Feel free to send a paragraph through, stating precisely how any of the other GOP candidates would be head and shoulders above McCain.
(BTW, I'm slightly listing toward the Romney side, at this point. Thompson caves on abortion and homosexual "marriage.")
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That wasn't direct to me....but can I play? PLEEEAAASE?
Thanks:
- Most of the other candidates (admittedly except Fred) oppose the obnoxious, anti-1st-Amendment, McPain-Feingold Political Speech Rationing Act.
- The other candidates supported Bush's tax cuts. McPain fought them, using Dem class-warfare lines about "tax cuts for the rich."
- Most of the other candidates have expressed at least some skepticism about the Chicken-Little environmentalists and their Global Warming hobby horse. McPain has bought it all hook, line, and sinker.
- McCain UNIQUELY distinguished himself as a traitor to the conservative cause by participating in the Gang of 14, which lent aid and comfort to the left in its effort to stop conservative Supreme Court appointments.
- McCain joined (surprise, surprise) Chuck Schumer, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary and the other leftists in the Senate to denounce waterboarding as "torture" EVEN AFTER KNOWING FROM HIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS THAT WATERBOARDING HAS HELPED US TO BREAK UP NUMEROUS TERROR CELLS. This was a two-fer for McPain: aid and comfort to the Dems and Al Queda at the same time. I don't believe any of the other candidates (except maybe Ron Paul) has unequivocally said he wouldn't waterboard if lives were at stake - AND THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
- McCain has repeatedly insulted and impuned the motives of evangelicals. Even Guiliani and Romney (neither of whom I support) have maligned Christian conservatives the way McPain has.
- ONLY McCain engaged in a years-long personal vendetta with the Secretary of Defense as he was trying to fight a war. Not behind closed doors, but in the press (as he fights ALL his battles against fellow Republicans and conservatives).
- True to form, McCain joined the MSM/Democrat axis of evil to denounce the Swift Boaters in 2004 for telling the TRUTH about John Kerry. I don't think any other GOP nominee did that.
McCain's entire case for the Presidency seems to be: "I was a prisoner-of-war, and the mainstream media love me." They DO love him, of course, because he can always be counted on to stab conservatives in the back. On taxes, on judges, on global warming, you name it, he'll do it to curry favor with the Tim Russerts of the world.
Is that a paragraph yet?
Hank