Posted on 02/08/2008 11:15:39 AM PST by 84rules
There is NOTHING conservative about working with the Democratic nominee against most of your fellow conservatives in order to grow government, socialize medicine, lose the war in Iraq, tilt the Supreme Court to the Left, and make Roe v. Wade the permanent law of the land. If you are conservative and vote for the Democratic nominee or even just refuse to vote for McCain, who is by any and every objective standard, considerably more conservative than either of them, let me tell you what you are NOT doing,
* You are NOT doing the logical thing. When faced with a choice between a moderate who holds some conservative positions and some non-conservative positions and a liberal who holds no conservative positions, the logical decision is to take the moderate. After all, half a loaf is better than none.
* You are NOT helping conservatism or your fellow conservatives. To the contrary, you are helping liberals defeat conservative ideas. Isn't that what conservatives are saying that they're furious at McCain over? Well, who's less of a conservative: John McCain, who, if he were in the White House, would help conservatives win some battles and would help liberals win others or the conservatives who want to help a Democrat get into the office who will go against conservative ideas every time?
* You are NOT looking out for the best interests of the country. If you believe winning in Iraq is better than losing, if you believe balancing the budget is better than higher deficit spending, if you believe that having a Supreme Court that is tilted to the right is better than having a Supreme Court tilted to the left, and if you believe that Roe v. Wade is leading to the immoral murder of millions of children -- and the overwhelming majority of people reading this column certainly believe all those things -- then you are certainly not putting the good of the country first if you oppose John McCain in November.
Most Eloquently Stated: You will make a good lawyer (almost sounds oymoronic doesn’t it)! But I mean it (BTW: just out of curiousity which law school are you attending)?
Like I said to a like minded friend in Texas (I’m in NY) this morning, pull the lever for Conservatives, if any are on the ballot.
Then you need to return to your DU roots.
your comments are absolute lunacy and idiotic. McCain is not my choice by a long shot but neither is Hillary and/or Obama
1. He will support drilling in ANWR
2. He will build the border fence.
3. This is the most important, he will choose a Conservative as his running mate, i.e. someone like Mitt Romney, Jim Tallent, or Fred Thompson. Definitely not Huckabee.
Look, two days ago, I was going to write-in third party.
Yesterday, after Mitt's charge at CPAC to do what needs to be done to defeat our enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, I began to think that, if that means voting for McCain, I just might have to do it.
This morning, on my way to work, I decided that I could do it. It's better than abandoning our fighting forces and giving a whole country to the jihadist lunatics.
I seriously doubt that either obama or hillary will be able to abandon troops or engineer a quick pullout.
Funny things happen to people when they have to actually act instead of just run their mouths.
The dems only opposed the war because of their hatred of bush and will probably escalate it if they get in office.
Yes, that’s what I said, they’ll probably escalate it once in office.
It must be later than I thought.
Cordially,
I will vote for no son of Cain.
Cumberland Law (small school in Birmingham,AL)
“Your logic reminds me of someone who would advise a battered wife to go back to her abusive husband because he might buy her a new dress.”
How about advising her to tie up the SOB, get a big pair of scissors, and threaten to cut his nuts off if he ever hits her again?
See? Anger, bare and raw.
LOLOL. I like that description. I'm going to vote for McCain for pretty much that reason.
I’m not even for McCain so I don’t know why you are yelling at me.
Cumberland Law (small school in Birmingham,AL)
Yes, if hillary or Obama wins, it will be a disaster. But at least we can fight them, oppose every bill they put forward, and make their reign a short one.
If McCain wins, it will also be a disaster. More than that, it will destroy the Republican Party as a real alternative to the Democrat party, so there will be nowhere else to go.
We can see the effects of this in England, where the Conservative Party gave the boot to Maggie Thatcher and decided to become the “me too” party again. As a result, there is NO ALTERNATIVE to Labour no matter how badly they do and no matter how unpopular they get.
We also saw it in Canada, where the Conservative Party lost its soul and basically turned Canada into a one-party state. The current government is the first time in a dog’s age that things have improved, but they still aren’t out of the woods and they are still unable to reverse most of hte damage that was done under decades of corrupt, liberal one-party rule.
If McCain wins, that will happen here, and real conservatives will no longer have a party. They will be in the wilderness, maybe for 40 or 50 years, if that happens.
Yeah, we’ll be much better off with class-warfare waging, “let’s raise gas taxes 50 cents a gallon”, carbon tax imposing McCain.
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