Also - A vote for anyone but Romny = a vote for McCain now. Don't waste your vote on Huckabee or Paul unless you want to see Hillary and Obama pass national Health care, the fairness Doctrine, unfettered abortion, and more government control of everything you say, think or do. Not to mention weak national defense and a military that will only be filled with a draft.

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It was a hard night. I look at the results and some how can’t believe it. The Grand Old Party, well I for one am not feeling too grand.

The Grand Old Party in Florida has just nominated for the Republican presidential nomination, the man who enthusiastically promoted  amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

The man who had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

The man who had called the ads of the Swift Boat Veteransfor Truth "dishonest and dishonorable."

Well, my note to the NYT’s, are we following your blueprint?  Did we do just what you wanted us to do?

I cant believe with my eyes that a majority of Republicans would follow what the NYT said, and vote for Mc Cain.

Yesterday W, put his foot down. Now after 7 years “we deside to to a little something about earmarks” not much but a little. That is the way to read your base there, W.

There is a total intellectual vacuum of the GOP leadership,

What a gutless party we have become. 

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

Right on. McCain is Bob Dole without the niceness.  It's his turn (to lose). I know a pretty influencial insider who told me over a year ago that the RINO's in Washington had already decided that its the Democrats' turn. I guess I was wrong to laugh at that notion.

McCain , when nominated, is going to lose big. He's a nasty little twit, and quite liberal. I, for one, will not vote. I figure the bigger the loss, the better. Let them work hard to screw my beloved nation and maybe we'll wake up in 212.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

So it wasn't just a bunch of bratty teenagers? Well that kind of tanks the element of this discussion that this whole thing was the result of bratty over-entitled teenagers.

So let's consider this news. The incident was sparked by alums who used their money and their potential donations as political leverage. Shouldn't you conservatives be proud? I mean, whenever the issue of campaign finance reform comes up, y'all start shrieking that restricting how people use their money for political purposes is the same as squelching first amendment rights. Hell, after the taser incident in Florida, our very own Blonde even speculated that if she'd known Kerry would be invited to her distinguished alma mater, she would have made a few calls to the alumni association.

People who were financially successful in life using their money to influence political decisions. That's the conservative ideal, my friends. Too bad it involves Rove, so it's a little harder for you to cheer about it....

"He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous
pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself
and fling the curses on his neighbors." -Emily Bronte

Mitt also needs to start talking up strong immigration enforcement policies.  I've screamed it before, and I'll scream it again...

JUAN FREAKING HERNANDEZ WORKS FOR McCAIN!!

This has to get out in the media, and the only way to do that is for Mitt to use it in debates and speeches.  The MSM will not broadcast it.

Stultus est sicut stultus facit

MB, I think you're right. Judicial philosophy is at the core of conservatism.

I heard a snippet from Tim Russert this morning, saying that the Reagan Coalition is gone. There is no longer any alliance between social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and foreign policy conservatives that Reagan brought together, because no candidate supports all of those completely. That isn't exactly true, because Romney says all the right things, now at least. The problem is that people perceive that we've had previous versions of Romney, and when version 2.0 contradicts 1.0, there's reason to wonder if 3.0 will contradict the current version. (Can you tell I'm a programmer?)

• But conservative-haters rush to interpret that as a rejection of conservativism as a whole, and an embrace of the vaporous "moderates." I think it's clearly the opposite. The only popularity any of these guys have is because of their conservatism. They lose voters to the degree they stray from conservatism.
• So, conservative-haters (especially the pundits in the media) commit a classic logical fallacy: they falsely draw conclusions about the whole from their observations of various parts. (In other words, they assume that since none of the candidates is completely conservative, the party must be veering away from complete conservatism.)

The one constant, however, has to be judicial philosophy. It's the one arena where you can't split the baby. You're either an originalist or you're not. Romney needs to force McCain to show his cards. If they have another debate, and each candidate gets to ask the other a question, Romney should ask McCain whether he would, as president, "absolutely" refuse to negotiate away his nominations. Would McCain publicly agree not to consult with Schumer and Leahy (or any other Democrat) to make the nomination easier, and instead stick to the conservative principles he now brags about and nominate only a strict originalist?

Cards on the table, please ...

I don't think it's childish.  It would be dumb to stay home because there are congressional races going on too, but if we hold our noses and vote for a RINO, we are saying to the GOP "just give us any socialist ruling class elite who thinks we're all a bunch of ignorant hicks and we'll vote for him as long as he has an (R) next to his name." 

Uh uh, not me.  The vote is the only time the people can exercise their power, and if I have to use it to tell the GOP to take their RINO's and go to hell, that's what I'll do.