Posted on 02/08/2008 5:32:09 AM PST by pookie18
Since many conservatives say they won’t vote for John McCain, and some say they’ll even vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, it might be worth looking at some of the people whose power and influence will be far more potent as a result of such pettiness. To wit:
–George Soros. A multi-billionaire with megalomaniacal ambitions. Financier of some of the most virulent lunatic-left organizations in the country. Just revealed as the chief funder of a recently debunked “study” by the British medical journal, Lancet, which claimed 650,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the war–ten times the actual number.
–MoveOn.Org. Do you like it when George W. Bush, a wartime American president, is hated more than the Islamic terrorists who perpetrated 9/11? How about when Gen. David Petraeus, leader of the turn-around in Iraq and man who has dedicated his life to the country is called “General Betrayus?”
–Michael Moore. Propagandist film maker, dedicated socialist. Mr. Moore has called Americans the “stupidest people on the planet.” Believes communist Cuba has a better health care system than our own. Given a seat of honor next to Jimmy Carter at the 2004 Democratic convention.
–Jimmy Carter. Worst president of the modern era. Never misses a chance to bash America, especially when traveling abroad. Says Israel is an “apartheid” state. Why? For having the “gall” to defend itself from ongoing Palestinian terror.
–The mainstream media. Already leaning left, already “massaging” any info that accrues to the benefit of conservatives. A Democratic Congressional majority coupled with a Democratic administration might be more than willing to re-visit the “Fairness Doctrine”–tipping the scales even further leftward.
–Hollywood celebrities. A deadly combination of brain-dead, America-hating, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-loving socialists. Sean Penn? Danny Glover? Barbara Streisand? Susan Sarandon? The list is endless–and gag-inducing.
–Academia. Other than Hollywood celebrities, no one embraces a dimmer view of American values and traditions than the “ivory tower intellectuals” who poison the minds of our youth.
–Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. A resurgence for the two race hustlers whose livelihoods depend on maintaining the black “victim of racist society” myth while shaking down guilty white liberals who head major corporations. With a Dem majority in Congress and an Obama or Clinton administration, bet the farm that “reparations for slavery” hits the front burner.
–Anti-war protesters/appeasers. Despite all evidence to the contrary, there are those who believe Islamic terror is an “exaggerated threat,” and that “nothing is worth fighting for.” 9/11? America’s fault. Atomic Iran? No big deal. Reactive better than proactive? Better an American city under a nuclear halo than continuing the fight against “peace-loving” Muslims abroad. One more domestic attack away from irrelevancy–but who gets to “take one for the team”–first?
–Conspiracy theorists. The Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center, the war in the Middle East is only about oil, Haliburton, et al, controls the world. ‘Nuff said.
–Enviro-whack-jobs. We don’t drill for domestic oil now, despite funding both sides of the terror war. Our economy is already shaky without global warming “mandates.” We’ve already lost incandescent light bulbs. That’s just the tip of liberal-inspired, environmental tsunami which would hamstring our economy for decades.
Supreme Court Justice “X.” Or maybe Justices “X,” “Y,” and “Z,” all of whom believe the Constitution is a “living document” to be “interpreted” as a means of securing “social justice.” Presidents come and go in four or eight years. A Supreme Court appointment is for life.
This is only a partial list. But it ought temper the “hate-McCain,” “stay home on election day,” “my principles or nothing” conservatives who are willing to bite the bullet and let the liberals take over. There are far worse things than a flawed candidate. The empowerment of the above would be a paradigm shift away from virtually everything that has made this country stand above all the rest.
Are conservatives genuinely ready–with spite as their primary motivation, no less–for THAT?
Hear, hear!
You have hit the nail on the head. The RINO supporters expect us to be to the Republican Party what the black caucus is to the Democrat Party: nothing more than a group of people whose support can be taken for granted, no matter how many times they spit in our eye.
Why should we vote for a party that spits on us, and then, when it realizes it needs us, condescends to patronize us?
SCOTUS is a red herring.
It’s 4(C), 4(L) and 1 swing.
There will be (probably) 2 Ls retiring. Whether it is McCain or a Dim appointing they will be replaced with 2 more Ls and the court ‘balance’ will stay as it is.
Soros has contributed big time to McCain. Not a good argument.
He is right. I have huge problems with McCain. But I am not about to let these people be in charge just so I can teach the country a lesson. I don’t believe we will get new Gubmint programs or expansion of the welfare state under McCain. And I also will not urinate on our troops. Once Hillama care is in place, its there to stay
That makes no sense. There is nothing about the early primaries that is more favorable to McCain than the other candidates. Not to mention that it wasnt the RNC’s idea to move up the dates. The RNC disqualified half the delegates won in some of the early states to DISCOURAGE their early primaries.
If....there's the rub. His past doesn't look all that encouraging if we are trusting in 'if'.
No, Camel Joe, if you don’t VOTE you’ll be pissing on a lot of graves.
If you VOTE Green Party, you’ll be wasting your vote.
If you VOTE Libertarian, you’ll be wasting your vote.
If you VOTE Democrat, you’ll be a Democrat.
I intend to VOTE. I may even stick my middle finger in some purple ink and show it to the world. But I intend to VOTE.
Flame away. I have to go to work.
Primary voters who self-identified as Democrats, Liberals, Independants......
Then I expect you to STFU as that A-List starts to take apart our "Representative Republic" and replace it with a "Peoples Republic".
If you aren't part of the solution, you are a big part of the problem and I personally don't want to hear a peep out of you.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Thought that there was more than that 1 item on the “list”...
Yes, I a can really understand how the truth can hurt.
Sorry pookie. No vote for McCain here.
I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it:
I’d rather be shot at by the enemy I face than shot in the back by our own “leader”.
“If you believe the RNC rather than the voters nominated McCain, it would help if you explained how.”
Its because the current Republican process for nominating a candidate is broken. Unless there is overwhelming enthusiasm for a candidate, there is no way we should be down to one candidate before many of us even had the chance to vote. Here in WA, we don’t vote until the 9th.
IF we were to assign delegates in the same way the Democrats do “proportional” it would still be neck and neck between McCain and Romney with Romney slightly ahead.
This was sent to me by my district Republicans.
What would the Republican race look like today if every state Republican party were using a proportional allocation to the candidates? That is if anyone who got 10% or more was in on the allocation depending on the percentage of the vote he/she drew? I went through all 29 states where Republicans have selected delegates and re-allocated them based on this formula. The result is quite different from what we see today. It is quite surprising no matter who you support. Only the four candidates still in the race are considered. This is laid out against the current delegate count.
Candidate.........Current....Proportional
Mike Huckabee.....176.........212
John McCain.........680.........424
Mitt Romney.........270.........431
Ron Paul................16..........35
You can add the name `John McCain’ to your “A-List”, Arnold.
Re: John McCain vs. Clinton/Obama [Ed Whelan]
In case you were wondering, here, in descending order, are the projected ages of the current justices on January 20, 2013 (at the end of the next presidential term) and on January 20, 2017 (at the end of the following term—possibly the second term of the next elected president):
Justice Stevens: 92, 96
Justice Ginsburg: 79, 83
Justice Scalia: 76, 80
Justice Kennedy: 76, 80
Justice Breyer: 74, 78
Justice Souter: 73, 77
Justice Thomas: 64, 68
Justice Alito: 62, 66
Chief Justice Roberts: 57, 62
http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODc3MGVkZjFhOTBmMjcwNzM1MWRmNzZjOTI1NTViZTE=
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