I voted for Romney because he was the option in the FIELD.  That doesn't mean he is the best conservative out there.  Far from it.  There are FAR better options for McCain, like Mark Sanford, Haley Barbour, or Marsha Blackburn.  I would like to add Tom McClintock to that list, but he hasn't achieved any higher office than state senator, so he's probably disqualified.

"women and minorities hardest hit"

I'm voting Republican regardless. That is unless a viable third party candidate shows up. I'm far from a McCain fan, but the other options are very much worse than he.   

Newsbusters is making a mistake in grouping people as "vehmently anti McCain" as I do not believe for a moment the majority here are anti McCain..........what they are is pro American Republic, pro Ronald Reagan and John McCain just happens to be an American who is the one who is anti Ronald Reagan Conservative.

There is a vast difference in being pro American and anti McCain, because the people here for the most part are not negative. They are passionate to the point of inspired criticism of John McCain, but it comes from a love of country.

To state people here are anti McCain is like saying people who have children are anti them driving drunk in putting their car into a tree. McCain's policy is drunk driving and people here are simply trying to save the American child from his bad policy.

I have stated a week ago that John McCain must put in a Conservative and I have been pushing for Lynn Cheney. She is accomplished in writing, debate, is vetted, is foreign policy sound with the American Enterprise Institute and touches the sodomite issues in her own family as well as having dealt with the Reaganite issues of dealing with America's domestic policy.

Lynn Cheney would rip a gaping hole in the left feminist party when Hillary does not win the nomination........and if she could convince the cartel to allow her yet..........well who do you think Americans will vote for, the bitch Hillary who mirrors all the hurt in American families or Lynn Cheney who appears like a national Mom next door.

Lynn is a win win for the GOP.

Rush has been floating Huckabee for the simple reason he wants that leftist McCain and RINO Huckabee factions to go down in flaming defeat to end their games in the GOP.

Coulter is pushing McCain to offer him a way to show Conservatives he is real and not this maniac everyone knows he is.
If he chooses Romney though, Coulter knows very well like Rush that he will loose as Huck's pulpit pounders will not vote just like when Bush 41 told the Evangelicals to shut up and go away.

You have to understand Ann Coulter and Rush. They are 10 steps ahead of this game and are screwing with McCain as he screws with them.

I have offered a way to win this and the person is Lynn Cheney. McCain picks her and the party heals as Conservatives trust Dick as he has proven himself for us time and again.

Hillary is kaput. Obama will be kaput as the intention of the cartel as I predicted last year was to fragment the parties which they have done. Obama may be allowed to "win" this as it enters the convention, but a dark horse in Al Gore is still waiting in the wings.

Just remember that Patrick Fitzgerald is investigating Obama and that Hillary has money fraud and sex tapes floating around.

The illusion one sees is not how this will shape up come August. The cartel has backed McCain, Obama to coup Hillary, Al Gore in the wings and Mike Bloomberg to make a quad of globalists in this election.
I will repeat they fully intend to elect a Hugo Chavez loon with 23% of the vote if necessary to carry out their policies.

They now have 4 Hugo's in the race. Exactly as planned in 4 dripping global socialists aka communists.

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Ann Coulter is right about almost everything, but she is horribly wrong about not voting for McCain even though McCain is a pretty worthless Republican (e.g., McCain-Feingold Political Speech Suppression Act, the "global warming" hoax, GITMO, economic policy, amnesty for illegals, pro-human experimentation, his love for the leftist Washington press corps, etc.).  Also, Coulter's claim that Hillary Clinton is "more conservative" than McCain on the war on terror is a joke.  Clinton would unconditionally surrender to America's enemies and then brag about such a surrender.  The most important reason to vote for McCain is the federal judiciary.  Although there is certainly no guarantee about the quality of judges that McCain would nominate, there is an absolute guarantee that Clinton would nominate only the most lawless leftist freaks to the federal judiciary who would, without fail, impose their fundamentalist leftist religious cult on the country, notwithstanding the United States Constitution.

First off I am not anti-McCain, I am anti-liberal.  McCain as a Repub candidate is not even my fifth choice as he is a lib and a dishonest one at that.  At least Rudy had the decency to be honest about his liberalism.  So here we are being presented with a fait accompli after having our nomination process manipulated by liberals.  The basic question at this point is McCain any kind of leader?  Does he even understand the concept?   No my friends it is NOT what we have to put up with to vote for McCain, is what McCain has in mind where to lead the country with us supporting him in it.  If McCain doesn't under the nuance, he isn't a conservative and doesn't merit our support.    Lord Sidious / Darth Vader 2008  Long Live the Empire!  Come to the Dark Side, it is your Destiny.

NBers,

Steyn quoted a marvelous statement by Gerald Ford:

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have!"

And then he said that there's an intermediate stage, which is where most of Europe is today:

"A government big enough to give you everything you want isn't big enough to get you to give it all back."

What this means is that in Europe, even though the demographics and the economics point to a financial collapse as a result of their entitlement programs, governments aren't able to convince their citizens to give back what is soon to be unaffordable.

Wonderful! And THAT'S what this election should be about, for if America doesn't see what's happening in Europe as a foreshadowing of things to come here, capitalism will be replaced by socialism for decades to come!

