John McCain does not represent me.

Is this how we came to be?

Vote for the lesser of two evil?

Screw it.

absolutely, I’ll be voting 3rd party. the republicans are back to being rockefeller republicans. let the libs and ‘moderates’ (the most disgusting creatures of all) vote for them. I won’t.

McCain blows donkey chunks.

Yep, that’s why are fighting the GWOT. You people who think this war is hurting our country are wrong.

This war is HELPING our country, and our NATO allies who have historically been willing to kill each other than find a solution (the EU) is not a solution, nor is integration of a religion that wants to suck the financial and moral lifeblood from them.

We did not declare war against islam, islam declared war against the west.

As a warrior I have no problem KILLING the enemy before he kills me and my fellow non muslims.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

If you are wiling to sacrifice the well being and security of your country because you cannot have the perfect candidate, well thanks for nothing. My brother on active duty thanks you as well.

The Opinionator on April 11, 2008 at 9:12 PM

Both my father and brother served in the US Navy and Army, respectively. I only didn’t serve because a heart problem I have they considered a liability. So don’t play that hand, it carries no weight.

And, as some of you McCain shills love to say this in response to criticism of him, most of us that will be sitting out this election are not asking for the perfect candidate. Romney wasn’t the perfect candidate, but I’d have voted for him. Giuliani wasn’t the perfect candidate, but I’d most likely have voted for him. McCain is a dismal candidate, with a dismal record on amnesty, taxes, free speech, and gun control, and has proven in past to be a vindictive little man who cares about politics and how best to play them, not how best to serve his constituents.

The reason many of you use the hyperbole of “perfect” candidate for those who won’t vote for him, is because you know, deep down, that he is the opposite of perfect. He almost switched parties, for chrissakes!

If not wanting to vote for an almost-democrat is demanding the “perfect candidate”, then I guess that’s what I want.

My brother on active duty thanks you as well.

Is that the moral blackmail card?

McCain is not th eideal candidate for lot of us but he is not a liberal. Moderate certainly. But on the biggest issue of th eday, the GWOT, he is on the right side. He is on the right side on judges and has come around on taxes. Obama and Clinton are worse. As someone noted,in the words of John Bolton, worse is worse.

If you are wiling to sacrifice the well being and security of your country because you cannot have the perfect candidate, well thanks for nothing. My brother on active duty thanks you as well.

Tinian on April 11, 2008 at 6:29 PM

You keep towin’ that party line. I’m sure Trent Lott is proud.

If McCain wants to win, he needs votes INCLUDING conservatives, not just others.

Do the math. If McCain makes one Republican stay home, but in return gets one Democrat to vote for him, he’s ahead. He has the same number of votes, but the Dems have one less. Depending on which districts are involved and which states, that could be good, or it could be very, very good.

It was Col. E. M. House who first made a science of this sort of thing, getting Woodrow Wilson elected twice in the process. (Obligatory plug: read the chapter called Colonel House and a World Made of Law in Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles. Heck, read the whole book.)

Which candidate will have a less motivated and enthusiastic base?

Somehow I’m not predicting “record turnout” this go-round.

Though the conservative Republican’s failed to coordinate around a candidate to defeat a moderate like McCain, it doesn’t mean that the U.S. deserves 4 to 8 years of Obama.

Wrong.

If you’re a real conservative you have to don a hairshirt and wear it until the second coming of Reagan.

Yup. If the republicans pick liberal candidates, they deserve to lose.

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 5:04 PM

Though the conservative Republican’s failed to coordinate around a candidate to defeat a moderate like McCain, it doesn’t mean that the U.S. deserves 4 to 8 years of Obama.

Perhaps the Naderites felt they taught Al Gore a lesson–don’t know that they were happy with the outcome.

You want to show the GOP you mean business so you will stay home. Potential result, Obama and a filibuster proof majority for the Dems in the Senate…defeat in Iraq and higher taxes, a Supreme Court loaded with liberals.

The Opinionator on April 11, 2008 at 4:37 PM

Yup. If the republicans pick liberal candidates, they deserve to lose. We don’t want two liberal parties, nor do we want to vote for a liberal president. If you do, that’s your prerogative, but you have no right to complain about him afterwards if he wins and implements liberal policies.

Et tu, Tancelot?

Best. Caption. Evah!

Personally, I plan on not voting in the presidential election but voting for state and local offices. I see no difference between Hillary, Obama or McCain. Yes, we are screwed. But we had to hit bottom with the “malaise” of Jimmy Carter to get a Reagan. There’s always 2012. And a Democrat in the White House might finally make the Republican party get its act together. God help us.

This has gotta be an exercise in either ignorance or subversion. Let the Dems win and we’ll see another Warren court that lasts for decades, universal health care (that lasts forever) and all sorts of other socialist goodies.

Even Ronald Reagan couldn’t get rid of the EPA or Department of Education.

If you choose to sit on your ass, don’t complain for the next 40 years.

Thanks for nothing this year. You want to show the GOP you mean business so you will stay home. Potential result, Obama and a filibuster proof majority for the Dems in the Senate…defeat in Iraq and higher taxes, a Supreme Court loaded with liberals. But hey, you showed ‘em.

Makes perfect sense for you to want your country to hit bottom, a la the Carter years, to make your point.

As far as the boss being neutral between McCain and Clinton, I am not impressed. I have spent half my life in San Diego and know firsthand the effects of Illegal immigration and the importance of curbing it. But stabbing the troops in the back over it is a sure way to lose my respect!

Please give up the belief that you have to press enter twice after every sentence.

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 3:34 PM

Better than pressing 1 for English and 2 for Espanol after every sentence.

Tancredo, who once told a national television audience he was “sick and tired” of having to choose between the lesser of two evils,

The closer we get to Nov. the more bumper stickers will appear that say: It’s the socialism Stupid!

The lesser of two evils has only rarely equaled the evil that the Alinskyist HillBill and Carterist Obama represents.

Iran, Venezuela, et alia are waiting for the US to elect a Democrat so that they can cause havoc with impunity.

But go ahead and let Obamajebus win, I’m sure it will make you feel better.

And I will never give up my core beliefs for anybody.

Indy Conservative on April 11, 2008 at 3:33 PM

Please give up the belief that you have to press enter twice after every sentence.

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 3:34 PM

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:-)

The enviro-Marxists fear being labeled ‘racists’ more than they really care about the environment. Cowards and hypocrites. This glaring fact really should be used against them.
DerKrieger on April 11, 2008 at 1:58 PM

As an environmentalist, I have ranted and raved at your average brain-dead environmentalist lawyers earning six digit salaries on exactly this issue. For all the intelligence and understanding I get back, I could be talking to a gold fish. They have no arguments back. They don’t care to have any arguments or thoughts on the issue. They just want to get back to thinking about how they are going to redecorate their f****** kitchen.