Posted on 01/20/2008 10:28:50 AM PST by vietvet67
With all due respect, this is absurd on many levels. If John McCain is nominated and loses, it is because he doesn’t appeal to enough Americans, including the base that he has repeatedly betrayed (as Thomas Sowell puts it) over a long period of time. The suggestion that McCain and McCain alone is capable of fighting this war, given his experience, seems to be the core of the concern. Let me suggest that VDH and others who make this claim are wrong.
McCain never treated Bill Cohen, Clinton’s defense secretary, with the kind of personal animus he showed Donald Rumsfeld. McCain often confuses policy with personality affronts. He was social friends with Cohen so he didn’t admonish him about his hollowing out of the military. His attacks on Rumsfeld started before his disagreement over the surge. Their personalities clashed. And as before, McCain wanted to get even. The fact that he was right on the surge, which has now evolved into mythical proportions with the help of his campaign and supporters, goes high on the credit side of the ledger.
You ask, in essence, that we ignore McCain’s leadership in the amnesty debate and his course reversal of recent months as he seeks votes. What does this tell us about the man? The bill he co-authored with Ted Kennedy (and which was foolishly supported by the current president) would have caused enormous economic and cultural dislocations. (VDH doesn’t need lectures from me on the subject, since he’s written eloquently on it.) As the Heritage Foundation and many others pointed out at the time, the McCain-led effort would have resulted in tens of millions of new illegal aliens coming to the country with the likelihood of eventually receiving citizenship;
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Proamnesty-antiBushtaxcuts-proCO2caps-CFR-RINO John McCain delenda est!
McCain does not deserve a single conservative Republican vote.
Wouldn't the conservative base be better represented with a Democrat president who's at the table to better sell out his liberal base?
....a Democrat president who’s at the table to better sell out his liberal base?....
Or her liberal base.
Is VDH a registered Republican?
bttt
The GOP will never fix itself if someone like McCain can be elected. I want the GOP to fix itself, so McCain doesn’t get my vote. Not even against Hillary.
Proabortion-progayrights-antifamily-antitraditionalmarriage-RINOliberalcrossdresser- Rudy Giuliani delenda est!
McCain does not deserve a single conservative Republican vote.
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The problem is he is receiving plenty of them.
I’m not voting for Huckabee under any circumstances. I can hold my nose and vote for McCain if he fully embraces conservatism but the man of 1000 pardons can not be President.
I’m 100% behind Fred Thompson. We need to bring down Huckabee.
I’m personally thinking about a third party. I’m so fn tired of Republican light. We need to lead by conservative principles not liberal principles. We need to stop letting them set the rules of engagement. Huckabee, Romney, and McCain do not seem to understand that. There are ways to talk about the plight of the common man without resorting to class warfare. It is called leadership not entertainment. (I know some of you don’t seem to grasp the difference.)
If goes down to the wire and it's just him vs. Hillary, he's got my vote....but that's the ONLY way it can happen.
Or “their” liberal base—hah—the two headed monster.
That doesn’t mean he deserves them.
Has his medical history been adequately disclosed? If so, I’ve not seen or heard about it.
I can’t vote for either one.
McCain is as Republican as Hillary is.
McLame should be running for the DhimmiCrats, IMO. And, personally, I’m sick to death of the press playing up his POW status. As a veteran, myself, I have great respect for EVERYONE who serves, and EVERYONE who has served. But, service should not be construed as a lifetime pass on principles, morals, or pretending to higher office in government.
America needs a true conservative as President. And, whoever that may be will need a whole bunch of us ‘regular folks’ to help him/her get there. We need to be talking loud and long about smaller government, return to basic principles, recapturing our lost morality, and putting an end to the threats that face this grand experiment...mostly Islamofascism and secular progressivism (moral relativity, etc.).
It ain’t rocket science. It’s more like digging a ditch. We know where we are, and we know where we need to end up. Time to start digging; and it won’t be easy.
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