I find it interesting that for years the critics of national politics have been crying about the candidates for President being too extreme because only extremists can win their party's primary. For the first time in a long time, the Republicans have the opportunity to nominate someone who is not so extreme, can appeal to moderates of the other party and can unite this country. What do we do: whine and complain about him and attack him. What is even more interesting are those comments are coming from Kentuckians, the home of the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay, one of our most revered sons. Simply amazing. And folks, contrary to what his attackers post on here, McCain is not as liberal as he is made out to be. Sure on some isssues he's not attractive to the far right extremists. Heck Limbaugh hates him. Then again, Limbaugh is nothing but an old wind bag, so full of himself that he actually believes he is on "loan from God". And people think I'm arrogant. If Rush was supporting McCain, I'd have to carefully reexamine my support of McCain.

Amen.

Ah, a Savage listener ...

:laugh: I seldom listen to the talking heads anymore, but I did happen to catch that last night on my ride home from work. :sssh: BTW, I already had that opinion of McCain after I read the Amnesty Bill that he and Ted put together.

I'm a coservative guy, and because of those values I have a hard time supporting McCain. However, conservatives as a group need to realize that the next President will more than likely appoint 2-3 Supreme Court Justices. And I think I speak for every conservative when I say that I would MUCH rather John McCain appoint people to those positions than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

Amen.

 

McCain...as with all the Republicans....has things I dislike about him and things I like about him. I am a moderate Republican, but I am a fiscal conservative. The one thing that has always resonated with me about McCain is I do believe he will cut spending. And he will obviously be strong on defense. These are the 2 of the most important issues for me.

 

And I can assure everyone of this...If it comes down to McCain vs Hillary Republicans will NOT stay home. They will come out in droves to see that Hillary is NOT elected.

 

One question...who do you guys think will be his running mate?

 

Huckabee? or dare we say Lieberman:eek:

I am wondering if it does not need to be someone along the lines of a Dick Cheney that was not running for Presidency and will have a strong, strong, strong, conservative record.

If McCain wins the nomination his running mate will have to be someone who is a very strong social conservative in order for that ticket to try and pull in that voting demographic.

I have a feeling that McCain will sell his soul to get the more conservative Republicans ono his side, while at the same time playing up his "maverick" credentials.

I'm a coservative guy, and because of those values I have a hard time supporting McCain. However, conservatives as a group need to realize that the next President will more than likely appoint 2-3 Supreme Court Justices. And I think I speak for every conservative when I say that I would MUCH rather John McCain appoint people to those positions than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

 

 

While another Justice Kennedy would be better than another Justice Ginsberg, I don't believe McCain is likely to appoint another Justice Roberts which is what I would really like to see.

While another Justice Kennedy would be better than another Justice Ginsberg, I don't believe McCain is likely to appoint another Justice Roberts which is what I would really like to see.

 

Me too and McCain may not appoint another Roberts, but I can assure you that Hillary and Obama will not. To me McCain is the right man for the job at this point in our Country's history with the threats facing us. To the far right Republicans, he will be the lesser of two evils. I don't care if they hold their noses when they vote, but they need to vote for McCain.

How much influence does the VP have on your voting decision?

At this point, of the 4 remaining Republicans, McCain would be the last to get my vote. He is nothing but a RINO. He's Ted Kennedy's sock puppet.

 

But if he gets the nomination, are you going to vote for him or Hillary/Obama? And as a follow up, do you really think, given the mood of this country right now, that any of the other Republican candidates can get enough of the needed independents and moderate Democrats to beat Hillary or Obama?

How much influence does the VP have on your voting decision?

 

With a 70-year old candidate, it should have a lot.

To say McCain is too much like a Democrat is being waaaay too kind. McCain is way too much like Hillary for comfort. As dishonest as the day is long. If McCain wins the nomination, Republican turnout will be very light in November.

This is about as far from reality as humanly possible. :lol:

 

McCain is nothing like Hillary. And he certainly isn't dishonest. It's just that some far right-wing conservatives think that every Republican candidate has to be just to the right of Stalin to be worthwhile.

With a 70-year old candidate, it should have a lot.

 

As I pointed out in another thread/post, Did you have the same reservations about Reagan and George Bush 1?

So you are in effect saying that the far right wing of the Republican party will repeat the error committed in '96. Doesn't speak very highly of them. I'm hoping that they will realize that while McCain doesn't share their far right views, that McCain will certainly be better for this country than the much, much more liberal candidate from the Democratic party. Then again, I sometimes give too much credit to people being rational and logical.

 

I find it interesting that for years the critics of national politics have been crying about the candidates for President being too extreme because only extremists can win their party's primary. For the first time in a long time, the Republicans have the opportunity to nominate someone who is not so extreme, can appeal to moderates of the other party and can unite this country. What do we do: whine and complain about him and attack him. What is even more interesting are those comments are coming from Kentuckians, the home of the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay, one of our most revered sons. Simply amazing. And folks, contrary to what his attackers post on here, McCain is not as liberal as he is made out to be. Sure on some isssues he's not attractive to the far right extremists. Heck Limbaugh hates him. Then again, Limbaugh is nothing but an old wind bag, so full of himself that he actually believes he is on "loan from God". And people think I'm arrogant. If Rush was supporting McCain, I'd have to carefully reexamine my support of McCain.

 

The fact that some Democrats, particularly Ky Democrats whom can be more conservative than a of Republicans, support him should not alarm people. It should give them some comfort knowing that if real conservatives, conservatives truly more interested in what's best for this country than what's best for their idealogical faction of the Republican party, support McCain and the moderate Democrats and independents vote for him also, we can avoid another Clinton in the White House.

Wow! The stars must be in perfect alignment today. It's one of those rare occasions that we actually agree on something 110%. :thumb::ylsuper: