The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over expecting different results. Keep elected the same tired group of do-nothing, left-wing capitulating Republicans, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

I’m sorry to be the one to have to break the news. Well, no, that’s not true. Heh.

Arrogant much?

McCain will get my vote when he prys it from my cold, dead hands.

There can be no doubt but that Koh would be a liberal activist of a stripe we haven’t seen since Brennan and Marshall. There can be no doubt that he’ll be at or near the top of the list in an Obama or Clinton presidency.
With the CPAC promise on the record, anybody who thinks John McCain would nominate Koh or anybody remotely near him on the ideological spectrum is suffering from such an extreme case of McCain derangement syndrome that they’re beyond the help of even modern pharmapsychology.
Stephen Bainbridge is the William D Warren Professor at the UCLA School of Law and blogs at http://www.ProfessorBainbridge.com

As for those who are so concerned about what Conservatives are going to do with our votes in November just remember that many of us have held our noses and voted the party line for a veritable conga line of ever increasingly “progressive”, big government, huge deficit,
candidates who call themselves conservatives since Reagan left office. I count myself among the number who have come to believe that the liberal scourge of the GOP will be here forever as long as we continue to be coerced into voting for them. It is far past time for conservatives to reassert themselves within the GOP and the only way we seem to be able to do so is by withholding our votes when you nominate fake conservatives. McCain will not win without our conservative votes and hopefully everyone in the GOP will remember that the next time they try to pass a Democrat off as a Republican Conservative. We’ve been telling you guys this all along, it’s not our fault you didn’t listen or chose not to believe us. You’re electing Hillary the day you nominate McCain.

I’ll say this, though. After watching strong candidates fail, and seeing only two people left in the race, neither of which should have stood much of a chance, I’m not so sure that McCain has this thing wrapped up. Huckabee may take it yet. God may decide to humiliate all of us know-it-alls and give it to the last person we expected.

I’m okay with that in theory, but … surely not Huckabee!

Facts, to a conservative, are irrefutable, unlike opinions, which depend upon the polls, the latest talking point list and other poor attempts to bring down the Hot Air site from the formidable fortress of influence it has become, despite the recent gnat infestation

entagor on February 10, 2008 at 5:04 AM

+1

In the interest of Service Men and Women, Veterans and the security of our country – even Berkeley – I must and will pull the lever against Obama or Clinton.

old trooper on February 10, 2008 at 2:12 PM

That is an honorable position. There are also others.
I’ve always disliked being extorted, especially when the moral equivilance question is raised.

At present, McCain needs us more than we want him. Our vote still matters. Winners never quit. Quitters never win.

maverick muse on February 9, 2008 at 12:55 PM

This is true, but what do you propose we do about it? Should we say nothing about his liberal policies? Are you suggesting we who actually are conservatives should just support him on the war and give him a pass on Shamnesty, CFR, Gang of 14, etc?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a new winner in the “projection” competition.
Hollowpoint on February 10, 2008 at 10:55 AM

You know better than that. You are being purposefully obtuse.

Let us know when you are ready to accept the facts about the soon to be waged campaign about McLiar. Until then, you’re just the same old single issue voter you ever were. And since you have decided to stay home, then your complaints have as much validity as you vote. Nothing.

Were you not a Mitt supporter? Contemplate WWMD as you gather your thoughts this weekend. Align where Mitt and McCain agreed and continue to support that. Align where McCain outshines either Democrat and support that conservative agenda. Align where you and other readers agree and support an alliance. No conservative need resign in defeat to the Democrats. Every conservative voice is needed in order to capitulate liberalism from the GOP POTUS Platform and recapitulate conservatism prior to the vote.

Most of us never got to vote before our men succumbed to the GOP system. That issue remains to be dealt with another day. At present, McCain needs us more than we want him. Our vote still matters. Winners never quit. Quitters never win.

maverick muse on February 9, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Great, great, GREAT post.

Perfect.

Those who don’t understand your post are feeling rather than thinking.

Outstanding post.

It’s already starting isn’t it?

We told you that McShamnesty would be vetted eventually. The problem is when all the trash about McLiar is out in the open, it’ll be too late for you to whine for the guy who didn’t have the baggage car full of dirt that McLiar has.

Thanks to you and those like you, even we, the real conservatives, aren’t going to be able to cover for your piss poor judgment by getting completely behind McVanity.

The regular Joe voter will find out about McDirtbags shameful behavior as a POW. His mom is a gibot. His wife is a drug thief. He is a flip flopping liar and is way too old and has too many health issues to be an effect president.

Regular Joe voter will have two choices……

Old white guy entrenched in Washington insider politics, or young black guy who brings a message of hope and change.

Thanks again for the 100% dem controlled federal government. You must be so proud.

csdeven on February 9, 2008 at 12:28 AM

I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but I DIDN”T VOTE FOR MC CAIN in the primary. Jesus H Christ, all I’ve said is that McCain is so much less dangerous for the country than Hillary or cult-of-personality Obamassiah that we will have my vote and my support in the general election.

And Ted Sampley is a lying sack of shit, basically a right-wing version of Ward Churchill. If you choose to align yourself with him just because you didn’t want McCain to be the GOP nominee, that says much more about you than me, or McCain for that matter.

funky chicken on February 9, 2008 at 4:49 PM

Publishing Sampley’s trash isn’t “vetting” it’s defaming, just like Ward Churchill defamed the military with his “smallpox blankets” smear, and defamed the victims of 9/11 with his “little Eichmans” comments.

And nowhere in your comment did you say that you don’t believe the trash, and you are quite willing to gleefully spout it off, so what do you expect me to think?

