{"id":92,"date":"2008-02-07T14:10:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/poor-day-for-gop\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:10:13","slug":"poor-day-for-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/poor-day-for-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Day for GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youdecide08.foxnews.com\/2008\/02\/07\/time-magazine-blog-romney-to-quit-today\/\" title=\"Romney Quitting Race\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/romney_quitting_020708.jpg\" alt=\"Romney Quitting Race\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Mitt Romney has decided <a href=\"http:\/\/youdecide08.foxnews.com\/2008\/02\/07\/time-magazine-blog-romney-to-quit-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">to drop out of the race<\/a> and concede to John McCain.\u00a0 This is a very sad day for me as a Romney supporter, but even more so as a conservative.\u00a0 It is now guaranteed that we will have a liberal in the White House come next January.\u00a0 Right now McCain is claiming that he would push a conservative agenda.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe that given his record of late opposing most, if not all, any conservative positions on legislation.\u00a0 He was against the tax cuts.\u00a0 He wrote the very illegal campaign finance reform bill (breaks freedom of speech in the ways candidates can and cannot respond to attacks).\u00a0 He wrote the bill for immigration reform which would have given amnesty to millions of people who shouldn&#8217;t be in the country now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So now what to do?\u00a0 I can&#8217;t vote for anyone at this point.\u00a0 I almost would rather a DemocRAT in office so Republicans can oppose all non-conservative legislation.\u00a0 If McCain gets elected, the rank and file Republicans would have their hands tied in opposing the President (much like they do now with many of Bush&#8217;s proposals).\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if I could ever actually pull the lever for a Dem, but I really can&#8217;t say I approve much of McCain at all.\u00a0 A lot can happen between now and November, of course, and I can only hope that it won&#8217;t be nearly as bad as I currently fear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/poor-day-for-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has decided to drop out of the race and concede to John McCain.\u00a0 This is a very sad day for me as a Romney supporter, but even more so as a conservative.\u00a0 It is now guaranteed that we will have a liberal in the White House come next January.\u00a0 Right now McCain is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/poor-day-for-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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