Can McCain Corral Conservatives?

Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/9/08 | NICK TIMIRAOS

[Winged Hussar]

How conservative is Mr. McCain? During his quarter century in Washington, the senator has assembled an 82% rating from the American Conservative Union, placing him 39th among senators in 2006, while drawing a 25% lifetime rating from the liberal American Civil Liberties Union. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, has a 75% ACLU lifetime rating. A scorecard by the antitax Club for Growth, a conservative political-action committee, ranked him 29th among 55 Republican senators in 2006.

[Winged Hussar]

Also, McCain's Americans for Democratic Action (leftist) ratings for 2004-2006 range from 10 to 35%. Compare to 95-100% for both Clinton and Obama.

I am not going to disagree with anyone who votes for Huckabee or Romney (simply to show support for Romney's platform) in the remaining primaries. I may do so myself in Pennsylvania's primary, if only to tell McCain that I want him to move further to the right, especially on the global warming issue, with which I disagree with him. However, it looks like he is indeed going to be our side's nominee.

If you don't vote for McCain in November, you are voting for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

Remember that the next President will appoint one or more Supreme Court justices. Furthermore, if you don't support McCain over Obama, you are also voting for MoveOn.org and George Soros.

Obama's cabinet:

Vice President: Al Sharpton

Sec. State: Jesse Jackson

Sec. Defense: Cindy Sheehan

Sec. Commerce: Jack Cade from "King Henry VI Part 2"

Attorney General: Mike Nifong

Chaplain: Jeremiah Wright

Supreme Court: Sharpton's friends C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox, Eliot Spitzer (D-NY), Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), Janet Reno, Bill Clinton, and Mike Nifong.

And this is why Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and so on need to shut up and sit down unless they want to be saying (puke!) "President Obama" (puke!) for the next four years. Eight years of "President Clinton" should meanwhile have been more than enough to last Coulter and Limbaugh a lifetime.

Congratulations to Mike Huckabee on winning the Kansas primary. Hopefully a good Huckabee showing will move McCain's platform in the RIGHT direction.

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[TommyDale]

Nominating a RINO like McCain will elect Hillary Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama!

[CindyDawg]

Can you herd cats?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

If McCain or Romney end up the Republican nominee (Romney by swooping in at the end in a brokered convention), then I don’t mind seeing the Democrats win. I won’t vote for them, but neither will I vote for McCain or Romney. We need new leaders in a very bad way.

[tear gas]

Conservatives will either vote for the GOP nominee (even if it's McCain) or they'll vote for a good third party candidate. They won't stay home.

They're addicted to politics. They couldn't stop if their lives depended on it.

[Sybeck1]

This is McCain’s own fault. He is the most selfish SOB walking the planet now, given what he wants to do to his own party and what he might do to the country.

He wants our votes and nothing more.

[TommyDale]

I will not compromise my principles

[Clintonfatigued]

“Can McCain Corral Conservatives?”

Way too soon to say. Choosing a running mate who’s acceptable to conservatives will help.

[sageb1]

Shouldn’t that question be posited the other way around?

[Man50D]

If you don't vote for McCain in November, you are voting for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

McCain is the GOP version of Obama and Clinton

[Jane Austen]

McCain might promise anything. If he gets elected, and he has almost zero chance of that, he will revert to his amnesty and other liberal causes. He is untrustworthy and unethical. His word is meaningless.

[TADSLOS]

Sorry, I refuse to vote for Calderon’s Americano emmissary as POTUS.

[COBOL2Java]

If you don't vote for McCain in November, you are voting for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

Um, OK.

[levotb]

No. The only hope McCain has is selecting Romney as his VP mate, and even THAT isn’t necessarily going to get many conservatives behind him.

The problem now is not the pressure that McCain’s people or the GOP leadership in general is trying to put on movement conservatives—the problem is McCain himself. He’s so anti-conservative in his views and actions over the years, and he’s the biggest failure as a longtime Senator from the Invasion state—the state where most of the 40 million illegal aliens have used to break into the U.S. and he has steadfastly refused to do a thing about it. He’s never won a national election. He’s a loser. If those of us on the right think that BUSH has been stubborn for over 7 years, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

The conservatives I hear from tell me they’re looking to a third party. It’s most unfortunate that we have to wait til late April to find out who The Constitution Party will nominate. But, that is the direction I see many conservatives going.

[kingu]

It’s interesting that some of those who are trying to convince conservatives to support McCain for his nomination are doing it in the manner that mostly leftists use to get their point across - loud shouting, bolded text, do it or it’ll get worse.

Personally, my advice: Highlight those positions of McCains that actually matches the audience you’re talking to. You’d have a much higher percentage of chance of pushing him down our throats.

‘sides, there’s openness around here for supporting liberals. I mean, come on, a Republican presidential candidate says, during a debate, ‘I like mandates, mandates work’ and he garnered the support of more than half of the viewers of this forum. If you’re running low on lipstick for the pig, I understand there’s a good sale running in Massachusetts.

Myself, I voted for Fred before he dropped out. Very frustrating.

[COBOL2Java]

Remember that the next President will appoint one or more Supreme Court justices. Furthermore, if you don't support McCain over Obama, you are also voting for MoveOn.org and George Soros.

OK conservatives! Are you scared now? Winged Hussar and the RINOs command you! You WILL obey! If you don't, why, they'll just continue to post worthless threads like this one and bore us to death!

[CindyDawg]

I would never ask you to. If McCain is your guy..vote for him. If not..don’t compromise. Vote on principle for who you have supported thru the primary. Write them in if you have to.

[CindyDawg]

Why are yall yelling?

[fieldmarshaldj]

"No. The only hope McCain has is selecting Romney as his VP mate, and even THAT isn’t necessarily going to get many conservatives behind him."

That choice would guarantee my vote... for the Democrat ticket. McCain has to put a real Conservative on the ticket, not a rich phony liberal trojan horse rodent like Joe Isuzu Romney.

[TommyDale]

No McCain!