McCain cannot win against Clinton or Obama

Based on what? Most polls show McCain beating Hillary handily, and too close to call on Obama, this is before the GOP (or Hillary) comes out with any serious attack on Obama’s policies and background.

In any event, I would like to modify my thoughts on November, as Nathan has pointed out it “the conservative movement needs to divorce the GOP”, Alan Keyes has made me think about the possibility that the time is now.

God Bless,

Matt

Well, Matt, I think that you and I agree on far more than is manifest. We’re both attempting to be faithful to the call of Jesus Christ within his Church. We’re bound by the Blood.

Amen, bro. You took the words right out of my mouth.
Born again rapist turned GOP hack supports Republican nominee.
Isn’t THAT a surprise!

In any case, Republicans are being shortsighted, and looking only to the nomination, and not to the general election. “10,000 years in Iraq” McCain cannot win against Clinton or Obama; no one wants another war president. And McCain will be seen as extending the Bush administration a third term. As Pat Buchanan aptly put it, “McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi.” McCain is unelectable.

More relevant to the nature of this thread, though I believe that Huckabee, indeed, is the better choice vis-à-vis our concern for life (and I offer kudos to him for his George W. Bush “bunker mentality” comment: he might be less inclined to send more troops to agitate more nations), I fear that he might be “too Christian” for some undecided, middle-of-the-road voters, whereas McCain, as we’ve all seen, has benefitted greatly from their support. Perhaps, as the Taft Club (amongst others, no doubt), has contemplated, the conservative movement needs to divorce the GOP. For now, however, so long as this marriage continues, supporting McCain seems to be the most prudently practical choice.

In Notre Dame,
Nathan

So I urge anyone here who has yet to have the presidential primary in their state to go out and vote for Mike Huckabee for the Republican nomination.

In November however, it will be time to break down and chose between Hillary/Obama and John McCain in all likelihood (with perhaps a stronger pro-lifer on the ticket). This is not a difficult choice. McCain is opposed to abortion in 99% of the cases and would seek to restrict abortion to those levels at least, and by judical nominations to overturn Roe vs. Wade. McCain has shown an inclination to reconsider his position on federal funding of embryonic stemcell research, he has rejoiced the progress of adult stem cell therapy and the recent breakthroughs that may eliminate the desire for stem cells from human embryos.

On the other hand, as was earlier stated, Obama does not thing that a baby who survives an abortion to be born alive should be given any care, but left to die on a tray, or perhaps left in a closet gasping for air. Hillary is as bad if not worse. Either of these candidates anathema to all faifthul Catholics.

God Bless,

Matt

I don’t like McCain, and his support for public funding of ESCR disqualifies him as consistently pro–life. But I will vote for him because he has promised to appoint judges that are likely to give americans a chance to select their abortion laws, and he has consistently voted with pro-lifers on abortion legislation. A failure on one pro-life issue, with a promise to support the pro-life agenda on abortion is far better than the alternative for the pro-life movement.

Prayer and fasting may help too. Hey, it’s Lent. Offer up intentions for McCain, Hillary, and Obama!