John McCain Gets Soros Cash - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360852/posts
Posted on 02/07/2008 3:06:02 PM PST by goldstategop
And he did not talk tripe - and print it as some great proclamation as from a king.
Reagan was not exclusionary.
He did not think that, in vanity of vanity, he was somehow granted sacred power to look into the hearts and minds of the Lord’s creatures - and for him, Reagan, to declare them somehow unfit because he, Reagan, somehow so declared.
Reagan had a special quality that many, many people - including those on this site and off it - have sadly forgotten.
The guiding premise of Ronald Reagan was: love for his fellow human. Reagan was, himself, loved but for one reason: he loved all he met and he surely wanted freedom and liberty for everyone.
Reagan never put people down. And he surely never slandered them.
“Hell...he should have been saying this YEARS ago....that said...this is the finest opening dialogue on Rush’s show that i have heard in years....i have bashed Rush many times on FR but if this is his marker or line in the sand...then by golly i’m with him..”
Worth repeating.
So, basically taxes, illegal immigration and energy independence.
Well-said.
“By applying our threat not to vote in droves for McCrazy, we may yet effect the outcome of this nomination. I’m not going to fold now, and sing Kumbaya, so the Republican leadership can feel we conservatives won’t leave the plantation.”
That’s the best point I’ve seen made all week. We did get our judges by applying the same pressure.
“McCain will never be president, that is cold hard reality.”
It catches in my throat too. I can’t see a president McCain, but can’t abide a President Hillary.
Now we have a situation where conservatives have turned against the RNC and are limus-testing other conservative voters. They want a conservative movement made up of only the purest of heart with the most steadfast of principles...a tiny slice of the electorate.
Rush has some blame coming his way as well. If he had bothered to lift a finger to help Hunter, the campaign could have gathered momentum. Lots of conservatives wussed out this time around.
Don’t you know it. Bud, you and I are on the same page.
Folks here would not be honest about Bush. If I can admit he did some things that were good, they should reciprocate and admit things he did that were terrible.
What happened over the last eight years was a full court defense of all things Bush. If you opened your mouth to lament something he shouldn’t have done, you were a Bush hater.
That is not healthy for the political environment, if what he was doing was wrong.
RINOdom was entrenched. It was the golden standard. And now here we are and we have the king of the RINO world, and he is now in the process of being knighted, so he can receive the full court press defense for the next four or eight years.
While this takes place, at least twelve years go by with no real conservatism being taught or adhered to.
This means that a young kid eight years of age, would be twenty by the time he would have the possibility of seeing a truly conservative president.
With Bush the elder, two terms of Clinton and now two terms of Bush, it has been 20 years since Reagan, and now we’re set up for another four of McCain or goldie-locks.
That eight year old kid when Reagan left office will be 28 years old by the time he may, just may see a conservative president.
The problem is, why would he want one? He’s never heard what conservatism is. He’s never seen a president rule from the conservative play book.
All this kid has seen is conservatives refered to as hard core right wing conservatives, or Fudamentalist Conservative Christians.
The kid is nearly thirty years old, hasn’t a clue that conservatism isn’t some beast of nature, and we wonder why conservatism doesn’t prevail.
And then folks wonder what the problem with installing another RINO even worse that the last.
With conservative proponents such as these, who needs the left to destroy us? We’re doing a bang up job for them.
They couldn’t pay someone to do a better job of it.
I agree with much of what you say. However, I think it’s gonna be Cinton and not Obama, depending on how the economy goes.
And don’t forget, the squishies are being squeezed financially.
For the record, your analysis is terrific. Hats off to you!
What conservative appointments will Mclame make to the USSC that will shape America's future for a generation?
What amount of amnesty will assure the collapse of Social Security benefits to all those who have funded the Ponzi scheme over the years?
What amount of caving-in to the Liberal agenda will McLame continue to further socialize America to a country of equally-poor elimination of the Middle Class?
Invoking Reagan does not negate the fact that McLame has no conservative values no matter how many times you use it. Unfortunately, there will never be another Reagan so long as conservative, traditional values, secure borders folks go along with the program, and settle for whatever candidate they're assigned to vote for....
Well said...
I believe the modern, politically-correct terms we're bombarded with are moderate, and progressive, as the general public has difficulty seeing through the spoon-feeding.....
John McCain himself.
What has John McCain done to reach out to the conservative base of the Republican Party?
Trying to persuade conservative voters with statements that he is a "conservative in the mould of Reagan, come across as disingenuous.
Wrong. Conservatives have remained the same. The GOP establishment has been running open-looped quite flagrantly recently concerning principles. So of course they will nominate a meandering liberal. That's their default choice.
THEY have to straighten up or clean up and pick up the pieces. Not conservatives. What happens in November is in their own hands exclusively. There is time to fix things. Or there will be blood without conservatives anywhere near the scene.
Nothing is going to change. Conservatives have to decide whether a piece of something is better than nothing. With McCain conservatives get a some of their agenda in play. With a democratic president, they get almost none of their agenda in play.
That’s the choice. It ain’t pretty, but it is what it is.
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