“OHHOWIHATEJOHNMCCAINIDOHATEHIMSOMUCH” alert.

McCain "has done more to hurt the Republican Party than any elected official I know of."

McCain has hurt the Conservatives - he's done wonders for the spineless moderates of the GOP.

Fortunately I’m a conservative and I actually have a choice.

Albert Hunt = Al Hunt?

What a crock and only read the first few lines

McCain has hurt the Conservatives - he's done wonders for the spineless moderates of the GOP.



I couldn't agree more!

Screw the House Republicans. I have zero sympathy for those earmark loving, scandal tolerating, morons who think it's a great idea to introduce such important legislation as banning the sale of Playboy on military bases.

Ronald Reagan would be ashamed of them. John McCain is more fiscally conservative than they are as a group. Hopefully they learn to shut the heck up, keep government out of our lives, and fight all discretionary spending to the death.

The Democrats are running Conservatives dressed up as Democrats to beat Republicans in conservative voting areas.

Going moderate won’t get the GOP anywhere.

Here’s a voting for McCain decision making tool:
http://forthisworld.blogspot.com/

Thursday of this past week I received a McCain campaign contribution solicitation in the mail. I returned it stating I will make no contribution to McCain or the GOP until he selects his V/P running mate, at which time I will decide.
I also stated McCain has done his level best over the years to dis republican conservatives, even though he now claims to be one. At the Presidential level I have never not voted republican; however, I find this Presidential candidate not to my liking. His choice of a strong V/P for the ticket will influence my decision to vote in this election. Otherwise, I won't.

Republicans have worked very hard to be in this situation, it must be what they want.

Who’s a strong pick though? Some people seem to be under the sorely mistaken impression that Flip “Socialized Medicine” Flopney is a strong ‘conservative’ pick. Others might think that Huckabee is a good idea.

The only one I can think of, aside from Fred Thompson, is Mark Sanford and I haven’t seen any movement in that direction.

I think we’ll either end up with a liberal pick that everyone will say is ‘conservative’ (Romney or Huckabee) or some wishy washy more liberal ‘moderate’ like Pawlenty or Crist.

Suckage either way. It’s like putting perfume on a pig.

Republicans in the U.S. Congress are petrified about a November debacle, a fear stoked on May 3, when they lost their second straight special election in a district held by Republicans.

I imagine they should have been thinking about that when newt was banging the sectary. No, it was pass the pork 24-7. No back bone gets one in their current position.

You are being to easy on the toe tapping scumbag house Republicans!

“It’s like putting perfume on a pig.”

Good post. I agree, but want to stress that it’s not even a good perfume. More likely, toilet water.

The GOP is potentially in real trouble.

McCain is a symptom, not simply the cause.
I suggest that we watch out for falling rock.

“Republicans are saddled with an enormously unpopular president, a war, a troubled economy....”

I can’t help but wonder how unpopular the WOT WILL BE, when we are fighting it on our own streets, out of oil and in the complete economic depression that the democrats and MSM are trying so hard to give us.

If so much as a single Troop loses his/her life in battle, can it still be a popular war? It seems that the only war the democrats will support is one in which our President is taken down while WE surrender to the enemy.

Will the war be popular when we finally take up arms against ourselves?

I hope and pray that when the time comes for me to meet the souls that gave their last measure for this country, my life and our precious freedoms.... that I will have lived my life such as to have earned their sacrifice.

I guess I got into a ramble..sorry, I do that from time to time.

I’m on medication for sciatica which probably explains my question: Any chance all the Republican delegates to the convention will decide to go uncommitted and then nominate a real Republican this summer?

I can’t help but wonder how unpopular the WOT WILL BE, when we are fighting it on our own streets, out of oil and in the complete economic depression that the democrats and MSM are trying so hard to give us.

Much as I dislike the dem's, they haven't been in the WH for the last seven years, and didn't hold the house and Senate the previous six. Best to give credit where credit is due; and blame where blame is due.

Well, I don’t care, there’s no way I’ll EVER think a Juan presidency would be worse than a Barack Hussein Obama one. If this is the part where I’m supposed to bash the GOP, forget it.

Unless something drastic happens to McCain, no. For the most part, it is the McCain campaign that nominates the slate of delegates. Even then, it would probably have to be drastic enough that McCain himself would have to withdraw.

Republicans forced to turn to their nemesis: John McCain

The GOP wants to think I am forced to do this; however, it just isn't so. I will not cast a vote for that man.

I don’t feel forced to do anything, McCain you worthless piece of cow dung.

If people would rather have Obama or Hillary then they are welcome to it.

America deserves Obama. The spineless pubbies that support a liberal like McCain derserve exactly what they ask for.

A different candidate that embraces conservative values is a winner, McCain does nothing of the kind and deserves to lose.

