After years of Cool Britannia, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and a country changed beyond recognition, I wonder how they feel now ?

I don’t necessarily like the choices either, but the election’s going forward anyway. To my way of thinking, President McCain is much, much, much preferable to President Hillary or President Obama.

Use the wright in option on the ballot. Write your own name in for president; this will send a clear message to the Republican Party’s Leadership, that they are totally out of step with conservative Goals & purpose.

John McCain will not be much different than his Democrat counterparts. What will be different is the reaction of the Republicans in the House and Senate. If a Democrat is elected, it will be acceptable for Republicans to try to block and fight what socialist program a Democrat POTUS is trying to foist on us. Under McCain, true conservatives will become the mavericks and will be considered traitors to their party.

Like the Democrat candidates, no one is looking at McCain’s record and how he has twarted his own party, and their agenda, time after time. He is another “reporting for duty” candidate who is now claiming credit for the surge. Sorry, that dog won’t hunt.

If left of center independents are the ones voting for McCain, what does that tell you? McCain is not carrying the vote of true conservatives. Those of us who buy into the platform of the Republican party are not behind McCain.

But the media is. We are being told to suck it up and just accept a man who considers John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, Mel Martinez and other liberals as his friends. He stands on the podium with Lindsey “we will tell the racists to shut up” Graham and I would go so far as to say that there is a good chance McCain will pick Graham as his running mate. So much for our borders. Odd that the McCain campaign told Martinez to stay at home while he was in Florida. Simply, McCain has to run from his record while he is in a state that is severly affected by illegal immigration.

So go ahead and vote for McCain if he is the GOP nominee. But don’t whine to us true conservatives when he gives you a government that is more oppressive than you could have ever dreamed.

soviets did not sacrifice any of their own blood for freedom. They kept all the land they took from the Nazis. They are also responsible for the very existence of North Korea. A gift that keeps in giving.

Thompson was speaking about the personal sacrifices. There’s a difference between country’s politics and that. Most of the Russian anti-Stalinists were still supporting the fight against Hitler. I have a number of relatives that did wonders of heroism in that war, and they were totally anti-soviet people. If you claim that their sacrifices did nothing for the cause of freedom, you piss on their graves.

Um. Britain, France, Yugoslavia and USSR were in it for survival at the most basic, civilian by civilian level. Bit of a difference there.

And USA didn’t enter the war until the attack on Pearl Harbor. Which was more than 2 years after invasion of Poland, and more than a year after the bombing of London began.
Guys, seriously, do you really believe that the claim that “USA shed more blood for the cause of freedom than all the other countries combined” is anything but the ignorant and offensive BS?

This is a primary race, was not aware that Moderates/Independents represented the base of the Republican Party. Secondly, it hard to make such claim when practically everyone is telling Conservatives to just shut up and nominate McCain because he has moderate/independent voters.

If the race is all about ‘gaining moderates and independent voters’ why then do not moderate/independent voters run a candidate who can get the Conservative vote?

How will Moderates/Independents persuade me to choose between a McCain and an Obama?

Like what happened under four years of Jimmy Carter, America will indeed wake-up when their lives are directly affected by the policies they demanded, right now things are too good; give it four years under a high Misery Index and real change will occur.

When a Democrat is President, they will use the bully pulpit, something that Bush has rarely done (and done poorly when he tried to). Billy boy used it all the time and his wife will ride all over that thing. Things aren’t going to get better by handing the reigns over to the Democrats. Conservatives will remain the specter. They will still blame us.

The true damage will take a lot longer to surface than the end of Hillary or Obama’s first term. The damage will be deep and it will grow. I can’t say if I’ll be able to stomach voting for Straight Talk or not, it’s not an enticing prospect, but let there be no confusion: America isn’t going to ‘wake up’ under the command of Hillary or Obama.

Conservatives seem to want respect but refuse to extend it. Of course this doesn’t characterize all conservatives but a great many of the more vocal ones come across this way.