And THAT'S what Billary and Barack want!!! ns

A VP  candidate has to be someone who has political clout and can be able to win certain states by their own persona. 

Romney is the rational choice for VP. He now has the exposure he didn't have when the campaign started. He is without a doubt the smartest candidate in both parties, and he has a dedicated following that would work their butts off for him.

Some of the other candidates suggested are way off the chart.

Tancredo is one dimensional. Haley Barbour is a competent man no doubt but he would have to have  someone to translate his mushmouth Mississippi accent.

Hunter is a good guy but no pep.

Newt would not take it and has heavy moral baggage

Pawlenty and others in that  category are not known even in their own state.

Elmer Gantry Huckabee is a charlatan and snake oil salesman and would be an embarassment to the ticket except in the minds of his brainwashed followers.

Not only do people want us to vote for McCain reluctantly, now we're told we can't complain about him either.

I agree with Jason Lewis. For two weeks leading up to this, talk radio and conservative bloggers railed against McCain nonstop. Now that he has the nod, we're all supposed to say "I was just kidding." This party loyalty stuff is a trip.

I thought both speeches were wonderful. I especially enjoyed Mark question & answer segment. I really think that Ann is just trying to make a point. We all know that socialized medicine would be horrible. Maybe it's Hill's way of decreasing the surplus population. Now Fred has endorsed McCain.... hmmm.... strategy? We can only hope.

Somehow i just do not see McCain winning against either hillary or obama.

I believe hillary will steal the nomination away form Obama by insisting Florida delegates be counted. Today is a big day for Obama and i wish him well. In the end the democrats will not let him in the white house.

 Should Obama sneek in he will beat McCain

I'm still weighing the arguments. Once I hear about his VP short-list I'll give it some more thought. His pick might make a difference, but I doubt it.

Besides, I live in Washington state. It doesn't matter who I vote for in the Pres. race. The Dem. will win. And even if the Rep. gets more votes, the Dem. will win in the recount.

Right now, I'm leaning toward an under-vote in the Pres. race in November.

Oh, well. I'm off to the Rep. caucuses. I'm sure it will be a waste of time, but maybe I'll get a chance to meet the other conservative who shows up.

Look guys, if you cannot bring yourself to vote for McCain, at least go to the polls and vote all other R's into office. Someone has to be in the loyal opposition not matter who wins the top office.

We have to keep the senate so we can block leftist judges.Remember it now takes 60 votes. to pass anything in the Senate. We need to keep our majority no matter what!!!

With all due respect, the media cannot depict McCain as anything but what he is and that is a left leaning republican. At the very least they can stamp him "moderate" and that is the media's greatest fear when it comes to McCain.

He is too much like them in too many ways. He will and can take votes away from the democrats especially if Hillary wins the nomination. With obama it may be different because He has all the youngsters and some older voters believing he is reasonable. We know differently but still.... he talks a great game.

What is the major distinction between McCain and the dems? The War. Otherwise????

U tell me

Because, in the highly unlikely event he somehow manages to get himself elected POTUS, he is going to run straight for Ted and leap right into his arms.

And as for his SCOTUS picks, with the democrats, particularly Ted running the senate show (and he will be), and considering who it will be advising McCain in this area, all we will be able to get actually confirmed is another David Souter or two.

With McCain in the White House, we will win the battle, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory which will ultimately ensure the loss of the whole war.

Heck of a price to pay to keep Hillary out of the White House.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

Actually Ann got it right when she said Mitt Romney is the right choice for Veep. Fred Thompson, or any other "conservative" that ran, didn't actually run. Why reward them for running half-assed campaigns?

Mitt Romney has won the CPAC straw poll. Mitt Romney also won the 2007 CPAC straw poll. So much for him not being a conservative.

And McCain has said he will probably serve only one term. What better way to set Mitt Romney up for the 2012 race, than to have him as McCain's VP? And either way, Mitt Romney WILL be the 2012 front runner.

I was just as angry as the other conservative blondes about McCain getting the presumptive nod from the (R) party.  

But I've gotten over it.   I still don't like it, but I've gotten over it.

Noel is right....we need to fight the bloody leeches off, every way we can.  Socialists will bleed us all dry. They'll defer to the UN, sell our honor as a nation, and deny us everything the founding fathers hoped for this great nation.

What crystalized my decision, though, was this.  To stay home is to deny their sacrifice...to allow Barry & Hillary to define what the GWOT is all about, or not.  Pull out, damn the torpedos.  This would be a catastrophic turn of events.

These men have given their lives for us.  To have the freedom to choose the road ahead of us (h/t Milton Friedman).

To stay home, or to not vote in the Presidential Election, because we are peeved, at a lack of a true conservative as our nominee, is plain idiotic.

Unless you all want Hillary and B. Hussein to run the country....and subject us to another national loss of honor, and massive disrespect for those who have laid down their lives for us.

Vote.

You don't have to love it.  But just do it.

Godspeed, Nate & Mike, and your families.  Thank you and God Bless.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

    Romney would not accept any overture from McCain.  IMHO McCain is toast. I like and agree with Ann; I may just vote for Hillary also. Why would Romney tie his horse to a crashing wagon? Four years of Clinton and a purging of the GOP will see Romney give it another shot in '12.