GOP to Conservatives: Drop Dead

Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2008 | Douglas MacKinnon

[wilco200]

“Right will keep on being ridiculous in their backing of someone just because he’s a Christian.”

I don;t think any of the three are claiming to be Christians (or is it all of them)?

[dmw]

"Why don’t you ask your stupid question to someone else? The election is not here yet. We still have the right to not like any of the choices. The FR is still a place where we can express our distaste of McCain with good reason. Many of us have to really talk ourselves into voting for this jerk. Your ignorant question does not change the truth of the American voters worse choices in history on both sides. It is not conservative philosophy to elect a Communist. That has never been true. Your statement within a question is false. Your pedantic attempt at my position is worthless at best."

Thanks for sharing this. You've expressed my sentiments as well.

[Rush4U]

McCain has zero chance against Obama. Since the media directed the Republican candidate, there is nothing else to hope for. I mobilized for Duncan hunter and Fred Thompson. They did not catch. What have you done to help the party? Please elaborate.

[Perdogg]

McCain wasn’t shoved down any one throats. Your candidate (My candidate as well) lost. It’s time to be a grown up.

[claudiustg]

Conservative to GOP: Constitution Party

[Perdogg]

I worked for Fred. So there.

[Rush4U]

You are woefully ignorant if you think the dems are planning for 4 years.

It doesn't matter what the dems "plan for" it matters what the electorate thinks. End of story. What else did your DU news letter pontificate on?

[Robbin]

Actually, I think the quote applies to all McCain supporters as well. They know they can count on joe average Conservative to vote for the lesser of two evils EVERY time, no matter how far LEFT the republican candidate has moved. This is the first time we’ve been asked to vote for a candidate that dislikes conservatives and everything we stand for. I won’t go this far, the republican party is going to see the reaction this year, as well as the dems if they find away to pick Hillary over Obama...

[Rush4U]

Wow.

[oldbrowser]

It really doesn’t matter for them. There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference amongst the 3 top contenders. Most of the policies the contenders endorse and the same policies the GOP leaders endorse.

This is exactly what a troll would say to discourage and divide the republicans.

[CindyDawg]

Social Conservatives...don’t buy into this “fear” factor. Just vote your conscience. God will put who he wants in office.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I'm not a "squirrel," I'm a "SCRAT"!

[papasmurf]

Sums it up, doesn't it?

Yes, it does. Give us your ,money, sit down, buckle up, and be quiet. That's the modern GOP.

I predict Obama gets in

I almost agree with that. It does seem inevitible. I am pretty sure, though-no matter if it's Obama or the beast, that we're gonna' take a huge azz whippin come November.

I know, and work with, a lot of Dumocrats. Nearly evryone one of them despises her, and says if she gets elected, she will be hated as much as Bush. She'll fracture their party even more than it is now.

[Smokin' Joe]

So which is it already? Drop dead? Shut up? Vote for whatever they shove in front of you?

I dropped my check--in the wastebasket.

I shut up...My vote is my voice.

As for the minions and masters of compromise: If principles are only a bargaining chip, you don't have any.

[Robbin]

You obviously think the the republican parties primary rules are completely fair and designed to give us the best conservative candidate. I don’t it’s designed to insure independents and cross over dems have a BIG say in who our nominee is as well as northern states. I’m done with it.
The fact that I refuse to support your liberal candidate for president, doesn’t make you better than me, nor more grown up than me. All it proves, is you vote for Party and I vote for principle, and this year, those two things don’t work together.

[apocalypto]

Well, well, well. John McCain says he will not pander to conservatives. Just the other week he declared over and over he was a conservative. Others also assured the uninformed that he was a conservative. Lies.

What poetic justice that after what McCain did to Romney, the New York Times did to him. Then again, the article could be the truth. Who knows?

[CindyDawg]

McCain wasn’t shoved down any one throats

Oh yes he was, and still is. Do you really think if the GOP had wanted say..Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson, they would have been allowed to "disappear"? We have been given our choices. They don't think anyone will vote for the funny guys though so really they are just letting us think we have a choice.

[CindyDawg]

If at any point, Ron Paul or Huckabee get ahead I expect Texas to stop counting.

[claudiustg]

-—More than likely it will be our troops that will suffer and the small business.-—

No, we’ll all suffer, and, in fact, already are, from the ill considered attempt of George Bush, Mel Martinez, and others to rebrand the Party into something that we don’t agree with, cannot identify with, and will not support.

[Eva]

McCain, can’t win in the National election. Look at the numbers of people that are voting for Obama, compared to what McCain has won. McCain’s votes in places like New Hamshire and Florida won’t even be there in the national because they were just cross over voters.

Supporting a sure loser is capitulating for no reason. I feel that we are better off not associating ourselves with McCain, at all. Ron Paul beat McCain in my caucus. McCain came in fourth behind Huckabee, Ron Paul, and undecided.