~Sure try and scare the Conservatives into voting for Mr.Liberal John McCain.
Somehow I don’t think that’s going to work.
The Republican Party has played that game one time too many.his time people are not falling for it.
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I’m just wondering, what did all of the conservatives who say they are going to sit this one out do in the 2004 election? Did they vote for Bush, or did they sit that one out? Because Bush sure ain’t a true conservative either, as he proved in his first term in office.
Barack Hussein Obama, says of his nominees, "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old and that's the criteria by which I'll be selecting my judges."
John McCain says of his nominees, "The duties and boundaries of the Constitution are not just a set of helpful suggestions. They are not just guidelines to be observed when it's convenient and loosely interpreted when it isn't. In federal and state courts there are still men and women who understand the proper role of our judiciary and I intend to find them and promote them. My nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power."
We can stunt his affection for the illegal aliens but it's difficult to dump a judge, once appointed. And, the freaking terrorists will run all over Obamessiah, the presumptive nominee.
First of all, the chances are great that whoever is elected is going to be a one term president. Three two term Presidents (with the special exception of FDR and Truman) is very rare in our history. If McCain gets elected and then reelected it would mean that one party has held the White House for 16 years also very rare. More normal for a party to hold the White House for three terms only.
So we hold our noses and elect McCain to a one term Presidency and the Democrats may end up with a two term Presidency in 2012. Or knowing that voters usually want a change in parties every so often we let the Democrats win this election and because the odds are against them the Republicans has at least eight years in office in 2012 with a better man than McCain.
The point being is that 12 years of the White House held by one party is about all the voters can stand. Howard of Australia or Churchill after World War II proves that the voters will vote out great leaders just for the sake of change. The Democrats is going to regain the White House sometime and most conservatives has nothing invested in McCain so this may be the time.
Now the Judges, as I see it the most likely judges to step down or die in the next four years is liberal judges. So a liberal President replacing a Ginsburg with another Ginsburg isn’t going to tip the court against us. If I know liberals they will put themselves ahead of the cause and most of them won’t step down or die in the next four years. But they can’t last the next eight years and that is when we firmly gain control of the court.
Another thing is Congress. No way, no how will we regain congress this year. If we hold the White House then history says our party will lose seats in Congress in 2010. On the other hand if the Democrats hold the White House we may take Congress back in 2010.
My final reason for not voting for McCain is this. Lets say he governs as a liberal but is very popular. That would do more harm to conservatism in the Republican Party than if he was a dud. Candidates would then pander to the Rockerfeller wing of the party rather than the conservative wing.
John McCain is going to wipe the floor with Obama this November.
I've been saying this for a while about Hillary. I should now include Obama.
We're still hurting from the Carter years. In addition to enabling militant Islam, we have a screwed up energy policy that is directly attributable to Carter.
Between Carter and Obama, Carter is the more conservative of the two. And Carter had more leadership experience than Obama at similar points in the election.
So will the 30 or 40 other voters I have some influence with.
I have also made my courier company unavailable to the local GOP to transport nursing home residents around the State to the polls to vote Republican. In 2000 my company transported over 300 voters to the polls at no charge.
Right now I am leaning toward Bob Barr.
If he doesn't run then I will make my annual trip to the Dry Tortuga's a little early this year. I reject Republican neoconservativism. They are fascists the lot of em and that is the choice Americans are asked to make...Between Republican Fascism and Democrat Socialism. Both parties mean to dilute our cultural heritage and expand governments power over the individual. Traditional conservatism has found itself wandering in the wilderness before and survived. It will do so again. Meanwhile we will not enable imperialistic neo cons or socialist democrats to dilute the principals of conservatism. Such principals are universal and untethered to any mere political party.
No thanks. I ain't buying.
Your points are all fine. Doesn’t affect my vote, however, because I don’t vote for liberals.
Four years of MommaObama, and we may need a George Washington instead of a Reagan...
The Dems have the advantage of Bush and the Pubbies' bad policies being fresh in voters' minds (open-ended war, high gas $, inflation, mortage crisis). Republicans have taken few risks and realized even fewer gains. In the public eye, they can be seen as having promised change and responsibility and have delivered the same old graft, higher spending, and Middle East entanglements that made energy more expensive, not less (their thoughts, not necessarily mine).
McCain is a beltway insider who wants more war. Keating 5. He is old and angry and borderline senile. He will be easy to run against. He will have no coat-tails. Do not blame fellow conservatives if he loses - blame the Republican party for not knowing how to cultivate and field winning conservatives - because they do not like conservatism. When it comes down to 6 of one half a dozen of the other, the one who promises the most goodies wins.
I do not think that elections will ever be the same . . .
IF
they are even held after 4 years, much less after 8.
Things increasingly look like they are shaping up faster and faster
PLEASE, ALL CONSERVATIVES . . . GET JOEL ROSENBERG’S
NOVEL
DEAD HEAT . . . and read it soonish.
Let me repost my idea of writing-in a McCain vote (where possible) instead of just ‘pulling the lever’, as a way of showing displeasure without electing Hillbama. If you just ‘hold your nose and vote for McCain’, you’ll quickly discover that as far as the 2009 ‘pubbies are concerned, you’re 100% behind his message.