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"...the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation..." -- Niccolò Machiavelli

FReepers, the only candidate who can defeat Obama is John McCain. This is a fact. Support McCain for President because:

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.

[deadrock]

#1 is iffy at best. He hates conservatives.

[GOP_Raider]

So do I get to be the first one to respond by saying something like “a pro-global warming, economically ignorant international socialist if we elect J. Sidney McPain?”

[allmost]

McCain was my 2nd to last choice (R) above Paul. It sucks. I generally vote against the dem policies. They need to be stopped more than any of my personal agendas need to be advanced.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yep. Just like all the things we were promised with George Bush II...DEFINITELY the LESSER OF TWO EVILS.

In 2008, things are just fine and dandy for our Republic, arent they? Our country has been able to move away from socialism and nanny state and huge taxes and broken borders and political correctness and sellout deals with the North Koreans and Palis, for the last seven years. All because it had an (R) after it's name. Heaven forbid those Dems win. They will be ..... WORSE!

[KoRn]

McCain’s ‘party’ has already been crashed.

[edcoil]

All that is true, but will you allow us to hate the man because he agrees with obama more then he stand up as his own man?

The fact is, there is not a dimes worth a difference between the two.

[Rennes Templar]

I agree.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

More of the same.Mcnutts does not agree with conservatives and I dont vote for moonbats of either party.Goodluck with mcquig.

[Swordfished]

FReepers, the only candidate who can defeat Obama is John McCain. This is a fact. Support McCain for President because:

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.

[Cementjungle]

FReepers, the only candidate who can defeat Obama is John McCain.

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.

[pupdog]

2. He will not raise taxes as Obama will do.

Read his lips.

[Rocky]

There just are not any good candidates running this year. It’s a vast wasteland.

[svcw]

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

[M-cubed]

U must be a young’en....the lesser of 2 evils leads ya to evil....U be in charge this time!

[SoldierDad]

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).

[Biblebelter]

We must support John McCain because, if we don't, an anti-American international socialist will become President of the United States.

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.

[pupdog]

OK, I've been arguing this for a while here, so I'm going to make this clear to those who really are earnest about trying to make this case.

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.

[seoul62]

I saw him on the Fox News Network, amusing fellow - reminds me of a Bernie Sanders of the Isolationist Right. Worked up, crusty pale faces who need to smoke a hookah full of pot to mellow out./Just Asking - seoul62......

[NoLibZone]

Reagan would be considered a huge RINO by today’s standards.

• As Governor Reagan signed into law the nations first No Fault Divorce Laws. Thes laws swept the nation and contributed in the break up of the American Family. "No-fault" divorce was pioneered in the United States by the state of California when Governor Ronald Reagan signed into law the Family Law Act of 1970 on September 4, 1969

• As Governor he also signed into law the right for women to have abortions. 1967 The Therapeutic Abortion Act

• 1986 As President he signed the only amnesty ever granted to illegals.

• As President he made the Federal Government twenty per cent larger .In 1981, the federal government spent $678 billion; in 1989 it spent $1.144 trillion.

• In 1982 alone, he signed into law not one but two major tax increases. The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) raised taxes by $37.5 billion per year and the Highway Revenue Act raised the gasoline tax by another $3.3 billion. In 1983, Reagan signed legislation raising the Social Security tax rate.

• 1985 raised taxes yet again. Even the Tax Reform Act of 1986

• 1988 appears to be the only year of the Reagan presidency, other than the first, in which taxes were not raised.

[zipper]

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.

Which is infinitely better than being pressured by "different wings" such as transsexuals, NAMBLA, the ACLU, PETA, unrepentant terrorists, Hamas, the NY Times, CAIR, liberation theologists, and Barbara Streisand.