we will now only vote FOR someone who speaks for us and not AGAINST someone because they are the lesser of two evils.
We voted FOR Reagan and the country was the best it had been in decades.
We voted AGAINST the Clintons, AGAINST Gore and AGAINST Kerry and all we got was taken for granted because the GOP knew we wouldn't vote for Democrat candidate.
McCain speaking at CPAC today is no better than Hillary going into a black church and saying she had "Come toooo Faaahhhhhr and ain't now ways tarrrrrd."
Hillary knows that blacks aren't going anywhere else but the Dems and that is what McCain is counting on with us.
So, our brand of conservatism may not have counted in the primaries. Which really were not conservative in any shape form or fashion. (With the exception of SC, notice McCain won the BLUE state primaries that vaulted him into the front-runner and then won more BLUE state primaries. And there is no way that Iowa and New Hampshire speak for conservatives.)
But when the final votes are tallied and the talking head analysis wonders why we voted in the other races but did not bother to pull a lever for the Presidential vote, then our brand of conservatism will no longer be taken for granted.
Maybe Blacks will then wise up and do the same to their Democrat masters.
LOL! Liberals are never fazed by being wrong. They live in a self-created unreality.
I’ve got a home for sale in So Cal! Home of MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANY of your buds.
Ya wanna buy it?
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That isn’t the house where if ya turn on the garbage disposal, the lawn sprinklers come on too ;-?
Get lost you stinkin’ troll.
Rush is just telling the truth about McCain. For those of us who have watched McCain for years, we know what he’s talking about. McCain will NEVER be president. The MSM will chew him up and spit him out and he will lose by the greatest margin EVER!
Oh thanks for NUTHIN’ Norm. I was going to try to not disclose that.....
At least you didn’t say anything about the electricty & the toilet! Phew!
I prefer my "brand" of conservatism to yours -- in this case -- and here's why.
Did you hear Mr. Romney's speech?
Mr. Romney said that there is a war. This is no time for the type of division that has emerged and would doubtless worsen if he remained in the race -- you obviously blame the division on us -- so his statement will not likely impress you.
IMO the "division" was healthy. I'd seen much worse (Goldwater v. Rockefeller) but Mr. Romney is correct. There is a war.
We are Americans first. We cannot chance losing to the Rat Party (formerly the traditional Democratic Party).
Mr. Romney has proved his love of Country.
Will the Party now take advantage of that love of Country to rub our faces in defeat, continue to "reach out across the aisle" with its back to us, and march arm-in-arm with the Rat Party (formerly the traditional Democratic Party) to victory over us vis-a-vis the disputed issues?
The Party of Rockefeller, Scranton, et al said that they had to destroy Goldwater as a human being. Has anything changed?
At least you didn’t say anything about the electricty & the toilet! Phew!
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Ol’ Sparky, ya mean. ;-)
(no offense to a freeper by the same name)
Only in RINO fantasy land is Rush Limbaugh responsible for Juan McAmnesty’s visceral dislike for conservatives and conservatives equal dislike and distrust of this two-bit, lying, liberal collaborating fraud. McCain’s ascendancy was pre-ordained by the corrupt, diseased, and RINO infested RNC when their original RINO golden boy, Rudolph Giuliani, failed to gain traction due to too much socially liberal baggage after which John McCain, politically dead, suddenly arose like Lazarus to be the Republican front runner. McCain is a party machine candidate, made by the party, propped up by the party, and who serves exclusively for the interests of the PARTY, not the dedicated, loyal conservative voter base that the Republican beltway establishment has spent decades smearing, ignoring, and marginalizing instead of serving.
To hell with John McLamebrain and the rest of his worthless liberal ass-kissing RINO ilk. A vote for McCain is an affirmation that everything conservatives have ever believed in, fought for, struggled for, and suffered for was for NOTHING.
If I were to vote for a lifelong traitor to conservatism who has fought against almost everything I have fought and struggled for, I’d be like a POW who under duress was forced to sign a confession that he was a warmonger, murderer, rapist, or baby killer and that his cause was unjust and his country was guilty of war crimes.
I don’t know if John McCain ever repudiated his core beliefs under duress and signed such a confession, but I sure as hell won’t. I’ll take the beatings and mistreatment because in my heart, I KNOW I’m right.
well i just show people the ACU ranking for McCain vs. HIll/Bama
McCain Lifetime 82 2006 65
Hill 9 and 12
Bama 8 and 8
Given the options i will vote for McCain
This is what happens when the GOP moves to left, as it has under President Bush. I still like the man personally, and I think he’s done some positive things, but his brand of “compassionate conservatism” has had the effect of marginalizing true conservatives in the party.
The most obvious issue is amnesty, where the President’s rhetoric played right into the Democrat and media portrayal of people who merely wish to enforce the law as bigots and extremists.
In all likelihood, we’re entering an era of Democrat dominance from which we cannot emerge. After FDR’s landslide in 1932, the GOP moved left and stayed there for over thirty years. Whenever someone like Robert Taft came along and tried to move the party to the right, he was purged and the party brass all got together to deny him the nomination. During these years, the GOP was a virtual permanent minority except for two flukish congressional elections (1946 & 1952) and the election of moderate Eisenhower, who won because of his military background.
We’re heading into another such period. But we won’t come out of it in 30 years because by that time whites will be a minority and we’ll be essentially a one-party nation.
I can just see it now. The White House will be stripped bare when “President Huckster” leaves office. He’ll steal everything that isn’t nailed down. He will accept bribes. It’ll be lovely.
I’m beginning to believe Fred Thompson was are only hope to win in November for the Republicans. I think this is a tough election cycle for the Republicans. I think McCain could win ... but worry about him flying off the handle and how he will handle the media pressure once they turn on him.
Gilmore = Consevative, never would have won ... no name recognition
Hunter = Same story as Gilmore (and I like Hunter)
Tancredo = Consevative; My first choice (but I would admit he would have been crucified in the media and would have lost badly)
Brownback = Conservative; not enough national appeal
Thompson = Solid Conservative; more name recognition than the other conservative ... and no major worts. Probably our best chance of winning. He a good grasp of the issues and a decent debater (when he had a pulse)
Romney = Liberal Record/Conservative Rhetoric. Good speaker but people didn’t trust him (flip flops, etc.). Didn’t have much strength in the red states. Could have been a disaster in November. Media and Hillary campaign would have hammered him on flip flops on various social and economic issues
Huckabee = Moderate; not much appeal outside a few states. I think he could handle himself in the debates and campaign speeches (but not enough support). Concern of his economic stances would hurt him in the western red states.
McCain = Moderate; best thing he has to emphasize is being a fiscal hawk against Hillary or Obama (against earmarks, for cutting spending, etc.). Afraid he will be a horrible debater and/or implode.
Rudy = Liberal/Moderate; had name recognition but alot of baggage
Paul = He war stance is nuts. Besides that he is a conservative on most issues. He lose every state in a general election.
He asked so nicely. Be a darned shamed to disappoint him.
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