Posted on 02/07/2008 1:12:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The wait is over! :-)
John McCain and CPAK can’t belong in the same sentence.
Ok John, I no longer have a choice - so you have my attention -- Now can you convince me to vote for you?
There fixed it for you. Go read McCain-Lieberman
I don’t understand what you mean. He factually laid out his voting record in the senate, factually laid out his campaign platform vs Hillary’s & Obama’s, and described how he intends to govern - by making decisions with the input of conservatives, but in now way guranteeing that his decisions will always be the ones conservatives prefer.
I didn’t expect much else. Basically he said “I’m not excactly like you, but I’m a lot more like you than Hillary or Obama.”
Rush and Glenn Becker will be promoting him as the second coming within a month.
BTW, those who are impressed by speeches and flowerly Reaganesque prose might want to recall that "no new taxes" speech in 1988 which successfully whipped the conservatives into a pro-Bush mode during the campaign. Once elected, of course, he gave the suckers a tax increase.
To gain MY vote, his choice of VP will be extremely critical. If that person is a classic American moderate or liberal, I’ll find it nigh on impossible to support McCain.
I can think of many possibles that will turn me on, and many who would turn me off. (Huck is off, BTW) Many have not been mentioned in the presidential campaigning.
Sigh - I’m going to have a very tough, anxious ten months, for sure.
Oh come on. After 8 years of stabbing the Conservatives in the back every chance he got, McCain expects us all to just ignore all his previous actions and support him?
McCain did everything he could to foster this attitude of hate. Don't whine at us because it looks like his plan worked a little too well.
The Republican Establishment had this "genius" notion that they had to rebrand the Party as Democrat Lite to win. Ok, well YOU got it. You purged all us icky right wingers from your party.
Don't come around here now and tell us we HAVE to support you all. Leftist Democrats vrs Leftist Republican. Same Same for a Conservative voter. Nothing to vote for. We will not work against you but we sure as hell aren't going to work for you either. How McCain, who spent the last 8 years spitting on party loyalty ever chance he got, thinks he can now demand party loyalty is a mysterious to Conservatives.
Same goes for the tax hikes they'll see under McCain as well as the abrogation of their First and Second Amendment rights.
McCain is nothing but Hillary with an 'R' by his name.
Good enough I suppose. But really, what else could he say?
Really, his political record for the last 10 years indicates that is a foolish hope.
The KEY is the RIGHT running mate. McCain is 71. If he picks a conservative, we could have a viable conservative candidate in a few years that the media would otherwise marginalize and/or ignore. Sort of like they did to this seasons selection of conservatives.
He lost me after the patronizing "calm down" remark.
Imagine that, Juan "Big Temper" McAmnesty thinking it's in his place to tell others to "calm down."
The only thing we got out of the Gang of 14 was dozens of our judges flushed so McCain didn’t have to take a stand against the Democrat Establishment that might have alienated the Editorial writers around the country
McCain whole campaign has always been about McCain's Cult of Personality nothing more. What good for John McCain is what John McCain will do. He has no core principals. His record the last 10 years proves that.
Translation: "I'm going to let the Democrats control the White House."
Translation of the translation: "I would rather lose the War in Iraq and have the Supreme Court be an activist Court for the next 20 years rather than pass up my temper tantrum."
Nope. You people told us "We have no place else to go" and you needed McCain to rebran the party so you could win the "Moderates" We have been telling you all along you cannot win WITH McCain. Do not try to shift the blame to US because you all were so enamored of this "Win with the Moderates" strategy.
Well you got it. You purged us icky Right Wingers from your party and got the candidate you wanted. Now go win your election. Don't blame us if it turns out the way we have been warning you all along.
“Anybody can talk the talk, but can he walk the walk?................”
That is my bottom line. You can put lipstick on a pig but that doesnt make it a beauty queen. I dont believe a word he said.
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