Our Nominee…
I have found that a large majority of our members are unhappy of our nominee. They cite the fact that he has supported bills such as McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman. While I can acknowledge he did support those bills, I cannot however, ensure that is what he supports now.
Believe me, during the Republican primary season, I wrote post after post insisting our members/guests that we need to vote for somebody who has most consistently led a Conservative Republican voting record/administration. Some voted for Mike Huckabee others Fred Thompson. While the majority of us here at ComMITTed voted or rooted for Mitt Romney.
Each and every one of us were asked why we would vote for such a “flip-flopper”. That image was further fueled by external comments from the other candidates running and unfortunely, Romney was no “tinfoil candidate”. Governor Romney might have been the nominee had it not been for these nasty and sometimes untruthful comments. The effect of the past does not need to shape the future.
Romney’s loss does not have to sour our outlook on John McCain. Despite the fact that Romney lost, whichever reason you attribute his loss to is irrevelant, we have to look to the future. Let not our misfortunes guide us. I know many of you are upset and will adhere to the “No Mitt, No Money” principle, but that is wrong.
This mindset is utterely childish. “Well if Mitt doesn’t win then nobody will” - that is, nobody on the Republican side. We can win this General Election folks. McCain is doing an awfully good job at courting disappointed Clinton supporters and although we may disagree with him on it, his view on global warming increases his odds against Obama with Independents.
If none of the above had any effect on you, imagine this. Image January 20, 2009. Your sitting on your couch and on comes Chief Justice Roberts with a Bible and Obama’s VP sitting down along side Michelle. Barack walks out and says:
I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
After 4 years of Obama:
The military is cut in half
The capital gains tax is now quadruple what it was 4 years ago
Cars are to be solely run on electric/ethanol/etc
It is illegal to own a gun
You are not allowed the freedom to petition, speech, religion,etc
Do you want that! Do you? Ask yourself “Is it worth it to keep on insisting we change nominees?” It isn’t. I am willing to be challenged on my view. All I ask is that you reconsider your option of bashing our nominee or other candidates (especially Pastor Huckabee).
June 6th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I acnnot vote for mccain if he picks Huckabee. there is no grey are for me. It’s black or its white. Huckabee is just too vile for me to stomach for 4 years. Period. Sorry. I have to either write mitt in, not vote, vote 3rd party or join themidless and vote Obama and pray for a RNC controlled house and senate someday very soon.
Huck is wrong for me, and wrong for America.
June 7th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Here is how I see it (and I hope I can articulate my feelings): Neither McCain nor Obama are who I would like to see as president of the United States. I don’t like either of them. Some may say, well, McCain is not as bad as Obama, and while that may be true, the way things are in DC now we are on a slide down to liberal control. If we have McCain the slide may be slower than if we have Obama, but is that what we want? We have been sliding down for years, and we conservatives sit back and say, well, it could be worse, and it is constantly getting worse. We don’t actively push for our values to be adhered to by those who claim to represent us. If we take a rapid slide downhill under the likes of Obama, maybe that will slap us in the face hard enough that we will be more resolute and forceful in making sure that the conservative principles that have made this country great in the past will continue to do so.
I really wish I could rally behind our Republican nominee, but McCain continues to ignore his base and pander to liberals and moderates.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Chris:
Huckabee is a good man. He makes mistakes like all of us and sometimes makes bad jokes but he is a good man. But, McCain won’t pick Huckabee. He doesn’t bring anything McCain can’t do by himself.
Noelle:
You’re right, the American people feel like they have not been heard. It is time for a leader who has little regard for reputation and admirable commitment to the American people. After 8 years people are disappointed for a number of factors and they don’t rationalize. They harness that negativity and extract it and insert it into a useless vote. A vote of a person who is himself ‘unchartered waters’.
McCain needs to reach out and grasp those moderates/independents/hillary clinton supporters. And although I would have liked McCain to have a much stronger grasp on his party first, it is time to move forward and begin the victory race to accomplish the goal - having John McCain seated in the Oval Office on January 21, 2009.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Well neither are my first choice obviously, but John McCain believes in and campaigns for more of my beliefs and things that I feel strongly for than Obama does. Senator Obama downright scares me, so therefore, I will vote for McCain. The only way I won’t vote for McCain is if he chooses Huckabee as his VP choice. I’ve thought long and hard on this and asked myself what I would do in that situation and I have come to the conclusion that I won’t vote at all if Huck is on the ticket. I am still hoping that Mitt will be McCain’s running mate and it would be so much easier to vote McCain in that situation.