Posted on 03/02/2008 7:39:36 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Brit Hume has some blunt advice for conservative Republicans: lay off McCain if you don't want a Dem president.
At the very end of today's Fox News Sunday panel segment, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol was first to make a point along similar lines.
BILL KRISTOL: I'm more conservative than John McCain but I think it would be a mistake for him to just make himself into an orthodox conservative in this election. The reason he is a stronger candidate than a lot of other Republicans would be is that he is a little bit heterodox. He's got his own views, he shouldn't back off on that, I think, actually.
Hume drove the point home in spades.
BRIT HUME: And if the conservatives don't want a President Obama or a President Clinton, they ought to get off McCain's back and let him campaign as whatever he wants to, and campaign from the center.
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What Britt doesn’t seem to understand is that if McCain moves further to the Left during the general election, he will just be rubbing salt into the wounds of Conservatives, which will just disaffect them more. McCain is a dead man walking.
Don’t tell that to org.whodat... He drank the Obama Kool-aid and would rather stick up for his BOY... then to support a Republican that has fought for Conservative issues for over 20 years in the Senate... Apparently if you are not Pureist of the Pure Conservative ideologue you don’t get any support form Org.whodat.
“People here are gonna be p*ssed about this, but he happens to be correct. :)”
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Spot on Keith. Over the last 6-7 years I’ve had to listen to a lot of BDS (Bush Deranged Syndrome) idiots on the left. Now FR seems to be infected w/ MDS (McCain Deranged Syndrome).
It’s one thing to be more conservative than McCain (a group I certainly belong to) but it’s quite another to suggest that we all would be better off w/ Obama as Commander in Chief.
Dang. If Hume says so then so be it.
In the end I’ll hold my noise and put my X beside McLame’s name. Then I’ll stay on his back and pray.
Don’t tell that to org.whodat... He drank the Obama Kool-aid and would rather stick up for his BOY... then to support a Republican that has fought for Conservative issues for over 20 years in the Senate... Apparently if you are not Pureist of the Pure Conservative ideologue you don’t get any support form Org.whodat.
Don’t tell that to org.whodat... He drank the Obama Kool-aid and would rather stick up for his BOY and have a Socialist running the Country... then to support a Republican that has fought for Conservative issues for over 20 years in the Senate... Apparently if you are not Pureist of the Pure Conservative ideologue you don’t get any support form Org.whodat.
Massah be sayin we uppity conservatives gotta git back to da plantation or he gonna take our 3/5 vote away.
Don’t worry, kabar. McQueeg will never get elected.
So everyone that doesn't agree with you have inflated egos. What a childish statement, surely you can just scream boo and have more impact.
I drink a toast to the defeat of that backstabbing McCain, and his liberal supporters. Our ONLY chance is the backlash of conservatism in 2010 and 2012.
I wonder just how many conservatives will slap a McCain/another RINO VP choice bumper ticker on the back of their car? Or put a sign up for this fool? Or work phone banks to get out votes? Or more importantly give money?
If John McCain can vote on the basis of principle and conscience over party, why can't we. Where was his concern about uniting the party and standing together on McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, the Bush tax cuts, etc.?
“Hume has it right, McCain might not be what we wanted but he dang sure is better than the alternative and this is not the time for us to make a statement to the Republican party. Way too much at stake for our country to have eight years of a socialist.”
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Thanks Moolah for bringing some sanity to this thread. It seems that many who disagree w/ Kristol and Hume’s assessment have not been paying attention to Obama’s socialist agenda.
We can fight Amnesty with McCain-he has said he heard our voices and learned from the experience. With Obama the illegals will get more and more handouts and we who work hard for a living will sink lower and lower. I will vote for McCain because I care about the guaranteed destruction of the American way of life under a Clinton or Obama administration.
The reason he is a stronger candidate than a lot of other Republicans would be is that he is a little bit heterodox. He's got his own views, he shouldn't back off on that, I think, actually.
But then says:
BRIT HUME: And if the conservatives don't want a President Obama or a President Clinton, they ought to get off McCain's back and let him campaign as whatever he wants to, and campaign from the center.
So if McCain is stronger by not being conservative, why does Hume turn around and say conservatives better vote for him or have Obama? Hume contradicts himself.
Brit Hume has some blunt advice for conservative Republicans: lay off McCain if you don’t want a Dem president.
Brit, honest conservatives do not see a difference between McCain and a mainstream Dem. I like you Brit, don’t ruin it.
Brit Hume has some blunt advice for conservative Republicans: lay off McCain if you don’t want a Dem president.
Brit, honest conservatives do not see a difference between McCain and a mainstream Dem. I like you Brit, don’t ruin it.
Shouting in bold doesn't make a point more valid...
My litmus test: If a person feels the need to 'shout', he/she isn't sure of their position.
The general rule: The libs shout and "talk over" and denigrate - as apposed to conservatives who simply state their position.
I drink a toast to the defeat of that backstabbing McCain, and his liberal supporters. Our ONLY chance is the backlash of conservatism in 2010 and 2012.
Bill Kristol is in the Leon Trotsky wing of the conservative movement... “More government, more war, more globalism!”
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