Also, get off your high horse conservatives. It is the Republican party, not the conservative party. You are just a member. If you can’t be a good team member — out of the tent with you!!! It’s cold out there. Ask the remaining Bull Moosers.

tommylotto on February 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM

So be it.

At least you’re honest.

I’d rather be told flat out that I don’t matter then be pandered to in the general election, and ignored once the candidate is in office. (That means you Schwarzenegger.)

Have fun in the general election without us.

And since it appears that one cannot criticize McCain on the issues without it being labeled a personal attack, I’ll let Michelle’s words do it for me:

“I’ll be on Fox in a few minutes to talk about the Super Tuesday results and the GOP with Linda Chavez, who argues that John McCain is the ‘ghost of Ronald Reagan.’

I can think of a lot of words. ‘Ghost’ is not the first that comes to mind.

Anyway, how are you all feeling this morning? Consider this a ’safe space’ (to borrow the P.C. campus term) to vent without being accused of suffering derangement syndrome, dyspepsia, or other maladies.”

“Segment’s over. There was no time to rebut Linda Chavez and Jon Scott. So I’ll say it here:

To call a GOP candidate who sneers at profits and denigrates businessmen and greedy corporations and crusades for a liberal, global warming agenda the best Reaganite heir is simply self-delusional.

To cite Reagan’s illegal alien amnesty, without noting that he stated firmly that a nation without borders is not a nation, is disingenuous.

And to omit the fact that John McCain has a Hispanic outreach staffer who believes in ‘Mexico First’ and the eradication of our borders–not to mention a national campaign finance co-chair who poured billions to fight against English instruction in the public schools–is dishonest.”

My final thoughts: It is what it is.

I have always wanted to like John McCain. I hope and pray that he decides to care about conservative principles in action, not just in word (not that there’s been much of “word” lately either, quite the opposite).

The coalition of those who 1) voted for him because he’s a vet (and they don’t care about or pay attention to anything else) , 2) people who feel as he does about amnesty, global warming, class warfare, taxes, and 3) those who actually feel that he’s a true conservative, and the Reagan heir apparent, all got their man.

I will take the entirety of now until November to decide if I can support him. (Uh oh, I’m criticizing him now.) A man who has shown such overt contempt for those who want the border fence built. (”F%#$ the fence!”) A man who has shown such contempt for people who wanted fair and full debate of the immigration reform bill in Congress. A man who tried to ram that bill through Congress without any of the usual oversight committees, or anyone examining what was actually in the bill. A man who thinks that someone who manages a corporation to succeed (”manage for profit” as he put it) is somehow stealing from the underprivileged in this country. (I’m still waiting to be convinced that that is Reaganism.) A man who, just by his demeanor, presents the air of someone who, if he doesn’t get what he wants, has no recourse but to personally attack and lash out. To his own colleagues in the Senate. (”Everyone has a McCain story.”) A man who, if he’s asked a direct question on a subject he doesn’t want to address, retreats to talking about his military service or his 80% lifetime conservative rating. (Just in fairness to McCain, I will look and see how they arrived at that number.) Dodging and ducking a question is the first skill a politician learns, but John McCain plays it to perfection.

My disappointment is tempered a bit by the reality that it will be hard for our party to hold on to the White House, no matter who we nominate. As has already been mentioned, the Dems are fired up, are outvoting us, and are motivated not just against us, but FOR their candidates. History is against us. Eight years of one party usually makes the electorate want change, any change. (If I never hear that word again, it’ll be too soon.)

It all is what it is. I’ve been told by the supporters of the soon-to-be Republican nominee that the principles of lower taxes, the rule of law, support for capitalism and business, strong border defense, and a government that stays out of the way (not one that imposes $0.50 gas taxes for carbon emissions), all of these do not matter. I’m an outdated relic of two decades ago, and I should just forget about it.

So I will.

There’s more to life than politics.

And as I have said all along: We will get the government we deserve.

With Hillary, Obama, or McCain.

Hawkins1701 on February 6, 2008 at 2:09 PM