When a woman is forced to have sex with a man against her will we call it rape. And all agree the woman has beem abused by him.

Same thing here only the victims are to embrace the perp.

I never feel FORCED to do anything. Only spineless weenies feel forced. If folks want liberals, then liberals is what they will get.

Don’t matter what you choose this time around, you are going to get an illegal pandering, global warming, unconstitutional a hole.

Do I feel forced to vote for Juan McCain. Uh, No!

None whatsoever.

I have no choice this cycle. I am not voting FOR McCain - I am voting AGAINST She Who Must Not Be Named.

I want some of those meds that you are taking.
Really, I do.

No chance at all. But its nice to dream now and then.

Sciatica is rough. I have it, too.

McCain will be the nominee. The delegates won't reverse it. Which means the Republicans don't want my vote.

Well stated! In none of the past elections do I recall a gun being put to anyone’s head demanding that a person vote a particular way.

Based upon the primary vote turnout, McPain and the whole Republican establishment is in big trouble. There is little enthusiasm for another RINO.

I say let the GOP get their collective head handed to them, then maybe a true conservative party will emerge..but I doubt it. One sorry state of affairs reagrding POTUS.

I keep hoping for a sanity pill to emerge. I don’t see one on the horizon.

The idea of getting Juan out of there is my dream.

If you find a cure for McCainism, please FReep mail me. I would be eternaly grateful;^).

“I say let the GOP get their collective head handed to them”

Ditto.

Bush has destroyed much of the party that elected him. Our boy has been a better demorat than Klinton.

When did spending like a drunken sailor and expanding the welfare state become “Republican values”? And don't get me started on the criminal immigrant issue. I thought the Republican party stood for “playing by the rules”....well I guess that can be overlooked when you can keep wages down by importing 20 million who will work for $7 an hour....follow the money....

Our boy has crushed the “Reagan Revolution” to the point we now get McCain as our nominee.

I walked for Bush in 2000 & 2004.....I have been betrayed.

I am not alone.

This election will be a bloodbath for the GOP.

IMHO

The GOP is now a misnomer. In fact the Republican Party no longer exists. It died a sudden death on January 19.

“Republicans forced to turn to their nemesis: John McCain”

Force you!

“Some people seem to be under the sorely mistaken impression that Flip “Socialized Medicine” Flopney is a strong ‘conservative’ pick.”

I coulda voted for Mitt. Not because I believe that he is a conservative. Moreso than McBackstabber maybe, but because Mitt doesn’t hate me and almost everything that I stand for.

Can’t say the same for McBackstabber.

When a woman is forced to have sex with a man against her will we call it rape. And all agree the woman has beem abused by him.

Same thing here only the victims are to embrace the perp.

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Embrace hell, they want us to marry the POS!

If it comes down to choosing between McCain and Obama (or for that matter Hillary)any Republican would have to concur that McCain, despite his flaws, is an infinitely better choice. Any idea about staying home from the polls to spite McCain and moderate Republicans is committing to a course of national suicide. The damage Obama could do to our economy and national security in four years is frightening.

So you’ll be voting third-party like me?

No to both McLame and Osama, right?

*sigh* I’m not sure yet... it’s not like I’m voting FOR anyone this time, I’m voting AGAINST one or the other.

If McCain makes a decent enough VP pick, I’ll re-evaluate my options. If it doesn’t work, I really don’t know what I’ll do.

All’s I know is, I watched Iraqis die at the voting booth when I was over there, and they thought voting was worth putting their life in danger. How can I do less, at home?

Tom DeLay ... complained that McCain "has done more to hurt the Republican Party than any elected official I know of."

And he's only just begun.

I would rather vote for him than McCain. Unfortunately, that isn’t saying much.

Romney doesn’t hate conservatives. He thinks we’re suckers. It’s pretty much a toss-up.

Al Hunt is Mike’s twin brother.

I see here that you feel we all deserve Obama, I guess you must feel that our military deserve him too! Is that what you are telling me? I could’ve read your post wrong, but you surely are not seeing what I’m seeing! Do you seriously want an Obama, or a Clinton to be their commander-in-chief? Just think about that!

I realize what you’re saying about McCain. I didn’t want him either. But I’m thinking about who is going to be leading our forces here. He would be at the least better than the other two, wouldn’t he? If your general idea is to see America punished by getting a B. Obama as our president, then does our whole military force as a whole deserve Obama as well? What, pray tell, have they done to deserve him?

I think you need to consider what you’re implying here, please! They might usher in a whole new age of America we don’t recognize, and we might not recover from. There is the Senate and the Congress to consider as well.

