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[Syncro]

'STRAIGHT TALK' EXPRESS TAKES SCENIC ROUTE TO TRUTH
January 23, 2008


John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most "electable" Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn't lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

And I might lie if I had called the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "dishonest and dishonorable."

McCain angrily denounces the suggestion that his "comprehensive immigration reform" constituted "amnesty" -- on the ludicrous grounds that it included a small fine. Even the guy who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy didn't fall for this a few years ago.

In 2003, McCain told The Tucson Citizen that "amnesty has to be an important part" of any immigration reform. He also rolled out the old chestnut about America's need for illegals, who do "jobs that American workers simply won't do."

McCain's amnesty bill would have immediately granted millions of newly legalized immigrants Social Security benefits. He even supported allowing work performed as an illegal to count toward Social Security benefits as recently as a vote in 2006 -- now adamantly denied by Mr. Straight Talk.

McCain keeps boasting that he was "the only one" of the Republican presidential candidates who supported the surge in Iraq.

What is he talking about? All Republicans supported the surge -- including Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. The only ones who didn't support it were McCain pals like Sen. Chuck Hagel. Indeed, the surge is the first part of the war on terrorism that caused McCain to break from Hagel in order to support the president.

True, McCain voted for the war. So did Hillary Clinton. Like her, he then immediately started attacking every other aspect of the war on terrorism. (The only difference was, he threw in frequent references to his experience as a POW, which currently outnumber John Kerry's references to being a Vietnam vet.)

Thus, McCain joined with the Democrats in demanding O.J. trials for terrorists at Guantanamo, including his demand that the terrorists have full access to the intelligence files being used to prosecute them.

These days, McCain gives swashbuckling speeches about the terrorists who "will follow us home." But he still opposes dripping water down their noses. He was a POW, you know. Also a member of the Keating 5 scandal, which you probably don't know, and won't -- until he becomes the Republican nominee.

Though McCain was far from the only Republican to support the surge, he does have the distinction of being the only Republican who voted against the Bush tax cuts. (Also the little lamented Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who later left the Republican Party.) Now McCain claims he opposed the tax cuts because they didn't include enough spending cuts. But that wasn't what he said at the time.

To the contrary, in 2001, McCain said he was voting against Bush's tax cuts based on the idiotic talking point of the Democrats. "I cannot in good conscience," McCain said, "support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief."

McCain started and fanned the vicious anti-Bush myth that, before the 2000 South Carolina primary, the Bush campaign made phone calls to voters calling McCain a "liar, cheat and a fraud" and accusing him of having an illegitimate black child.

On the thin reed of a hearsay account, McCain immediately blamed the calls on Bush. "I'm calling on my good friend George Bush," McCain said, "to stop this now. He comes from a better family. He knows better than this."

Read more at AnnCoulter.Com

[nikos1121]

Ann,

I know you read this forum and you know me...(we won’t go into that :-) ). Please, please get the word out to Mitt. Tell him to visit Rush. Go to his house in Florida. Knock on his door. Take his toughest questions. Take it straight and give honest answers. PLEASE ANN, TELL HIM TO DO THIS....PLEASE?

nikos

[RonDog]

Wow. That is a really BAD photo of Ann with Mitt.

This one, from the series posted at www.talkingpointsmemo.com, is a LITTLE better:

[Syncro]

Mitt already did his Missionary work, in France when he “saw” his father march with MLK.

[Feldkurat_Katz]

STRAIGHT TALK = Ann Coulter

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She's right about the reasons for concern about McCain, and her article is informative, but there's some junk in it.

Was McCain wholly out of place in criticizing the conduct of the war? Weren't some serious mistakes actually made?

Were those 2000 push polls in South Carolina totally fictional? Apparently it's not established exactly who authorized the poll, but Coulter's conclusion is no more authoritative than McCain's in the matter.

McCain's stand on illegal immigration probably does disqualify him for the presidency, but Ann might cut McCain at least a little slack, as a fellow sufferer from "foot in mouth" disease. What's the world come to when two loose cannons can't get along.

[big'ol_freeper]

So Annie berates one liberal and supports another. Kinda makes you wonder.

U.S. Army Retired

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Can he play Solitaire?

[RinaseaofDs]

She is so freakin’ hot.

[CRBDeuce]

How we all miss Fred...........might have to write in Gingrich

[devolve]

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Bumperoooooo!

[CRBDeuce]

At least he clammed up when his roommate at Hanoi Hilton Col. Bud Day suggested he had gone over the top......not that I would ever vote for him..

[CRBDeuce]

Kerry got 49 million votes........try to make sense of that!

[Gator113]

Ann Coulter...I love you.

It’s a cyber love, Ann, so my beloved Bride says it’s ok.

Yet again, you knocked it out of the park, babe!!!

Love XXXOOO

Call me.....;>)

[RonDog]

ping!

[CRBDeuce]

NO one has called him a liberal.......Rino perhaps, just because he compromised with some Taxachussetts libs....but not liberal, not by any stretch of the imagination. I mean Annie’s got some ‘liberal’ friends, but she wouldn’t promote a liberal to president in a million years.............just sayin.

[Reagan Man]

Now there is a conservative I could support for POTUS.

GO Dick GO!

[CRBDeuce]

in a sea of D’s,

observant, very observant....not much gets by you...that’s for sure!

[big'ol_freeper]

That's funny because he has been called a liberal by most folks here on Free Republic, the internet's premier conservative forum. And then again, I've looked at his record as governor of Massachussetts and could come to no other conclusion than to label him a liberal.

U.S. Army Retired

[Radix]

I read it all.

I just love that woman!

[CRBDeuce]

Like I said, Taxachussetts could have made Reagan look like a liberal.....just sayin.