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- MadSquirrel, on 02/08/2008, -13/+53FTA: "Still, McCain has so radicalized key conservatives that some have vowed to turn themselves into suicide voters next November by pulling the lever for Hillary Rodham Clinton over him."
I wouldn't call it a suicide vote; it's more like insuring that if a Democrat is elected, then I want to make sure they are a Democrat, and not a Republican In Name Only (RINO). This way when the economy tanks and the bankrupt Government goes under, no one will blame it on a RINO. - inactive, on 02/08/2008, -4/+34I have a hard time buying any of the far right pundit motives. The next President is inheriting a REALLY bad situation. The American people will forget within 2 years what caused us to get here. It will be whomever is in office's fault.
I have seen this before. It is the preparation for the next election cycle beginning now. - avengingturnip, on 02/08/2008, -11/+35Third party you morons! Can't you get your frozen minds out of the box for even a few seconds?
What kind of moral thinking allows a person to chose evil out of spite? No wonder the Republican party is crashing. - ChemE65, on 02/08/2008, -8/+32McCain is, and always has been, a lefty. All this "Ronald Reagan" association he's using is a smokescreen. He WILL turn left immediately. I won't vote for Hillary, but I might just go for NONE OF THE ABOVE if McCain really gets the Republican nomination. "Republican" also doesn't mean what it used to. These guys got into power and immediately lost their compass, turning into spending fools! Then they get on the amnesty train and tell us we're the "LOUD PEOPLE" and we're the bigots. Lindsay Graham, Trent Lott, the "Gang of 14" starring McCain, all turning against what the real Republican party stood for, but no more. It seems like we now have two liberal parties. Maybe it is time to resurrect consrvative principles in a new Conservative Party. I know, "third parties are losers...", but what are we to do if the clowns we see being put forth by the GOP are the best we've got? Unfortunately, I don't see anyone really on the political stage who's really worthy to lead this new party. What to do, what to do, what to do...?
- inactive, on 02/08/2008, -4/+21Is Huck any better? I don't think he is very conservative on any issue other than abortion and family issues. Everything else - immigration, economics, 2nd Amendment rights - he is a liberal.
I think Romney is a better alternative than either of those two. Our best candidates, Fred Thompson and Tom Tancredo, ran such poor campaigns it was as if they didn't even try. - inactive, on 02/08/2008, -3/+19Sadly McCain has voted against conservative judges in the past.
- swrostmore, on 02/08/2008, -9/+24Who the hell do you wingnuts think you are kidding? you are going to line up behind whoever gets the GOP nomination like good little sheep, just like you do every four years.
- MrsSpooky, on 02/08/2008, -2/+16avengingturnip please! You don't have to call people morons. :( I was going to make the same point. The Constitution Party (http://constitutionparty.org) is going to have their national convention to nominate a candidate in April. I'm fed up with the Republican party, no more than ever. I think this year may just be the year that I finally make the switch to that party.
I was a lifelong Democrat, but looking at the cesspool that party has become, I left for the Republican party. They're letting me down now, as I'm seeing little difference between them and what the Democrats turned out to be. - rileyrombie, on 02/08/2008, -1/+14
I'm an Obama Democrat and I think it's so funny that the conservatives claim they don't have a candidate to back. it's also funny that this article happens to mention two people once affiliated with this candidate. The two people = Goldwater and Reagan. the candidate is of course... Ron Paul.
He was more conservative than any of those other clowns up for the GOP nomination. If the media had actually endorsed Ron Paul I think he would have won by a landslide and I would actually be worried for Obama.
Who knows though! Ron Paul is still in the race. - metapop, on 02/08/2008, -4/+17does anyone really still think that who we vote for even matters... at all? does anyone on here not realize that this election is being stolen right from under our noses? does anyone really think that in CALIFORNIA of all places, people actually voted for a WAR MONGER? how is it that in california, all you see is obama & paul signs, yet neither of them win?
the U.S. is going down one of these 2 paths, i'm not sure which is scarier:
a) the american public is truly idiotic, and so self-absorbed with reality shows that they have no knowledge/regard for their own country and are easily fooled by the MSM
b) this election is a sham, everyone including the media is in on it, and our votes are worthless. - RandoTheKing, on 02/08/2008, -3/+16Last time I checked 100 years in Iraq and 12 trillion in debt and climbing, isn't conservative.
- ZenMojo, on 02/08/2008, -0/+13It's the New York Post. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch. It's the Fox News of newspapers. Why should I give a ***** what it has to say?
- inactive, on 02/08/2008, -8/+20Crap. I left out Ron Paul. Oh well, he's pretty much out of it anyway.
- inactive, on 02/08/2008, -7/+19This really sucks. We still have the issue of Supreme Court nominees. We 100% know what we will get if a Democrat is elected. But with McCain, we are only maybe 95% sure we will get bad nominations. 5%? Is he worth that high of risk?
