McCain - Served his country
Mitt - Claims his sons are serving their country -- by working on his campaign
...unfortunately McCain is wrong on the issues.
Are you stalking me?
I thought I sensed someone staring at my ass.
McCain has the wrong party affiliation behind his name. He needs to on the democrat ticket. I will not vote for McCain if he is the nominee. Most right minded conservatives know what he is and is not. He is not a conservative, He is a liberal republican. McCain is wrong for America as much today as he was in 2000 or 2004. Go Fred....
Hopefully Romney will put the McCain campaign out of our misery.
McCain - Supports amnesty (no matter what he calls it)
Romeny - Doesn’t.
They are you got a problem with that last I look every one has different callings in life unless you like to see feudalism return!
“McCain - Served his country” ~ Johnny Z
Let us count the ways:
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January 11, 2008, 0:00 p.m.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjUzOGY0ODA1YzBmNjFhOWE5NWU0OTY5NTZiOGNhOGQ=
The Real McCain Record
Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
By Mark R. Levin
There’s a reason some of John McCain’s conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.
The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:
[] McCain-Feingold the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
[] McCain-Kennedy the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
[] McCain-Lieberman the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases in American history.
[] McCain-Kennedy-Edwards the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
[] McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).
And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.
McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.
And then there’s the McCain defense record.
His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?
Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How does McCain fare in that regard?
[] McCain-ACLU the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).
[] McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.
[] While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration and McCain’s friend, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen? Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? Also, McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.
My fingers are crossed that at the next debate, either Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney will find a way to address McCain’s record. (Mike Huckabee won’t, as he is apparently in the tank for him.)
Mark R. Levin served as chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese in the Reagan administration, and he is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host.
So true...and we thank him for it.
Unfortunately, it's what he's DONE to his country since then...
Vote for McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.
Actually you'll find that here on the FR people prefer to vote for Republicans.
KEATING FIVE, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AMNESTY, HIGH TAXES, RESTRICT FREE SPPEECH..YEAH HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY ALL RIGHT!!!! OOOPS! I MEAN ALL LEFT.
You know what — that really bothers me.
I served with any number of solidly, loyally, patriotic Mormons, so I know there’s no religious impediment to service. Mormons are not pacifists.
I served with troops from Michigan and those from Massachusetts. I know there’s no state impediment to service.
Believe it or not, I served with a few who came from the upper crust. There’s no economic impediment to service.
It bothers me that not one Romney has been in the military. Not one. Five sons and critical times for the nation, and not one saw fit to serve...not even in the National Guard.
I’m willing to be corrected if one of the 6 did serve.
McCain - Served his country
I don't know if that's the case, but McCain and his allies in the liberal media have been working very hard to do just what you wish.
Some of us are capable of seeing who the real conservatives are just by virtue of who the media attack and support.
Luckily, the likes of you and Petronski are becoming smaller by the day... Just as shrill, but smaller in numbers. Good riddance.
McCain is also serving the country of Aztlan! Too many of us un the southwest are familiar with his “politics”
He is a senile RINO with other people on FR seeing and noting the same.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954102/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953594/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953505/posts
I am sure Hillary will appreciate your vote when Mitt wins the presidential bid!
So did Benedict Arnold.
