Posted on 05/14/2008 8:51:18 PM PDT by advance_copy
Sen. John McCain, taking a victory lap as the presumptive Republican nominee, happily poked fun at his only remaining opponent.
Asked during an appearance on "The Daily Show" last week which of the two Democratic nominees he preferred to run against in the general election, McCain quipped, "Ron Paul."
But Paul might get the last laugh during McCain's coronation at the party's convention in early September.
McCain's nomination may be certain, but he finds himself pressured by different wings of the conservative movement -- from the libertarians and the anti-war activists, to social conservatives and evangelical voters.
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I do not believe he would vote for either of the other liberals.
1. His appointments to the courts will be better than Obama's 2. He will not raise taxes as Obama will do. 3. He will not abandon the mission in our war against terrorists 4. He is committed to reducing spending and eliminating earmarks
We must support John McCain because, if we don't, an anti-American international socialist will become President of the United States.
Nice try. McCain is an international socialist and we already are nearly a socialist country. Quoting Machiavelli to appeal to our moral principles might not be the best idea.
I'll never vote for McCain and neither will any principled conservative.
This will be worse than Dole in 1996.
We can not change the republican party. We keep getting worse than the last when we let the repubs pick their candidates.
I have therefore come to believe that the only people who can clean the republican party of it rinos and other idiots are the democrats.,
Let the dims have it for 4 years. Let them run the repubs out of town.
Then we start over.
Of course, we will have to listen to those who say that the dims will ruin the country.
So I ask: Who signed the gasahol bill? What is the difference between McCain on drilling off the coast of NC, SC and FL as well as ANWAR and the dims?
What is the difference on global warming?
What is the difference on taxes? (Not what he says, what the record says).
What is the difference in McCain and the dims regarding big oil? Pharmaceuticals?
The only difference that counts is in regard to Iraq. That is important, but the results of pulling out will be so catastrophic that I don't think the dims will dare.
Also I point out that this country has survived the Great Depression WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, Carter and the two Clinton's.
We will survive any of these three. But if we are ever going to have a conservative Republican Party, it will only cone when we let the present crowd go. That can best be accomplished by voting only for those who are conservative and refusing to vote for those who are not.
I plan to vote. I will mark my ballot one by one, leaving the president blank, one of my senators blank, etc., on down the line.
Flame me if you like, I have voted republican for more years than most of you have lived. My credentials as a conservative are as good as anyone's and better than most.
And I have had enough.
I hate to break it to you, but McCain's got about as much chance as I do of beating Obama (or Hillary for that matter). The way things are going I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if McCain actually comes out and endorses Obama.
Read his lips.
“I do not believe he would vote for either of the other liberals.”
Gerald Ford was MUCH more liberal than McCain and Reagan campaigned for him!
Not to mention that he campaigned for McCain also.
I hope you like paying more taxes. Because that’s what you will do if McCain does not beat Obama.
John McCain believes the United States of America is worth defending and Barry Obama doesn’t. That is good enough for me to vote for McCain regardless of how many silly polar bears he wants to save.
There just are not any good candidates running this year. It’s a vast wasteland.
1. maybe but not by much
2. he wont, he didn’t vote for GWB tax cuts
3. again maybe, but he wants to close Gitmo and stop water boarding
4. doubt it since he is on this global warming hoax
You might also mention that he will not gut our military as Obama will (as stated in a campaign video of Obama’s that was posted by his campaign on YouTube).
Back then the liberal Republicans were the moderate Republicans of today.
I do not trust the dislikable old RINO relic any more than I trust ANYONE on this forum who tells me who I MUST support. That is a mighty high horse you rode into town on.
In order for me to have any love of McCain at all, I need to see a reason that is based on something else other than who he isn't. Show me his voting record. Show me his activities. Show me his words that didn't come around one of the times he was running for president. Show me something that doesn't take the form "Well, at least he isn't X".
I've had it with bogeyman rationale. Focus on the positive. Show me what is so great about John McCain. I've looked and don't see anything, but maybe I haven't looked hard enough, which is possible given how much there is to ever know about a man.
So you have the floor. Prove your case.
Yep, I too am fond of keeping more of my paycheck. I keep $4k more per year of my paycheck. Also Under GWB I was able to refi my home to a lower interest rate and knocked off $80K that I owed on my mortgage. That ain't peanuts!
Think about the troops. Do you want their Commander-in-Chief to be Obama?
Whatever, Reagan would be backing McCain not Paul.
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