Would it be easier for conservatives to organize massive protests against a Democrat? - jerbaker, on 02/08/2008, -1/+13You are loud people. All you hear from the conservative media is how much everybody hates McCain, and yet somehow he's winning all of the Republican primaries by wide margins. That means Republican voters are choosing McCain. Now, if everything you hear is anti-McCain, and he is winning, what other explanation do you have other than that the anti-McCain camp is very loud but small in number?
You think we have two liberal parties? You don't even know what you're talking about. Get yourself an education about the political spectrum and come back when you can make reasonable conversation. We have two corporate parties in the United States, both of which are right of center by any objective measure. A leftist candidate would be talking about nationalizing utilities, healthcare, telecommunications and other industries by taking them by force. - Archer007, on 02/08/2008, -6/+18Hate to sound stereotypical here... but vote for Ron Paul. Seems like every other "conservative" candidate wants to continue the current US policy of unsustainable spending, expansion of executive power, and undeclared war.
- DeviantDragon, on 02/08/2008, -0/+12Holy *****, Tancredo, Keyes, and Romney all supported in a Digg thread before Paul's name is brought up. Never thought I'd see this.
- InfamousAtheist, on 02/08/2008, -0/+11The answer is actually A & B.
- alterImperson, on 02/08/2008, -0/+11Maybe the reason Canada hasn't suffered much Jihadi terrorism is because they aren't over there blowing the ***** out of brown people like the American government is. Maybe.
Also, Islamo-fascist is the most inaccurate term for what the Muslim extremists are. Fascism implies a unification of corporate and governmental power, radical Islam's main goal is a unified world under Islam; a theocratic goal. - inactive, on 02/08/2008, -3/+14You, sir, are a genius. Bravo!
- HenvY, on 02/08/2008, -4/+15National debt has increased massively under Bush, yet it was falling under Clinton until the end.
- HenvY, on 02/08/2008, -7/+18What's with the Conservative invasion of digg?
- RandoTheKing, on 02/08/2008, -0/+11The whole logic of voting for a 'party' simply because it's what you've always done is completely flawed. Candidates don't even stick to the traditional Democractic or Replublican views anymore. People need to start voting for a candidate because they believe in what he/she stands for.
- inactive, on 02/08/2008, -0/+11Funny they make the reference to Goldwater.......Doesn't Goldwater Jr. endorse Ron Paul?
- jerbaker, on 02/08/2008, -1/+11And here I was thinking that the reason nobody was buying American-made goods was because there's no such thing as American-made goods since we exported our entire manufacturing base to China. You can bet your ass that wasn't a "liberal" idea.
- ZenFountain, on 02/08/2008, -5/+15Damn, the fundie mob attacks again. I'm not a McCain supporter but it's quite funny to watch him getting fragged by his own people because he dared to reach across the isle a few times in the Senate and question the sanity of a tax cut in a time of war. Looks like Reagan's unholy GOP alliance has finally been blown apart, if you really think that electing a Democrat this term and hoping for disaster will increase the chances of a "real" conservative winning next time, you should read up on the New Labour party and try to understand why Britain's conservative party is in the perennial dumpster. This could be twilight for the GOP if the base fractures.
- maxvolt, on 02/08/2008, -11/+21Huck is a walking oximoron. He is a social conservative but a fiscal idiot (liberal). he never saw a tax he didnt like. More of the same forced dependence on Government to provide services (funded by taxpayer dollars) that industry could provided cjeaper and more efficiently. Hucks a loser too. This is all the Republican National Committees fault , they have failed us and allowed frigin socialist to infiltrate the Republican party...our founders are rolling over in their graves...the democrats lost it a long time ago, you would have thought the republicans would have learned from their error..but no the lemmings marched off the same damn cliff and hadn't the balls to keep the socialist liberals out of the party.
- Apokalyps2547, on 02/08/2008, -1/+10If John McCain is a "lefty" then what the hell is your definition of a moderate?
The conservatives have pulling the scale to the right in American politics. Mainstream liberals are called "communists". Moderates are called "socialists / liberals". Fascists are called "conservatives".
Face it: McCain is Right-of-center. It's true. He's a war hawk, pro-life, opposes the assault weapons ban and opposes gay civil unions. You see that he's further left than you and you stop just short of calling him a godless communist, but I dare say it's YOU that is out of touch with reality. - inactive, on 02/08/2008, -8/+17Why do right wingers keep telling me who is a "leftist?" I'M a leftist. John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama aren't leftists. They are all right-of-center, typical, corporate-owned and operated sock-puppets. The only leftist in the Senate is Vermont's Bernie Sanders.
Just because a candidate is to the left of you extreme right wing fruitloops, doesn't make them a "leftist." They would actually have to support leftist ideals like ending corporate personhood, cutting the US military down to pre WW2 size, nationalizing healthcare and true election reforms. NONE of the presidential candidates still in the race support anything remotely "left." - inactive, on 02/08/2008, -2/+11Thank you for showing your complete lack of knowledge regarding the entire election process. I'm sure there is something you are very good at and suggest you stick with that. Predicting the outcomes of elections isn't one of them so go back to your PSII and kill the bad guys.
