[tripitaka]

In case you haven’t noticed, Movement Conservatives have been trading increased spending to the Dems for tax cuts, just like what happened under Reagan.

I’m not going to try to talk you into supporting McCain, I just wish you’d call BS on guys like Bush too. Tax cuts + insane spending = greater betrayal of Conservatism than anything McCain ever did. The no bid contracts and lack of oversight in Iraq betrayed the war effort more than anything the Dems have done.

In case you haven’t noticed, Dems have now lost their fear of promising to raise taxes, that’s how badly conservative stewardship of the economy has gotten. And McCain’s not the one who put us in this place, it’s President Bush with the 100% support of Movement Conservatives.

Basically with some of the folks here, it’s not Conservatism that’s the issue, you guys all seem fine with any number of betrayals of Conservatism from folks not named McCain.

[rob777]

"In case you haven’t noticed, Dems have now lost their fear of promising to raise taxes, that’s how badly conservative stewardship of the economy has gotten. And McCain’s not the one who put us in this place, it’s President Bush with the 100% support of Movement Conservatives."


BINGO!!! I have always been at least as wary of Bush as I was of McCain. While I understand that conservatives have doubts about McCain, I never did understand the free pass that Bush got. It tends to make me doubt the credibility of some of his critics.

[rob777]

"Basically with some of the folks here, it’s not Conservatism that’s the issue, you guys all seem fine with any number of betrayals of Conservatism from folks not named McCain."


Sometimes it seems like what we have here is more a matter of personal likes and dislikes than a solid critique of stands on issues. That being said I am not too crazy about McCain either, I just do not see why so much of the venom is directed at him and relatively little at Bush.

[Just mythoughts]

Not true I have plenty of issues with how President Bush turned over the majority of domestic policy to the liberal tripe... However, President Bush is NOT running for election and a good many of those who went along with him are no longer in Congress. Hence we have a liberal controlled Congress. One does NOT need more than two hands if that to count who stood on principle and those who caved to the promise of money to get reelected.

Given McCain’s unabashed liberal leaning while attempting to appear a conservative is what I will not buy.