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Posted on 09/14/2008 8:59:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Months ago when John McCain was nominated, I swore I would never vote for the man. I had some real reasons for disliking him.
He supported the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill which took away 1st amendment rights, gave the Democrats an advantage that led to their Congressional takeover, and does not solve campaign financing problems at all.
He supported "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" which was not reform at all. It essentially allows illegal aliens to remain in country forever and gave them a path to amnesty regardless of whether they are truly contributing to our society, willing to adopt our language and culture, or even are loyal to the United States.
These are big issues for me and many other people who consider themselves Conservatives with a capital "C".
However, my mind has been changed. Why?
1) His selection of Sarah Palin gives me hope for the future that did not exist before. Palin, a true conservative with a few of her own blemishes, is the REAL thing. She calls herself a "Hockey Mom" but I think she is like many soccer moms, baseball moms, football moms and other real people in our society. She got involved in politics with the PTA, city council, state politics and is now a governor. Real accomplishments, real talent, and real judgment.
Ironically, Palin's nomination flies in the face of those who call Republicans sexist because we oppose killing children in the womb. The Republican party has women in many powerful positions and has made those assignments based on real qualifications, but with Palin we now have a candidate that might stand for the president herself in 4-8 years.
2) The Supreme Court is facing some real challenges in the near future, and there are three judges that will likely change out during the next presidential administration.
- John Paul Stevens, 88, a liberal appointee of Gerald Ford who thought he would be moderate, turned hard left and never came back.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, an extreme liberal appointee of Bill Clinton that used to be the general counsel of the ACLU and has ruled so far left that she almost fell of the bench a few times. 75 is not extremely old, but her health has been questionable and she very well might go in the next 4 years.
- Antonin Scalia, 72, a strong conservative appointed by Reagan who holds that the Constitution is not a living document, but rather is very fixed with the original intent of the authors. He believes that the amendment process should be used to change the constitution, not simply re-interpreting its meaning.
If Stevens goes in the next 4 years and a conservative was added, the court would finally be balanced in a way that gives original intent an advantage.
3) The war on Islamic Fundamental Terror - McCain understands that you cannot attack terrorism in the courts or by ignoring it as Bill Clinton did. You cannot allow a terrorist attack upon our Navy ships to go without response. You cannot allow a bomb in the WTC with only a few prosecutors going after the perpetrators. You cannot stand back, you have to chase them down and kill them.
The left likes to attack the strategy, but they also deny the results. In recent polls of the Islamic world, radical fundamentalism is losing ground. Terrorism is losing ground. Suicide bombing is at its lowest point ever for an acceptable means of advancing their objectives.
The strategy is working and it will continue to take time. McCain understands this strategy and will advance it, but also will correct tactical errors without fear. He advanced the change from "small footprint" to "the surge" and was right.
4) Barrack Obama is totally unqualified.
- My original plan was to not vote. I could have lived with Hillary for 4-8 years on the assumption that she would rule like Bill, in her own self-interest which actually means that she would not want to run the country into the ground to advance a socialist agenda. Barrack has no such sense of pragmatism.
- Obama is incompetent. His pick of Joe Biden was not just bad, it was horrific. Why? What could make him pick Biden, a man who has been caught making stupid statements and lying so many times that its common knowledge? Gravitas?
- Obama is ruled by an idealistic sense of socialist resolution of all the world's problems. If we just tax the rich (more than we already do - 50% of our taxes come from those making > $1M and 95% from those making over $200K) we can solve all the worlds problems.
- Obama would make Ginsburg nomination look like an arch-conservative on the court if he gets to pick a judge.
- National Security would be destroyed. Obama would send a horrific message to our enemies that they can do what they want with impunity. His response to the Russian attack on a sovereign Georgia was to demand that "both sides show restraint". This is like telling a little old lady to "show restraint" as she lies on the ground with a mugger beating her. Russia was the aggressor, Georgia the internationally recognized victim, and Obama demands "both sides show restraint". Right. The man is dangerous.
I am going to vote for McCain/Palin and while I will not be happy about some of McCain's likely actions, I will accept them in exchange for the hope Palin provides for 2012.
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Amen, bro.
Really...
Well I hope the new one works a little better.
