Thursday, Mark opened his show with his thoughts about the possibility of McCain choosing Tom Ridge as his running mate. Mark pointed out why Ridge is bad on the issues of abortion and national security.
“John McCain will decide whether this election is won or lost by his own conduct.”
Bottom line, if McCain wants to win, he had better pick a true conservative!
Poor Rush,Can't even enjoy the dam superbowl this year.And it took two government motor's to beat one Ford Fusion... 
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Yes, Barak Obama does not control this election. It is truly John McCain’s to win or lose.
Many people have outstanding abilities in sports, business and theater. Yet despite these abilities all of them, just like all of us, have flaws. In some cases those flaws are insignificant and in others they are so great as to undermine and destroy what would otherwise be outstanding careers. McCain may have given us a an example of courage, perseverance and resistance against a determined enemy, that few would deny was outstanding, yet as a republican wannabe president he is unrecognizable as having roots in the party he is supposed to represent. He wants to be a republican and he wants to be a conservative, but he is neither. He almost appears as a man struggling to defeat narcolepsy by striving to become an insomniac and thus gropes for a conservative identity in the land of self-manufactured dreams but instead succumbs to one, not manufactured by himself, but by his alter ego, the Rasputin who whispers in his ear, Guber Lindsey Graham, who we now know is the real man who defines the un-maverick John McCain to be what he is.
Who really is John McCain? Is he the man behind McCain/Feingold or the First Amendment? Is he for immigration reform of the sovereignty of nations? Does he support habeas for non-uniformed combatant terrorists or is he satisfied with Constitutional military tribunals? Is he for the unambiguous recognition that a late term baby in the womb is no different than that same baby outside the womb? Does he believe that water boarding is unjustified, even if thousands of lives may be preserved because of it? Does he believe that all core principles, some core principles or no core principles should be compromised to win an election?
Having an outstanding military career along with a senatorial history as a modest spender does not make a conservative. Many democrats share the same background. If McCain is to govern as a republican he needs to show us something that his track record doesn’t. The final and last place that he can afford to make a mistake is by choosing a VP, that may be his replacement at any time during his presidency, or beyond his presidency, for an additional eight years. To choose a moderate to attract independents, in the manner described by Dick Morris, who is often more wrong than right, or to do so to get along with the other side, as practiced by his RINO friends, is suicidal. Despite what pundits say he seriously needs enthusiastic base support and while he does need independents and some democrats he will find them all in the large majority of Americans that reject the liberalism of Obama and recognize the need for a fast-racked energy independence policy leading to a strong economy. There are many excellent conservatives out there that will attract all Americans on these issues, so why not choose one that your base can rally behind? We have put up with his slow learning curve and his abuse for a long, long time. He can count on some of us being so disgusted with Obama that we will vote for him regardless but he cannot count on all of to do so and that is where this election may be won or lost. He doesn’t have to take the chance. Barrack Obama has defined what the Country does not like about liberals and it is now McCain’s chance to show them how well he understands their dislike and why he offers them the conservative difference that we all deserve.
I had placed my disgust for John McCain On-Hold for the past few months. During this time, I focused on Obama and how he could severely damage the country if elected. His Marxist tendencies have started to come out through his actions, associations, and lofty speeches. I had hoped in the back of my mind that McCain would come to his senses and choose a Conservative VP like Romney. Romney is squeaky clean, attractive, articulate, smart, and has exceptional business knowledge. He would supplement McCain’s lack of Conservatism and lack of business knowledge. Furthermore, if McCain were to win and then serve only a single term, we would have Romney running for President in 2012. This prospect would make McCain and his antics almost bearable for the next four years.
But, we have recently heard that McCain’s “staff” is pushing hard for Lieberman for VP. Right, it’s McCain’s “staff”, not McCain himself! Lieberman? He’s a liberal Democrat! Again, he’s a DEMOCRAT! When was the last time a Republican picked a Democrat for his running mate? Would a democrat ever pick a Republican for VP (exclude John McCain because he was actually contemplating running with Kerry in 2004). If you’ve noticed, Lieberman and Lindsey “Goober” Graham are always in McCain’s entourage when he tours solar cell plants, wind turbine farms, electric car plants, and bean sprout greenhouses donned in his baseball cap. Tom Ridge is hardly better! He tried to derail President Reagan’s Star Wars plan in a way reminiscent of Obama’s exclusion of 3D mapping for offshore oil exploration.
McCain has offended the Conservative base numerous times since assuming the nomination. Looking at the alternative (Obama), Conservatives have cut McCain lots of slack lately. However, Conservative see the VP choice as McCain’s LAST CHANCE to show that he “hears” them and understands their issues. If he picks Lieberman or Ridge, (especially Lieberman) he will have alienated the Conservative base beyond repair and will lose!
