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Open Thread: Why John McCain is Unfit to be President
Vanity | Freespirited

Posted on 11/12/2006 11:44:01 AM PST by freespirited

John McCain is signaling his intent to seek the GOP nomination for president. Unlike many FReepers, I view him as a very real threat to the GOP's chances in 2008. Just look at the polls. We can debate the most important lessons of last Tuesday ad infinitum, but clearly one of them is that polls do reflect public opinion and must be taken seriously.

Based on polling data, McCain is usually described as the front-runner. If he gets the nomination, I believe he will self-destruct during the campaign and guarantee the election of the Democrat candidate.

We have a choice. We can fail to take the threat he poses seriously and end up with another debacle, or we can get serious about finding a better candidate.

I am asking those who see McCain as a disaster in the making to post your reasons. I have many but have started the list with five of them. Please add yours. If you have a blog or know anyone who does, how about starting some discussion of this issue. IMO, the time is now.

Why John McCain is Unfit to be President

1. He has shown more concern about protecting terrorists than the American people.

2. He trashed the First Amendment with his outrageous "Campaign Finance Reform" law.

3. He attacked true American heroes, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, without having read a word of their excellent book.

4. His record on illegal immigration is poor. Despite the impact this problem is having on his state (and the country), McCain has an overall grade of D from Americans for Better Immigration. His career report card shows grades of F on four of the nine issues.

5 The media loves him, which tells us all we need to know.


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1 posted on 11/12/2006 11:44:04 AM PST by freespirited
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To: freespirited

Want a repeat of '06? Serve up McCain/Rudy/Condi/Romney and watch it happen.


2 posted on 11/12/2006 11:45:18 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.com/)
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To: freespirited
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3 posted on 11/12/2006 11:45:46 AM PST by digger48 (there went breakfast)
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To: freespirited
I will walk over a mile of hot burning coal with my bare feet, and then crawl for 10 miles on broken glass to support Sen. McCain, if Hillary is his opponent.
4 posted on 11/12/2006 11:46:36 AM PST by Omega Man II
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To: freespirited

He wants to attack the Second Amendment too, with his disingenuous "Gun Show Loophole" bill. I fully expect him to propose further legislation that knocks down all the rest of the items in the Bill of Rights, "Let Soldiers Come In From The Rain" act, that stipulates how soldiers are to be quartered in houses in times of peace, and "Untie The Hands Of Law Enforcement" which would allow unreasonable, warrantless searches of dwellings for any reason, or for no reason, etc. McCain scares me.


5 posted on 11/12/2006 11:47:24 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: Omega Man II
So your mission is to make sure the hildibeast remains "damaged goods" so neither untenable choice will be necessary.
6 posted on 11/12/2006 11:48:02 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: freespirited

You know I am thinking what we might need is someone to Steele our resolve and return us to the Merry Land of conservatism.


7 posted on 11/12/2006 11:48:56 AM PST by GulfBreeze (I asked God about it and he doesn't believe in atheists either. So can you prove they exist?)
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To: GulfBreeze

Let's not Rush into it..

;-)


8 posted on 11/12/2006 11:49:58 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Suddenly, there'll be LOTS of GOOD NEWS coming out of Iraq from CNN (PUKE!))
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To: freespirited

You can't trust him. He'd just as soon be the Democrat President at the GOP. He just wants to be President.


9 posted on 11/12/2006 11:50:03 AM PST by baiamonte
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To: freespirited
Arrrrrr!!!!! I'll eat your younguns if ya don't vote fer me ya scurvey dogs!

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10 posted on 11/12/2006 11:51:29 AM PST by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek

lol


11 posted on 11/12/2006 11:54:00 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: freespirited

McCain might make a poster boy for all the reasons to keep a man away from the Presidency. He does all he can to stick his thumb in the eyes of conservatives. Then when he wants to run for something he brags about how conservative he is. If there is a prominent Republican who has earned rejection, it's McCain.


12 posted on 11/12/2006 11:55:37 AM PST by stevem
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To: freespirited

>Based on polling data, McCain is usually described as the front-runner.< IOW The MSM's pick for GOP, not ours.


13 posted on 11/12/2006 11:59:19 AM PST by FReepapalooza
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To: freespirited

No one held subject to communist indoctrination for years
should have a place in our government and that includes the Senate.


14 posted on 11/12/2006 12:01:23 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: freespirited

bumped and bookmarked.


15 posted on 11/12/2006 12:02:39 PM PST by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: freespirited

In the end I find McCain to be a pretty decent guy.

He does not, however, make the grade for presidential material.

1) He doesn't land anywhere on a political scale. Not Liberal. Not Conservative. Not Middle of the road. He is an odd mixture of conservative and liberal ideologies. In the end people will look at the ones they disagree with as reason not to go to the polls and vote.

2) He has a high propensity toward self-serving behaviour. (i.e. He stands behind the pres when it suites him and abandons him freely when it doesn't)

3) Temper temper.

4) Too old.

5) He's an "also ran" from the past and that seldom sits well with voters.

6) His prolife stance (though stances were mentioned above) is by itself a problem. The conservative base IS NOT going to come out without a good reason and that means a prolife candidate!


16 posted on 11/12/2006 12:04:38 PM PST by GulfBreeze (I asked God about it and he doesn't believe in atheists either. So can you prove they exist?)
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To: freespirited
Reason #6527,743 why McInsane is UNFIT to be POTUS.

From the week of April 29, 2006 wjen Mc Insane 'appeared' on the Imus show.

Quote McInsane:
""He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform... I know that money corrupts... I would rather have a clean government than one where 'quote' First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."

Everyone got that, 'quote' First Amendment Rights.

So acording to McInsane 'we' have...

The Beast doesn't even hold the Constitution in such contempt.

17 posted on 11/12/2006 12:20:12 PM PST by Condor51 ("Alot" is NOT a word and doesn't mean "many". It is 'a lot', two separate words.)
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To: Condor51

To hell with the Bill of Rights!


18 posted on 11/12/2006 12:23:17 PM PST by freespirited (The MSM is the root of all evil.)
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To: freespirited
***To hell with the Bill of Rights!***

Yep, that's McInsane's point of view.

19 posted on 11/12/2006 12:27:16 PM PST by Condor51 ("Alot" is NOT a word and doesn't mean "many". It is 'a lot', two separate words.)
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To: GulfBreeze

Decent guy?

He left his wife when she got disabled and ran off with a drug addict who steals drugs from Red Cross packages. Of course her family has money. Decent? I don't think so.


20 posted on 11/12/2006 1:00:06 PM PST by ladyjane
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