Posted on 01/24/2009 7:54:57 AM PST by nysuperdoodle
John McCain has no political integrity. He doesn't hold himself responsible for his meandering, message-less campaign and his miserable defeat at the hands of the most un-electable candidate in history, but he's ready to hold his own party responsible for working with Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Instead of riding into the sunset, content with the damage he has done to his own party and allowing himself to be, at least superficially, respected by the people whose party and ideals he let down, he has apparently chosen to devote himself to furthering Obama's agenda.
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I’ve heard of people throwing prize fights and shaving points in basketball games but, prior to 2008, the idea of throwing a presidential election would have seemed inconceivable to me. All the sorry ****bird had to do was mouth four little words “I oppose the bailout”, and he’d be president today and he isn’t stupid enough not to know that. He could have changed his mind (and not opposed the bailout) on Nov 5 had he wanted to.
Oh smartest thread evah!
Election is over, release the cannibals...
Cannibals? We were skeptical in the campaign on whether this guy was going to even be a Republican, but his going out of his way to promote Obama (and blaming not only Palin, but US after the election) shows us that not only is he NOT a Republican, but a mole in the GOP.
So no “eating of our own” because I argue that John McCain is NOT one of our “own”.
I hope he gets primaried out in Arizona next year.
McCain......... =(. That’s all just =(.
That's McNut's legacy. ...and his desperate attempts at changing that fact will fail as miserably has his Presidential campaign.
That's McNut's legacy. ...and his desperate attempts at changing that fact will fail as miserably as his Presidential campaign.
I think half the Republicans back in March of last year...felt he wasn’t up to the task and really couldn’t see voting for the guy. Today...we’d all be doing Arizona a favor by helping the Democratic candidate win the senate vote there, and send him into retirement.
Good point Wendy1946. Unfortunately most of the Republicans leaders have gone squishy, not just McCain.
Here is the list of sad sacks —
George Bush — started the budget blowout last year, giving plenty of cover to Obama to launch his even bigger budget blowout.
Sara Palin — after running a sharp, spunky campaign, the moose hunter now whines about about mean Katie Couric was.
Mike Huckabee — the runner-up to McCain could be making fiery speeches around the country, rousing crowds against socialism and liberals. But no, he is playing his guitar and giggling with guests on his new television show.
Mitt Romney — where was he when his fellow Mormons courageously took on the gay power structure in California and passed Proposition 8? Was Romney just kidding us about being a social conservative during the primaries?
As for Congressional Republicans — the leaders are not opposing the trillion dollar bailout — they just want it to be more “reasonable” with tax cuts. A stupid socialist bailout with a few tax cuts is still a stupid socialist bailout.
Where have all the true conservatives gone?
Another day, another goober.
Inside the Beltway, they're nearly extinct. Outside of politics, there are plenty. Ollie North would be a great President -- very wise, a keen sense of history, a staunch conservative, and tough as nails. A true leader and patriot. Problem is, he has too much sense to want that thankless job.
from the article: ***I held my nose and voted for Senator McCain in November. Now I’m glad he lost. If I have to, I’ll write myself in.***
John McCain is still a POW - held captive by a “civil & political” war. We may not agree with his pragmatism - but he cannot be faulted for using strategies that have kept him alive, literally and politically, throughout his life-long service to this nation.
I may question his process - but never his motives.
He will be known by his fruits. Like any false prophet. You don't have to question his motives. He did what he intended to do.
He won’t be. He’s a “Senator for Life.”
John’s problem, in my opinion, is that he’s got a distorted view of patriotism. He feels that because Obama won the election then its his duty to assist in whatever Obama wants to do. As if by winning the election that makes Obama’s policies legit.
I caught that from one of his debates where he said he voted for the SCOTUS nominee from Clinton simply because that’s ‘how the game is played’ saying it depended on who was in office at the time, “will of the people” and all that crap.
This clearly doesn’t make it right but at least seeing it this way I can understand his thinking.