Dobson and all the others that couldn't vote for McCain.... Oh gee, you got a better idea? Obama? Just don't vote? Bob Barr? Nader?
Hogwash, like him or not, he survived the campaign fitness contest, beat out some big hitters.
Like my Grandpa said about an ornery old horse: "He may be a sumbitch, be he's our sumbitch, get him some oats."
Honestly, stomping your feet and holding your breath is just silly. Hold your nose if you have to and go vote for McCain. Quit all this cryin'.
BS. Republicans got in control of congress and started trying to stuff their pockets as quickly as they could. That's what sunk them. Some of us believed the GOP was serious about downsizing government. They never once made a move to close the department of education. Dennis Hastert and the rest of his leaders betrayed the conservatives.
I tried to explain to my husband the other day why I appreciate the delicious irony of McCain’s decision to pick Palin.
He was our outlier who became the last man standing. He wasn’t our pick because of his penchant for “reaching across the isle” and infuriating conservatives on some issues.
This time though, instead of choosing among his politically moderate inner circle of friends, the Maverick strikes a deal on his own terms, choosing a fellow reformer - yet also a true conservative on every issue, proving once again that he can reach across the isle, this time to us, “his base” - to get things done.
Obama would send a horrific message to our enemies that they can do what they want with impunity. His response to the Russian attack on a sovereign Georgia was to demand that “both sides show restraint”. This is like telling a little old lady to “show restraint” as she lies on the ground with a mugger beating her.
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i also heard that obambi said it should go to the U.N. ....but Russia has a veto on the U.N.!!!!
You're right.
You voice reasons that I hold for voting for McCain/Palin. Welcome aboard.
I confess, When Fred Thompson dropped out I was right here on FR saying that “a McCain for President Yard sign will never cast its shadow on my front lawn”, and I would Never put a McCain bumper sticker on the car. Stopping short of saying I would never vote for him.
Well let me tell you, with his perfect performance at the Saddelback forum, his brilliant new style of ads, picking Sarah Palin someone who I have been watching since February as the VP, and now with her electrifying debut - I AM SO PUMPED I CAN’T BE CONTAINED.
Within minutes of the VP announcement that Friday I began searching websites to purchase bumper stickers, yard signs, T-shirts, anything. Heck right now I could break a taboo of mine and tattoo McCain/Palin 08 on my chest.
I’m on board too. Didn’t think I could vote for McCain but Sarah made the difference.
Hispanic Political Operator---Juan Hernandez----is a dual US/Mexico citizen--who headed the Mexican government's "Ministry of Mexicans Living in the US."
Hernandez told Cong Tancredo that "The Ministry" exists to increase the flow of Mexicans to the US TO SERVE Mexico’s needs including: $50 billion annual remittances to Mexico (30% of Mexico's GDP); employment for Mexico's exploding population, to alleviate Mexican social instability, and to provide job training for Mexicans THAT THEY WILL BRING BACK TO MEXICO.
Hernandez told Cong Tancredo: ‘’By Mexico populating the US with millions of Hispanics tied economically, politically and linguistically to Mexico, our government is able to exert enormous influence and pressure on US policy and its dealings with Mexico.’’
Get ready for a massive transfer of US wealth to greedy federales in the Mexican hellhole.
The sap-happy whining about "hopeless people" looking for a "better life" here is nonsense. Hernandez and other Third World gov't agents have infiltrated the US political system for ONE REASON: to effect a massive transfer of US wealth.
Third World federales are salivating at the thought.
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History shows the Huns, the Vandals, and the Barbarians used force to takeover a country to loot its wealth. Third World parasites like Hernandez use the US political system to divide and conqueur. They seek to conquer without firing a shot.
We can look forward to lettuce pickers stripping down to camouflage and shoulder holsters, roaming our streets, shooting to kill anyone who dares to speakout.
The invaders violated our borders for a "better life" (sarc) and while flipping hamburgers, they cleaned out the US Treasury, looted SS, UI, Disability, EITC, Workmen's Comp, welfare; they shut down numerous hospitals, sued everything in sight, and made big bucks selling drugs to American youth.
Now they'll retire in luxury at beachfront condos with multiple US govt checks rolling in.
More reasons to declare these agents of corrupt Third World governments invading our country "enemies of state."
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". No deal.
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