McCain voted against the bloated no child left behind.

McCain voted against the bloated medicare bill.

McCain has been a leading voice on the earmark abuse.

This is nothing new. McCain on Meet the Press before the election said the auto industry shouldn’t get a bailout. The conservative base was silent in defending McCain because of the financial vote.

The conservate base is about purity. If you aren’t perfect they destroy you.

McCain also before the election said he was against another stimulus package.

So instead of rallying around McCain on being against the auto bailout and the huge stimulus package that Obama was for the conservatives spread the lie that McCain was just like Obama.

The conservative McCain haters are saying they are happy he won.

Obama now has a filibuster proof senate with 59 dems and snowe from maine.

There are no checks and balances. This past election was about survival and making a goal line stand instead conservatives wanted purity.

Now Pelosi and Obama will pass a one trillion stimulus package. McCain would have vetoed Pelosi’s spending.

Now Obama will bail out the auto industry for the next 8 years every few months. McCain would have forced them to restructure.

And yet to this day with Obama and Pelosi having no checks and balances conservatives are still happy McCain lost.

They say McCain would have ruined conservatism.

Well now that Obama has a filibuster proof senate his laws will be permanent and there will be no conservatism left to fight for.

McCain is the most conservative candidate we have ever had.

The base spit on this war hero for Bush.

McCain is for building the fence which Obama will stop.

McCain faught to get Harriet Miers to withdraw which the conservative base never gave him credit for.

Instead of beating up McCain conservatives should have been rallying around him. McCain is no RINO he is a conservative.

I think conservatives don’t like him because of his smile. McCain got that weird smile from getting his teeth knocked out.

What a disgrace the american public spitting on McCain so now we have a rubber stamp Al Franken Congress with Obama.

And there is no filibuster when Snowe is a democrat giving democrats 60 votes on what they want.

But conservatives are still thrilled McCain lost and Obama can pick 6 supreme court justices.

Those conservatives who said they wouldn’t vote for McCain if he picked Ridge so we ended up with the disaster Palin and now we have no checks and balances and full throttle left nation.

So glad conservatives spit on McCain and gave us 8 years of Bush.

McCain would have veteod medicare bill. He voted against it.

McCain was against no child left behind.

But conservatives never bring up his good points they focus on his few bad bills like McCain/Feingold.

Conservative purity has given us marxism forever. But at least conservatives can be happy that McCain lost. They will always have that.

ryandan on December 19, 2008 at 2:41 PM

zetterson, McCain disagreed with Bush on no child left behind. McCain wanted to leave more power with the states.

McCain was against Bush’s bloated medicare bill.

McCain was against Bush’s highway bill.

McCain would have vetoed many earmark bills.

McCain was against harriet miers.

McCain would not sign the assault weapons ban like Bush said he would.

McCain is so much more conservative than Bush and yet the conservative base embraced Bush and spit at McCain.

And I guarantee you McCain would have had higher approval ratings as president and not left us with Pelosi having 260 seats, Reid having 60 seats and a President Obama.

Picking Bush over McCain did unimaginable damage to the republican party.

ryandan on December 19, 2008 at 2:58 PM

To chund,

Palin is the worse thing to ever happen to conservatism.

She opened the seas for the middle to flock to the marxist Obama.

Obama was getting 28 percent of independents before Palin and won 60 percent.

Palin is one of the main reasons why Obama will pack the supreme court.

You need a candidate that can appeal also to independents and Palin is a disaster in that area.

Reagan was a winner because he got reagan democrats and independents and moderate republicans.

10 percent of the electorate thought palin was ready to be president.

The Palin wing of the party destroyed conservatism.

Palin made independents flock to Obama. Clinton voters that couldn’t stand Obama voted for him because of Palin.

Palin did the impossible she becamse the issue not Obama.

Polls show McCain would have done better without her.

Far more voters said they were less likely to vote for McCain because of Palin.

Palin was a disaster in the cities with her talk of small towns are the most patriotic.

Only Palin could have made Couric’s stature rise.

Talking about healthcare being helped by the bailout.

She was a disaster.

If you want the most liberal candidate to dominate the middle have Palin as your candidate.

The worst part about Palin is it causes voters in the middle who would have supported McCain to support Obama. That is a double punch. Votes taken away from McCain’s column and added to Obama’s.

Palin should never be involved with national politics. Independent voters view her as the plague. Only someone that would want to hand the democrats the election on a silver platter would want her ever on the ticket.

ryandan on December 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM