If John McCain names Mike Huckabee as his running mate he may very well lose Utah and other western states. For a Republican to lose Utah would be quite a feat in itself, but with Mike Huckabee’s obvious disdain for the LDS church and it’s people cou…

\”Three-legged-stool conservatives\” should have voted against McCain for all the reasons Rush laid out. Social conservatives should have voted against McCain for all the reasons Dobson gave. (Is it social issues you care about Senator? Oh.) Fiscal…

Now, hold that nose and vote McCain if he’s the NOM!

Califemme on February 6, 2008 at 3:41 PM

Ha! not sure yet, if I must I will def be using the nose plug on display at Michelle’s site..

Now, hold that nose and vote McCain if he’s the NOM!

Califemme on February 6, 2008 at 3:41 PM

HA, not sure yet but if I must I will def. use the nose plug MM has on her site!

I don’t share your confidence cf. McCain thinks the terrorists need access to US courts, and believes waterboarding is torture.

Since he has so readily agreed to these liberal positions, one wonders how forcefully he will stand up to the libs the next time they demand some poor grunt be prosecuted after being falsely accused of atrocities.

Will he roll over the next time Murtha runs his piehole?

91Veteran on February 5, 2008 at 10:05 PM

But of course he’ll roll over. Still gotta vote R though, the stakes are much too important.

Califemme,

As a side-bar, you shouldn’t be so sensitive about religion…it was only an extreme example of how the military doesn’t protect the individual, the individual protects themselves and those around them.

ColdBore76 on February 5, 2008 at 7:51 PM

Yeah, we are definitely square… And I do agree with the above quote. But I wouldn’t say I’m “sensitive” about religion.

My earlier assesment that the miilitary is what makes us so great came from years of living overseas while my dad was in the USAF. The military (IMO) is America’s representative around the world, since the children, wives, and husbands of military are actively living among the people of the world.

Now, hold that nose and vote McCain if he’s the NOM!

Allen and Gilmore from Virginia were very conservative…why didn’t talk radio support them?

Fred was very conservative, why didn’t talk radio support him?

Huckabee and McCain are not 100% conservative but they are way to the right of most of the population and talk radio did not suport them.

Why support a guy who was not conservative a few years ago?

Kudos to Bill Bennett and O’Reilly who did not make a silly endorsement.

Therefore, flip-flops are for the feet and SPAM is destine for the toilet, thus the clear correlation; anyone who flip flops in this election will end up in the toilet.

rplat on February 6, 2008 at 7:20 AM

I wouldn’t go so far as to say “sacrifice their country”. I think they are simply opportunists in regards to their personal fortunes. If they really walked the walk one of them would have tried to run for office by now or they would advise the party concept and importance of unity.
Without angry people forming their core of listeners they are marginalized.

As for the radical right… I think it is less radical than childish ala Dems after the 2000 election. McCain is a convenient catalyst primarily because of the immigration bill and ensuing firestorm. It is somewhere south of fifth on the voters concerns according to exit polls.

Rush, Ann and Laura are ecstatic at the thought of a loss in November. Their market share should firm up as they draw the angry conservatives close to their bosom for the next four years.
People will forget their hijinks in no time.

If these people would sacrifice their country to the left rather than support John McCain then they are truly a danger to the Republic. The radical right is turning their blind quest into a destructive ego fest.

Where would the Republican minority be under Frist’s proposed rule changes? What kind of judges would we get if Obama or Clinton could get any appointment confirmed with a 51-50 vote?
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McCain, in all likelihood, saved the Alito nomination, and preserved the Republican minority’s power to oppose liberal nominations.

RightOFLeft on February 5, 2008 at 6:57 PM

Where would be be? We would have returned back to the way judges were confirmed before the Democrats started filibustering judicial nominees. Yes, this would have made it harder to filibuster the nominees of a Democratic president. But Republicans don’t believe in filibustering the president’s nominees. Republicans believe that they should confirm the president’s nominees unless there is an obvious non-partisan reason they are unacceptable. Democrats believed in total warfare, to include shutting down the Senate unless there was a filibuster-proof majority favoring the nominee. And Alito had that majority anyway, so the Gang of 14 did nothing to get him confirmed.

