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2.7.08 @ 12:01AM

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McCain or any Democrat will be bad news for this country. McCain will also be bad news for the conservative movement. Some good friends mention judges but, seeing McCain parse words and assign highly personal interpretation to them, I see not reason to trust him. This campaign has left me doubting his honesty.
-- Laurence

I fear that Americans will be faced with choosing between two "Battered Syndrome" candidates come election time: a former president's wife, battered by the infidelities of a marriage, out for the redemptive powers of self worth; a Senator, secretly ashamed of POW status and batterings by captors in Hanoi, looking for a life do-over.

Both candidates are out to prove, to themselves at the public's expense, they remain unaffected by their pasts. Neither are trustworthy. Both display a lack of integrity. Each feels superior to the actual citizen, the people's opinions be damned. Equally, they carry grudges against real and imagined slights.

The American people can expect four years of battering, no matter the winning candidate.
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn, New Jersey

I believe that unless there is limited, constitutional government there can be no legitimate government. What part of limited, constitutional government does McCain, in his monstrous arrogance, embrace?

I have always framed the "immigration" debate in terms of limited, constitutional government. There cannot be limited, constitutional government if our rulers can transfer our hard-earned wealth to anyone who enters our country illegally. There cannot be limited, constitutional government if our rulers can debase our sovereignty by enfranchising millions of aliens in our country illegally.

The 1986 amnesty, which was sold to us as the last amnesty, turned California from Reagan country to the land of Pelosi. Our rulers will swamp out the last pockets of Reagan Country if we permit them they enfranchise the millions of illegal aliens that have flooded this once Free land since the 1986 debacle. This election is our last chance to stop our rulers from this treason.

We cannot win with McCain. Yet we will have lost if McCain wins. Our last best hope of remaining a Free people is to stop McCain from carrying the mantel of the party that left Reagan into the general election, whatever the price. And then pray God we can soldier on and stop the American hating Left that is the party of moveon.org.

There is limited, constitutional government or there is no legitimate government.

The Reagan coalition has been lost in the Bushes and there will be hell to pay. I will not vote for McCain. Bush is the shipwreck of our hopes. Hillary is the graveyard of our Freedoms. I weep for my beloved country.
-- Ralph Diamond
Annapolis, Maryland

The Republicans lost the White House last night. Conservatives outvoted McCain, but McCain/Huckabee outmaneuvered conservatives. Evangelicals who thought that the party was about to see the light were clearly in the dark about Huckabee's angle. He may not realize it now, but he just kissed any future he might have had in this party goodbye.

What thinking, rational person really believes McCain can unite this party. Quite apart from his past, McCain will remain unable to long disguise his contempt for conservatives. He loathes conservatives and telegraphs that disdain in a million different ways.

We will now have a four-year "palette cleansing" which may help the republican party recover from it's the chronic vertigo which 12 years of Bush presidencies have yielded. The Bushes seem like wonderful men, but conservatives they ain't. They may have some conservative instincts but they lack a deeply imbedded core conservative philosophy; their perspectives are more patrician than reliably conservative.

So 2010 may yield a Republican recovery of both houses and 2012 may find an authentic conservative eagerly embraced by a majority of the party, RINO's notwithstanding.
-- Larry Easton

The rejection of McCain by conservatives won't be the only problem facing the Republican "establishment" if this RINO becomes the party's standard bearer. There will doubtless be a dramatic plunge in campaign contributions to the GOP. The urgency of fighting a Democrat takeover of Washington just won't be there if a Democratic Republican like McCain gets the Republican nomination. As a prior contributor to the "good fight," this committed conservative will absolutely NOT open his wallet to a Republican party that will at best -- if McCain wins -- be a co-conspirator in his brand of half baked, corrupt, left wing populism. Contributing to such a compromised organization would be akin to trying to keep a horse with two broken legs on life support. For this reason, if McCain gets the nod, humane conservatives will do the right thing in November '08 and put the worthless GOP out of its misery.
-- Peter R. McGrath
Winter Park, Florida

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