McCain and Guns

Do You Support John McCain

  • Will support McCain in spite of AWB vote

    Votes: 4 1.5%

  • Will vote McCain as lesser of two evils

    Votes: 32 12.2%

  • Will vote for any Democrat to make a statement

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • Will support a pro-2A Democrat

    Votes: 49 18.6%

  • Will vote third party

    Votes: 129 49.0%

  • Will not vote if McCain is Republican nominee

    Votes: 47 17.9%
  • Total voters
    263
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It's starting to look like John McCain is the odds-on favorite for the Republican nomination. I'm not too happy about that myself, given his support of the AWB. It's starting to look like I will be voting Libertarian yet again. I'm curious about how others feel.
 
This is the most important election of our lifetimes! Just look at the Democrat candidate! A vote for anyone but the Republican is a vote for the Democrat!

haha
 
I Would vote for a pro-2A Dem if they were moderate on some of the more liberal issues. I first heard about McCain back before the 2004 election really got going. Back then I liked him because he seemed like a Republican who spoke his mind. Then as he kept speaking his mind and the media paid more and more attention to him I realized that he is quite off base as far as what I feel a Republican should be(although no more off base than Bush). Hopefully I wont have to make this choice in 2008, but who knows? Mabey we will find out how the Democrats felt in 2000.
 
There is only one Republican that will energize me to vote Republican, and it ain't John McShame...er I mean McCain.

As far as a pro-2A Democrat goes, there aren't very many of them. I saw a lot of those so-called pro-2A Democrats collapse like a house of cards when Billy-Boy Clinton put the pressure on to pass the first AWB. They seem to be good at talking the talk but when it comes to walking the walk, I don't trust them.

Maybe I'll just go fishing that day.
 
I may be losing my mind, but on some days Pat Buchanon looks like the most sensible man in politics. (Of course that could be considered damning the man with faint praise.) I don't suppose there is much chance of him throwing his hat in the ring this time around.
 
Vote for McCain? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA <soymilk shoots out of my nose>

There is only ONE Republican that I'd vote for at the moment, that being Tom Tancredo. Else its a Libertarian (hate the open border plank) or Constitution (hate the focus on <insert Christian deity> plank) party candidate.
 
McCain is Republican in name only and I sure hope that the GOP can do better than offering up that AWB and amnesty pushing POS to US.
 
Ask again a year from now. I don't see McCain surviving the primaries, because he is not a mainstream Republican. Too many wings of the party ain't buyin' it.
 
For anyone who has been of voting age for say..more than two presidential cycles it should be a non question. What politicians SAY before the coronation and what they DO after, are two, mostly different things. I know for sure that this country is protected only by the armed services and the grace of God. Politicians can only be taken seriously if they are the mayor of a community of under 50,000, and every one knows were she/he lives and where some of those folks are willing to knock on his/her door. Enforcing accountability on the president...well Mr. Nixon said it best: "If the president does it, it can't be illegal.":)

So whoever you choose plan on surprises. Or not.
 
If your theory holds true (McC vs Clinton) I am voting 3rd party.


My extreme leftist brother in law said he would vote for McCain over Clinton. That's enough reason for me.
 
Side comment here Furncliff. The armed forces do not protect MY freedoms...I do. The armed forces protect something else.

I am responsible for MY God given Rights. Deligating protections of my Rights to an extension of the Federal Govt is crazy. Just as deligating protections of my Rights to the police is equally nuts.

We need so much more education on liberty, the Rights of Man and citizenship.

If this country is only protected by the armed forces and God then we are surely an empire and a doomed one at that. Nowhere in the FF's writings did they say (and rightly so) that liberty comes from a great and large powerful army.

I dont mean to snap but man are we losing the language here.
 
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I'll probably vote third party. Unless we're up against Hillary or something. :eek:
 
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Just to be fair, McCain did NOT support the AWB and voted against it every time it came up in the Senate. His handlers at AGS (started by former Handgun Control director Andrew McKelvey) who paid him $2 million during his 2000 campaign DID support renewal though.

However, McCain has carried water for AGS before by pushing their gunshow background check bills, including some really aggressive bills that would have criminalized a lot of perfectly innocent behavior. He also starred in movie theater commercials supporting AGS efforts.

However, I don't need McCain's bad record on the Second Amendment to vote against him, his flat out assault on the First Amendment is more than enough reason for me to reject him as a candidate. If McCain is the nominee, I will probably vote third party or not at all. I would consider voting Democrat if they ran a REAL pro-2A candidate and not just one who was all talk. Even then I would be real reluctant to vote Democrat given their past history on the issue...
 
I am depending on the canidiate, voting for a Democrat in the next presidental election. If Hillary wins the Democratic nomination then I will only vote on local issues, not for a President. I am very critical of all third party platforms, and choose not to vote for them.
 
In some ways, John McCain may actually be worse than Hillary.

He is no friend of freedom, and I can't listen to him for five minutes without thinking "Manchurian Candidate".

If he is the Republican nominee, then I will vote either Constitution Party or Libertarian.

Sad thing is, I don't know who in the Republican Party will step up to the challenge. Where is the next Ronald Reagan?
 
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