February 6, 2008

Despite the attempt to give John McCain the GOP Presidential nomination, the party doesn't have to nominate every Democrat's favorite Republican. Even though he is clearly the Republican frontrunner, Super Tuesday's results show 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 are willing to accept a McCain candidacy doesn't mean conservatives have to accept such a demoralizing result.

Super Tuesday dramatized how poorly conservatives view this cycle's Republican presidential contenders, 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 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 Tuesday.

In Alabama, another Republican stronghold, conservatives are so dispirited by this 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. The voters are saying loud and clear that none of the current Republican contenders can unify the party.

McCain now leads Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in delegates by an approximate count of 675 delegates to 279 for Romney to 194 for Huckabee. Even though McCain won the New Jersey primary, the state's delegates are not awarded until the candidates run delegate slates in June, 2008 — so McCain is barely halfway home to the necessary 1,191 delegates with 30-plus states having voted.

Even if McCain wins the winner-take-all state of Virginia (and with all the values voters in the Old Dominion, Huckabee will have a real chance to win), and McCain earns a significant portion of other delegates, he will not have more than 800-850 delegates by the close of primary season on May 20, which will leave him 350-400 delegates short of the party nomination.

We must convince at least 350 to 400 convention delegates to remain uncommitted, especially through the first convention ballot. Delegates bound by GOP primary results ARE NOT BOUND to the candidate after the first convention ballot. As New York Post columnist Charles Hurt noted on February 6, 2008, we can count on McCain to turn to the left as soon as he is nominated.  (See Charles Hurt: Once John Wins He'll Make a Left)

We cannot accept a nominee who has spent his public career making war on his party's base for the past fifteen years. Plus, John McCain's tarnished reputation, personal foibles and objectionable connections will make him easy meat for the liberal media.

We must seek to nominate candidates such as Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, or South Carolina Senator Jim De Mint, for President. We need your personal and financial support TO PREVENT MCCAIN'S FIRST BALLOT NOMINATION IN MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA IN SEPTEMBER 2008.

John McCain will become 72 on August 29, 2008, making him the oldest Presidential first time nominee. The man nicknamed "Punk" and "McNasty" by high school classmates is temperamentally incapable of leading the GOP's coalition this fall.

McCain's political hero, Theodore Roosevelt, harmed the United States grievously in 1912 by running third party, costing the majority Republicans the Presidency and putting the unbalanced Woodrow Wilson in office.

McCain's deviations from GOP orthodoxy will split the Reagan coalition carefully assembled by conservative activists during four decades. As Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, and Rick Santorum have noted recently, MANY CONSERVATIVE VOTERS WILL STAY HOME IF MCCAIN IS NOMINATED.

John McCain was a hell-raising Midshipman who finished near the bottom of his class at Annapolis, and who crashed multiple Navy jets during flight school. He was known for "dating" strippers. As he has admitted with understatement, "I had trouble with the (naval) regimentation." Had his father and grandfather not been four star Admirals, the Navy would not have tolerated his erratic personal behavior.

After his military service and imprisonment during the Viet Nam War (a whole other controversial topic, see Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain), McCain returned to the U.S., engaging in the same immature behavior characterizing him before the war. His first wife Carol noted their marriage disintegrated because "John was a 40 year old who wanted to be 25 again."

McCain married his second wife Cindy, the daughter of Phoenix beer/liquor distributor Jim Hensley, convicted twice of falsifying company records after World War II. Hensley served Arizona prison time for the second offense. Hensley's liquor partner was reputedly connected to Arizona organized crime figures such as Gus Greenbaum, a subordinate of Meyer Lanksky, upon whom "The Godfather's" Hyman Roth character was modeled. http://republicanfreeamerica.blogspot.com/2006/12/married-to-mob.html; http://www.apfn.net/dcia/marley.html Jim Hensley's money got McCain elected to the House in 1982, and the U.S. Senate in 1986.

