Bush pretends that McCain is a conservative, just as he pretends that he himself is a conservative.
This is too easy. What does Bush know about being a conservative?
YY,SS,W....
Couple of running threads on this.
Well he got that right. Bush has a tough job ahead of him convincing me that he is one of our own.
Bush was my man in 2000 and 2004. I volunteered in both campaigns. But in 04 I was under no illusions that he was a conservative.
However I also knew what the alternative was and I was going to do all I could to ensure that the country did not go down that road.
Who ever the Republican nominee is this year given what the Dims are offering I will do the same this year.
I think they both should go ahead and join the Demorat party and show their true color for the whole world to see.
As much as I like our prez, he hasn’t been too much of a conservative in areas like immigration. And no, RINO McPain is definitely not a conservative.
McCain is strong on defence though, no?
I think they both should go ahead and join the Demorat party and show their true color for the whole world to see.
So basically we’re getting Bush with a temper for 4 more years.
I wouldn't have a problem with him running as one.
Well, Bush though “he” was a conservative also. But, he was an idiot on that thought as well as this one.
NEOCON ALERT!
Here’s a refresh from May of 2005:
(Grover Norquist in 2005 Press Release said that:) “Sen. John McCain to Nation’s Republicans...”
May 2005 Press Release from Americans for Tax Reform ^ | May 25, 2005 | Grover Norquist and John Kartch
Posted on 05/28/2005 8:39:45 PM PDT by FairOpinion
By stabbing the President and the Majority Leader in the back in the judges fight, McCain shows that he has no intention of running for President
WASHINGTON—Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced that he has no intention of running for President of the United States this week by his latest egregious blow to Republicans when he joined Democrats in a phony “compromise,” that will allow liberal interest groups to continue to block reasonable judges. The extreme leftist group People for the American Way called the McCain sellout, “good news,” convinced the measure would help preserve liberal activist judges’ influence in the courts.
Senate Democrats have spent the last two terms blocking Bush administration nominees through the unprecedented use of the filibuster to create a supermajority requirement for the confirmation of federal judges. Republican lawmakers, led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn..), were poised to return to the principle that judges with majority support should not be denied an up or down vote, but they were betrayed in the 11th hour by Sen. McCain.
“When McCain brokered the deal to betray his Republican colleagues by negotiating a private surrender to the Democrats, he publicly declared he has no interest in the Presidency. No Republican could expect to win the G.O.P. nod after betraying his party’s rank and file on one of their most central concerns,” said Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and a leader of the center-right coalition in Washington, D.C..
McCain has no further designs on the Presidency, said Norquist, since his actions have now so alienated the base that the fence could never be mended. Norquist went on to say that since his failure in the primary campaign of 2000, Sen. McCain has “screwed” Christian conservatives, gun owners, free press advocates, taxpayers, and now opponents of the activist judiciary. Experts say such behavior precludes any Presidential aspirations by a Republican.
“John McCain has been transfixed by the lights of the cameras,” said Norquist. “In the course of running toward the cameras, McCain has now managed to stomp on the toes of every part of the center-right coalition. He has now made it official: He will not be running for President in ‘08.”
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Americans for Tax Reform is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose all federal and state tax increases. For more information or to arrange an interview with Mr. Norquist please contact Christopher Butler at (202)785-0266 or by email at cbutler@atr.org.
They need to rephrase that if they want the article to be taken seriously!
NeoRino.
I support President Bush. Period. He’s not perfect, but I would go to war and die under his leadership.. same for John McCain.
If we ever get to a single-party rule.. then you can just pass any conservative legislation you can come up with.. and I’m sure among conservatives.. you/we would disagree on a TON of things even if we had full ability to pass anything we want as a group.
Three threads. It must be so.
President Bush,
I am eternally grateful that you were the man God placed to lead this country on 9/11. I am eternally grateful that you were in place to give us not only one but thanks to some stubborn prodding and arm twisting, two conservative justices on the Supreme Court to stem the tide of judicial socialism forced on America. That having been said, you are NOT a conservative but you do have some conservative leanings and for that, I am grateful.
That you would even claim that you believe that "McCain is a Conservative," shows how very little you understand conservatism, though that should not be surprising as you have attempted in every possible way to give us "Eur-Amerika" (NorthAmerican Union.)