The Sunday Paper Staff Blog

I can't believe that you guys are rallying around someone like McCain. Honestly, are we as a party content with sacrificing our beliefs because we think someone has a better chance against democrats based upon rediculous polls (that have shown how reliable they can be)? The fact is that the conservative coalition is the only thing that will save this country! Fiscal conservatism, social conservatism, and foriegn policy conservatism!! I'm sorry, but McCain, no matter how much he likes to tout his foriegn policy credentials, his policy is not something that this country needs - it's weak, quite frankly. He supported the surge, he didn't right the policy for the surge - he latched on to an idea. That's what most of the candidates did minus Huckabee (he wasn't for it at first because he didn't like the idea of sending the national guard troops). He has ideas that would harm this nation in the area of foriegn policy. He believes in global communities like McCain-Lieberman that joins us to a global obligation to fight Global Warming, and he wants to join us to the ICC - these organizations would undermind our soveriegnty and put us on a path to globalization which is not only unsound foriegn policy, but also very unsound national economic policy. That's just half of it - he wants to shut down Guantanamo Bay and end tough, humane interrogation techniques that have been instrumental in helping us thwart terrorist attacks since 9-11. The national economy will also be key this election cycle and he has proven that he would rather punish the American economy and the American people by not voting for tax cuts because he found earmarks in the bill. That's not how to lead. All of that, plus the fact that he co-authored and continues to support his disasterous immigration reform policy. America needs to wake up and understand what kind of times we are in. Our economy is just as important against terrorist threats, as shooting people in the head overseas before they come here. McCain is so far from conservative on many points and they are absolutely points that matter. Romney/Hunter 08