[Badeye]

If there is anyone here at Free Republic that isn’t fully supporting McCain/Palin after last night....I just don’t understand you.

I’m hardly a big fan of McCain’s, as several hundred posts here demonstrate conclusively. But after what I saw last night, I’m not just going to vote for the ticket, I’m going to bust my ass to see it wins come November.

How bout you?

[Badeye]

Sorry bout the double post....(chuckle)

[Joyell]

I’m bustin’ mine, too, to help her get elected. She’s da bomb!!!!!

[JRochelle]

I have not seen the Say no to Juan McCain ping list in a few days.

[MrEdd]

If there is anyone here at Free Republic that isn’t fully supporting McCain/Palin after last night....I just don’t understand you.

Then I will explain it for you. I am a conservative. McCain is a liberal. An open borders liberal, as a matter of fact. If the ticket were flipped I might put up with him as VP.

I am a conservative not a Republican. I will vote for Republicans IF they are conservative. If Bush's opponent had not been Hanoi John Kerry, I would not have voted in the last election.

Islam's war against the west will inevitably bring the US a nuclear strike. Putin is moving to regain as much of the Soviet empire as he can, which greatly adds to the likelihood of various Islamic factions obtaining the capacity to move jihad to this level. The persistent open borders are a hot potato that will utterly destroy the party in power when it happens. I prefer that the borders be closed - but barring that, let it be the liberals who are destroyed if we're not going to move to prevent it.

This is as obvious and foreseeable as the earlier attacks on September eleventh. Aside from the loss we all will have of family and friends WHEN not if this happens, I recognize that the party who emerges in power will be able to radically reshape government the United States. Many on the left foresee this as well, and are actively working to keep our defenses weak.

I therefore am willing to sacrifice important pieces to win the game. Winning the white house or congress are less important than closing the borders. A candidate who could win an office, at the cost of placing someone in office that the left could justifiably claim failed to aggressively defend America costs conservatism control of the board.

By the same token I will not move to save a socially liberal republican candidate merely to defeat the democrat. Sometimes control of the board is more important than saving every pawn.

If I get a liberal in office who votes liberal while claiming (unchallenged) to represent the party with a conservative platform, then my voice is even more unheard than if a liberal democrat is in office. It means that conservatives will vote for anyone who claims conservatism, even if they are to the left of Hillary Clinton. It also means that the Republican party did this eyes wide open, believing that I (and other conservatives) would vote for a yellow dog if it was a republican. Sorry RNC that only works with democrats.

Semper Fidelis

[FreedomHammer]

I’ve gone from being quite apathetic and disappointed in the GOP to being absolutely invigorated and will be doing all I can to help.

[50sDad]

I'm in the same boat. I am now officially wildly extatic about the ticket; before, I felt about like I felt about the Bob Dole ticket in years past.

The girl is a pitbull that will keep McCain on track...if not changing his mind on issues that matter to me, then at least being a Jimminy Cricket reminder, not a "yes-woman". And, God Forbid, he dies in term, I'd be more than happy to see her in the saddle.

[Robbin]

“If there is anyone here at Free Republic that isn’t fully supporting McCain/Palin after last night....I just don’t understand you.”

I'm SOLD, I haven't been this excited since Ronald Reagan accepted the nomination.

[OB1kNOb]

If there is anyone here at Free Republic that isn’t fully supporting McCain/Palin after last night....I just don’t understand you.

I've decided to support the Palin / Whatshisname ticket.