It is very simple. Hilda-bama has no idea how to fight islamo facism. B. Hussein is especially clueless, if not sympathetic. I don't want this.........
Posted on 02/19/2008 4:55:34 PM PST by K-oneTexas
>grumbling that Ohio senator Robert “Mr. Republican” Taft had not been nominated, voted for Eisenhower because he was clearly the better alternative to Adlai Stevenson.
>Was Eisenhower a conservative? No...
Come on - by this line of reasoning (sic) nobody who ever lived was a conservative.
Somehow, Eisenhower found his way to deporting the illegals at gunpoint...
From what I can tell, John McCain doesn’t want to be tainted with my vote.
“Dangerous toys should not be given to little boys.”
Wow. This means that if there are enough people like Daniel Oliver, McCain will win.
This author is content to be a lemming. Why, I don’t know.
Past actions are the best indicator of future results.
McQueeg should be nowhere near the Oval Office.
Your mileage may vary.
I refuse to vote for peanut butter, when I can always write in steak.
It is very simple. Hilda-bama has no idea how to fight islamo facism. B. Hussein is especially clueless, if not sympathetic. I don't want this.........
Eisenhower, Nixon, and Bush were not altogether conservative. BUT.
In the first place, the conservative base has been growing for years. It was gaining in momentum as recently as 2004. We have more conservative voters than ever before.
In the second place, McCain is far worse than any of those earlier candidates. Far worse.
So, we have a liberal candidate being shoved down the throats of a base that is much more conservative than it used to be. Why is this?
Well, people seem to say it’s not the RNC’s fault, it’s the Republican voters’ fault.
Not true. The deck was stacked. The primary season started with a bunch of leftist states and states where Democrats and “independents” were allowed to vote in Republican primaries.
McCain didn’t get a majority of Republican votes ANYWHERE. By the time we got to places where a conservative candidate might have won, however, the conservatives had been forced from the race by the MSM and the so-called conservative gurus. Huckabee guarded McCain’s flank in the states where southern evangelicals hang out, while the unelectable Mitt Romney took the rest of the oxygen from the real conservatives.
I voted for Eisenhower, the first time I voted, because Taft was an isolationist, and I thought Ike would do a better job of confronting the Soviet Union. He did.
But I’m not voting for McCain. He will sell out our country. This whole business is being rammed down our throats, and I refuse to swallow it.
I generally agree with the feelings of the author. McCain is not my first choice for the Republican nomination; however, he has gotten the most votes, fair and square.
I will never let someone tell me not to vote.
I think we may have had more conservatives than ever before in 2004; however, the number of conservative voters has been decreasing ever since.
I think that the anti-Bush anti-War feelings in this country has hurt the conservative movement beyond anything since Watergate.
I fear that 2004 may prove to have been a high-water mark for the number of total conservatives in this country.
The man is too stubborn and stupid to get it. And even if he does stop, and makes a few blind promises, few would believe him. He made his bed...
The biggest, maybe only, reason to vote for McCain is HillObama.
LOL. You sound like just the same scare-monger you were 5 years ago pushing Schwarzenegger.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Here we go again, the hold your nose scenario, half-a-loaf, lesser-of-two-evils - whatever you want to call it. It’ll be 2012 and the GOP will nominate another RINO and conservatives will be told they have to support the RINO or else...the government will get bigger! As if it hasn’t already from 2000-2008. No thanks.
He has gotten a dismal plurality... many of which were in OPEN primaries with Democrats and Independents voting. This is not "fair and square."
“From what I can tell, John McCain doesn’t want to be tainted with my vote”
His approach is winning without the conservative vote.
And so far it has worked. The McCain “New Rainbow Coalition” of Jello’s, Rinos, Moderates, Independents and Hispanics does not need my vote.
As a result, he won’t get my vote.
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