Grassfire.org May 2008 Straw Poll

Grassfire.org is conducting a Presidential Straw Poll to measure where grassroots conservatives stand  on a number of issues in the Spring of 2008. One of the key issues we are trying to measure is if grassroots conservatives are warming up to John McCain.

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Question #2 the most important thing to me in this election is National Sovereignty and this was not one of the options

I voted as I did because I will never vote for McCain,McCain is NOT a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.  Further more he is not the only Republican left in the race,although it appears Grassfire along with the rest of the establishment wish it were so.  McCain is an out and out one world,big government LIBERAL who would rather that the Constitution did not exist.  On June 2nd I will be casting my vote for Ron Paul,and should he not win the nomination,I will write him in,there is no way in he_ _ I will vote for John McCain.  McCain has voted against our freedom of speech,our 2nd Amendment rights,our national soveriegnty,and tax cuts,and that is just a start.

   Now let's look at Ron Paul's record.  He has NEVER voted to raise taxes,NEVER voted for an unbalanced budget,NEVER voted for a restriction on gun ownership,NEVER voted for a congressional pay raise,NEVER taken a government paid junket,NEVER voted to increase the power of the executive branch,NEVER been involved with the CFR,NEVER strayed from the Constitution,NEVER waffled on the issues,Ron Paul voted AGAINST the Patriot Act,AGAINST regulating the internet,AGAINST the Iraq war,he does NOT participate in the lucrative Congressional Pension Plan,he DOES return a portion of his annual Congressional office budget to the U.S. Treasury each year,he is known as Dr.No in congress because the answer is always "no" to the lobbyists who come with their pet projects if it does not square with the Constitution.  Dr. Ron Paul has delivered over 4,000 babies and has never seen a justifiable reason for an abortion.  He has been married to the same woman for 51 years,has 5 children,18 grandchildren,and 1 great grandchild.  And NO skeletons in his closet.

  Vote for Ron Paul and vote for liberty and the Constitution(which is there to preserve said liberty)!

 Question 2 and Question 3 are both missing what i feel is the single most important factor with this country today. The errosion of our civil liberties. I for one and growing very tired of reading about people dying from being tasered and police abuse. Not only that but these Fema camps and the growing threat of martial law in this copuntry. Until people start waking up and understanding qwere this country is headed polls like this are pretty much useless.

WreckingCrew said:

 Question 2 and Question 3 are both missing what i feel is the single most important factor with this country today. The errosion of our civil liberties. I for one and growing very tired of reading about people dying from being tasered and police abuse. Not only that but these Fema camps and the growing threat of martial law in this copuntry. Until people start waking up and understanding qwere this country is headed polls like this are pretty much useless.

Would you link us to your sources, please?

And welcome to FS. 

I don't really care whether McCain is a conservative or a liberal. I don't think labels are pertinent when there are so many issues that one can agree/disagree with individually. I do care, however, that he intends to pursue Global Warming. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about McCain, but what is our option? Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance and there is no one else.

mspSam said:

I don't really care whether McCain is a conservative or a liberal. I don't think labels are pertinent when there are so many issues that one can agree/disagree with individually. I do care, however, that he intends to pursue Global Warming. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about McCain, but what is our option? Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance and there is no one else.

Welcome, Sam, and this is exactly why we have McCain as the only Rep. choice remaining.  The sad past is that the Dems seem to be voting for who can beat McCain.  What a sad state of affairs if we vote for who can beat whom, instead of voting issues.

As to the Global Lie, they all bought into it.  It's hip and happening to think this way.

Sabrina R said: I agree with all of you regarding Juan McCain, but we must also think of the Supreme Court------these Judges are there for LIFE and can effect many policies ----can effect our way of life for a very long time. We know exactly the kind of Judges Hillary and Obama will put on the bench-----. If we do not take back the Senate and the House and if we have a Dem in the White House we are in SERIOUS trouble.

Yet, Juan McCain may just appoint someone sympathetic to illegals.

elaina said:

Sabrina R said: I agree with all of you regarding Juan McCain, but we must also think of the Supreme Court------these Judges are there for LIFE and can effect many policies ----can effect our way of life for a very long time. We know exactly the kind of Judges Hillary and Obama will put on the bench-----. If we do not take back the Senate and the House and if we have a Dem in the White House we are in SERIOUS trouble.

 

Yet, Juan McCain may just appoint someone sympathetic to illegals.

I am going to post this one last time--

Why in heaven's name does everyone think John McCain will select justices that are conservative?? Doesn't everyone know by now he is a member of CFR??? That fact has been posted by many people here on FS. He will select Justice candidates that are in agreement with the New World Order. They will be , perhaps, even worse than anyone Obama would select and the same ones that CFR member Hillary will select.

I am going to take hiatus from posting about this. It's going nowhere.

Wouldn't time limits just accelerate the rate at which poor judges are placed on the court?  It seems the justices that are "bad" were bad going in (e.g. Ginsberg) or went bad very soon after being appointed (Souter).  And I don't expect McCain to pick justices that are any better than Hillary or Obama would pick.  It is only an opinion, but I just don't trust McCain.  The only hope is to ensure enough conservative Senators with cojones remain in the senate who will be willing to prevent appointment of unacceptable judges.  I really don't want to see the good ones like Scalia get booted on account of some arbitrary age limit and get replaced by a Clinton/Obama/McCain appointee.

Mr Bill,

Well said, thank you!  I look forward to your return!

Mr. McCain has forgotten the conservative base that adds vitality to the otherwise limp Republican party. He expects conservative backing in the face of Mccain Feingold and the Gang of idiots 14. If there is one truth about McCain that sticks it is that he has donated his idiological and political backbone to the work of the democrat party. Particularly where the Global Warming hoax, illegal immigration, and dealing with democrat power brokering, that vice is dangerous for our nation.

The Democrats wont have him, and he wont have the republican conservative base. What can you harvest from a tree with no roots?  

Mr. McCain has forgotten the conservative base that adds vitality to the otherwise limp Republican party. He expects conservative backing in the face of Mccain Feingold and the Gang of idiots 14. If there is one truth about McCain that sticks it is that he has donated his idiological and political backbone to the work of the democrat party. Particularly where the Global Warming hoax, illegal immigration, and dealing with democrat power brokering, that vice is dangerous for our nation.

The Democrats wont have him, and he wont have the republican conservative base. What can you harvest from a tree with no roots?  

FeedFwd said:

Wouldn't time limits just accelerate the rate at which poor judges are placed on the court?  It seems the justices that are "bad" were bad going in (e.g. Ginsberg) or went bad very soon after being appointed (Souter).  And I don't expect McCain to pick justices that are any better than Hillary or Obama would pick.  It is only an opinion, but I just don't trust McCain.  The only hope is to ensure enough conservative Senators with cojones remain in the senate who will be willing to prevent appointment of unacceptable judges.  I really don't want to see the good ones like Scalia get booted on account of some arbitrary age limit and get replaced by a Clinton/Obama/McCain appointee.

Mr Bill,

Well said, thank you!  I look forward to your return!

Valid point. I just want Ginsberg and others like her out ,I guess.