I wrote that two years ago over at Townhall, warning of the disaster a McCain nomination would be. The GOP seem just as determined today to ignore the wishes of the citizens and more importantly, their voters.

This progressivism sees economic inequality as America’s gravest problem, and blames it on the conservatism of free markets, lower taxes, fewer regulations and smaller government. It wants to engineer equality through redistributive tax policies, the restructuring of markets through increased regulation, an expansion of entitlements, and more governmental activism.

Every one of these goals, positions, whatever you’d like to call them, are poison to our nation. Poison.

What Obama will cost this nation is staggering. I’m not talking about dollars. If it were just dollars, we’d be able to fix it in short order. He seeks to change the fabric of our nation and is trying to do so by deception.

America is a place where anyone willing to put forth the effort will almost certainly do well, if not succeed beyond their wildest dreams.

What Obama wants is this. Anyone not willing to bother to do anything more than stick their hand out, will not have to worry about a thing.

That’s one sickening vision.

Unless you’re suggesting the GOP run him again?

The GOP will be lulcky if they even exist in four years to nominate another candidate. No one seems to want any part of their foolishness anymore. What kind of party claims to have a monopoly on conservative issues and then turns around and delivers the same liberal crap the Democrats feed us every day.

It’s time for change. REAL change.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com

Steele is not as doctrinaire Conservative as I would have him be but I am convinced he IS more Conservative and more importantly more honest than John McCain.

And Shelby Steel is a pretty good guy too rightwingrocker

Steele’s conservative rating (by me) is 59%. He is NOT a champion of conservative positions, and is considerably less conservative than John McCain, whose conservative rating came out around 87%, despite downright illegal positions on things like campaign finance.

Anyone who actually looks at the issues and these two men’s positions would be nuts to think Steele is more conservative than McCain.

More Americans need to do this research and stop playing games with perceptions. Steele may be more friendly than McCain, but so is Barack Obama, and that’s not saying much. Bill Clinton was also a likable guy, but I don’t want him in charge of anything.

This is a critical time in our history, and people need to start taking things seriously. I’d elect the biggest a-hole available if he’d just act according to his constitutional restraints. Steele is worse than McCain on this front.

Sorry Charlie. It ain’t happening today. Tomorrow’s not looking good either.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com

I would have loved to see an actual conservative win this election, but there were none running. A liberal was going to win this one either way.

There were actual conservatives running all over the place. I happen to have voted for one of them. The problem is that the two big parties worked like crazy to silence the conservatives, and guaranteeing, as you pointed out, that a liberal would win either way.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com

He lost the election, unelectable.

I see where you are going with this and no, he was not unelectable. He lost, there is a difference.

Unless you’re suggesting the GOP run him again?

I didn’t suggest it the first time. Primaries, remember?

On January 21st, 2009 at 8:07 pm, backwoods conservative said:

I refuse to take my ideas of who’s electable from polls done by the liberal media.

I refuse to believe in gravity…

(Why am I not floating?)

On January 21st, 2009 at 10:24 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

The open primary system produced one disaster, McCain, and it could well produce another.

I am for getting rids of open primaries but I don’t hold them responsible for this. I think the country is left of where we want it and I think it is because of a misguided reaction against the previous administration. Misguided because while Bush was conservative in some aspects he clearly wasn’t in others. Regardless, he was thoroughly vilified because he botched several large challenges and that was capitalized on by the opposition with the aid of a shameless press who gave up any small shred of objectivity.

One of the pretend to be conservatives, the Huckster, stayed in the race despite having no chance in Florida for the sake of his friend McCain, to siphon off votes from the also maybe not super-conservative Romney, who had some flaws, and some flip-flops, but was generally far more conservative than McCain.

Me, I supported Duncan Hunter as the best candidate, the race was over by Texas, I voted and caucused with the Dems for Hillary Clinton, part Operation Chaos, part actual belief that even as a solid lefty, she was less dangerous than Obama.

I was miserably disappointed with the nomination of McCain, but sent a little money his way after he chose Palin.

He would have been Bush-ish as a President. But McCain would not have been the disaster I suspect Obama will be.

Not even Bill Clinton, no fan of the military, chose to ignore the Medal of Honor ball.

Unless Obama screws up beyond belief, he will be unchallenged by a primary opponent, and instead of just Independents (ie, moderates, middle of the road or just not well informed) folks voting in our primaries in 2012, it will be Dems, probably following orders from Markos Zuniga on which candidate best ensures a Republican defeat.

The open primary system produced one disaster, McCain, and it could well produce another.

Again, McCain would not have been very good, but he wouldn’t be as bad as Obama, acolyte of communist terror bombers. And if he had won, Palin would have been in good shape to run, perhaps as soon as 2012 if McCain started feeling his age.

How about someone who is electable too?

I refuse to take my ideas of who’s electable from polls done by the liberal media. Conservatives are much more electable than those people will ever give them credit for.

I also believe the Republican primaries should be closed so we can have a chance to choose conservative candidates without interference from any crossover votes. Let the liberals field their candidates, the conservatives theirs, and the fence sitters can decide between the two in the general election.

He lost the election, unelectable.

Unless you’re suggesting the GOP run him again?