I listed to his speach at CPAC yesterday and all he did was throw red meat to the crowd. He told them exactly what they wanted to hear.
Mt guess is that he had to rince out his mouth after the speach.
just mt thoughts.
I’ll vote for my local officials. I will not put McCain in office (not that he could win anyway).
McCain will never win. The MSM will constantly bring up his age and temper. They will contantly talk about his voting against conservative principles. They will show pictures of either a young, slim, smiling, black man or a younger looking botoxed, smiling, white women in slimming skirts (yes, I predict if she wins the nomination she will start wearing skirts) next to a pale, scowling, old man with that flap hanging from his chin. It may seem shallow but looks will influence people and the MSM will be more that happy to show America the difference.
It is a cult. What's the point? Just because someone is a member of a cult doesn't disqualify them from public office.
If we are going to have open borders, higher taxes, global warming, anti business, bigger government, high gas prices, crumbling economy and the sort. I would rather that happen under a dem.
If a dem is in the whitehouse maybe repubs will lean more right and fight some of this stuff.
Looking from way outside (Australia) I don’t think the world could handle 4 years of a Democratic Whitehouse. Elect a conservative congress and McCain will not have too much of a choice but to toe the line.
It is a scarey thought to think of a world where Hillary and/or Obama are in charge.
So I urge conservatives to find a way to pressure McCain and to vote Republican no matter what.
This is for the for the whole ball game- possibly the balance of world power is a stake here so please try to get past single issues and vote with your heads but above all vote!
Blessings
Mel
In the past McCain has called for limits on talk radio by reviving the Fairness Doctrine.
It is suicide for any American to vote for this man. There is no way to rationalize it.
Now hold on just on minute. You wrote of “our evangelical frields,” and “(t)hey have unfairly called Mormonism a cult and now all of us will suffer the consequences..”
It’s unfortunate we who agree have to resort to bigotry to answer bigotry where no bigotry has been proven to exist. First, what, precisely is an Evangelical? To the Dominant Media Culture, the prevailing Worldview, it would be simple enough to describe such as “people who so describe themselves.” But to presume they would not support Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon is plain bigotry, even if the statement can be said of a great many “Evangelicals.” This is a stubborn stereotype that does not serve the need for future unity to overtake those who have, indeed, hijacked the legal machinery of our movement.
It’s a stubborn prejudice, much like the one that automatically gives Governor Huckabee the “Evangelical Vote,” when he still has yet to receive a majority of “those who voted in Republican Primaries who so describe themselves.”
I’m a Christian, and consider my Conservative activism informed by this Worldview, as inseparable from who I am as President Reagan described in his Prayer Breakfast Speech in August 1984, now considered among the 100 most influential speeches in American History. I sit squarely in the vast historic stream of that Worldview. Mitt Romney’s religion, to me, as reflected in it’s believers and practitioners appears to foster some of the most responsible and honest people on Earth.
Had you considered the prejudice against Governor Romney’s religion may have arisen more from among those who also derive a hearty belly laugh at the tenets of Christianity?
I’m as disappointed with the results of a Primary System less logical and less functional than a Rube Goldberg contraption. I am particularly upset that the gutless history of this process wherein what is essentially a “private association” of citizens have so married their fortunes to the sanction of the State that the State can determine the outcome of the process for us before more than half the nation has cast a single vote. That somewhere, someone didn’t revolt against the State’s determination of how we would choose our nominee following the elaborate designs of the Democrat Party, beginning with the McGovern-Frazier Commission following the Chicago Police Riot that was the Democrat’s national convention in 1968.
So, while others may so describe me as “Evangelical,” I can’t shy away from such an unbiblical reference without alienating my fellow Christian. Therefore, so be it. Had North Carolina not scheduled it’s Primary until May, and if my vote still counts as much as the Free Love Primary of New Hampshire, I dare say, as have more Christian Conservatives, my choices - all reluctant - we 1. Thompson, 2. Romney, and 3… You tell me.
