I’ve been saying this for a year now. If you elect McCain … there won’t be any GOP candidate who dares to run as a conservative in future elections. You’ve taught them that they need to run to the left if they’re going to win.

I could not agree more Gregor and I have seen the attacks from the kool aid crowd.

Now that we have McCain they think voting for the same guy that wrote the Amnesty Bill is patriotic.

It is if you believe living in the North
American Union is utopia.

The city of SanFran repeatedly spits on our country and our military and you reward them with the revenue that a political convention brings?

Stupid is as stupid does.

The GOP can save money by NOT sending me contribution mailers– they will only be thrown away.

RE: fulldroolcup # 55

What a great thought. I’ll write in the person of my choice, not hurt McVain the capitulator chances to win, and avoid being manipulated by the Gregoire-Gore vote counting method. Voting is my state is controlled by the Democrats so the results are predictably Democrat but still so corrupt that Republicans cheat Republicans as Huckabee found out when he trailed McVain by 2.7% during the primaries and the Republican Controllers declared McVain the winner with only 87% of the vote being counted. So, fulldroolcup’s solution is a remedy for my problem too.

From the WashingtonPost.com: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said on Sunday that he is launching another long shot independent campaign for president of the United States.

Nader, who will turn 74 this week, announced his presidential bid on NBC’s “Meet the Press” saying that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are addressing the problems facing Americans.

Nader also ran for president in 2000 when he got about 2.7 percent of the national vote as the Green Party candidate and played a role in deciding the final presidential outcome. He also ran as an independent in 2004 and got only a tiny fraction of the vote.

A Canadian hired by the California Republican Party to do political work on a coveted H-1B visa appears to be in violation of immigration law because he is also earning money from another employer, federal officials said this week.

Christopher Matthews, a Canadian citizen, was hired in 2007 as full-time deputy political director, with responsibility for handling campaign operations and information technology for the country’s largest state Republican Party operation, U.S. Department of Labor records show. He currently works for the state GOP as a political coordinator,

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Matthews was hired in California Republican Party circles by Michael Kamburowski, an Australian citizen who in 2007 was named the state GOP’s chief operations officer.

Kamburowski resigned the $130,000-a-year post after The Chronicle reported he had sued federal officials who jailed him in 2004 for alleged visa violations and attempted to deport him.

On February 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm, geminicontender said:
I live in California. I am conservative. I am a Republican. And I am willing to move out of state at anytime because of the Republican party in this State. The whole group are incompetent or ‘whipped’ whichever. Spineless do-nothings.

I live in CA (San Francisco Bay Area). I am a Republican (one of 13 in Alameda County). I refuse to leave. I refuse to quit, to concede, to put my tail between my legs and lick the hand of the pseudo-Liberal CA Republican dimwits who imagine that they are my Master. All these Party hacks care about is power: how to get power, how to maintain power, how to be a power player. They do not care about ideas, ideology or truth. They are perfectly happy to prostitute themselves trying to find a way to be so popular that they can gain power…. sort of like the high-school cheerleader wannabee. I refuse to leave. And, I won’t back down. I intend to stay in CA and be a thorn in their sides, that little voice of conscience that keeps whispering in their ears. Uhh… “speaking truth to power?” What’s wrong with that picture?

You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.

Norquist champions an extreme libertarian view about illegal immigration…essentially advocating open borders without regard for the associated security, financial or social implications. He makes no secret of his contempt for conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly who rightly disagree. He told the New Yorker, “I think Phyllis’s theory is: Foreigners suck.”

So, everyone who locks their doors at night must believe that the rest of the world sucks. I’m sure Mr. open borders Norquist never lived in a gated community, never used any kind of security, and never locked his doors; because, if he did, he would be a hater as well as a hypocrite. Like illegal immigrants who break into our country, those who would break into your house only want a better life. How can you deny them that, Mr. Norquist?

Just because people advocate for lawful and orderly immigration does not make them hateful bigots.

So I will freely cast a write-in vote for Romney or Thompson. They won’t win, of course, but the write-ins will have to be recorded , and they will at least send a message to the Braying Jackass that many of us think he’s no conservative, and barely Republican.

Those of you who live in heavily democratic states ought to be thinking along those lines. Don’t leave your ballot blank; put a name down to record your PREFERENCE, not just your PROTEST.

Those in Red States have a far different problem, in that a write-in or a no-vote might cost the GOP that state.

In that event I guess you have to go with McCain, as the Dem alternatives are both so horrible.