It’s time for some straight talk my friends. When the conservative thought leaders of the Republican describe John McCain as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) they aren’t just using hyperbole. It’s the God’s honest truth.
I already showed you how how McCain doesn’t even disguise his big government solutions and his contempt for free enterprise and penchant for class warfare as evidenced in his debate performance at the REAGAN LIBRARY where he was supposed to be REACHING OUT to the conservative base. I’ve shown you how his “electability” myth falls apart. I’ve also shown you how McCain’s conservative scores have decreased over recent years. There’s also this piece from The Hill which asserts that in 2001 McCain was seriously considering jumping parties.
Then there’s McCain’s own admission that if John Kerry had asked him to be his running mate that he’d seriously consider it. Audio here (A McKerry flashback). Kerry says it was actually McCain’s people that were active in approaching campaign about McCain being on Kerry’s ticket.
Please tell me again why we would nominate this guy as the Republican candidate for president. Please tell me how he’s really conservative. Please tell me how he provides an alternative to Hillary Clinton when he was trying to be Kerry’s V.P.
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As I see it either McCain is elected in the primaries or Clinton wins, Thus perhaps one question to be considered who McCain or Clinton could be relied up to block the accomodation been Raul and the US that a good number on the left have been trying to broker.
That should have read:
As I see it either McCain is elected in the primaries or Clinton wins, Thus perhaps one question to be considered who McCain or Clinton could be relied up to block the accomodation between Raul and the US that a good number on the left have been trying to broker.
That’s a false dichotomy based on speculation that Mitt Romney can’t win in November. I have asked several times on this blog what that speculation is based on? Are you basing that on McCain’s popularity in the MSM? Do you think that popularity will remain when he is head to head against the DEM candidate?
I roundly reject McCain’s electability myth. Rudy was the prohibitive favorite to win the GOP nod 10 months ago. How can you predict what will happen in 10 months?
That’s a false dichotomy based on speculation that Mitt Romney can’t win in November. I have asked several times on this blog what that speculation is based on? Are you basing that on McCain’s popularity in the MSM? Do you think that popularity will remain when he is head to head against the DEM candidate?
I roundly reject McCain’s electability myth. Rudy was the prohibitive favorite to win the GOP nod 10 months ago. How can you predict what will happen in 10 months?
Henry:
Dunno perhaps your are correct; however, we really do not know, and can only guess. Whatever, take care and be well
Larry
Henry:
What makes you so sure Romney is going to be the “strong republican” candidate you seek? He’s a strong republican while he’s running for the republican nomination, but as we’ve seen when the time calls for it he can be as much if not more of a liberal then mccain.
The devil you know is better then the devil you don’t!
Nuttmandu,
Is that your argument? I mean seriously. At least Mitt Romney is TRYING to say the right things. McCain’s debate performance the other night reveals that he’s anti-business, pro global warming, anti-conservative.
As far Romney backing away from a conservative stance, can you give an example please? That kind of hit and run accusation doesn’t hold any water.
Nuttmandu,
Is that your argument? I mean seriously. At least Mitt Romney is TRYING to say the right things. McCain’s debate performance the other night reveals that he’s anti-business, pro global warming, anti-conservative.
As far Romney backing away from a conservative stance, can you give an example please? That kind of hit and run accusation doesn’t hold any water.
he speaks clearly to me..video
http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/?p=11734
yeah he’s going to put an end to it by slapping a gas tax on each gallon so high that you’ll sell your car and take a horse and buggy like they do in Cuba. Por favor.
yeah he’s going to put an end to it by slapping a gas tax on each gallon so high that you’ll sell your car and take a horse and buggy like they do in Cuba. Por favor.
I don’t like McCain either, but he is probably going to be the Republican nominee, and I don’t think conservatives are going to be able to convince non-conservatives to stop supporting him. A lot of them LIKE McCain. Telling them that he isn’t conservative enough is likely to help rather than hurt his prospects. Our dispute is really more with the other voters than the candidates.
He MAY get the nomination. And I’m calling it right now. If McCain is the candidate, he gets spanked in November and if Obama is the candidate, he’s gonna get spanked even more. Also I disagree with your premise. The reason McCain is winning is because he’s Huckabee as his wingman peeling conservative votes.
