"I believe the 'brokering' is now going on for McCain. I will trust the people. Mount your horses and ride to the sound of the guns!"

"Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances."
"[I] cannot fully explain why the Republicans are having such a difficult time finding a more acceptable candidate for their party's nomination. We can only hope that somehow in the primary contests that are left, GOP voters are in a mood to begin a rollback of the McCain steamroller so as to give America a more clear and decent choice in November."

Attend the Rally For the Republic!  [Read more]

The left-leaning media and political establishments of BOTH major parties want you to think that with John McCain's nomination for president, the defeat and dissipation of GOP conservatism is inevitable!

They think you're stupid — and that if they tell you what to do, you'll simply do as you're told… And they would like nothing better than to see the Democrats' favorite RINO, John McCain, drag the once-proud label “conservative” hopelessly leftward as he is nominated under false conservative colors as the standard-bearer for the Party of Reagan.

But don't be deceived… We've got some hard and swift news for the Washington elites — McCain's nomination is NOT going to happen without public debate, discussion and dissent  by REAL CONSERVATIVES!
Together, we may not be able to get the Republican Party to nominate a REAL RONALD REAGAN CONSERVATIVE for President, but WE DON’T HAVE TO LET MCCAIN WRECK THE PLATFORM, DRAG THE PARTY IRRETRIEVABLY TO THE LEFT, OR UNDERMINE EVERY GOOD CONSERVATIVE GOP CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE, EITHER!

Despite their shameful, manipulative insistence on handing John McCain the GOP Presidential nomination, those running the Republican Party can STILL salvage some semblance of its integrity and principles, by standing strong and tall on its Reagan Platform, and by acting to sustain and support its conservative candidates for Congress.

If it fails even in this, then the GOP truly deserves to go the way of the Whigs —  and it will surely have become time for committed lovers of liberty to seek a new political home.

But until then, RIGHT NOW, even if we cannot stop the McCain Express dead in its tracks from this undeserved nomination, let’s ACT TODAY to keep it from running the REPUBLICAN PARTY clear off the tracks and into the ditch!

Why this is necessary and important

Even though he is now clearly the Republican nominee, as early as since the Super Tuesday results, it has been evident that McCain has not only failed to energize the Republican Party faithful — he has alienated it. Just because professional lobbyists and establishment insiders such as Haley Barbour and William Kristol early embraced a McCain candidacy and helped bring this demoralizing result to its conclusion, doesn't mean conservatives will EVER accept or support it.

And this fact bodes very, very ill for the GOP’s chances to prevail with the presidential contest and in the Congress on Election Day.  Super Tuesday dramatized how poorly conservatives viewed this cycle's Republican Party’s prospects, because Republican turnout was extremely weak, when matched directly against Democratic turnout in the same twenty-plus states.

McCain's winning of blue states California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York (none has voted Republican in a Presidential race in at least 20 years), against such weak candidates as Romney and Huckabee, means next to nothing for November because GOP turnout in those states was dwarfed by the Democratic voting, with Republicans earning a paltry 33 percent of the vote there. These states account for about 300 of McCain's 675 delegates.

Even more disturbing, McCain's two most significant Super Tuesday wins, where he edged Huckabee in both critical swing state Missouri with only 33% of the vote and Republican stronghold Oklahoma with only 34%, showed that Democratic turnout in the former was 819,000 to the GOP's 680,000, while Oklahoma Republicans barely turned out in greater numbers than Democrats.

Huckabee defeated McCain in the key states of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, won his own state of Arkansas, and barely lost Missouri and Oklahoma, despite having no money, simply because moral conservatives in those states could not abide McCain and Romney, whose past actions convinced those voters that McCain and Romney couldn't be trusted on vital moral issues.

Missouri has been a bellwether state in virtually every presidential election in the past 60 years, almost always selecting the winning candidate, and the Republican presidential candidates earned only 46% of the state's turnout on Super Tuesday.

In Alabama, another Republican stronghold, conservatives were so dispirited by the weak group of potential nominees that the Democratic turnout exceeded the Republicans by 567,000 to 549,000. In Tennessee, a state trending strongly Republican in recent years, the Democratic turnout exceeded the GOP by 610,000 to 540,000. In the primaries, Republican voters said loud and clear that John McCain cannot unify the party.

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Although the next presidential election won't take place until November 2008, and the nominating conventions won't convene until next August and September, the media have been covering the candidates all through 2007 as though they were running a horse race. What is it about presidential politics that evokes horse-race metaphors?

The media have designated and re-designated the Republican "front-runner": John McCain, then Mitt Romney, then Rudy Giuliani, then Mike Huckabee. The media are also speculating whether Hillary Clinton will lose her front-runner status to Barack Obama. [Read more]



A prominent Christian leader whose radio and magazine outreaches are solidly in support of biblically-based marriages — and keeps in touch with millions of constituents daily — says he cannot consider Arizona Sen. John McCain a viable candidate for president.

"Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," said James Dobson, founder of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family as well as the Focus Action cultural action organization set up specifically to provide a platform for informing and rallying constituents. [Read more]



This may just be the year when conscientious conservatives decide to sit out the election.

It's a step not to be taken lightly.

The idea of a perfect conservative candidate is a dangerous illusion. As an old Irish Democratic ward heeler once told me: "When you're running for public office and look at yourself in the mirror, that's when you'll see a candidate you agree with completely." [Read more]



On the eve of Super Tuesday, conservatives nationwide were coming smack up against the prospect of their worst nightmare.... Hillary Clinton vs. John McCain. All these years, we kept saying to ourselves — oh, please — surely that won't happen. Lifting our eyes skyward — we have begged please don't let it happen. What have we done to deserve this?

This column cannot fully explain why the Republicans are having such a difficult time finding a more acceptable candidate for their party's nomination. We can only hope that somehow in the primary contests that are left, GOP voters are in a mood to begin a rollback of the McCain steamroller so as to give America a more clear and decent choice in November. [Read more]



Running as a conservative, John McCain rolled up huge victories last night in New York, New Jersey and beyond.

But if history is any guide, the McCain we've seen of late on the campaign trail is the most conservative McCain we'll ever see.

He has taken a commanding lead in the GOP primary by packaging himself as the "true conservative" committed to limited government, to slashed federal spending and to an avowedly conservative Supreme Court.