Conservatives will support McCain no matter who he picks as VP

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

but…”A coordinated effort between the media and Obama to hurt McCain with the GOP base”

Naw

Picking one could hurt him.

These stories are from several sources. The main ones are people that like to see their name in print. Like me. Except I wouldn’t print a false story and attribute it to an anonymous source.

I have integrity.

Most people that write in print or the web don’t?

But I am sure some of the stories are from McCain’s campaign as trial balloons, but mostly just to make pro-choicers feel good that McCain considered their kind. The country clubbers that hate us pro-life Christians. They didn’t like Reagan either.

But we don’t care about stories.

We care about the actual pick.

The Weekly Standard ran a story on McCain sounding out conservatives on the prospect of a pro-choice veep pick, which was the first I’d heard the story.

Personally, I think the McCain campaign is playing games, trying to keep the Democrats off-balance. It’s only us political junkies who will hear the “maybe he will, maybe he won’t” stories, so it won’t damage him with the general electorate, who are only going to hear his real choice anyway.

Kind of interesting…

I was just beginning to warm up to Sen McCain’s candidacy when I hear that he is considering Joe Lieberman for his Vice Presidential candidate. This would be a huge mistake in my opinion and would force me to sit out this election. I am a 63 year old married white male conservative. I consider McCain to be too liberal already but if he chooses Lieberman the team would be totally unacceptable to me. I could enthusiastically support (yes financially) a McCain – Romney ticket but if my only choices are two liberal Democrats or a liberal Republican and a liberal Democrat – I’ll sit that one out on the hope that Republicans will “see the light” in the next election and nominate a conservative. It’s your choice Senator but if you go totally liberal you will totally lose.

   The way things are today, especially after seeing the snow jobs being done by the MSM outlets over the past 20 years or so, I’ve taken to keeping any and all reports from them concerning conservative (and some not-so-conservative) Republican Presidential candidates away from me with a 20-foot pointy stick.  It’s more effective than a grain of salt, anyways.

   What’s more important to me is whether or not the President has the experience necessary to take on some of the situations in which we may find ourselves in the future.  Not whether or not we are “loved” because of him, or if some national sin is being exorcized by electing a President based on his ancestry, skin color or whether or not he fits some mold based on peculiar prejudices or collective guilt trips.  What I’m definitely not for is the United States morphing into Sweden under a second Carter Presidency and sitting around chanting “Kumbayah” while Russia or some other rogue nation rolls over everyone within reach and leaves us (or, more precisely, a younger generation to which my nieces and nephew belong) with the fallout.

   McCain has done some things which I dislike, including working with some of the same socialist Democrats whose chosen candidate referred to Red State voters as “bitter” and “clinging” to God and guns (Thank God for alternative media on that), but I haven’t seen him leave the Republican party ala Jim Jeffords (whose “independence” was a sham) or declare himself entirely in opposition to issues which may affect our future.  It’s a choice of the lesser evil in this case, and I can’t see a viable conservative Third Party emerging unless all possible options are exhausted.

Putting out these “stories” and “feelers” about a pro-choice VP.

Really.

Bear with me for a moment.

Back in high school, I had a friend who fell in love (or lust, as this was a pair of sixteen year olds) with a Japanese girl. This was an absolute no-no for his parents (not at all uncommon among Koreans). They would have made his life miserable. So he goes to his parents, tells them that he has something serious that he needs to share with them, and tells them this: “Mom, Dad – I’m gay, and I’m in love with Steve (random name).”

First generation Korean immigrants not being particular open to that lifestyle, they absolutely blow their top. The mom starts hysterically crying, his father doesn’t know what to do, their whole world collapses in on them. Whereupon my friend says, “Actually, I’m not gay — but I am dating a Japanese girl.”

I believe the McCain campaign is pulling the same stunt.

Which is why the VP choice is Romney. I think the decision was made, but the McCain people need a way to sell Romney to the base. Given Romney’s less-than-stellar pro-life record (although since the primaries, he’s sworn up and down that he is pro-life, and has been very very strong on that point), this strikes me as a smart move.

The evangelicals and the base that thought Romney was unacceptable because of his Mormon religion or his slickness or failure to be orthodox on abortion or whatever might breathe a sigh of relief if McCain flirts with Tom Ridge, with Joe Lieberman, and the like, but names Romney.

That’s my speculative $0.02.

-TS

There is a wide range of what those terms, Pro-Choice and Pro-Life means isn’t there?

On one pole is the Sam Brownback sort of Pro-Lifer, and on the other not exactly Pro-Lifer would be what Tom Ridge?

Is someone who supports exceptions for Life of the Mother, incest and rape acceptable, or only someone from the absolutist stance need apply?

What exactly is the litmus test that is being constructed for John McCain to run his running mate through?

If it’s for real, then I’ll vote and donate money to a third party, hoping that a new pro-life party can rise from the ashes of the once conservative Republican party. McCain cannot compromise on life without becoming just another libral