So McCain completely ignored what the Republicans were trying to do: end filibustering of judicial nominees. By doing it, he accepted that the Democrats had the right to block any nominees they didn’t like, and that they would have to compromise to get a few of the less objectionable ones confirmed. On top of which, he and Lindsay Graham absolutely blocked four of the president’s nominees, all while claiming the “Gang of 14″ deal would only allow filibusters under undefined “extraordinary circumstances.” So they agree not to filibuster wile accepting the filibuster of 4 candidates.

More importantly, the “Gang of 14″ backroom deal allowed senators to quietly kill the nominations of some candidates without being put on record for it.

The Gang of 14 deal was to protect Senators from being accountable for their votes, to allow only the unstoppable judicial candidates from getting through, to allow by default judicial nominees to be filibustered at will, and to frustrate the Republican president’s nominees from being confirmed.

And for what? The next time there is a Democratic president who makes judicial nominations, the Republicans will not stand on the precedent established by Senate during the Bush administration. They won’t filibuster candidates. They may refuse to approve some, but each candidate will get an up-or-down vote.

The Gang of 14 was a nasty backstabbing deal that showed how little McCain cared for what conservatives wanted.
Read more in the National Review article.

It’s obviously an endorsement, guys. Rush can cover his ass however he likes but his meaning surely isn’t lost upon his listeners.

Rush, Ann and Laura are ecstatic at the thought of a loss in November. Their market share should firm up as they draw the angry conservatives close to their bosom for the next four years.
People will forget their hijinks in no time.

Hillary: We have to get the troops out of Iraq. I will start withdrawal within 60 days...because they have pizzas to deliver to some banana republic dictator, and we’ll just ignore the resulting bloodbath.

Oh, Greta, and the price of gas won’t go up because those not delivering pizzas will be delivering workers to the collective.

DreadWolf on February 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM

But McVain cannot and more importantly WILL NOT harm the Military, and that alone should propel you to NOT stay home in November…

And I daresay, our MILITARY is “what fundamentally makes America the greatest country on the planet…”

Califemme on February 5, 2008 at 6:02 PM

I don’t share your confidence cf. McCain thinks the terrorists need access to US courts, and believes waterboarding is torture.

Since he has so readily agreed to these liberal positions, one wonders how forcefully he will stand up to the libs the next time they demand some poor grunt be prosecuted after being falsely accused of atrocities.

Will he roll over the next time Murtha runs his piehole?

as well as the preservation of the Republican’s ability to block future liberal appointments as a minority party.

RightOFLeft on February 5, 2008 at 5:54 PM

You are truly deluded if you think that the current pack of RINO’s in the Senate have the bag (even all of them combined) to filibuster a lib appointment to the court.

i’m wonder is it because of the letter from Dole ,trick from M-Cain’s ?

beachkatie on February 5, 2008 at 5:19 PM

McCain is an absolute snake, and what he did with this letter proves it in spades. His campaign tactics are as sleazy as the Clintoon’s.

I read the early news about this letter, possibly one in Politico, and it was portrayed as Dole being rather unhappy with Rush. There was also a considerable amount left out of the “news” articles on this letter which clearly portrayed McCain in a very favorable light. Who else would have done this?
Now we find out Dole never leaked it, and Rush didn’t think enough of it to comment on it until the media implemented McCain’s smear tactic.

This makes me wonder if McCain has been using Politico all along as a vehicle to attack. Politico was the one who ran the leak that Thompson was dropping out right before Iowa. Wasn’t it Politico that ran the story that Thompson was also dropping out right before South Carolina and endorsing McCain? Then the media continued pushing McCain highlighting his RINO endorsements.

So McCain/Feingold actually means manipulation of the media on a huge scale, while shutting out any response…including those demonstrably false.

I agree with Rush. He should post the letter and auction it off giving the proceeds to Romney.