You see HP, this is the difference between you and a rational commenter. I have explained the context of my remarks, but you refuse to accept it. This is typical of your demagoguing shrill rhetoric.
csdeven on February 10, 2008 at 8:57 AM

Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a new winner in the “projection” competition.

…“This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,” Thompson said in a statement reported by the Associated Press….

Looks like an endorsement to me. Try reading between the lines. I’m pretty sure it also says in there that Huckabee is a liberal douchebag.

“I also spoke again yesterday to my friend Fred Thompson who assured me he is ready to do whatever it takes to help me win the election in November,” McCain said. “I’m very proud to have the friendship and support of Fred Thompson as well.”

In the interests of objectivity, I don’t think we should take this as Fred endorsing McCain in the primary. It is Fred endorsing the Republican nominee in November. Until we hear a primary endorsement of McCain come out Fred’s mouth instead of McCain’s mouth, this is not official. It’s McCain saying “trust me”. I don’t trust him. In the interest of objectivity, you shouldn’t either. Please change the headline to include an “UPDATE: Or does he?”

Where is the official endorsement from Fred?

funky chicken on February 9, 2008 at 4:49 PM

You are clueless. McLiar will be attacked with the points I laid out. I didn’t say I would do it, but that the MSM would do it.

And your problem is not your support of McLiar, but rather your insistence that we true conservatives need to move toward him. The GOP is the conservative party. OUR party. And we don’t have to move toward a liberal candidate regardless of what initial he puts after his name.

bigred on February 9, 2008 at 1:56 PM

You are completely missing the point. You need to ignore people like Hollowpoint who are gonna take their ball and go home by refusing to vote. He is meaningless and his opinion is not worth the vote he casts.

The issue is changing the thinking of the moderate/liberal GOP whores whose vote for McLiar is not based on conservatism. You can see these types commenting here at HA. They continue to attack true conservatives like myself because we are sticking to our conservative principles. Most of us will, like we have been saying for over a year, that we will vote for the GOP nominee. But we are NOT moving toward his liberal views! He has to come to us. Towards conservatism if he wants our support.

This BS rhetoric directed at conservatives that we need to come together is idiocy incarnate.

HP, thanks for the answer. I agree about personal attacks, though the point is valid about what MSM will now do to him.
Spirit of 1776 on February 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM

You see HP, this is the difference between you and a rational commenter. I have explained the context of my remarks, but you refuse to accept it. This is typical of your demagoguing shrill rhetoric. See, I am explaining to you the demagoguery that the MSM will use against McLiarLiarPantsOnFire in the general. And what is your response? Well, you ignore the reality and attack me with more of your liberal demagoguery blustering.

Get over it HP, FredaLicious lost and you trying to drag others into your denial shows just how out of touch you are.

Hollowpoint on February 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM

You haven’t learned have you?

McLiar has the same issues Fred had. His personal behavior and the people he align himself with tell much more about him than the blathering rhetoric he spews. And his mothers gibotry, his wifes thievery, and McShamnesty’s history with the Keating 5 etc, will be front and center during the campaign against Obillary. It’s people like you who have given us McShamnesty, and by extension, a 100% dem controlled federal government.

You must be so proud.

I don’t see maverick muse, myamphibian, Chakra, Chosen One etc. screaming troll at everyone who disagrees with them, or smearing candidates with callous and contemptible smears like csd. Neither have I seen any indication that they would vociferously undermine whoever was the democratically elected GOP nominee. In a democracy politics involves a degree of compromise by its very nature; the GOP is not the communist party for goodness sake.

Pax americana on February 9, 2008 at 2:33 PM

Neither have I seen any indication that they would vociferously undermine whoever was the democratically elected GOP nominee

“vociferously undermine?”

That means, with words?

Words are allowed. Even words that undermine a democratically elected nominee

There are no nominees at present

There are candidates who hold democratically elected delegates who will nominate a nominee at a convention

Candidates are self declared, not elected, although most states require petition signatures to get on the ballot. Candidates can get on a ballot without any signatures if they are written in

Unless McCain Feingold repression of political speech (despised by Conservatives) extends to private citizens, it is expected that any citizen may vociferously talk about any candidate, nominee or electee.

Whether those words undermine a candidate depends upon whether the supporters of that candidate can refute the words, or whether the words are convincing

Facts serve as better refutations than opinions. An argument based upon opinions may be vociferously disputed.

For instance, the opinion that McCain can be trusted can certainly be refuted with facts.

Since the GOP is not the communist party, for goodness or any other sake, it should not attempt to stop the vociferous undermining of its presumptive nominee with anything but facts

Since the GOP presents itself as a conservative party, it will welcome the vociferous undermining of even presumptive nominees as an opportunity to present facts in refutation

Facts, to a conservative, are irrefutable, unlike opinions, which depend upon the polls, the latest talking point list and other poor attempts to bring down the Hot Air site from the formidable fortress of influence it has become, despite the recent gnat infestation

When I ran across this, I also ran across a brilliant essay from First Things by Michael Foley, first printed back in 1997 and now on the Monarchist Blog. Don’t take it too seriously; the author obviously has his ulcerated……

God help us all if you’re wrong. I still think he’s too volatile. It’s always been my concern.

modin5540 on February 9, 2008 at 3:59 PM

FWIW here’s how I answered the McCain question for myself and why.

That’s my rational evaluation and a factor to consider in addition to WOT and judges.

I’m gonna have to remove my T.V. from the house ’till Nov. though if I have any hopes of following through on my own intentions.

His face and his voice still tick me off that much.