Your point concerns innocents who are caught up in a war…I oppose war that deliberately targets noncombatants as opposed to war where noncombatants are accidentally killed due to faulty intelligence or close proximity to the enemy

On paper, they all seem the same. To an outsider, they all seem the same. Outsiders will try to make judgments from articles they find on Google or their voting records. This is bull. There are lots of backroom politickings, leg work and maneuvering going on that people don’t understand.

low hanging red-meat – lol – perfect!

So….you’re the resident pit bull, Ace? How’d you manage to miss this low-hanging redmeat?

Your answer would be?

I see the point you’re making and this is a matter of conscience…I could see how you could justify voting for the pro-choice candidate in your scenario…but my conscience wouldn’t allow me to get to my scenario when I’m home and not be able to answer no without equivocation!

The wining philosophy of Goldwater-Reagan-Founding Fathers has not had it’s chance in a while, why not join the team and give it a try?

That in my estimation is the biggest outrage and ought to make all Republicans mad be they Moderate or Conservative!

We are just saying that the McCain types like to use that argument, and in just this one instance/case we should throw their own “Next In Line” excuse/argument back up in their faces because Toomey is (more or less) the “Next In Line” in this instance with his already having stepped up before when no-one else wanted – trouble is, of course, they will be arguing that Ridge has taken it for the Party and is “Next In Line” to move on/up — We are just saying we should counter their argument with their own argument – in this case – against those that oppose Toomey BUT NOT as an actual advocacy of Toomey to the average Republican voter (that tired old argument just loses us support, IMO). They want someone to feel enthused about, and a Conservative agenda push with Toomey will hopefully do it.

People in the other counties often get discouraged and don’t get out in enough numbers to over-come those other counties and/or some just don’t get it and somehow buy into the BDR (or whatever) and think it is OK to vote for a Democrat that pretends to be Moderate on the campaign trail – FAILING to recognize and grasp that it just ensures the Ultra-Left Liberals that control the Democrat Party will keep them in line and voting the Far-Left Progressive agenda once elected. WAKE UP PEOPLE, you cannot vote for a Democrat under any circumstance or for any reason – you just empower the Ultra-Left!!!

Mr. McCain – RETIRE! your time has passed! You LOST and in so many respects have been contributing to helping so many other Republicans LOSE by your presence.

YES?

Even if someone lurking around here doesn’t like Toomey and would prefer Ridge, I would hope they would at least recognize the potential harm of the points that have been raised. I am NEVER a fan of the “that person is next” philosophy, Toomey is the person that is best in line/position (and, again, preferred IMO as the more Conservative candidate) to challenge Specter – that hasn’t IMO changed just because Specter jumped to the Democrats – if he was best in position to run against Specter as a Primary challenger then he is “probably” (this is all our opinion and speculation, none of us know for certain) the best to run against Specter in the General.

I do understand the merit/idea of running a former Governor – as I’d like to see former MI Governor John Engler step up and challenge one of our Democrat Senators — but at this time and in this instance I agree that Ridge is NOT the best candidate to do this strategy AT THIS TIME anyway for the reasons we’ve outlined (the least being the Ridge/Bush morphing – BDS strategy that would be effective to motivate Democrats against Ridge in a General).