[YellowRoseofTx]

...any result will be a disaster, so we might as well let the Democrats take the blame for it.

I could agree with this, but not this time. Barack or Hillary are way too dangerous to let anywhere near the White House.

[norge]

Calabrese is right on.

[DManA]

I honestly don't understand what these guys expect to gain by insulting conservatives. The problem with conservatives is it's so called leaders have no idea how to sell its ideas.

conservatives have become frustrated and grouchy,

[Rebelbase]

“Disrespected”

Culture has abused that word to the point I think of gang bangers and rappers whenever I read or hear it.

[meandog]

David Karki is a pure fool to believe there would be any chance of recovering an aftermath of Obama in the White House. Instead of something on the scale of Katrina, Andrew, and the Indonesian Tsunami, think of something along the lines of the asteroid that hit the Yucatan some 60 million years ago and what it did to the dinosaurs.

[laotzu]

I will not support anyone that will not represent me.

I will not apologize, or feel castigated, for being a conservative.

[Designer]

Dear Mr. Calabrese;

I'm in yer article correcting yer typos:

"And unlike the Ron Paul John McCain types who have tumbled from this perch headlong into international isolationism, interventionism"

One man's "isolationism" is another man's "non-interventionism".

We don't all believe One-World Socialism is "inevitible", nor desirable.

[Redleg Duke]

A great article, but now watch the “Principled Conservatives” come out from under their rocks to trash it!

[A Strict Constructionist]

“We controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for the first six years of this millennium, and hardly accomplished any of the agenda we had touted for the better part of 40 years. This is hard to admit, but it is true: An awful lot of those failed Republican congressmen were not moderates. They were conservatives who didn’t have the guts to govern according to their principles.”

BTTT.

[Condor51]

"Disrespected Conservatives..."

Anyone who uses the word "Disrespected" is a MORON and has the IQ of a stick.

Secondly mr 'Invisigoth', I don't know which one of these dopes at North Star Writers Group you are but your group's articles are sophomoric, tedious, and utterly insipid.

Lastly, why don't you guys find a real day job instead of spamming FR with this tripe no one else wants. As far as I'm concerned you and your buddies - who all signed up with FR on the same day - are TROLLS and should have gotten the Zot long ago for peddling junk from a glorified Blog.

No offense to Morons or Sticks intended.

[Obadiah]

We controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for the first six years of this millennium, and hardly accomplished any of the agenda we had touted for the better part of 40 years. This is hard to admit, but it is true: An awful lot of those failed Republican congressmen were not moderates. They were conservatives who didn’t have the guts to govern according to their principles.

Bump to that!

[CharacterCounts]

Disrespected Conservatives: Only Yourselves to Blame

We controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for the first six years of this millennium, and hardly accomplished any of the agenda we had touted for the better part of 40 years.

So! It's all our fault. Conservatives supported and help elect "conservative" Republicans. The Republican's got the White House and a majority in Congress and did nothing for us.

Now, the nominee of the party and many leaders openly give conservatives the back of their hand -and its our fault.

The author is correct - it is our fault - for putting our faith and confidence in the Republican party and its leaders in the first place.

We were used!

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Conservatives must find candidates, support them with work and money, and get them elected to office. Until then we will suck hind t!t to the other Republicans and Democrats.

What I saw recently, that no conservative actually ran or was supported by anyone.

Rush’s present efforts so far is a tap dance very similar to the lawyer’s tap dance in the movie Chicago.IMHO

[Biblebelter]

McCain is a Pro-war Democrat. He should nominate Loserman as his VP. You would have a matched set. The story about McCain changing the Republican Party platform on abortion may be smoke, but it doesn’t mean he won’t and it doesn’t mean he wouldn’t like to. There was lots of smoke about the RINO relic changing parties, but a mega Senate Committee Chairman and rock star commands a high price, and the Democrats for once took the cheap road and turned the dolt Jeffords.

[TADSLOS]

Ahh..., so now, conservatives are the B>Disrespected, hate filled and bitter fringe extremists...Disrespected by whom? McCain and his reconquista goons? I'll wear that badge with honor. What new moniker will McCainiacs and the GOP come up with next week to add to their "charm" bracelet?

[popdonnelly]

I believe conservatives should stay nominally Republican and put pressure on McCain. If he continues to thumb his nose at us, there’s still all the time in the World to go elsewhere.

[Skooz]

bump

[RachelFaith]

An Obama Presidency would mean three things:

#1: A United, Conservative and Aggressive Opposition party, that sweeps into office in the midterm elections.
#2: No Moderate “R” as President to have to watch sell us out while we are force fed the BS line that we “must” support “our” President.
#3: A Conservative Nominee in 2012.

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A McCain Presidency would mean three things:

#1: A divided party which remains weak, divided and in effective for the midterm elections and gives the Democrats a super majority for the next 20 years.
#2: Everything socially: from health care to global warming to Amnesty that a Barak Presidency would give us anyway.
#3: A nominee weaker and further yet to the left than McCain if not McCain himself, just moving further to the left in 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, etc etc.

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CHOOSE WISELY !!

[calcowgirl]

And if conservatives don’t like being denied the chance to support one of their own for president, they should consider what the conservative movement has done in recent years to earn that chance.

John McCain is not "one of my own."

Global warming regulation, Law of the Sea, Amnesty, and so on.

He is a Schwarzenegger Republican and, along with his liberal friends across the aisle and a silent or complicit bunch of Republicans,
will move the country leftward faster than the alternatives.