I have made this position known to the McCain campaign through numerous emails and through a personal call to the Southwestern Region Political Director of the McCain Campaign, Andy Nichol. One more slap in the face through a Lieberman VP choice and Conservatives will abandon McCain by the millions forever!
It’s your move McCain, you decide, Win or Lose!
I’ve seen McCain’s “Washington’s Broke” TV Ad run numerous times during the Olympics. The “Washington’s Broke” Ad is bleak, depressing, anti-Bush, and anti-capitalism. The Ad states the following:
1. Washington’s broke, John McCain knows it
2. We’re worse off than we were 4 years ago.
3. Only McCain has taken on big tobacco and drug companies
4. He has fought corruption in both parties
5. He’ll reform Wall Street and battle Big Oil.
6. He’ll make America prosper again.
7. He’s the original Maverick.
Washington is broke. “Broke” means politicians that are unresponsive to the will of the American people. It was McCain that tried to ramrod the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill past Conservative Republicans without giving them enough time to read it despite his phone lines being lit up by thousands of constituents violently against his plan. If Washington is Broke, McCain took a lead role in its destruction. We’re worse off than we were 4 years ago? What, is McCain running against George Bush? This is just his feeble attempt again, of trying to pander to the anti-Bush crowd that wouldn’t vote for McCain anyway. What does he mean by “battle BIG OIL”? How will he reform WALL STREET? Is there something fundamentally wrong with speculation in a free-market? McCain is totally clueless. He doesn’t understand free-markets or what makes the economy work. What kind of lame-brain advisers does he have writing these scripts? Innovative businesses through free-market capitalism is what made America great! There is NOTHING wrong with Oil Companies! They only make 7% profit! Taxing them or making it more difficult to operate will only RAISE the price of GAS! Why join in with the leftist language of the democrats and use the term BIG OIL? Capitalism is what will cure the economy, NOT BIGGER GOVERNMENT! Drug companies develop drugs that save lives. Would McCain penalize them for being innovative? McCain WILL NOT WIN THE CAMPAIGN BY TRYING TO OUT “socialist” Barack Obama! He should quit trying to be a bigger democrat than his democrat opponent, man up, and be a real Republican! Conservatism is the recipe for America to “Change” for the better! If McCain truly puts “Country First”, then he will adopt Conservative values and principles! McCain is the nominee of the Republican party (not the democrat party). (I wonder if anyone in his campaign staff realizes this.) He owes it to the majority of Republicans (conservatives) to reflect THEIR VALUES and THEIR POSITIONS in his campaign! If McCain choses a Lib for VP, Republican delegates should draft a Romney/Sarah Palin ticket for president and overthrow this weasel!
Slickwillyman,
McCain did well in the Saddleback forum. After reading your critique I can’t disagree and I suspect that had you asked these questions, instead of Rick Warren, and his answers were what you posted he would have been in trouble. His positive response should have taught him that his improved poll ratings are based upon Americans, both conservatives, republicans and blue dog democrats and anything to the contrary will diminish his new ratings and stature.
A VP pick that is conservative supports and cements what we all see as a new McCain that is in sync with mainstream American values that are to the right of center. He need not reach out to independents. They are already in his corner and Obama’s leftist agenda, inexperience and recent international events helped put them there. Should he pick Romey all evangelicals will vote on the basis that Romney is both conservative and a religious man of character and governs as a secularist with religious convictions. His record in Massachusetts, a blue State, guarantees this. In fact he did better than McCain did in a red state. Yes evangelicals would prefer an original but Romney is the next best thing and also shares their values and they have absolutely no alternative to vote for that even comes close. What is most important is that it solidifies the base, and most Americans as well, who now dislike and are frightened by Obama, and when they go to the polls they will do so enthusiastically and that means that republican representatives and Senators will benefit as well. A conservative VP is the best insurance of a McCain victory and just as importantly keeps any democrat potential congressional gains in check. What is equally important is that my closed checkbook opens very widely and he can expect many more donations from the rest of us that will certainly come around. Most of all he will be doing the right thing because conservative values are American values that have made her strong, prosperous and free, Those are values and convictions to be proud if.
In these economic times of uncertainty Romney seals the deal with the perception that everyone considers him an economic guru. Make no mistake about the fact that this election is not about Iraq; it is about people’s pockets. We are looking for an energy czar and I believe Romney understands our environmental dilemma and he is the best qualified to overcome it without being labeled a big oil man. More than that I believe that is the public’s perception as well. He is fast on his feet and Obama cannot bring up his religion without opening a door straigt into a Reverend Wright Sermon. Romney’s explanation of his Mormon faith (he should not have had to do that) was a lot better than Obama’s explanation of his twenty year association with his radical pastor mentor. On the other hand, if he picks Bobby Jindal, we lose a good governor and Obama can counter that his inexperience justifies his own.