With the field becoming more narrow by the minute and McCain beginning to look like the front runner going into Super Tuesday, some on the Right are suggesting that McCain has some explaining to do. Given his ACTIONS in recent years on issues such as judges, taxes, immigration, and campaign finance reform, I am not confident words are going to work.
Actions always speak louder than words. When it was crunch time and conservatives needed support from John McCain, he was smoking cigars with the Cabal er… Gang of 14. Now it’s election season and the folks over at McCain HQ are surely cooking up some finely crafted language about how “John has always been a strong conservative… perhaps ya’ll just misunderstood him”… “and by the way, did you know he was a war hero”.
If this video is any indication of what’s in store from the political Right, we’re in for a wild ride! H/T to RedState.com and CitizensUnited.org
January 30th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
hahahahaha.
Romney has more explaining to do and that is all that matter.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Scott, I sympathize with your reservation about John McCain, but we have no better alternative and I do believe it when I say that he’s our best bet to retain the White House.
I’m not Steve Greenhut, i’m not a Ron Paul guy, because I know that our worst candidate is still a lot better than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. We’re campaigning to win, not to “purify” the Republican Party and have the Democrats shut us out of he governing process for the next 4 years.
Furthermore, what is so silly about all the people who are attacking John McCain is that at the same time, they’re pimping Mitt Romney!
The only camps that have any legitimacy in questioning another candidate’s conservative credentials are Fred Thompson and Ron Paul, not Rudy Giuliani, not Mike Huckabee, and certainly not Willard Mitt Romney.
I’m supporting John McCain because he can win the presidency to at least have a divided government with the Dems controlling Congress. I’m not volunteering my time so that we can have do the kumbaya at the convention and get our butt kick in the General.
Bill Simon in the 2002 General is a good example. Solid Republican, good on both social and fiscal issue. Still Got trounced by Gray Davis.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I’m not pimping Romney. I have donated to several campaigns and this morning woke up undecided.
I agree that the worst Republican candidate is better than Hillary. But this is a primary. This is the exact time when we are supposed to consider how our own political beliefs square with our choice of candidates.
I have raised this issue online and in Red County magazine. How pragmatic should Republicans be to retain the White House? If the answer is, “whatever it takes to beat the Democrat” then we shouldn’t worry about the little details of philosophy, positions, experience, policy, leadership, communication skills, etc. We should just wait to see who the Democrats nominate and then pick the Republican that scores the best in one of Frank Luntz’ dial-o-meter focus groups.
In the General Election, Republicans will need to focus on beating the Democrat nominee. Today I need to better understand why McCain is the frontrunner among Republicans when his recent actions have been so stubbornly out of sync with conservative values.
Right now I have 4 choices:
1. I don’t think Huckabee is viable in the general
2. Paul is our version of Denise Kucinich
3. I really like Romney but I’m not convinced he can beat either Hillary or Obama.
3. I’m already tired of McCain. He is older, cranky, and unreliable, BUT he can probably beat Hillary or Obama.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
If McCain is the nominee I will launch the Betrayed Republicans for Hillary campaign. Anyonce who cares to join me please respond to repauburnite@gmail.com.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:29 am
Tomahawk,
Do you concede that our worst candidate is McCain?
I’m not convinced that McCain is better than Obama. Obama is at least willing to talk to Republicans – McCain hates conservatives.
Second, I don’t want to repeat the same mistake we made with Schwarzengeer. He’s left the Republican party with debt and in a situation not much better off than if we kept Gray Davis.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I honestly feel that a McCain nomination virtually guarantees a Democrat victory in November and big gains for Democrats in both the House and Senate. Those who describe themselves as conservatives will just simply not be motivated to come out and support a candidate they do not believe in. Some, myself included may vote against Hillary or Obama, but that type of motivation has never won an election before, no reason to think it will this time either.