McCain a 'True Conservative,' Bush Says

McCain a 'True Conservative,' Bush Says Feb 10 09:36 AM US/Eastern WASHINGTON (AP) - John McCain is a "true conservative," President Bush says, although the presumptive Republican presidential nominee may have to work harder to convince other conservatives that he is one of their own.

McCain "is very strong on national defense," Bush said in an interview taped for airing on "Fox News Sunday." "He is tough fiscally. He believes the tax cuts ought to be permanent. He is pro-life. His principles are sound and solid as far as I'm concerned."

But when asked about criticism of McCain by conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, the president said, "I think that if John is the nominee, he has got some convincing to do to convince people that he is a solid conservative and I'll be glad to help him if he is the nominee."

Bush said some of the criticism of the Arizona senator was the result of "probably, some personal animosity toward me. You can't please all the people all the time."

Asked during the interview about GOP candidate Mike Huckabee's criticism of his foreign policy, Bush said: "I'm sure that you can find quotes from people running for office that sound like they're at odds with me. But the point—what really matters in a campaign what are the basic beliefs."

Regarding attacks on his performance from Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, Bush said, "If the Democrat party feels like they can win an election by focusing on me, I think they'll be making a huge tactical mistake."

I was thinking of giving McCain the benefit of the doubt, but the more I see Bush’s face on FOX giving us a bad luck penny in his pathetic endorsement of McCain without actually endorsing McCain, and I can see right through it, that the message from this loser and a bunch of white haired check pants Republican “moderates” who want open borders and cheap labor for their big corporate and Agra businesses who I now seeing standing behind some McCain operative, the more I look at the fake smiles and phony white teeth of these pathetic old school get along to get along big spending Republicans who along with Bush destroyed the Republican majority in the name of Amnesty for illegal aliens, the more I am taken back. The more Bush supports McCain, the odds I won’t vote for this guy goes way, way up, even despite what Romney has stated recently that implies we now need to gather around John McCain.

The more I see Bush’s face on FOX telling us this crap, the more I am now seriously rethinking any chance I would vote for McCain.

FOX just had some very ugly old woman, some woman who would gladly trade in her Harry Truman old lady’s dress for a white haired old school open borders check pants Republican pair of threads, telling us all how the real message of all of this is that conservatives have no power, that America and fellow Republicans have rejected the conservatives, the same messaging that is coming now from Bush that actually we all DO want open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens and all Republicans agree. Which means to me, with Bush and ugly old ladies like this witch with their Bushie “hee, hee, see! Everyone agrees with me, hee, hee, hee, see, AMNESTY, hee, hee!” . . .

Last night I received the very horrific news that the brother of a good neighbor of mine was shot dead in the Mission District of San Francisco. The person shot was a loving person, tall and handsome man, who enjoyed children, who would offer to help other neighbors and family do repairs, a religious man. The family that I speak of does not live in San Francisco. But now he is dead. He was shot dead by Mexican gang activity in the Mission District. No doubt, by an illegal alien.

I spit on Bush and the lie in his message he is now trying to tell us. I spit in the face of this ugly old woman who I just saw on FOX.

And the more I see and hear from these type of damn stupid hucksters and their phony smiles and white teeth and check pants, man, for sure this is going to sink any chance McCain has for ever getting my vote in the General, or for that matter from conservatives. And without them, McCain cannot win and it doesn’t matter how delusional Bush and his check pants friends think otherwise.

The worst thing for McCain is more of this type of talk from ugly old ladies on FOX news, or the face of George Bush giving us this “hee, hee, hee, see!” crap.

To hell with them. And tell Bush to come to the San Francisco Bay Area and start cleaning up all this Mexican gang graffiti off fences, walls, and homes of our legal residents. I say to hell with them all.

Let me ask a question to Buffalo Bush and his endorsement. HOW MANY MILES OF THE BORDER FENCE HAS BEEN BUILT? It was too many miles short to save the life of another good American who is now dead. But you check pants got your white teeth, right?

“End Times Crusader” is an interesting sort. Unless his/her forum name is a gag of some sort, I would assume he’s evangelical, and probably a defender of Israel. The world’s most implacable enemy of Isreal today is Islam. The president, our “evangelical” President, gladly accepts awards from Saudi royalty who fund Islamic instruction around the world—instruction that includes calling Jews pigs and Christians monkeys. Even Hal Lindsey concluded that Islam was beyond excuse and was thus kicked off the air by the eminently holy Paul and Jan Crouch. (I guess he’s back on now; maybe Crouch found out the Q’uran was not exactly God’s word?) At any rate, end-timers of our era aren’t exactly the most astute thinkers.

OK .. You get the government you either vote for or don’t vote for... Thats your choice...

That line about let the Democrats take the hit for the disaster is a selfish comment....

You will be the enabler maybe your philosophy allows you to keep a clear conscious but one day when you have to answer to your grandkids on why they are dealing with the fallout from the Rats agenda will you be able to tell them you did all you could to stop it?

Make no mistake regardless of what Rush or Sean say... there is a Huge difference between John McCain and HillObama..

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I do hear what you are saying and you have made a valid point. But I won’t vote for someone I can’t trust. And I can’t trust John McCain. This isn’t Sean or Rush talking, it’s me, sir.

Actually the founding fathers showed determination to stick to their principals with much greater stakes at hand. They pledged their lives, their liberty and their honor for what they believed. Independence from Great Britian could have turned out differently leaving their children with the onerous task of explaining to future generations the repercussions of acting on principal, but it didn’t happen. I too will act on my principals whether or not you believe them selfish. Without principal or honor what value is there in life? I will not settle this election. Conservatism is what I believe in and value. If John McCain is a conservative, then he has consistently failed at its most basic tenents.

I understand your decision to vote for the man and more power to you. I respect your choice, but it isn’t mine. And my beliefs and choices are every bit as valid as yours. I’m not enabling the Democrats; in fact I plan to work for Conservatives in Congressional races. The best front where we can battle to stop Hillary and Obama is Congress.

Very well stated...

Obviously John McCain was not my first choice either. I wanted to rally around Fred Thompson and regret that the Conservative talkings heads did not introduce and vet a competent candidate earlier..

But as the old poker player that I am, I usually have to play and therefore defend the hand that is dealt to me.

I have not such optimism that the country will turn Congress from Democrat to Republican when it gives the POTUS spot to Obama. The enthusiasm and the numbers are just too large to overcome and the coat tails sweep of Democrats in Congressional races is too historic to overlook...

I do know that John McCain can defeat Obama but only if he manages to secure the Base and he has an uphill battle because the more right he leans in his Rhetoric the more Centrists and moderats he turns off.

I think we need a new book... How can we win elections in a big tent...

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