"Move into the city, kill all in your path."
Posted on 01/25/2008 10:06:39 PM PST by KDD
The wretched state of the Iraq war is likely to make 2008 a difficult election year for any Republican. To win, the GOP candidate will need to represent the so-called "fusion" of traditionalists and libertarians. At the very core should be a commitment to limited government and individual liberty.
On this score John McCain fails. He's a courageous man, who endured much while a POW in Vietnam. But the presidency requires good judgment as well as good character. And that McCain lacks. Columnist Dean Barnett complains that "McCain has seemed determined to remind conservatives of every thumb in the eye he has delivered to the conservative community," most recently his decision to skip the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference. But the CPAC snub is merely symbolic. McCain has dissed conservatives most dramatically with his statist, authoritarian positions. Indeed, McCain cheerfully tells listeners that in 2004 he was considered a potential vice presidential nominee by both parties -- not a positive for anyone who actually believes in ideas.
Alas, McCain represents the worst values of both parties. PERHAPS THE KEYSTONE OF MODERN conservative politics is
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I also can't vote for him because he is wrong on many issues politically, not a conservative and would be a terrible President.
I don't see this as a contradiction. I will oppose vehemently those who attack him as a person and I will oppose with equal vehemence his campaign to be President.
Proamnesty-antiBushtaxcuts-proCO2caps-CFR-RINO John McCain delenda est!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/who_will_stop_mccain.html
Their is one thing that stands out among all but one(since Fred left.)of our choices in both parties that they all have in common....Their silence...
In his Farewell Address, George Washington reminded succeeding generations of Americans that, “Honesty is always the best policy.” From the bottom of our hearts, we wish that we were not forced to make an issue of the moral weakness—the integrity deficit—of Ron Paul’s opponents. Yet no one can listen to the posturing of the other contenders in both major parties, without remarking the absence of reference to the specific language of our written Constitution. There are endless appeals to the interests or demands of particular groups or factions of the population; endless pandering to what are perceived as voting blocks; but no discussion of where the authority is supposed to reside; none of legal bases for the programs, schemes and policies being promised.
Ron Paul, alone, recognizes that the Federal Government has no power—no legal existence outside the Constitution. Yet each of the other candidates, at one time or another, has been required to swear obedience to that Constitution—to swear to uphold that Constitution. If they care so little about those solemn oaths, as to fail even to discuss Constitutional questions in seeking the most solemn office under that Constitution, how can one trust them in anything? Ultimately, the determinative issue in 2008, must be the integrity of Ron Paul versus the shameless, amoral, opportunism of his foes. Those who chose to ignore that issue, turn their backs on duty, wisdom and providence. No personal interest, no rationalization, no excuse, can possibly justify that betrayal.
http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/Paul3.htm
In that spirit, I must tell you, honestly, that Ron Paul is a charlatan who bellows about honesty and straight-talking, but doesn't have the honesty to be what he is-- a Libertarian. That doesn't matter to those Libertarians who are in this party because they can't get their own off the ground, but Paul is just as much a cancer on this party as is Huckabee.
I agree with you. I like him personally. I think he has a great sense of humor, a little caustic, but great. I enjoy him on talk shows and, of course, I admire his military service. He is a real hero. But I can’t vote for him because he is not a true conservative. I am only talking about the primaries. If, god help us, he is nominated as the Republican candidate for the Presidency, then I will have no choice but to vote for him.
But if it is McCain versus Hillary, I like him a lot more if he has a solid conservative VP — and looks unhealthy. :)
I embrace the Jeffersonian concept of Republicanism over your own,,,though I question if you are really familiar with the historical precepts of conservatism or republicanism...I suspect you are a sound byte voter...but you and that mindset march in lockstep together in the two ring political circus that makes up todays campaigns.
1. As always, you Ron Paul voters NEVER argue the points--you just go off on that silly, blustery "I'm a Jeffersonian and you're not!" BS. You have no idea what my ideas about Republicanism are, yet you cluck about having different ideas--how stupid is that?
2. Someone who uses THAT many cliches in a single post has no right accusing anyone else of "march[ing] in lockstep," Paulbot.
Wow, you Libertarians simply can't stand up to ANY opposition! Just like your racist candidate.
Many, many months ago Hugh Hewitt said this on his radio show [paraphrased]: The media (and the liberals in general) are salivating at the thought of McCain as the nominee because they already have a plan on how to take him down:
1. Age
2. Cancer
3. Temper
The dems have planned to use those 3 things to defeat his campaign. The media pretends to love him .. but once he becomes the nominee .. they will abandon him and turn on him and .. do the usual .. destroy him.
When I listened to Hugh explain this plan .. I could really see the dems doing this to McCain. While Hillary pretends to be “friends” with McCain .. what she’s really been doing is gaining inside info about him personally .. in order to use it against him later. With a “friend” like Hillary .. McCain doesn’t need many enemies.
Like you, coramdeo, I cannot vote for McCain - and I also believe he would make a terrible president.
It says...so much. ;-)
Yeesh, that’s like Halloween all over again!
John McCain: Beyond the liberal positions
McCain wants more amnesty for illegals, Julie-Annie wants to give them welfare and Hickabee wants to give both.
Romney is the last option left. The rest can go to hell...
Standing up on the national stage next to a short, fat old hag, the last thing the Republicans need is a weak, frail old man.
Romney is a vibrant, healthy man and like it or not, in our image driven society, it is solely that image that will elect him.
See #15...
The image society... Who do we want appearing on the national stage next to a fat old whore like Hitlery?
These various articles detailing McCain’s long traitorous history — traitor to everything that can be considered conservative or Republican (except the war, and even there he has problems) — all have the same basic pattern. And that’s because the list of his various acts of treason is long and detailed. If the writer is conscientious enough to touch on all the high-points of McCain’s treachery, then the article practically writes itself.
Ron Paul is a whinier, squeakier Ross Perot.
"Move into the city, kill all in your path."
That’s why the media loves him. He’d be as electable in November as Dole was in 1996. Ann Coulter says even less electable than Dole. That’s why the media wants him to head up our ticket.
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