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;
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
If McCain wins it will because people like Levin and Rush tried to sell us the fraud Mitt Romney. They mention Thompson now, but only after he became non competitive.
Make no mistake about it. The New MSM media will stop at nothing to get Romney elected.
McCain's win was no mistake. It was orchestrated by the likes of Rush and his hack job buddies. They started pushing Thompson for no other reason than to take votes away from Huckabee. The bottom line is, selling Romney over McCain is much easier then selling him over Thompson or Huckabee.
Unfortunately it seems like most of the Thompson supporters are playing right into their hands.
Huckabee can pound sand. He will never get my vote.
Was Bush part of your little fantasy? If I remember correctly, he supported that bill as well.
I'd throw Romney in there as well, except he didn't think that bill amounted to amnesty.
“The lesser of two evils ... Lawd, forgive me.”
If you freeped McCain already ... you’ve done your penance. LOL.
Lets be realistic:
- Fred has run 3rd or worse in the first 4 contested primaries
- Mitt won 1 of them, Huck won 1, McCain won 2
The only one who can stop McCain from getting the nomination is Romney.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/01/state-of-presidential-primary-race.html
Same here...McCain's not the man for the job.
“My understanding of McCain’s idea was to send back in massive numbers which I think would have “Americanized” the effort completely. I don’t think what he was proposing was the brilliant strategy of Gens. Petraeus and Odierno and Fred Kegan, which is the strategy that has worked to tamp down the violence, kill the bad guys and allow Iraqi forces to get up to speed.”
You are right. It wasn’t the numbers that made the difference, more it was how Patraeus deployed the troops (more close-in neighborhood support) and got the Iraqis involved (sunni ‘tribes’ to help) that made the difference.
McCain had almost nothing to do with that, except for the fact that he was properly supportive of the President’s decisions.
“the Republicans can still filibuster the worst of the leftists”
But we never do ... I am sure McCain voted for 98% of the judges Clinton nominated, including Ginsberg and Breyer.
This much I know:
Romney is a far better nominee for conservatives than McCain.
Yes, a very good article. I can’t believe McCain is still pushing amnesty and voters are letting him get away with it!
it is not at all defeatist. It is a rational conclusion based on likely probabilities. If you think McCain has any chance against any Rat, you are very sadly mistaken. I still feel somehow that McCain will not be the Rep nominee. Of all the candidates running on both sides, he the most dangerous to our Republic. Providence will not allow him to attain that for which he so cravenly lusts.
I have to disagree. McCain is a very vengeful man. He will seek Teddy for S.C. nominees. He will go out of his way to destroy the conservative base.
Your sick.
The world's most powerful political office is an awful, gut-wrenching and miserably lonely responsibility that must be taken on by someone, and when a candidate doesn't treat it as such a character flaw is evident, implying either great immaturity or unfounded arrogance. There is always hope that immaturity in a leader will diminish with experience- but an arrogant leader will never yield to wisdom, and in the desire to rule will bring to ruin those he is supposed to serve.
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