Posted on 02/08/2008 6:53:23 PM PST by NoGrayZone
Fred Thompson, the one-time Republican presidential candidate, endorsed Sen. John McCain Friday, calling on the party to "close ranks" behind the presumed nominee
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That is true. I have written that I won't vote for McCain, but fate is a powerful argument. God forbid that terrorists should strike the White House; or an American president die in office due to an accident or illness, or voluntarily step down due to disabling illness...but in the event, do we want McCain's vice-president, or Clinton's?
That said, I don't believe McCain has a prayer of winning the election.
Oh, and Fred? Thanks for your leadership. /s
“If Hitlary or Osama Obama wins, we will never have another shot at it.”....
DOOMED!!!!! WE’RE ALL DOOMED!!!!!! WE’LL NEVER SURVIVE THIS ONE, AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! SHUT UP, DROP THE SOAP AND GET IN LINE LIKE GOOD LITTLE SELL OUTS BECAUSE WE WILL NEVER EVER EVER GET ANOTHER CHANCE. EVER!!!!
Ummm, nope, that didn’t work either.
Me, too. And I do have respect for McCain for spending 5 years in hell in VietNam. That had to take determination just to survive. It seems everyone goes around saying Support the troops” all the time but are willing to turn them over to the likes of Hillary or the Ayatollah Obama. Not me. I really mean it when I say I support the troops.
Didn’t Maggie Thatcher say that “Compromise is the absence of leadership’? Well, here you go.
Either way, even if people vote for the SOB, McCain, they are going to get a heavily loaded with Democrap Congress, many Pubs are getting out this time. McCain will just go along with the Democraps because he is one.
We are going to get GWB redux, but worse. Oh well, McCain won’t win anyway.
So, McCain-light endorses McCain.
I would quote Gomer with “surprise surprise”, but it was no surprise.
Some of us were posting about McCain-light even before he sauntered onto Leno’s The Tonight Show and announced his run. We were skewered by other posters. McCain-light thought he would just stroll into the presidency. That didn’t work.
Ironically, many are still hoping McCain-light will be on the ticket, yada yada yada.
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Learn from this however! Thompson shows his true colors and endorses his good friend and former Senate colleague. Thompson really has not changed. This is the same Thompson, by endorsing McCain, who chaired the committee and help write McCain-Feingold-Thompson Campaign Finance Reform, an overt assault on the First Amendment.
Do not expect McCain, if elected president, to suddenly change his spots and to evolve into a strict conservative. It will not happen. McCain will continue to be McCain -- only with the power, then, of the Presidency behind him. McCain will rely heavily on his good 'friends': Kennedy, Kerry, Lieberman, Collins, Specter, Snowe, etc.
No way. We will lose the house and senate forever.
Great post! Especially about the drama queens.
He has already endorsed Huckabee.
Rush is touting Bobby Jindal of Louisiana as the potential new Reagan.
We did. Remember Harriet Miers? And the amnesty bill? And the ports deal?
LOL
And yet you are willing to throw your vote away and not even try to stop it. Sad.
Ummm, nope, that didn’t work either.
Well... but for maximum effect, you're supposed to shriek it in a hysterically high, squeaky voice, aren't you...? ;)
Not to be suborn about this. - you see, I’m still curious why you say that.
I mean it sounds okay and rational, but I still do not see what anyone else can do if a candidate simply declares someone, and I do not see any basis to suppose that he cannot.
I suppose the GOP could withdraw endorsements and support from the candidate, but that would be an empty threat, don’t you think?
His delegates are still hand picked by his own organization and look to be pretty much his.
Certainly any candidate has spent a lot of time in close cooperation with his own party, but McCain also fits a more contrarian mold, as well.
If it seems that I’m being very careful here, I am.
I don’t need another deleted post, even if I see no reason for that deletion.
Bears repeating!
You need to step back away from politics for awhile. Never let who wins elections ruin your life.
Show up and support those conservatives on the ticket and write in 'No Conservative/Constitutional REPRESENTATIVE worthy of my vote' in the rest...
record voter turnout with record anybody but socialists vote are our only fight left for the future...[well next to last fight anyway]...
LFOD...
Thank you for your voice of reason.
I love all the positive comments in this thread. Its like ok we have had our pity party. Now time to get to work. Works for me.
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