Tell me where the real fault lies in this debacle. If our Primary process is so married to State regulation, than the process as it has unfolded could not be a more clear violation of the federal Voting Rights Act, “one-man, one-vote,” and the dictates of the Constitution. If the Court should rule these prohibitions against New Hampshire’s votes counting more than the qualified voters in states that so vote after no choice any longer exists, such a ruling would be earth shattering. And it would prove that we’ve been victims of convenient lie.
I have a state legislature, county commissions and especially a Congress to overturn - enough to occupy me at present. But it is high time plaintiffs who can easily demonstrate harm take the RNC to federal court to prove once and for all that this process isn’t just ridiculous, it is a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution.
Focus on what needs and can be changed, and since I have fought such Civil Rights lawsuits and, against all odds and conventional wisdom, won decisively, think on whether there MUST be instituted a constitutional process for regulating the schedule of political primaries, or we MUST return to the Smoke Filled Rooms, and decided amongst ourselves and ourselves only.
There is still time to enjoin the Republican Party from nominating McCain, or anyone so chosen in a process clearly violating the federal Voting Rights Act.
Fantasy. With the dems in congress (as majority or minority - it doesn’t matter), W had a heck of a time getting many conservative works through. McCain is quite a bit more liberal than W.
So how, pray tell, does the R party fight the R President for conservative issues under the additional barrage of the dem congresscritters? The past is prologue to the future.
I will vote. There are many local issues and the House and Senate are too important not to. But I will not throw another vote into the toilet by voting for someone I do not believe in. Neither of the two parties are offering candidates that represent my values. Sometimes the wasted vote is the vote cast in order to say, “I voted for the person that won.” Other times the wasted vote is the vote cast because, “My guy sucked less than the other guy.” The vote not wasted is the vote cast by conscience.
Keep trying - you’ve got 9 months to get the Pissed-Ant on board. If you win him, the rest of the Freepers should be a piece of cake ...
While I do not like McCain, consider seriously what four years of President Hillary or Obama would do to the country especially with a solidly Democrat controlled Congress. The US economy would tank and Al Queda would be detonating IEDs if not nukes in US cities. By not voting or voting for the Democrats, conservatives will be cutting off their nose to spite their face. Besides given his age McCain is a one term President and having a conservative Vice President also becomes important Four years of President McCain we can live with.
Don't vote for liberals...
PERIOD.
I got a lot of heat for saying I would vote for Guiliani over Hillary! I made it a point to say I can’t stand Rudy but to hand the country to Hillary! would be a travesty.
I’m hoping McCain smartens up and gets some good conservative advisers and picks a great veep. If he picks Lieberman, I will have to look long and hard on who to vote for. We survived Carted and Bubba but they nudged the ball towards their end of the goal posts so the next one in line might be the one to push it through.
People say Mcain talked under torture, that doesn’t bother me too much, I can’t in all honesty say I wouldn’t but I would hope I would be strong enough to hang on until my information was useless. His brilliant performance at Annapolis where he came in 5th from the bottom is more worrisome.
Sorry, Mr. Allen, but this conservative is not ever again voting for a lesser degree of socialism simply because the name on the ballot is followed by “(R)”.
The current disaffection will create low conservative turnout, with little chance to prevail in contested seats.
My concern with McCain is that the disasterous impact that his policies will have on the economey, the courts, and yes, the nation’s security!
These results will all be blamed on Republicans!
For the marginal difference between his policies and the Dem’s policies, I’d rather see the Dem’s get blamed and then end up in the wilderness, than see Republicans suffer that fate.
I have much greater faith in conservative congressmen resisting the grandiose socialism of Hillobama than keeping McCain in line.
How dare you blame me: it’s the liberals that have given us McCain (maybe the author of this article is ONE of them)..
How dare you blame me: it’s the liberals that have given us McCain (maybe the author of this article is ONE of them)..
How dare you blame me: it’s the liberals that have given us McCain (maybe the author of this article is ONE of them)..