Conservatives: will you sacrifice your principles and put the party first this election?
John McCain is pro gun control, pro illegal alien amnesty, started campaign finance reform, voted twice against tax cuts, wants to shut down Guantanimo and end enhanced interrogations, and is a Global Warming issue beater…Oh yeah, he refuses to drill in ANWR, but chooses to buy oil from Arab countries instead. He spoke out against the South’s right to fly the Confederate flag in 2000, then changed his mind when he saw it would lose him the state to George Bush.
However, he is the Republican nominee.
Will you grant him amnesty for the times he turned his back on you in the past?
Ohh I almost forgot, he left the mother of his children in 1980 for Cindy, whom he met in 1979 at a Navy function. She is 18 years younger then him. Does that go hand in hand with conservative family values?
19 Responses
andy g
04 Mar 2010
RanXerox
04 Mar 2010
no. if the party leaves me why should I help them win?
right you are ke
04 Mar 2010
Touche’
Sway_27
04 Mar 2010
If it comes down to McCain as the repub candidate – im staying home and getting drunk on election day
mulisha
04 Mar 2010
Nope.
Jim
04 Mar 2010
i didn’t agree with Bush 100% on every issue either. When is there ever a candidate that i agree with 100% of the time on every single issue? That’s just not going to happen. I vote for whoever is the closest to me on the issues….that’s called being realistic.
drunkenchicken55
04 Mar 2010
I will vote for McCain because he is not a socialist like the dem candidates. Not because I like him, but because he is our best option as of now.
Answerman
04 Mar 2010
And that’s why I voted for Huck!
Yeah, it’s
04 Mar 2010
he got a divorce, that happens. you make it sound like he ditched his family without any warning. and who cares what age his wife is? he’s been with her for almost 30 years now. i don’t agree with mccain on every issue, but i will NOT let another clinton funk up the white house and destroy america.
Lantern Bearer
04 Mar 2010
Sad to say, yes, he is the norm for the state of conservatism.
We have seen that conservatives are statistically compatible with the rest of the populous when it comes to serial monogamy, teen pregnancy, acceptance of abortion in special circumstances (other than just saving the mothers life) and wide stance outrageous behavior in public places.
There may be a few islands of saintliness among some who claim the conservative mantel but for the most part they are just as much bonobos as non-conservatives.
Hannity for VP
04 Mar 2010
I have thought long and hard about this very issue.I haven’t made a decision yet.In years past, the thought of sitting out on election day was inconceivable to me.I could never imagine a reason why I would do that.I lean toward the thought for a day or two, then I remember that people fought and died for us to have the PRIVILEGE of Democracy, and I decide that I will participate in the process.I’m watching anxiously as the events unfold.I’m waiting for someone to mess up so badly that the choice will become obvious.
Doctor Slernon
04 Mar 2010
Absolutely not. I’m going to vote for some third party or even write in if I have to, but i’m not going to support the Republican party after their clear betrayal of conservative values. McCain and Bush are the face of the new republican party and their positions are foolish, short-sighted, and injure America in the wrong run. Thats why I support Ron Paul as he’s the only true conservative in the party.
ret_roch_cop
04 Mar 2010
In the first place, as a Democrat you should be the very last one to be talking disparagingly about anyone else’s marital fidelity. Conservatives are not 100% behind John McCain, but the alternative is far, far less appealing. You have two candidates who are pro high taxes, pro big government, pro handout programs, pro punishing successful people, pro selling Presidential Pardons, pro taking their talking points from foreign despots and pro slapping the members of our Military across the face. You have one candidate who said she’d have to suspend belief to give credibility to the American commander in Iraq and one candidate who couldn’t muster up enough conviction to vote anything other than "present" on 128 important issues. No, conservatives are not willing to put this Country into the hands of people who don’t have the ability to run a goat-breeding let alone a national policy.
smsmith500
04 Mar 2010
Better him than either Hillery or Obama. It won’t be the first time I chose to vote against someone rather than for someone. Besides, McCain can change his mind.
Truth B. Told
04 Mar 2010
Sacrificing principles would be voting for Hillary or Obama. Think: Supreme Court Justices.
pink1957girl
04 Mar 2010
I would sacrifice my principles by voting for a socialist that will do damage to this country. I never vote party. I vote person and typically is is the lesser of two evils. Hillary and Obama are more evil than McCain.
Salsa Shark
04 Mar 2010
If you check your principles at the door, then it doesn’t matter what party you align yourself to. However, when faced with undesirable, yet eminent choices…it is incumbent upon the educated voter to choose the path of least destruction while advocating the party’s return to principles at every turn.
Write in or vote a third party, but don’t you dare sit out and not vote…for that is advocacy of anarchy in the end.
J R
04 Mar 2010
I may become disenchanted with little Red Riding Hood, but I certainly wouldn’t start hanging out with the wolf.
dave b
04 Mar 2010
Wow, Jon……you could certainly work as a spin doctor for the LibDems (and you probably do in some capacity).
I do not care for McCain, in my mind he is just a Liberal claiming to be Conservative, which your question seems to be saying BTW.
McCain, IMO, probably would be somewhat less destructive than Obama or Hillary, but that doesnt make me feel that much better about him.
I would think he is for all of the issues someone of your anti- Conservative political leanings would be voting for!
As for me, I am undecided.
Nope Never have and Never will