John McCain's CPAC Speech

John McCain 2008.com ^ | 2/7/08 | John McCain

[Albert Barr]

Where can I buy that bumper sticker?

[wilco200]

When will we get past Viet Nam?

I’m sick of it already. We should support and honor all vets, but who gives a bleep that you were in Viet Nam...so was Murtha and Kerry.

[TomGuy]

The MSM won this one.

Just a couple of months ago, McCain with almost out of money and trailing some of the other candidates. There were rumors of him possibly dropping out, even.

Then, all of the sudden, he is resurrected, is the front-runner and now has only two opposing candidates (Huckabee and Paul) remaining.

Exit polling and polling numbers show that McCain did not win conservatives in nearly any state. Yet, he managed to win enough votes to get enough delegates to jump significantly ahead of the other contenders.

McCain won because the MSM pushed him to the forefront. The MSM selected their candidate and the forced that candidate down the throats of the conservatives.

So McCain wins the GOP nomination. The MSM wins, too.

However, without the support of conservatives, McCain will only be giving a concession speech after the November election. McCain loses. The GOP leadership loses. The Republican Party loses.

But the MSM won this one. They picked the GOP’s candidate and they got him to the November election. All so they could coronate their favorite Democratic nominee.

The MSM won. The Dem nominee wins.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>There simply was nothing wrong with the speech, it was quite good and McCain hopefully reminded conservatives he disagrees with the democrats on a slew of monumental issues.<<

Not good enough to get my vote. He claims that he will make sure that a “broad consensus” agrees that the border is secure before he proceeds with amnesty, but I need a very specific description of what this “broad consensus” means, and I have not heard it from McCain, ever.

[D Rider]

Good speech.

He said the right things. If he selects the right running mate, I may concede and vote for him.

[codercpc]

I completely agree that everyones vote is individual. I plan to vote, and support McCain, and will donate soon, but have no expectations that anyone else feels the same way.

I do think that those that go to "the other side", and start endorsing either Obama, or Hillary (to keep our party clean) do however deserve our scorn.

[CottonBall]

My decision whether to vote McCain or not is now wholly depending on his VP choice. If it’s a solid conservative I’ll hold my nose and vote for him.

But why? A conservative veep won't do any good unless McCain drops dead in February '09.

[wilco200]

“When it comes to the constitution though, he has been consistently solid. If he was judged on that issue alone, he would be far to the right of most conservatives.”

Yet he doesn’t believ in American soverignty or free speech. Veeeery interesting

[Califreak]

Yeah, I know.

[Williams]

Bravo! Well said!

[moderate_conservative]

I'll be voting for McCain in November, but can we please agree that those who decide they cannot vote McCain should be respected for their decision as well?

Sure, if they learn to respect us too.

[Brookhaven]

Hillary will folow the same path Nixon did with Vietnam. Nixon wanted to pull out in 1968, but knew he’d never get re-elected if he did. He spent the next four years trying to get out gracefully “peace with honor” and making a mess of the war. As soon as he go re-elected, he pulled the troops out and left Vietnam on its own.

Hillary will do the same thing in Iraq. Obama will pull them out first chance he gets.

[Albert Barr]

How long after the Convention will the dems start yelling “Keating Five! Keating 5!”

[Hoffer Rand]

...the weasel word here is "secure"

Agreed, also just how does the good senator define "consensus? If it's the same as our global warming "consensus," the great learned leaders will deign to tell us poor ignorants what we should believe.

[mmichaels1970]

Delay was at the speech and said the room was full of young McCain supporters waving signs. It was a set-up!

This would be very bad if true. At least with winning over my support. If you are asking for my vote but are still trying to trick me...well...

[TomGuy]

In the debates, McCain was running his campaign on the War in Iraq.

In another 7 months, Americans will be even more wearied of it. McCain is going to have a difficult time, if that is all he has to run on. He basically admitted he had little knowledge of the economy.

That plays right in to Clinton's hands -- they will resurrect their 1992 winning slogan: It's the economy, Stupid.

[MNJohnnie]

I’ve followed McCain for a quarter century. I don’t agree with everything he does (immagration particularly.) When it comes to the constitution though, he has been consistently solid. If he was judged on that issue alone, he would be far to the right of most conservative

Campaign Fiance Reform. Just one example of where your words do not match McCain record. Yet again we are being told ignore everything McCain has done for the last 10 years and trust the McCainiac Cult of Personality slogans.

Sorry but McCain has to actually DO something for us in the next 9 months not just TALK about what a great guy he is. He spent 8 years being the Obstructer in Chief of the Conservative agenda. That record is not going to disappear just because a bunch of McCainacs sing hymns of praise about him.

Conservatives know his record, we are not fooled by the words. Not going to work. He needs to match some deeds to his words in the next 9 months before we are ever going to trust him

[TNdandelion]

Why do I keep hearing that I owe it to these politicians to support them?

[org.whodat]

Here at CPAC he promised to “secure” it but did not mention the fence or specifics. Hhmmmm

Secure is his weasel word, for open border and amnesty full steam ahead. The man sucks!

[CottonBall]

This will be the first time — and hopefully the last — that I neglect to vote in the national election.

Don't forget that the Republican Congressmen will need your vote for than ever this next election though. Our best chance is with a Dem in the WH and some strong real conservative Republicans in congress to oppose them. Gridlock is now our goal.