You aren’t describing conservatives that I know.

While it may be “selfish” to want to keep more of our earned money away from government, this leads to more prosperity for all.

There are some Republicans who want unfair government intervention to help their wallets (at the expense of others), but they are not conservatives, IMO.

As Rush says, Conservatism is the bravest ideology. You put yourself at the whims of fortune, with very little government backstop.

1. I love how so many claim someone can’t be pro-life when they endorse a pro-choice candidate. Hey, there are other issues! Think! If you want to pursue a political agenda, you need to think strategically in your voting. Ask which candidate will assist your whole agenda more, even if it means voting for someone you have disagreements with on specific issues. Your supposed purity in politics will cause a lot of evil. And God will hold you accountable–”You could have supported this candidate here, who would have governed in a way that did good things and helped to get more good things into place. But instead, because that candidate didn’t agree with you on specific issues, you refused to back him, and thus someone even worse got into office, leading to far greater evil. I am not well pleased.”

2. To McCain supporters: He has too much baggage, which the liberal media (redundant, I know) is holding back to use in the general election. He has an attitude about him which will come out by November, which will be played as sexist/racist, and simply used to make him look bad compared to his opponent. (BTW, John Murtha is a veteran, too.)

2. To extreme Romney supporters: You’re almost as bad as those self-righteous “must-be-pro-life” voters. Domestically, McCain is indeed bad (worse than Romney for all the reasons stated), and potentially comparable to Dems. On foreign affairs and defense, though, he will kill the people who need to be killed. (No, I’m not a Christian, so don’t throw Jesus crap at me.)

And if you Conservatives were not so uniformly selfish (focused on your own wallet and your own concerns instead of the good of the country and community), you would see the damage the Dems could do in that area. Ironically, your attempt to promote your own interests (kinda like the “Me Generation” crap) will be the means by which the other side weakens their opposition and imposes policies that hurt those very interests.

While the argument for letting the Dems take the blame for problems sounds good, remember they will cause far MORE damage, and the media will not cooperate in your efforts to blame them. They will blame “Republican/conservative failure to cooperate.”

So,

1. Stop the “principle voting,” and replace it with “principle politics.” Do what promotes your agenda.

2. McCain supporters must open their eyes and see what he is. (Remember Juan Hernandez)

3. Extreme Romney supporters must not make the “self-righteousness” mistake. Look at things realistically, and look beyond yourselves.

Santorum on the ticket would ensure a landslide loss. He got about 41% in his last PA race and wouldn’t bring any states that aren’t already Republican.

Who would you suggest?

I do think that Rick Santorum would make an excellent VP for Mitt Romney.

Santorum on the ticket would ensure a landslide loss. He got about 41% in his last PA race and wouldn’t bring any states that aren’t already Republican.

I hope BRYAN, Santorum, Laura, Rush, Ann, Michelle, etc. share the truth about John McCain and not let up. We must defeat McCain! For some reason I am feeling that true conservatives have been hoodwinked!

I do think that Rick Santorum would make an excellent VP for Mitt Romney.

I think the last open registration at HA let in some trolls.

So, Asher, is anyone who supports McCain a troll?

I think the last open registration at HA let in some trolls.

Asher on February 2, 2008 at 1:10 AM

Would this comment not qualitfy as trollish? I’m just askin.

Asher on February 2, 2008 at 1:10 AM

Trolls tire.

Whether they “endorsed” them or not, they have been hammering McCain on his record. Any listener or reader would have gotten the message.

edgehead on February 1, 2008 at 11:32 PM

Sure. But why endorse now instead of then? Why come out so forcefully only after McCain has it almost assured?

My point isn’t that they shouldn’t tell the truth, but that they are making their push a few weeks too late. Why endorse after Florida when you could have endorsed before New Hampshire when Mitt really needed it?

dedalus on February 1, 2008 at 7:04 PM

Whether they “endorsed” them or not, they have been hammering McCain on his record. Any listener or reader would have gotten the message.

I can promise you that I and millions of other conservatives spent no time making push poll calls or smearing McCain.

