Posted on 03/02/2008 7:39:36 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
None of the candidates are worth our vote. Is this the best we can do?
Excellent point. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone here. FReepers hoping for an Obama win with a "that'll show 'em" mentality. I guess they don't care if we retreat from Iraq or defund the military--both things promised by Obama.
Well stated.
Under we have a conservative Senate, we need a few Senators with backbone who will filibuster judicial nominees who do not support original intent and constitutional federalism.
Didn’t Senator McCain vote for Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
But Reagan believed he was working with honest dealers in the congress when he supported Simpson-Mazzolli. He honestly believed that the amnesty would be a one-time deal, although history has proven that giving amnesty only exacerbates the problem. My guess is that all other things being equal, Reagan, who learned from history, would have opposed a second amnesty. McCain, on the other hand, refuses to learn from history and is advocating a policy with a proven history of failure, something a REAL conservative wouldn't do.
Why would I attempt to show that Obama has ever done anything conservative. I NEVER said he did. Where are you getting this absurd notion from?
You are arguing with a ghost - not me.
My point is that what Brit said, no matter how he said it, is still ridiculous. To assume that the only way to win is for the electorate to silence themselves on all contentious issues, we're in for a very, very sorry state of affairs. If you want a politician to represent you, you MUST speak up. In McCain's case, being quiet is a quasi-endorsement of everything HE stands for which in many cases is in direct contradiction to what his constituents believe and want.
Examples:
Emperor Palpatine,
Are you related to the Chancellor?
I should have expected as much from a RINO Kool-Aid drinker. Here...this one's on me.
It's not that McCain isn't a "perfect conservative" that bothers us; rather it's that McCain a perfect horse's @$$ liberal.
Yes, we do. That's what we're doing now--fighting the Trojan Horse. That is the real enemy, whom you can't seem to identify. The appeasers, of which you appear to be, are the ones without stones.
You would rather stab your nearest allies in the back under the rationale of being ideologically more pure.
"Ideologically more pure" is a red herring. Other than support for Iraq, any ideological pureness of McCain's is on the left side of the spectrum. Of course, at root he's just like Bush, an opportunist with no ideology or philosophy. Where he differs from Bush is that he's been demonstrated to be a crook, while Bush is not a crook.
You know that alone, you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of effecting the RATS, so you try to kill the Republican Party just so you can think that your miserable efforts are having an effect.
That should be "affecting", rather than "effecting", but aside from that, who cares? If the Republican Party keeps serving up crap, you can eat it. I'll pass.
No, you don't have stones, you don't have maturity and you are really proving how you are betraying the Conservative movement for your own pettiness!
Hmmm. Quite a formulation there. Vote for a non-conservative or betray the Conservative movement. That contradiction won't fly outside your kindergarten. When are you going to bring in "most important election of our lifetime?" That's plank two of the vote-for-any-Republican platform.
Well, he DID say we conservatives just don’t UNDERSTAND him. That sounds like he’s groveling to me.
*Snort*
(I bet he said the same thing to his first wife when he abandoned her.)
This conservative to RINO Hume. Kiss my ass.
‘Cripplecreek to Hume.
Get off you knees.’
Now THAT’S a reply!!!
The whole “Get Off McCain’s Back” thing reminds me of Bette Midler’s retelling of the classic Sophie Tucker joke. I can’t tell it here but I can annoy everyone by mentioning it.
Conservative voter to Brit Hume: If McCain wins, we still have a Dem President.
Second note to Brit Hume: Since it is still a free country, I'll still cast my vote in the manner I choose.
Third note to Brit Hume: Just report the news, don't pretend to have some sort of leadership role.
There is not a single shred of evidence that he would be any better. I will not vote for McCain.
It is the advice of a weakling.
We are already surfs if we must accept single party rule, as is a vote for McCain. There is not evidence that McCain would be different from Obama/Hillary.
I don't like McCain or Ginsburg, but remember that only 3 senators voted against her: Don Nickles (OK), Robert C. Smith (NH), and Jesse Helms (NC). Votes FOR included Phil Gramm (TX), Strom Thurmond (SC), Cochran (MS). I can think of much better arguments you could make against McCain.
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