Senator McCain Gives Democrats A Run For Their Money

[5stringJeff]

He's Conservative.

I bet you think Michael Bloomberg and Arlen Specter are conservative too!

[jimnyc]

Nevadamedic, I'm curious as to WHY you think McCain is a conservative. Can you show us, specifically, what he stands for and what he has done that roots him to conservative principles?

[82Marine89]

you know, we have had a whole lot of posts about so and so not being conservative enough.....riddle me this....

will some of you only be happy if the Republicans nominate someone so conservative that only ten percent of the folks at the farthest right will vote for him?......

isn't the whole point of the nomination process finding someone who can get elected president?.....you seem to think it's goal is finding the ultimate "conservativist" conservative......

That 10% will always be alienated. The same for those on the far left. It will take a 3rd party candidate to satisfy them. I fully understand that compromises/lies need to be made in order to get elected, but to say McCain is a conservative is complete bullshit.

[jimnyc]

Nevadamedic, I'm curious as to WHY you think McCain is a conservative. Can you show us, specifically, what he stands for and what he has done that roots him to conservative principles?

Care to respond to this, NM?

[82Marine89]

Care to respond to this, NM?

Never happen.

[red states rule]

Care to respond to this, NM?

I would like to know what he has to say myself

[PostmodernProphet]

but to say McCain is a conservative is complete bullshit.

conservative/liberal is a sliding scale and every human being hold some of each within in them.....(those who don't should probably be put out of their misery now for the benefit of all humanity)......McCain is more conservative than Clinton, probably (if truth be known) more conservative than Bush......

as I recall, he was calling for a "surge" in Iraq a year before Bush and the generals on the ground did....and he was one of the few Republicans I recall speaking out against high spending in the last six years......I haven't decided who I am going to vote for yet, but whoever said they would vote for Clinton before the voted for McCain is a fool (or a Democrat, but that would be redundant)......

[jimnyc]

I would like to know what he has to say myself

My belief is that the question isn't being answered because he is incapable of doing so.

[nevadamedic]

Care to respond to this, NM?

http://www.johnmccain.com/Undecided/WhyMcCain.htm

[jimnyc]

http://www.johnmccain.com/Undecided/WhyMcCain.htm

That's not what I asked for. Not in his words, I want YOU to tell us what he does that makes him a conservative. What main conservative principles does he stand for.

[82Marine89]

That's not what I asked for. Not in his words, I want YOU to tell us what he does that makes him a conservative. What main conservative principles does he stand for.

There are presently three threads running with examples of why he is not a conservative. There are zero as to why he is a conservative. NM can not and most likely will not post anything that shows a conservative side of McCain.

[LiberalNation]

the war.......

[Pale Rider]

... but whoever said they would vote for Clinton before the voted for McCain is a fool (or a Democrat, but that would be redundant)......

Well... it was nm who said something very similiar. He did claim he was going to vote for hillary.

[GW in Ohio]

Story Highlights

Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama would get over half the vote, poll finds
John McCain is the GOP candidate nearly tied with Democratic front-runners
Mitt Romney has the highest percentage of people who definitely will not vote for him

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/...ups/index.html

Who would have thought, Senator McCain is starting to soar and Romney is starting to tank. Romney, Huckabee and Paul are all fads.

McCain is the likeliest GOP nominee at this point.

In a general election, he would lose to Obama badly. He has two strikes against him:

1. He is too old for the presidency. He's older even than Reagan was. The contrast between McCain's age and Obama's youthful energy will work to McCain's detriment.
2. McCain is tied to the disastrous Bush Iraq policy. The Iraq war has been repudiated by 2/3 of the American people. None of the GOPers can win as long as they advocate the failed Bush foreign policy. Ron Paul is the only one who has repudiated the Bush doctrine.

[5stringJeff]

McCain is the likeliest GOP nominee at this point.

In a general election, he would lose to Obama badly. He has two strikes against him:

1. He is too old for the presidency. He's older even than Reagan was. The contrast between McCain's age and Obama's youthful energy will work to McCain's detriment.
2. McCain is tied to the disastrous Bush Iraq policy. The Iraq war has been repudiated by 2/3 of the American people. None of the GOPers can win as long as they advocate the failed Bush foreign policy. Ron Paul is the only one who has repudiated the Bush doctrine.

Don't forget: 3. Conservatives would run from McCain like the plague.