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.
John Hawkins has it just about right. I respect his opinion. Seeing Hillary or Obama as POTUS/CIC doesn’t serve our troops well at all.
Having said that, I’ll take a wait and see attitude for now. Nine months till the election is an eternity in politics.
Is he worse than the alternative would be?
McCain will also onservatives in order to grow government, socialize medicine, tilt the Supreme Court to the Left, and make Roe v. Wade the permanent law of the land (by appointing leftwing judges)
By voting for McCain we would be giving the GOP and everybody else out there the notion that McCain and his policies are acceptable. If McCain now, how liberal will the next nominee be?
“Time for all Freepers to rally around McCain and go on to victory in November.”
lol. Good one. Your first name isn’t Paula is it?
Good post, exactly so.
No, it won’t change anything, at all, but neither would our support. The best we can do is concentrate on local and state elections.
Frankly, I think that it would be better to have a Democrat in the Whitehouse because then we might have a better chance of electing conservative Republicans to Congress.
And there's everything "conservative" about voting for a GOP nominee who would do the same? Oh and don't forget that McCain supports shamnesty as well.
What does McCain offer us? Nothing.
I was pretty angry about the 2006 election results, especially in the very close contests which cost us Congress, but in that sense, at least the old GOP Congress gave us some of what we wanted. McCain gives us nothing.
If the country is going to go to heck, might as well have a Democrat who does the driving. At least we can begin to make a comeback in the 2010 midterm elections and possibly take back the White House in 2012, presumably with a real conservative.
FIFY: “The lesser of two weavils.”
Everyone needs to remember that the House and Senate have become even more important now.
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Exactly. just what Rush said as well.
Mark Levin addressed this last night. John McCain made a career of being a maverick, reaching out to the democrats, going on liberal talk shows and attacking Republicans. So if we follow in his footsteps, become Mavericks and reach out to the other side, on election day, so he cant as president and head of Republican party where he would completely destroy what little remains.
Supporting McCain is for standing for nothing except POWER. That’s why all the establishment elected Republicans are falling in line. to cut their CUT.
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
McInsane is just that. No vote for you!
You're right, it won't.
No.
I’m calling BS on this.
If the Republican Establishment and certain publications cared about what conservatives thought, we would not be faced w/ this.
This is now their problem, not mine.
I would suggest that John McCain think about naming his VP now. I think that who his VP is will probably determine whether I support him. Waiting until September to learn that is probably not a good strategy for him.
Reading this
http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=134078
made me come to the same relization. Your post reinforces it further.
Consider how important for the conservative movement it would be if, say, Hillary won the popular vote by 200,000, and it could be shown that 500,000 more Republicans voted for senate/house races but . . . hmm, appeared to have left president blank? Seems to me that message would be pretty hard to miss next time around.
I don’t want to have to look a soldier in the eye and say “Yeah, I let Hillary (or Obama) become your commander in chief because McCain isn’t a perfect conservative.”
I just can’t see that.
"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
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