He MAY get the nomination. And I’m calling it right now. If McCain is the candidate, he gets spanked in November and if Obama is the candidate, he’s gonna get spanked even more. Also I disagree with your premise. The reason McCain is winning is because he’s Huckabee as his wingman peeling conservative votes.
If McCain becomes president, he’s due for a rude awakening after playing the harlot with the liberal press for so many years: she’s a vicious mistress. The press will turn on him & devour him so fast, he won’t know what hit him.
Well deserved, in my view.
Oh he’ll learn that way before he’d ever come close to putting his hand on the bible. The Keating 5 scandal that the media doesn’t mention during the primaries will surely be the topic of the year if he gets the nomination.
Oh he’ll learn that way before he’d ever come close to putting his hand on the bible. The Keating 5 scandal that the media doesn’t mention during the primaries will surely be the topic of the year if he gets the nomination.
So what’s in it for Mel Martinez, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart for endorsing the RINO? They and many conservatives are endorsing McCain. Are they wrong? Opportunists? Typical politicos?
So what’s in it for Mel Martinez, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart for endorsing the RINO? They and many conservatives are endorsing McCain. Are they wrong? Opportunists? Typical politicos?
As for Huckabee peeling off votes from Romney, I’m not so sure. To many fundamentalist Christians, Mormonism is considered one of the great heresies. It isn’t clear at all that Huckabee voters would prefer Romney over McCain.
Plus, Romney has the big flip-flop problem. He’s been on both sides of too many fences. The night of the debate at the Reagan Library, when Romney was trying to cloak himself as Ronald Reagan’s nominee, one of the news networks was running video of Romney distancing himself from Reagan in one of his earlier campaigns. The media and the Dems will be all over Romney’s flip-flops should he be the nominee.
Sure, people can change and evolve in their views. That’s fine. But Romney’s past and present views seem based on what was expedient for him then and now. Why did he take certain positions when running in Massachusetts? Why does he take different positions when running for national office? Expedience and opportunism come to mind.
BarrioChino,
I think the Cuban-American legislators endorsed him because he’s a colleague of theirs. Nothing more. They don’t know Romney, they know McCain.
As far as the flip flops on Romney’s part I’d like to tell us what they are. I can tell you what McCain’s flip flops are. He voted against tax cuts twice. He now claims to want to make those tax cuts permanent (they are set to expire in 2010, in essence we’re going to have tax increases in that year unless they are made permanent). Also, illegal immigration isn’t my issue (I tend to side with McCain on it) he did a flip flop there about amnesty.
You said Romney was trying to cloak himself as Ronald Reagan’s nominee. That shows me he’s smart and that he’s trying to reach out to conservatives like me. McCain isn’t even going through the motions. He attacked business, proposed big government solutions for the mortgage industry and global warming. He used class warfare rhetoric.
You don’t think the media and the Dems will be all over McCain? You’re kidding, right? He’s their darling, for now. Then they will be all over him like white on rice. I will not vote for John McCain.
BarrioChino,
I think the Cuban-American legislators endorsed him because he’s a colleague of theirs. Nothing more. They don’t know Romney, they know McCain.
As far as the flip flops on Romney’s part I’d like to tell us what they are. I can tell you what McCain’s flip flops are. He voted against tax cuts twice. He now claims to want to make those tax cuts permanent (they are set to expire in 2010, in essence we’re going to have tax increases in that year unless they are made permanent). Also, illegal immigration isn’t my issue (I tend to side with McCain on it) he did a flip flop there about amnesty.
You said Romney was trying to cloak himself as Ronald Reagan’s nominee. That shows me he’s smart and that he’s trying to reach out to conservatives like me. McCain isn’t even going through the motions. He attacked business, proposed big government solutions for the mortgage industry and global warming. He used class warfare rhetoric.
You don’t think the media and the Dems will be all over McCain? You’re kidding, right? He’s their darling, for now. Then they will be all over him like white on rice. I will not vote for John McCain.
Hi Henry,
Google “Romney flip flop” and you get gun control, abortion, immigration reform, campaign finance, stem cell research, and more (including Romney saying he was not trying to go back to the Reagan years). I’ll leave it to the readers to decide whether Romney was being expedient or had a sincere change of heart.
