.......... What words can never say......
Posted on 02/17/2008 10:20:04 AM PST by calcowgirl
McCain? No Way!
by Sen. HL "Bill" Richardson (ret.)
Chairman of the Board, GOA
Americans are being told by the mainstream media that conservatives have no other choice than to back the hypocrite from Arizona. All that is required is to pretend he is "really" a conservative. "So, crawl under the big Republican tent and vote for McCain," we are told. "Besides, what other choice do you have?"
We have plenty of choices, none of which calls for casting our vote for the lesser of two presidential evils.
First, the Republican race isn't over. Huckabee is still around and as Kansas and Louisiana should point out, the Romney vote flocked to Huckabee. Not that they loved Huckabee, but that they have zero trust in the promises of McCain. Even if Huckabee loses, what makes anyone think conservatives will vote for McCain?
Don't you liberals get it? The republican conservative believes McCain would be a vindictive president. He's proven his dislike for conservatives and would gut us at every opportunity.
Why do I say that? Because of three decades of experience as a Republican California Senator and a fifty year activist in the conservative movement. I have first hand, in-their-face experience with elitist RINO's (Republican in Name Only) office holders. They are biblically ignorant, power hungry, status seeking egotists who have no difficulty aiding their liberal Democrat colleagues whenever their arms are politely twisted. The one thing they have in common with liberal Democrats is their dislike of all conservatives, especially those who are Bible-believing. McCain, as president, would stifle the voices of elected Republican leaders and try to legislate the conservative movement out of existence.
There is no reason why any conservative should be depressed, especially if they look at past history. I clearly remember the political climate in 1964. We newly-awakened conservatives had a real friend running for the Republican nomination. Barry Goldwater defeated a liberal Republican in the primaries, but in the general election, the mainstream media slaughtered him. In 1964 it was easy to do; we had no effective political action committees, no conservative organizations, few pro-life activists, little religious participation, no talk radio, a handful of articulate conservative legislators, no fax machines and zero Internet. After the 1964 November election, all looked hopeless. Not a bright star on the horizon....But!
In 1966, we conservatives elected an actor as Governor of California. I was elected to the State Senate. The thespian and I were greener than grass but we were both quick to learn. Ron Reagan became a national star, a conservative leader in the nation’s most popular state. He couldn't be ignored.
I founded Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners of California. We became the second largest pro-Second Amendment organization in America with membership in the hundreds of thousands. We concentrated our efforts on electing pro-gunners to the legislature and stopping anti-gun legislation. We grew rapidly and were quite successful. During liberal Jerry Brown's eight years as governor, not a single anti-gun bill was signed into law. The reason was simple -- although the liberal Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature, no anti-gun legislation passed from either house to find its way to the Governor’s desk.
The entire gun movement is close to accomplishing that feat on a national level. As long as the gun community hangs together, it will make little difference on gun issues who is sitting in the White House. The same could be true of other major conservative organizations as long as they stay in the fight. We are much better off than in 1964 and much better organized.
The other good news is that some of the weak-sister Republicans are leaving office -- not willing to scrap it out with the liberal Democrats. Hooray, happy to see you go! Call Gun Owners if you need a ride out of town. We have an opportunity to replace them with tough, no nonsense conservatives. Already, some very fine men are seeking these vacancies.
We at Gun Owners intend to be very engaged in Congressional and US Senate races.
I personally will not cast a vote for the presidency -- that is, if McCain is the Republican nominee. Under no circumstances will I vote for either of the Democrats. This will be the first time in fifty years that I have made this choice. I hope it will be the last.
By all means, drive the point home. But if you go through these “meltdown threads”, you’ll see that there are simply too many people who will vote principle, and McCain will go down the tubes because of it. There are simply too many of “us”. GOP-Bots and cowards don’t want to realize this, but it’s a fact.
.......... What words can never say......
McCain CAN win. That's not even debatable. Will he? Right now it doesn't look like he will, thanks to suicidal conservatives who prefer OBAMA this year.
I might vote for him if he could.. HE CAN'T..
Self-fullfilling prophecy. I'll make what I think is the best choice and let the chips fall. Control what you can control, nevermind the rest.
Bush fractured the party like a windshield in a car wreck, and by border policys and run away non vetoed BIG government spending...
Bush won twice. He hasn't been a good president. And the GOP congress has been a mess (give them credit, don't blame the Prez for everything...that's not how our system works.)
A Bush/Kennady/McLaim Republican Party is a travesty.. Sure an Obama/Clinton administration is a nightmare and a heart attack..
The GOP is not that far from where it always is, imo. And as lame as it is, it remains the better choice come November.
But It WILL HAPPEN.. turning your head from it WILL NOT make it Go AWAY...
Again, I'm not turning my head away from anything. Quite the contrary, I'm holding up the known facts and the known consequences.
The democrats are galvanized the republicans are stomach punched and depressed..
That's true.
I’m planning to vote for Senator McCain in November. Thinking that Huckabee will have any chance to stop McCain is simply irrational.
That's not a choice, that's a disaster.
It ain't over til it's over.
Would that be Obama, or would that be Mrs. Clinton?
Talk about boring. The old "r" by his name crap. Is that why you think I and 57 % of freepers intend to vote for McCain? We like the letter R? No, it's because it remains a fact that even a liberal GOPer is a better choice than a socialist DEM. And those are the actual choices.
I'm sure that if Hillary ever switches parties, you'll be demanding that I vote for her as well.
Wow. Invent hypotheticals to prove....what exactly? Hillary is a socialist DEMOCRAT, and apparantly, if she pulls out the nominee, she'll be YOUR preference. In a McCain-Hillary race, you'll sit out, effectively helping her. So go heal yourself, fella.
And it's because of that reality that you have absolutely no credibility among real conservatives.
Oh darn.
I’m an American first and I’m not going to let Obama destroy the country just because mcCain doesn’t worship Ann Coulter.
It's a disaster because it's likely that many conservatives will shoot themselves in the foot as a result, and find themselves out in the cold with a Socialist president who has a mandate to govern and a willing Congress.
It ain't over til it's over.
That's true. But it's close.
I would go for that. Much better to have a clearly defined adversary. McCain only serves to divide the party, Obama would unite us.
I know H.L. He’s the real deal. It was his generation of elected officials that gave us Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately they are almost all gone now.
At least someone admits it: the so-called "real" conservatives support giving the Socialist Party a president with a mandate. I'll be sure to give you all credit when/if it comes to pass.
“Allow me to summarize the article: OBAMA IN 08!”
yeah
The time for this stuff was a long time ago, and it’s too late now.
We didnt make sure we had consevatives in the election cycle hopper and out spits McCain. Of our own making.
So there it is.
The time for this kind of thing has passed for this election.
Time to work on the next one.
And yeah, I will be voting for McCain as most Freepers will because the horror the democrats will bring is far worse then any rino could come up with.
Ditto to your entire post.
“Obama is just the black version of McCain.”
Check your meds, and remember this, there’s still a war going on, the one that B. Hussein wants to end in 60 days.
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