So Much for a Warm Welcome

Republican conservatives just can???t seem to accept the will of the American voter. Talk radio hosts and Fox News commentators seem to be in shell shock about McCain???s success. What they fail to see is that they are the problem and we can see through them. While their theatrics are good entertainment, we are tired of their hate-filled rhetoric, tirades, and lies. The traditional heart of the Republican Party is returning to its roots because we see through these neocons. We know of their Iran-Contra propaganda and untruths about Whitewater and the Clintons.

Two examples of their favorite rantings come to mind: homosexuals and abortion. In 2008, most Americans have a gay family member, coworker, neighbor, or friend. We realize that gays don???t want ???special rights,??? just the rights afforded them under the U.S. Constitution. I???m not even going to discuss gay marriage here, because straight people have done enough to make a joke of this sacred institution. No person I know would ever be in favor of abortion, but it is legal and the right of the mother. Why must the right-wingers decide that we are not intelligent and need them to decide our opinions on these issues?

Limbaugh, Coulter, Ingraham, and Hannity and their like have enjoyed a ride, but now we see though their vile. Their opinions are yesterday???s news and we are tired of them. Perhaps they should form their own party, because they are no longer welcome in the GOP. The Republican voters decided that at the polls.

Atlanta Voter

To remind you about what Bush did to Mccain, he called people up by phone, asking them: "Did you know that McCain has a black child" suggesting that the kid was illegitimate with a black woman. While actually they adopted a handicapped Bangladeshi kid from Mother Teresa, on his wiife's iniative. And yes, yes, Bush denied everything, but how credible is that? Not very.

The thing that chaps me more than anything else is that myself and other moderate republicans held our tongues, and our noses, and voted with these bozos in 2000 and again in 2004. Now that we have a so-called moderate on the ticket, these "children" can't do the same thing. It almost like they are taking their ball and bat and going home. GROW UP CONSERVATIVES! Be a team player like the rest of us did in 04. Bush would never have won re-election without moderates voting for him. These guys are hiding their betrayal behind the cloak of "standing on principle" . . . it's more like "standing on selfishness" I think I'm going to puke when we lose.

All of these so called conservatives who are bashing McCain are idiots, pure and simple. If you don't vote for McCain you are handing the Presidency to the Democrats, so we will have a Democrat controlled Congress, Senate, and White House. Which means more than likely we will end up with the health care system of France and the military of Canada, sounds good. I'm beginning to think that these idiots like Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh have hidden motives for disapproving of McCain, i.e. ratings. Maybe they want a Democrat in the white house so they have fours years to complain. Idiots. Don't compromise, don't back your parties shoe-in nominee, don't have a Republican become the next President. It's okay you so called conservatives not everyone disagrees with you, Al Queda agrees with Limbaugh and Coulter too., they are the ones that truly stand to benefit from your treason.

Karstmaster - ooops your arrogance is showing. You've just demonstrated perfectly what I'm talking about with the far right. You guys always think you're on the moral high ground, how perfectly disgusting. Why else would you make disparaging comments about my morals and principles?? Do you have nothing substantive to ague about. If this were a football game, your QB Bush would be 2 - 20 with 4 interceptions! You guys belong on the bench. You just can't accept that the policies of the far right have made this country worse off, not better. And as far as McCain, I don't for a second think he is going to win the general election. 08 will be just like 06, a repudiation by the country of the last 8 years. Don't blame McCain for what the conservatives have done. This country is getting ready to shift to the left big time and that is a tragedy; thanks a lot!

Fellow Republicans, we must UNITE! McCain is the ONLY horse we have in this race and the longer we continue to deny that fact, the more lopsided the Democratic victory will be! I'd rather have a "semi-conservative" Republican in the White House than a full-blown Socialist Democrat (Hillary or Obama) in there. So wake up people! Let's unite behind McCain and do everything we can to get him elected.

Stop me if you've heard this one...an alcoholic, a drug addict and a megalomaniac are walking through the dessert. They are dying of thirst. They come upon a bottle of McCain brand soda. None of them like that brand much so they dump it on the ground and walk toward a mirage to their deaths..

Stop me if you've heard this one...an alcoholic, a drug addict and a megalomaniac are walking through the dessert. They are dying of thirst. They come upon a bottle of McCain brand soda. None of them like that brand much so they dump it on the ground and walk toward a mirage to their deaths..

As usual, the Newsweek view from the LEFT is full of half truths and out right obfustication. Yes, there is a philosophical debate going on between the social conservative wing of the Republican Party and the fiscal / national defense wing of the Party. While this debate is in place...similar to the debates the Party had ongoing during the Presidential nomination runs of Nelson Rockefeller (similar to McCain's views of the role and mission of the GOP) and Barry Goldwater (similar to McCain the need for a strong national defense).

What the smiling Socialist's of Newsweek should try to understand is that by the April the internal divisions within the GOP will seal to begin the campaign to defeat the newest Democratic hopefull....probably Obama. At that point, then it will be like shooting fish in a barrel for these folks as Obama really doesn't have a plan or a clue beyond stating the word "CHANGE" over and over in front of a crowd of yound people who really don't know that they are being used by a candidate that has no apparent policy direction or details on how he would manage the government and USA affairs around the world. From my standpoint, he is an empty suit and will be found out by the public before the November election.

