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Isn't it "belly"-aching?

And I have commited to withholding my criticism of him on this site. I save my rants for other places. And, quite honestly, despite my disappointment with him on 3 specific issues, given my limited amount of time in a day, I am saving my rants for Obama currently. 'Cuz Lord knows I don't agree with that man on any topic.
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Just a typical, small town, white girl...

"Being a moderate or conservative does not matter in the long run, it's if the person is a leader."

FDR was a great leader, but in the long run he turned this country from a free market economy to a mixed socialist-free market economy burdened by a massive welfare state. Leadership is great, but it doesn't do any good if somebody leads us down the wrong road.

however healthy that might be, and we can't win elections with whining and half-endorsements along the lines of "McCain sucks, but I suppose I'll vote for him."

He wasn't my first choice, but I'm for him, for him, for him!

Pass the popcorn for the

Yawn.

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important to you than reality.

"Not really, but it seems that this site has turned a sharp anti-McCain and this kind of rhetoric can only help Barack Obama become President."

Is that a fact? That would explain all the anti-McCain diaries currently in the recommended list. Oh wait - there are none. As a matter of fact I haven't seen but one or two of the long time posters who we all know have a gripe against McCain saying much of anything anti-McCain. I see a lot of them having said, and standing by, a desire to see McCain elected over the alternatives.

You should read my diary about winners, and take some of the advice there. Particularly that this argument about John McCain is over and there is no sense dredging it up any longer. Instead we should be working for the future, especially in congress...and if you pay very close attention you'll notice that is exactly what most of the recommended diaries are about right now.

You basically accept all the liberal premises and argue from there.

Pork barrel spending is not a Republican problem. It is an elected official problem and not likely to go away as long as districts desire their representatives to do it. Making it a national issue to be fixed will more than likely cause a bigger problem than what it is now (like some kind of pork barrel fairness doctrine).

Ending corruption. We could make a justice dept that would investigate allegations of corruption. What? Someone did that already? Okay, problem solved. Also, if voters suspect that their rep may have done something corrupt like driving their girlfriend off a bridge and not telling the cops till well after she drowned, then they can go ahead and vote them out of office. Corruption is NOT a Republican problem.

A successful end to Iraq? You already accept that this needs to end or that it is not successful enough now. I would like to extend McCain's "100 years" to "200 years or whenever the heck they ask us to leave!" There is no urgent need to pull out of Iraq. There never will be. Stop accepting their premise. This war has been among the most successful wars of all time. Donald Rumsfeld should be running for President, not getting kicked in the teeth with stupid "I supported the surge" type comments as if Rumsfeld's strategy was causing nothing but pain and misery. His stick it out strategy was what made the "surge" so dang successful!!!!! The only thing the Republican party should take blame for on Iraq is not countering the liberal blather with the truth on a daily basis so that we wouldn’t have so many of us like Gator accepting this premise.

While you're at it, why don't you just accept every premise the left throws at us, so we can try to bend over backwards to appease them.

Sure I agree that opposing McCain now is supporting the other guy, but at what point would you draw the line? When McCain says (hypothetical coming up, try not to let your head explode) he won't fight the war on terror? When McCain says he wants to raise taxes and spend more? When McCain says he will only appoint Ginsberg style justices? At what point? Hopefully you'll come to realize that you too have a cut-off and that you only differ from the "I won't vote for McCain" types by degrees. For myself, my cutoff is when McCain ceases to differ from the opposition on those three key issues. He is not that far away from completely losing me.

You want to stop losing elections? Then start running conservative campaigns like what the southern democrats are doing now. You want to make a national sweep? Run a national conservative campaign like we did in 94. This pork/corruption/Iraq mantra is crap.

"Hey, I call 'em like I see 'em. I'm a whale biologist."

have agreed to support McCain even though we don't think of him as our FIRST (or fourth) preference for president.

WHY?

We've agreed to be on your side. Do you REALLY want us to get so angry with being beat over the head that we stay home? And WE are core party voters.

We are supporting him. He's doing his best to not accept our support, but we're still behind him. Are you trying to drive us away?

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Gator,

I hate to say this but you sound like a hall monitor in junior high who is pissed because the basketball team stuck him in his locker.

And next time you want to court conservatives in order to persuade them to vote for McCain I suggest you leave out the insults such as this:

""SO WHAT?!" Says the average conservative on this site while they pound their keyboard. "McCain's an environmentalist and will be speaking to the evil La Raza! The bloody moderate must be stop from ruining my party!!""

This is your typical get in line and shut up comment that ends up exacerbating the original issue. Its not my party and its not your party...its our party. And we will disagree on policy and should be allowed to voice our opinions. We have a serious problem in our country when it come to both environmentalist and illegal immigration, and I am gonna say that again because I am sure I need to, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

The base is going to vote for the party, it's what we do, that's why we are called the BASE. If you can't stand to debate the issues regardless of the election than you need to rethink your political activism.

I personally can walk and chew gum at the same time, so I will continue to support the candidate while debating the core issues that define the party beyond this one election. Now if that is to hard for you to do then I suggest you just do pro McCain diaries and leave the other platform issues to those who seek debate rather than capitulation.

At least that my 2 cents.

"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!

and I will fault him or anyone else for a law that is so blatantly so.

I'll still vote for him and pray that he wins.