- these3remain, on 02/08/2008, -2/+11WoW! A post from a Ron Paul supporter that makes sense to me and isn't full of vitriolic, hostility toward others! Bravo! It gives me hope that there does exist some Ron Paul supporters that aren't rabid dogs on digg. I dug you up simply in light of that.
- ThyLabyrinth, on 02/08/2008, -3/+12Dude, it's called "corporate welfare".
You have less choice and thus must do business with them, the couple of big corps, who pay the candidates to make sure they're the only business around for your tax Dollars.
It's a perverse upside-down socialism which would make Lenin blush. - Zakalwe2, on 02/08/2008, -0/+9Who gives a *****? He can't beat either Hillary or Barak. I'm not concerned at all with any of his right/left positions except for his bloodlust.
- inactive, on 02/08/2008, -7/+16Historically, McAmnesty has voted dimocrap more often than Republican as a Senator. Third party and go down on principle.
- impei, on 02/08/2008, -1/+9Sorry, but that prize goes to Rudy Giuliani: $50 million spent for zero delegates. Paul already has 14 and he might still get more.
- inactive, on 02/08/2008, -8/+16max, if Hillary and Obama were such terrible nationalizing socialists, could you explain to me why they receive so much money from corporations? Are American corporations too stupid to know that they are donating money that will lead to their own demise? I think not, and I think that you do not understand the nature of the New World Order.
All of the candidates that are still viable, as well as the fellow now living in the White House are part of the same corporate party. There are no conservatives in sight. They all want to grow the government, some weighted more towards suborning the population with handouts, some towards controlling the population with bigger military and security infrastructure, but they will all spend us into penury.
The only conservative that we have seen in the last twenty years is the fellow who was marginalized by the media, Rep Ron Paul. But you have been trained to believe that a giant intrusive military is somehow conservative. That is crazy.
A giant military is a tool that the government will use to control the population and limit individual liberty.
You are like Pavolv's dogs my friend. The owners ring their bells and you salivate. - inactive, on 02/08/2008, -1/+9Bloomberg has been mulling an independent run, and it has been said that he wants to "get in it to win it" and not just make a statement or anything. He's a liberal Democrat who joined the Republican Party just to become the Mayor of NYC. The public will probably see a Republican Mayor with liberal positions to be a "moderate".
- Quakee, on 02/08/2008, -1/+9My thoughts exactly. Its so sad when the best the GOP has left can be so easily compared to the Taliban - Christian style.
- inactive, on 02/08/2008, -3/+11I'm leaving the party.
M~ - tehbored, on 02/08/2008, -3/+11If it turns out he's been lying about his stance on the Iraq war I might actually vote for him.
- jerbaker, on 02/08/2008, -0/+8Strange how Republicans TALK about not wanting activist judges, but that's exactly what they want. Any judge who reads the Constitution and Bill of Rights as limiting the power of the state to regulate people's personal lives, who doesn't believe that entities that have no living body (corporations) have human rights, and who is against wholesale police state tactics of heavily armed police searching random people on the street, is an activist judge according to the wing nuts.
- Peko, on 02/08/2008, -0/+8Ok, I'm feeling that a lot of strongly self identified conservatives think McCain isn't the right candidate for their beliefs. I'm also quite aware of the media play this particular point of view gets. But here's my point - how come "conservatism" is so over simplified? I mean, you get fiscal conservatism, social conservatism, libertarianism (and others i'm sure i've glossed over) They are not all the same things, and I really don't think any one particular "branch" is any more worthy of the moniker "conservative" than any other.
It also sorta weirds me out when different branches seem to be in conflict. For example - social conservatism prides itself on gov't regulation of moral standards, like what should and shouldn't be shown on television. And libertarianism would seem to suggest the gov't has no bizniz telling people what they can or cannot watch.
Can somebody help explain this? - drunkentoad, on 02/08/2008, -9/+17"100 years in Iraq" - that quote might suggest otherwise
- bxblox, on 02/08/2008, -1/+9Mike "make the constitution more like the bible" Huckabee? Really?
- PotatoFro, on 02/08/2008, -0/+7George W Bush is a far cry from a real conservative republican.
- norsurfit, on 02/08/2008, -0/+7I don't trust this commentary from the NY Post. They frequently have an agenda in their political commentary.
- jamesotis, on 02/08/2008, -0/+7Not all of us tree-huggers are liberals. Going back to my first vote for Goldwater, my credentials have been unassailable. But conservative and conservation have the same root for a reason.
- kinghajj, on 02/08/2008, -0/+7Political parties are counter-productive. Register as a "Decline to State"/whatever your state calls it, and ignore the "(D)" and "(R)"s next to people's names--just *listen* to them speak and decide for yourself.
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