"The conservative critique of McCain escalated Tuesday when Dobson released a statement saying: "I am convinced Senator McCain is not a conservative, and in fact has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are." Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter has said she'd vote and campaign for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton if McCain is the GOP nominee. Limbaugh has said a McCain nomination would destroy the Republican party." ~ Associated Press
John McCain is going to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States. The fundamentalist wing of the Republican party needs to stop the weeping and gnashing of teeth and stand united with the rest of the party behind McCain.
Here's why:
1) Mitt Romney is not a conservative and does not deserve their support anyway. Romney is a pragmatic panderer. He might have stood a chance with his flip flops in the pre-YouTube era, but he has no chance to win the general election now.
2) The next President of the United States will very likely appoint a majority to the United States Supreme Court that will sit for two decades or more. If Clinton or Obama are elected, United States Supreme court will resemble the New Jersey Supreme Court in it's judicial activism.
3) If McCain is elected, the Republicans may very well pick up a Senate seat they will desperately need. Joe Lieberman's.
The Supreme Court situation makes this election critically important. The Court will impact that fabric of our republic for generations. Roe vs. Wade aside, we cannot afford an activist court. Fundamentalists Republicans who might righteously consider sitting out this election or voting for Clinton in the hopes of coming back with a "real" conservative in four years, should look to New Jersey where the Republican establishment employed such a strategy in the 2001 gubernatorial election of Brett Schundler vs Jim McGreevey. That didn't work out too well.
John McCain was not my first choice. I especially disagree with him on the first amendment and campaign finance reform. There is a much better chance of a Supreme Court overturning his campaign finance reforms if he becomes President.
Regarding immigration, I'm sorry but my fundamentalist friends are foolish at best. Intellectually dishonest is more likely. The 12 million or so illegal immigrants who are here got here because we, as a nation, let them in. We invited them in. The situation has become a problem and now we need to manage it. There is no way that 12 million or so illegals are going to be shipped home. It is just not going to happen. We now need to control the borders and stop inviting them in. We need to give those who are here an equitable method to become productive members of our society and not a drain on our resources. It is time for the fundamentalists to stop the demagoguery on this issue and get to work on the problem.
Regarding taxes, McCain has been right far more than he has been wrong. He is right now.
Regarding spending, McCain has been right far more often than the rest of the party. The spending orgy over the last 7 seven years has done more to damage the party and our economy than any position McCain has taken. Deficits do matter.
John McCain can beat either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. He will be the Republican nominee. The conservative fundamentalists need to rally behind him.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/06/roland.martin/index.html
Plagiarism is stupid. Especially from a giant media outlet most of us read. At least site your sources.
Ahhh, so that's what pragmatic politics looks like.
I couldn't agree with you more. The ultra conservative wing is hoping to cost McCain the election in the hope that will prove that they are powerful enough to merit being pandered to.
McCain is a mainstream Republican, not a mainstream conservative. He is solidly right, but not far right. i don't know what his religious beleifs are because they are not the focal point of his political beliefs. We got that from the current President and look at those results.
And for all the Reagan name dropping, the right wing does not understand that they are far right of Reagan. They are also too vitriolic and divisive, traits Reagan did not possess.
The name calling in the headline was probably not necessary, but the post is dead on otherwise. Had our current President and friends not resorted to some truly nasty and, I might add, unChristian tactics in South Carolina eight years ago, John McCain could very well being finishing his second Presidential term in January.
Plagiarism is stupid. Especially from a giant media outlet most of us read. At least site your sources.
Making the same point as someone else is not plagiarism. Honestly, I have never read any of Mr. Martin's work before checking your link, and I don't watch or read CNN.
Well said, Art.
"Fundamentalists Republicans who might righteously consider sitting out this election or voting for Clinton in the hopes of coming back with a "real" conservative in four years, should look to New Jersey where the Republican establishment employed such a strategy in the 2001 gubernatorial election of Brett Schundler vs Jim McGreevey. That didn't work out too well."
And like New Jersey, if Clinton gets elected the Dems will pull out all the stops to make sure that no Republican (Let alone a conservative!) is elected President, nor will there be Republican majorities again in the House and Senate for a generation. If then.
They will tweak the Electoral College to ensure that their candidates always come out on top. They've already begun attempting this.
I don't know about Coulter or Dobson, but I believe Limbaugh will probably come around.
For a different conservative point of view, check out Assemblyman Mike Carroll's post at PolitickerNJ.com.
The world must have stopped...I have no problem with voting for John McCain for President. Wow...so many people with differing points of view agree on elected McCain. Now if only we could get a nice Italian Boy from Brooklyn elected to the US Senate.. ;-)
The Radical Liberal Left, the "trumpet section" of the Democratic Party continues to take America further and further toward a Government controlled Socialistic, Communist, Marxist,workers state.(An Obama directed America)Our government has chosen to promote and immoral society of homosexuality and the culture to death in the legalization of abortion. When our politicians chose to be in defiance and rebellion of the culture of life established by God, over two thousands years ago, in favor of culture of death, you will find that the conservatives who value Capitalism, a free enterprise society, and the moral dignity of life, will move further and further to the right because there can never be unity or a middle ground. God has given each person a choice to live by. chose life or chose death!
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