Fred Thompson Backs McCain

Washington Post ^ | 2/8/08 | Michael D. Shear

[beckysueb]

We need to start working on drafting Bobby Jindahl, goovernor of Louisiana, for 2012. He is a true conservative, young, good looking, and charasmatic.

[Sun]

And Huckabee just TRIPLED McCain vote-wise in Iowa!!!!

Oh happy days!!

[Sun]

We’re down to two candidates in the GOP presidential race, and Huckabee is TRULY pro-life, and is VERY, VERY strong on protecting our 2nd amendment rights.

“I’m with Sun.”

Thanks.

“Yet, I should note that Huckabee has mended his ways on immigration and has convinced Jim Gilchrist and Duncan Hunter of his sincerity, while McCain has convinced no one.

Mike Huckabee is more reliably pro-life, and yes federal funding of embryonic stem cell research is a pro-life issue (for those who insist on claiming John McCain is 100% pro-life.)”

excerpt http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/graham/080207

[Marysecretary]

We need to get serious about finding conservatives to run for the Senate positions that are opening up. It’s our biggest hope.

[deport]

Yep, if’n he keeps it up we may get a brokered convention. But lets see how he does in oh say........ MD, VA, OH, PA, TX, NC, WI all coming up shortly. We still have some 921 delegates left to be selected. If the man from Hope can win those then he’s got something to show. We may have the man from Hope against the wife of the man from Hope.

[deport]

Yep, if’n he keeps it up we may get a brokered convention. But lets see how he does in oh say........ MD, VA, OH, PA, TX, NC, WI all coming up shortly. We still have some 921 delegates left to be selected. If the man from Hope can win those then he’s got something to show. We may have the man from Hope against the wife of the man from Hope.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Looks like Fred isn’t the immature child some people were hoping he’d be. I guess he should be added to the list of conservatives who are on the outs with the McCain haters.

[LouD]

It is amazing what I'm reading on FR these days.

I am no McCain supporter. I'm still disappointed that Fred dropped out of the race. After that, I briefly considered voting for Romney, only to see him drop out this week.

However, there is absolutely no comparison between McCain and Clinton, or McCain and Obama.

McCain screwed us on some big things - McCain/Feingold, McCain/Kennedy, Gang of 14, etc and I am still mightily POd about it. However, on everything else, he's been fairly conservative, especially the War on Terror.

We have a quarter of a million service members in harm's way, and we have almost 4000 more who will have died in vain, if Clinton or Obama win the White House. They NEED McCain's support. Now, a guy who agrees with us 82% of the time, according to the American Conservative Union, NEEDS our support in order to be president.

If he needs us, then we have some bargaining power - and his past sins should cost him. What price? Simply put - THE FUTURE.

We support McCain, he gives us a solidly conservative VP. A rising star, who will step into the Oval Office in 2012, or 2016, or whenever the Lord calls McCain home.

He'll need Congressional Republicans to get things done, and he'll need all of them, including the conservatives. They'll be pressure on him - have you forgotten Harriet Myers?

Will he be perfect? No, of course not. But, the perfect is the enemy of the good. We can't have Ronald Reagan, so get over it. Let's strike the best deal we can, for our troops now, and our position as conservatives in the future.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Stop making sense.

[Sun]

Now that Huckabee won against McCain in Kansas - THREE to ONE - maybe that will give Huckabee the momentum, instead of McCain.

[Revereee]

"Now that Huckabee won against McCain in Kansas - THREE to ONE - maybe that will give Huckabee the momentum, instead of McCain."

Huck is a good man, but he is nowhere ready for President. But Huck could be President, someday. He needs a lot more experience. Romney will never be President.

Go John McCain!

[Enchante]

"Well, you forgot to mention one little bitty important thing. We helped put the Shah in power, and then look at what happened"

Uh, thanks, I didn't 'forget' to mention anything like that, I simply didn't go back before the 1980s. Actually support of the Shah was one of the sensible things we have done in that festering cesspool region of hell, and he provided 1/4 century of stability and relatively enlightened progress out of the 8th century. The Mullahs hated him BECAUSE he stood strongly against clerical rule and limited their corruption and political depravity. The Shah was far from ideal, to be sure, but look at most of the alternatives in the region, and look what followed him.

If Jimmy The Weasel (Carter) had not pulled the Persian carpet out from under the Shah's regime there is very little chance anything like the Islamo-fascist so-called 'revolution' could have occurred there. You seem to think the Shah's reign is some sort of counter-example against US support for friendly governments that are not based upon Islamo-fascist principles -- in reality, the comparision of the Shah with what followed (and what preceded) him shows how delusional and incompetent leftists in the West can be.......

[KTM rider]

Bolton endorsed McCain also. The thread seems to be sort of buried somewhere.

I am for mcCain now also

I dont want to wake up to an Obamination ceremony or the Hillarization speech

It would be worse than the morning after 9-11 without a doubt

[Sun]

Actually, the only thing that Senator McCain has going for him is that he supported the surge.

He is STILL for amnesty.

John McCain is also the senator that liberal Democrats come to when they want a senator from the Republican side of the aisle. For instance: McCain/Feingold (limits free speech); McCain/Kennedy (amnesty); McCain/Lieberman (50 cents per gallon gas tax increase).

[Wheatie09]

All respect Conservatives had for Thompson has just been lost.

[SolidWood]

All respect Conservatives had for Thompson has just been lost.

Speak for yourself. This Conservative still has utmost respect for Thompson, who unlike you understands that McCain is better than Hillobama.

[Nextrush]

Thompson was a ploy for McCain’s advancement.

No surprise here.

[NoGrayZone]

You got it!

[sam_paine]

we will need to make sure [McCain] does not nominate a mushy moderate for the Supreme Court....We and many others got Pres. Bush to rescind the nomination of Harriet Miers, we can do it again if necessary.

If McCain is able to win without conservatives then why would he listen to that group later?

McCain will never make all Republicans happy with his choices, but they won't be as good as Scalia, or as bad as Ginsburg. Hillary will gladly replace Souter with an outright Marxist.

[sam_paine]

I can imagine it now. Vincente Fox going up to Juan and going "Senor McQuian, erase this border!". I can see it now. Reagan's got nothing on us.

Help me understand your concern.

You believe that John McCain is going to rally Congress to sign over California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to Mexico, get Boxer and Cornyn and all the Congresscritters in between to voluntarily step down, and the other half of congress to cut their budgets from the trillions in tax revenues from these states, and that the US Military will just stand around and hand over the keys to the bases, etc etc etc.

I'll try whatever you're smoking maybe on a Saturday night...but tomorrow's a workday, so no thanks.