As usual, the Newsweek view from the LEFT is full of half truths and out right obfustication. Yes, there is a philosophical debate going on between the social conservative wing of the Republican Party and the fiscal / national defense wing of the Party. While this debate is in place...similar to the debates the Party had ongoing during the Presidential nomination runs of Nelson Rockefeller (similar to McCain's views of the role and mission of the GOP) and Barry Goldwater (similar to McCain the need for a strong national defense).

What the smiling Socialist's of Newsweek should try to understand is that by the April the internal divisions within the GOP will seal to begin the campaign to defeat the newest Democratic hopefull....probably Obama. At that point, then it will be like shooting fish in a barrel for these folks as Obama really doesn't have a plan or a clue beyond stating the word "CHANGE" over and over in front of a crowd of yound people who really don't know that they are being used by a candidate that has no apparent policy direction or details on how he would manage the government and USA affairs around the world. From my standpoint, he is an empty suit and will be found out by the public before the November election.

Good old Newsweek. Nice of them to do a slam article about Ron Paul and an @$$ kissing one on John McCain at the same time. I will tell you this though, no republican with a good head on there shoulders should endorse McCain. This guys is just a liberal dressed up like a republican, and if he gets in the white house it will destroy the republican party and this country. I already got my bumber sticker! "Don't Blame Me...I Voted For Ron Paul"

Brad Frazier

UTGrad; you really should look to what it means to be a moral and principled individual as opposed to being someone who sells those things out for the perception of "electability" and "political expediency." Is it any surprise that now that McShamnesty has the GOP nomination wrapped up, rather than being up by about 6 points over Obama and Clinton in the polls, he's now behind?

What you've just demonstrated is that you have no reservations about going do the road of equivocation. In short, you'll sell out any moral, ideal, or principle just to get your party guy elected; just like the Democrats.

Hopefully the ill begotten marriage of moderates and far right fanatics will finally self destruct and we can move on to more meaningful political discourse and debate. Limbaugh, Coulter and the rest would have to climb a mighty tall ladder just to able to kiss John McCain's a**. They should all go crawl back under the hate mongering rock they came from.

Hopefully the ill begotten marriage of moderates and far right fanatics will finally self destruct and we can move on to more meaningful political discourse and debate. Limbaugh, Coulter and the rest would have to climb a mighty tall ladder just to able to kiss John McCain's a**. They should all go crawl back under the hate mongering rock they came from.

Hopefully the ill begotten marriage of moderates and far right fanatics will finally self destruct and we can move on to more meaningful political discourse and debate. Limbaugh, Coulter and the rest would have to climb a mighty tall ladder just to able to kiss John McCain's a**. They should all go crawl back under the hate mongering rock they came from.

Rush Limbaugh is not much more than an arm-chair quarterback - or sit-down comedian - take your pick. Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity and all the rest of these have 0 years of political experience. Lots of time on the sidelines throwing darts though - they've got that down. Rush says that McCain will destroy the Republican party - like he is part of this Republican party. He is really nothing more than any of us. An American citizen with a view. His view just gets publicized. The American public is speaking and Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity and all the rest need to listen...

Joe, I find it rather humourous that you carp about the "those radical conservatives" and how they've been running things for the last 7+ yrs. Has the conservative base, of which I'm proudly one, really been running things, there wouldn't have been the Harriet Myers debacle, nor McCain's sellout of excellent judicial nominees with his "Gang of 14" nonsense. There wouldn't have been McCain-Feingold, it would have been vetoed out of hand rather than signed into law with the lame hope that the courts would over turn it, Good luck with that happening with the court dominated by the likes of RBG and David David Breyer. Had the conservatives been truly in control, there wouldn't have been an effort to sneak McCain-Kennedy through, in some backroom deal, literally in the dead of night. Had the conservatives been firmly in control, there wouldn't be the possibility of McCain-Leiberman and all the cap and trade destruction of our economy to pander to global warming religion zealots.

It's your "Centurist Republicans," more commonly known as "RINO's," to the rest of us that are responsible for all that, and so much more, Trying to overturn the ban on partial birth abortion, suing Wisconsin Right to Life, to force them to shutup, to McCain stating that he wouldn't have nominated Samuel Alito because he "wears his conservatism on his sleeve." As if Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Renquist didn't wear their conservatism on their sleeves. McCain's recorded statement of Roberst and Alito being the benchmark for justices in the future means what exactly; that they're too conservative and so he'll nominate more moderate judges so he can pander to his buddies "Chappaquidick" Ted Kennedy, Dick "Turbin" Durbin, Patrick "Leaky" Leahy, Dianne "War Profiteer" Feinstein, "Up"Chuck "Schemer" and Hitlery Rottenhams Klintoon? Given his Senate track record, I'd bet a month's salary that is what he really means with his benchmark statement.

Regards,

Mike