McCain's press secretary for the Senate campaign was Torie Clarke, who as Bush aide in 1992 was notorious for referring to 1992 Houston convention speeches by Pat Buchanan and Ronald Reagan as "that conservative crap." McCain referred to conservative icon Paul Weyrich as "that pompous, self-serving SOB," because Weyrich opposed his pal John Tower for Defense Secretary in 1989.

McCain got into hot water during his first Senate term by lobbying the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to go easy when investigating Phoenix S and L criminal Charles Keating. For the only time, McCain received rough treatment from mainstream media as one of the "Keating Five." The Senate investigation of McCain's lobbying for Keating infuriated and humiliated him.

Following his 1992 re-election, McCain began abandoning the Reagan conservative line, and attacked the First Amendment's guarantee of political speech by teaming with liberal Democrat Senator Russ Feingold to sponsor alleged "campaign finance reform." These bills were nothing more than restriction of issue group campaign activities in Federal elections.

Media began fawning over the former Reaganite, who wanted to "clean up the system" which ensnared him. Conservative issue groups such as pro-lifers, anti-taxers, Second Amendment supporters and advocates of judicial restraint were justifiably enraged at McCain's betrayal of voters who elected him.

Other betrayals of conservatism followed. In 1999, McCain said the U.S. Supreme Court should not overturn the dreadful 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which eliminated all state abortion restrictions.

In 2007, McCain now claimed to want to overturn Roe, but his complaint that Justice Samuel Alito "wears conservatism on his sleeve" indicates he cannot be trusted to appoint Justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade.

McCain has attacked religious conservatives in a notorious February 28, 2000 speech in Virginia Beach that ended his quest for the 2000 nomination, and his recent vote against the Marriage Amendment indicates he has lost NONE of his animus toward moral conservatives. McCain reportedly discussed leaving the GOP in 2001 because he was angry over his loss to George W. Bush.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-say-mccain-nearly-abandoned-gop-2007-03-28.html

McCain's adamant refusal to stop the flow of illegal immigrants has enraged his fellow Arizonans, which is why he won less than 48 percent of the Arizona primary on Super Tuesday, whereas Huckabee won 60 percent of his Arkansas home state vote. McCain's sponsorship of amnesty for illegal aliens means he will forego the most important 2008 GOP wedge issue.

Voters in most primary states noted the economy is now 2008's most important issue, with illegal immigration second, and we all know how these two issues are inter-related. McCain simply cannot be trusted to adhere to conservative principle or policy, and we must prevent his Presidential nomination at all costs.

Please support OpenConvention.com's efforts to keep the current GOP convention delegates not bound by a primary election result UNCOMMITTED UNTIL THE CONVENTIONS'S SECOND BALLOT, SO WE CAN OBTAIN A BETTER NOMINEE THAN MCCAIN. Most of his primary delegates were obtained with votes of non-Republicans, or were obtained in hopelessly Democratic winner-take-all blue states.

McCain at best has won less than one third of the total GOP delegates for this nomination, which is fitting, because in the vast number of contested primaries in GOP states such as South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma, he has won only 35% of the total primary vote. It's obvious the party is not united behind him.

I urge you to support us with your letters, faxes, telephone calls, and E-mails to the Republican National Committee, repudiating McCain as a standard-bearer for the GOP. Please donate to our effort to advertise and educate the voters about how we can OPPOSE THE FIRST BALLOT NOMINATION OF JOHN MCCAIN IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA THIS SEPTEMBER. WE KNOW THE MEDIA, HIS PRIME ENABLER, WILL TURN AGAINST HIM AS SOON AS HE IS NOMINATED, AND THE COMBINATION OF NEGATIVE STORIES AND CONSERVATIVES WHO WILL NOT VOTE FOR HIM WILL GUARANTEE GOP DEFEAT IN THE GENERAL ELECTION THIS NOVEMBER. WE MUST CONTAIN MCCAIN — NOW!

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