American and Proud

Damn, imagine that, I got pretty much the same result!!

You Should Vote for Bob Barr

Where you and Bob Barr agree: Cuba – Education – Global Warming – Health Care – Immigration – Taxes Where you and Bob Barr disagree: Abortion – The War in Iraq

@dtodeen, Folks like Gawfer and Jenn are correct too, unless we can get enough support to bring Bob Barr’s chances up from zero to slim.

I will vote for Bob Barr if McCain doesn’t start pandering to us Conservatives like he is to everyone else… (SERIOUS SARCASM!!)

My plan is to wait a little while before I totally commit to any candidate, I will not vote for Obama but voting for McCain is going against every fiber of my being.

Fred I hear ya Marine. I tried to explain it, but they seem convinced to follow the party machine and vote for McCain for no other reason. I don’t get it because everything McCain stands for they are basically against, and many more like them.

So I have no idea how things will ever REALLY CHANGE. I don’t want to see what HOPE means though!

Damn Dave, Why is this so difficult to understand?

Perhaps this will help. One Number: 1575

That is the number of earned and pledged delegates McCain has won. We are past the primary, so unless you or someone else can convince the entire GOP and a large percentage of Dems to write in another candidate, McCain is the ONLY man standing between Obama and the Presidency.

Nobody has claimed to love McaCain or even Like him, but that ’s what we get, and it does no good at all to bash him.

End of explanation.

And once again we’re stuck with the lesser of 2 evils…

Rob,

I think what it now boils down to for me is this: I am more afraid of an Obama Administration than I have disdain for McCain. I truly believe Obama will Lead us into economic depression, and a global war that we will be unable to fund.

Though money is tight right now, I like my life and the USA just the way it is, and I don’t want some punk who thinks he’s got some special plan that’s never been tried before crapping on my American Dream.

I fully understand and hold the same feelings as you, Dave and Fred toward McCain, but frankly, he’s the only man standing who can stop Obama. Like I said before, the US Population is only 12.3% Black and 12.5% Hispanic, which means, even if Obama got the entire Black vote and all of the Hispanic vote (which he won’t), he will only have 24.8% of the national vote which means he still needs to convince 26% of Caucasians.

Our sites are predominately read by white voters, which mean every negative hit we put on McCain has a corresponding affect on white voters. We all agree McCain is not the strongest candidate in our eyes, so IMO, I don’t believe firing arrows at him now is advantageous because he has enough crap to deal with coming from the opposition.

Your recent post asking the question “What would get you excited about McCain” is exactly what conservative bloggers and citizens need to be asking and responding to. As you know, I forwarded the link of that post to the McCain campaign and advised them to pay attention to what conservative bloggers are saying. If he is going to represent our nation and the conservative side of this country, he needs to get in touch with us.

Sorry for the seminar comment… I guess I’m frustrated because it seems the McCain Camp is not doing that.

BTW, I took the test and only disagreed with Barr on the question of Abortion, but I can wrap around the idea of leaving it to the individual states. Y’all do realize Ol’ Dishonest Abe would have a big problem with that.

@Gawfer. I really don’t mean to disparage Mr Reagan that much. I voted for him twice, and with that said, I am reminded Mr Reagan, at one time, an FDR DIM, sold his soul and that of the PUBS for a mess of porridge. Balanced budgets, small deficits, non-existent debt, became lost in the administration of Mr Reagan. While it is true enough, the DIMS had much to do with the reversal, as The Great Communicator, he managed to use the Bully Pulpit to great advantage when he decided to do so.

He, however was all too willing to put those aforementioned ideas on the back burner, to acquire his goal of defeating Communism. Was it worth it? In the short term, of course it was, but understand Americans need boogy bears crawling from the deep recesses of the darkest closets to help export Empire. No boogy bears, then, by all means, invent a few. War is the health of the state. ( add to that now, Welfare is also the health of the state ) Mr Johnson had his Vietnam War, his war on poverty. Mr Nixon his war on drugs, and his war on the economy.

Our current Bozo in Chief has his War on Terror.

Meanwhile the American Taxpayer continues to take it up the wazoo, so the investment bankers, Wall Street Clowns, and Big Time Investment Firms can make mega bucks. This administration and The FED have absolutely no clue, and continue, as a friend of mine writes, to re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic while the band plays ‘Nearer My God To Thee’.

@Gawfer: Yeah Gawfer I do understand and for the record I have not decided one way or the other, I am also concerned about the situation the GOP put us in, and I am not very appreciative. I really want to send them a message, and I think this would be a good time to start. If we won’t stand by our principles then how can we expect the GOP to stand by theirs?

At some point we need to let the REPUBLICANS at all cost know that we have a limit to what we will take, and the Issues of Illegal Immigration, and The Right to bear Arms, are not negotiable.

@Robert. I voted 4 times for Little George, twice for governor and twice for President. I’m trying very hard to think of those good things he did as President. Two SCOTUS Justices after the screw up with Meirs. Tax cuts, ( or actually, tax postponements unto our progeny which just so happens to be, in my mind, immoral.

He has over seen the largest deficits in my lifetime and the largest debt in my lifetime. He has, in spite of his rhetorical BS, attempted nation building after saying he wouldn’t. ( even while the fighting is going on ) He has helped author and sign the Drug Prescription Plan. oh, and let’s not forget the Patriot Act.

Hey, though, we hung Saddam.

Probably not the worst President in history, but ranking right there with Dishonest Abe, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, and Cahtah.

Just my two centavos. Practicing, ya know?

@Robert. You are correct in that on paper, GWB looked much better that Ali Baba Gore or John ‘Freaking’ Kerry. Two reasons I voted for him. That plus the fact I thought he was a conservative. It is simply suppositional to believe what either may have done. As for GWB and his economy; sorry, Robert, no ceegar- not even one of Slick Willie’s used ones. The true terrorist are in The Federal Reserve. They’ve done more to futch the economy that a team of educated monkeys could- wait, I repeat myself.

As for the Mussies, with the borders open, thanks in part to Mr Bush and Mr McCain, we do not know how many Mussies are here planning their next attacks. Fighting a war in Iraq, has damned little to do with it. It has, in fact, created a hell of a lot more debt for our great grandkids than what we will ever be able to say grace over. Quite frankly, I fully expect our progeny to piss on our graves at some point in the future for leaving them so far down the rat hole, it will look like up.

@Robert. No Sir, I’m not looking for a fight. My apologies!