I had no idea we had someone who speaks for millions of conservatives. I stand corrected.

So much talk about McCain’s disloyalty. No one seems to speak of the vicious smear campaign waged by far right types in South Carolina in 2000 in order to save the nomination for the numbskull who would do your bidding.
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Potfry on February 1, 2008 at 9:53 PM

“No one seems to speak” of it because McCain spent so much time speaking of it in such bitter terms, and most people long ago figured that was politics for you. A fact confirmed by McCain using those same tactics against Romney. Anyone really believe he only used those tactics against Romney? Far more likely that he used the same tactics against Fred, and quite possibly Huckabee.

But without proof, it’s just speculation. Except in McCain’s mind, where no proof was ever needed.

I can promise you that I and millions of other conservatives spent no time making push poll calls or smearing McCain. So explain what relevance this has with loyalty. He’s been getting back at George Bush for the past 8 years. Let it die.

So much talk about McCain’s disloyalty. No one seems to speak of the vicious smear campaign waged by far right types in South Carolina in 2000 in order to save the nomination for the numbskull who would do your bidding. McCain’s family, sexual orientation, and wife’s drug battles were discussed in push-polls and leaflets, and you rail against him for not falling in line with the establishment?

The far right is beginning to behave a whole lot like the far left. It’s embarrassing.

Mega Question 1: If Fred Thompson was such a valiant spokesman for the CONSERVATIVE voice of the Republican party, where has he been the last week and a half while the RINO wing of the party has taken control?

he has been waiting in the weeds to endorse his good friend and fellow senator John McCain, that’s where.

A ton of people kept sneering that as Thompson campaigned, but no one ever showed any evidence for it. Leading up to South Carolina and immediately afterward, the same people sneered at how gullible people were to not realize that Fred was really after the vice presidency, and would shortly drop out and endorse John McCain.

Didn’t happen. McCain’s had a long string of endorsements now. Still no Fred.

So maybe it’s not the Fredheads who were gullible.

And maybe the people who keep repeating this are just learning-impaired.

But the fact that this is being brought up so long after it should have died implies not learning impairment, but obsession.

Either way, it’s not exactly warming me to the McCain nomination.

The Race Card on February 1, 2008 at 7:00 PM

Good Riddance chump, my party will be much better off with you gone.

Go “by” a clue a-hole.

Don’t be ridiculous. She has not changed her position. Will Rommney would appoint a liberal to the Supreme Court? The obvious answer is “no.”

Will John McCain will thumb his nose at Republicans several more times in his political career? The obvious answer is “Yes.”

You’re dismissed. Go by a lollipop

Not so fast: Romney HAS changed his position on abortion. Based on some of Romney’s past appointments to the court in Massachusetts, it is HARDLY a slam-dunk that he would appoint only conservatives to the Supreme Court (although I seriously hope he does if he wins).

Say what you want about McCain, but he has voted to confirm more conservative Supreme Court justices than Romney has. McCain has a more pro-gun track record than Romney has. McCain has a better grasp of what the military is about than Romney does. McCain served in the miliary and fought in the VietNam War, AND McCain’s son joined the military and has fought in the current war. Neither Romney nor ANY of his five (5!)(healthy, military-aged) sons has served a SINGLE DAY in the military, let alone in a war zone.

You did not dismiss the other poster: You just showed that you are arrogant (like McCain, get it?).

I support McCain proudly, but if Romney wins the nomination, I will vote for him.

I for one am calling out Hugh Spewitt for waging a vicious, unworthy campaign of slander against McCain for reasons known only to him.

All these self-righteous complaints against McCain by folks supporting ….. ROMNEY(??!!!) are laughable. Romney’s “conservative” credentials have more holes in them than a slice of Swiss cheese.

Please spare me the purity arguments: We conservatives are a bunch of rats fighting over the left over scraps at the bottom of a barrel.

I am supporting McCain, but if Romney wins the nod, I sure as hell am not going to take my ball and go home in a snit.

Neither will I vote for the Democratic nominee.