And as everyone here can see, guys like that are dangerous in policy making positions.
JB
That's not what I got from her interviews, but rather a realization that the media did everything in their power (and it's very powerful) to get Bozama elected while discrediting her in every way possible. A better description might be 'frustrated'.
Besides John McCain’s problems of granting amnesty to illegal aliens and restricting freedom of speech, he is severely deficient in the areas of national security and integrity.
Politics is the art of compromise and leadership is the art of principle. Lincoln used superb political skills to implement some of the most cogent and insightful principles to guide this nation. McCain has used political skills to implement compromises consistent with increasing personal acclaim among liberal media and politicians. The former is dead and the latter is alive, but dead to principles unrelated to his immediate personal advancement.
John McCain lacks leadership for the War on Terror. His leadership codified the Army interrogation manual making terrorists legal combatants. His leadership granted terrorists American citizenship rights under Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. He thereby ensures information vital to defeat terrorists remains sacred and unobtainable. Terrorists are unresponsive to direct questioning and psychological gambits. Therefore, interrogators need all stress and coercion techniques our military encounters in survival schools. McCain embraces liberal orthodoxy considering those methods torture, but his searing experiences call forth contrary insights he must suppress.
McCain especially understands from the Geneva Conventions terrorists are not insurgents or freedom fighters; when captured, certainly not prisoners of war. They are not armed forces, militias, or volunteer corps of any country or authority. These killers are not members of organized resistance movements carrying arms openly. They have no distinctive identifier. Terrorists cannot even qualify as spies or saboteurs destroying infrastructure required to support military operations. McCain understands Geneva Conventions intended to isolate such forces, provide them no protections, and allow destruction with any overwhelming furies needed to crush their abominations. Knowing these factors he promised to close Guantanamo Bay, inviting terrorists into our legal system. He decided to accommodate extraordinarily savage behavior, which checkmates national laws intended to manage simple murder and kidnapping, and renders Posse Comitatus a crumbling deception.
McCain especially appreciates from our Constitution that laws guaranteeing civil liberties presuppose operation within an invincible society. He more than most understands Alexander Hamilton’s words that devastating, unforeseeable perils must lead deliberations. The Federal government’s three branches primary responsibility is to pursue Hamilton’s admonition that powers exist without limitation; providing capabilities thwarting dangers as well as repelling attacks. McCain understands powerful warfare capabilities require potent intelligence acquisition and exploitation before and throughout campaigns.
The framers of our Constitution and the Geneva Conventions held powerful positions throughout the darkest times of our country and the world. They were our Founding Fathers, and parents and grandparents of the Greatest Generation. Their words expressed durable morality earned in our fight for freedom, and against the ultimate bloody deluge of the 20th century. These first generations expressed principles derived from confronting shattering tragedies, and earning peace through victory.
John McCain’s actions are particularly reprehensible because he turns a blind eye to the council of these people. McCain continually seeks popular advancement by placating those coveting luxurious morality requiring shelter from hard choices and danger awareness. His crime is repudiating military and intelligence professionals facing hard choices when confronting shrewd, ruthless enemies obscured behind frightening uncertainties.
Instead he follows the success of Bill Clinton, who cemented in politics for both parties the idea that character did not matter. There are no principles, but only ideas that secure possession of an office. John McCain is the most prominent Republican example of this new direction towards possession of power through careful exploitation of perceived expediency.
John McCain succumbed to the terrible addiction of political power. The same addiction expressed itself differently in fellow Navy officer Randy Cunningham, who was the Navy’s first Vietnam ace. Over the decades the honor and moral authority of both were gradually traded away for influence in the political arena. To me McCain is like a cadaver prepared for viewing. The removal of blood and organs equates to the trading away of honor and moral authority. The reputation that remains is like the cosmetics applied for viewing the corpse at the funeral. It is easy for anyone to get onto the same sort of gently downward sloping path. The final result is tragic, but we should not suffer such pathetic and contemptible modern day Macbeths or Hamlets as President.
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