Regarding the Florida Cuban American Republican legislators endorsing McCain, sure, friendship might be part of it. But do you believe they are compromising their principles? Maybe they actually believe McCain is the better candidate.
Actually, all of this may be moot. Although much can happen between now and November, looks like the Republicans are going to be pan tostado no matter who they nominate.
If McCain and Romney are both flip floppers then I’d like the guy who is flipping toward me not away from me. Romney can at least say he was a conservative in a Liberal state. McCain doesn’t have that excuse. McCain’s early record was conservative. He isn’t anymore. Do I think the Cuban-American legislators traded in their integrity? No. In Mel Martinez’ case he was never a true conservative. That’s why I voted against him in the primary. And if you look at the voting records of Ileana, Mario and Lincoln they aren’t strict conservatives either. They are legislators. Like I said, you have a colleague that you’re comfortable with, it’s an easy call to endorse him.
And you may be right about November, but I’m telling you it won’t even be close if we put a 71 year old liberal man up there against Barack Obama. If you are going to vote liberal most people would vote for the younger more charismatic one.
If McCain and Romney are both flip floppers then I’d like the guy who is flipping toward me not away from me. Romney can at least say he was a conservative in a Liberal state. McCain doesn’t have that excuse. McCain’s early record was conservative. He isn’t anymore. Do I think the Cuban-American legislators traded in their integrity? No. In Mel Martinez’ case he was never a true conservative. That’s why I voted against him in the primary. And if you look at the voting records of Ileana, Mario and Lincoln they aren’t strict conservatives either. They are legislators. Like I said, you have a colleague that you’re comfortable with, it’s an easy call to endorse him.
And you may be right about November, but I’m telling you it won’t even be close if we put a 71 year old liberal man up there against Barack Obama. If you are going to vote liberal most people would vote for the younger more charismatic one.
New to posting, old reader of Babalu Blog. Let me get in my two cents on Mr. McCain. Mr. Gomez, one thing is to oppose him ferociously in the primaries (as you obviously do), and another is to say that if he wins the nomination, then “…I will not vote for McCain…” Fine, that’s your constitutional privilege but…if you’re a true conservative as you say and seem to be, are you really telling us that you’ll not vote in the general, and contribute to elect –of all people– Hussein Osama Obama and/or The Bitch? I’ll rather have a “populist hawk” in the White House –as Mark Levin calls him– than a leftist/socialist, no-backbone, “populist dove” negotiating with “el hermanito”, and cowardly cut-and-run surrendering to the Islamofascists wackos. But, that’s just my opinion…what’s yours?
My opinion is that a McCain nomination will be an enourmous setback for the conservative movement and the GOP and that the already low chances of retaining the white house will evaporate.
My opinion is that a McCain nomination will be an enourmous setback for the conservative movement and the GOP and that the already low chances of retaining the white house will evaporate.
OK, I agree with you Mr. Gomez. A McCain candidacy will be a setback to the conservative movement, and we’ll probably get our butt kicked in November, but that doesn’t answer my question to you. If he IS nominated, will you close ranks and vote McCain to –at least– attempt to stop the ultraliberal/socialist nightmare that will fall upon our nation if any of those two win?
I, for one, am not going just to roll over and play dead and give those two incompetent “pinkos”, a uncontested pass to the White House. If it’s McCain, “trago grueso, me tapo la nariz, miro pa’l otro lao”, support him, and fight tooth-and-nail from my little corner. La primera batalla que se pierde es la que no se pelea!!
i don’t know what i’ll do. part of me says that if we’re going to have a tax increasing liberal in the white house that it should be a democrat. imagine if we elect mccain and his liberal administration is a disaster, do you think the GOP will have a chance in 2012? Say hello to president barack with a mandate. 12 years of democrat rule with 4 of them at the hands of a rino or 4 years of democrat rule?
i don’t know what i’ll do. part of me says that if we’re going to have a tax increasing liberal in the white house that it should be a democrat. imagine if we elect mccain and his liberal administration is a disaster, do you think the GOP will have a chance in 2012? Say hello to president barack with a mandate. 12 years of democrat rule with 4 of them at the hands of a rino or 4 years of democrat rule?