With the leadership we have in there now, we’ve already started that slide. If it continues under a Clinton or Obama presidencey, it’s liable to get worse. Now that scares me MORE right now, than a McCain presidency! Doesn’t it bother you at all? No, I don’t think America deserves Obama, at least most of America, not even you! Are you a fiend for punishment, or something?

Just because a lot of Republicans wanted McCain in as the nominee, doesn’t mean the rest of us wanted him. By the time the primaries got around to Utah, some of the Republicans we would’ve rather had were gone out of the race. Who were we supposed to choose? Now give me a reasonable answer, not some “shame-on-you Republican” answer! Grrrr..

I’ll not sit home, or vote for a third-party person I don’t know, and hasn’t a chance to win. No, not even if I do know, and admire them. They would have even a smaller chance than McCain! I still have issues with McCain, I still would’ve preferred another (Fred, Duncan, etc..)but I know I won’t get them, now will I? But I’ll darn sure take McCain over the other side!

I agree! I’m so beyond sick of some of these “shame-on-you” posters in here! If they don’t want McCain, then they are perfectly in the right to vote for who they want. But so do the rest of us. They can vote for who they want, and shush up about it! I’m not going to sit and read their crap!

I asked some of them to kindly consider what they are saying, and stop condemning some of the rest of us for our choice. There are two very good reasons. One is the military, and who will be leading them in the war on terror. Number two is the far-left dominated leadership in the Senate and the House. (and right now, it doesn’t look like they’re budging)

Personally, I’m hoping that the so-called “Blue-dog Dems” will get strong enough to take over the Dem. party. I’d feel a lot better with them in charge; especially if there is no way for Repub.s to win back the majority. I’d feel still better if there were some strong conservative Repub.s(hopefully practical ones)slated to win. I’m afraid that it is an up-hill battle to get enough of any Republicans in to get a majority right now.

I won’t, do as you wish. I just am not interested in voting for McCain.I am repulsed by the constant yammer coming out of the McCain camp about the military and SCOTUS appointments. The same excuses were used when Rudy was in the lead.

The GOP has been pulling this stunt too long now and I am no longer going to buy into it.

Well duh, did I say you had to? No. All I said is before you assume we all deserve Obama, is that you consider both the Military troops, and also consider the people we have in the leadership in Congress and the Senate. There is a huge difference if you read my post right!

If you read it right, which I suspect you didn’t, you would have read that I originally didn’t support McCain, and I’m only supporting him for those two reasons above! I don’t deserve Obama, and neither do you! But I think that’s what YOU apparently want!

Oh, and another thing, maybe you need to read a little bit more thoroughly. I believe it is a matter of voting against the other side more than wholehearted support for McCain! There are some things I can admire about him, but just as many things I have trouble with.

You rant on and on about us deserving someone just because we don’t go along with YOU! You have no right to assume who we all support. Nor do you have the right to tell some of the rest of us who we are supposed to support. That seems to me to be the height of arrogance to me. I never, ever told you to support McCain. You can vote for whoever you want to. I don’t really care. Just have the respect for other people’s choices, and get off the high horse!

I don’t deserve Obama(or Clinton), and I don’t believe most of America does. Some people, maybe. A lot of Americans fought and died to give/perserve rights to vote the way they want. But they have to live with those choices, don’t they? They fought/worked too long and too hard to(hopefully)NOT get a Clinton or Obama in there. They got one anyway,(B.Clinton). A lot of Americans who didn’t vote for him, didn’t deserve him did they?

I won’t, do as you wish. I just am not interested in voting for McCain.I am repulsed by the constant yammer coming out of the McCain camp about the military and SCOTUS appointments. The same excuses were used when Rudy was in the lead.

How is McCain going to fund the war past a democrat controlled house and senate?

How is he going to get constructionist judges past a very liberal senate?

Both of these issues are in God's hands now. Both are non-viable issues.

The GOP has been pulling this stunt too long now and I am no longer going to buy into it.

BUMP that.

You have a chip on your shoulder. I respect your decision if you can tolerate more of the same.

I am going to let your references to my reading ability fly by me. If you are a conservative that can vote for McCain, by all means, do so.

I am done with the GOP and their manipulation of the voters. I don’t want more Bush, even though he has done some good things, and I do not want McCain.

McCain is far worse than Bush. To me, that is unacceptable in a candidate that I would vote for. I will stand unafraid of Hilary or Obama, a few years of misery will wake people up to the devastation liberals apply. They are waking up in Europe, they will wake up here.

I am not going to insult your intentions or your decision, however, I am not in agreement with you. I have a son who has served 8 years in the US military. He is not for John McCain. McCain and a liberal Congress will only beget more liberalism. His heart is with democrats. After all, he was thinking about changing parties. I cannot forget that. His stance on illegal immigration will doom the US to 20 million plus Democrat voters in the future.

IT is time to stand up now.