When I watch him, I get the same feeling. When I read him it's very different. Point being, D.C. is so foul and has so lost it's way, who besides Paul could turn the table over, such that the game pieces may be put back on the board the way our founders envisioned?
If Paul had a John Wayne or Clint Eastwood demeanor, the dems would be shaking in their boots clogs. Whether it's the executive, legislative, or judicial branch, they have all (at various times) lost their way. What's needed now more than ever is a sheepdog to get them back on path.
That 40+% of the populace would elect a socialist president tomorrow based on gender or race is alarming, damning, and speaks volumes of our failure to preserve liberty.(and decency)
That Paul isn't electable suggests a win of style over substance (guilty, I wasn't enthralled at first). That the values we once held paramount to life as Americans can't get a fair shake suggests that, though all is not lost yet, it may soon be.
Freedom and liberty have taken a backseat to expediency and security. Rather than securing our borders and keeping tabs on foreigners from terrorist hotbeds, these lapses mean we must now remove our shoes to board a plane. Pathetic. Three thousand died due to bureaucratic blunders, the rest of us must pay for their ineptitude. Sick.
That Americans haven't traded every ounce of freedom for every pound of state security is uplifting. Might be this concept (freedom) can't be quashed so easily- be it by a beltpack-laden broad in Baghdad or a dynamic SWAT entry into the wrong address in Poedunk, Iowa looking for a bag of weed. The message remains the same: f**k terrorism. Got anything else? You feel lucky today? Huh, punk?
There are only two reasons a McCain nomination could ever have silver lining. First, the media tells us he can [cough] beat Hillary. Second, he's a bull in a china shop. If we could turn his horns away from us (conservatives) and point them toward the Greenie/liberal sh*tstupid ideas he has embraced lately (to appeal to the left) he could gore a lot of what ails us.
I don't want to be in the same room the day he realizes his VC captors share the same values as the liberal 'friends' to whom he 'reaches across the aisle'.
Whoa! Wait! Epiphany! What if this guy is playing rope-a-dope with the left, only to be elected such that he'll be in position finally to make pay-back on these leftists/commies/ JaneFonda AA gunners?! Crush them as he would his captors, had he ever been given the chance! Just think what five years in a POW camp with communist/liberal/communitarian chinese co**su*kers must have been like. Folks, I'm going out on a limb here, but I'll be looking for clues, if he's any good, I'll bet they'll be hard to find. Hot damn, the left is about to get creamed. Go, Stealth Candidate, Go! This may be a Superbowl political upset like no other.
I finally figuered out what five years of torture might do to someone. I put myself in his shoes (best I could). I can't even imagine his hatred of the left but I can imagine a plan to pay them back the best way possible. Not only is he poised to rid us of Hilly and Big Eared Smiley, he's going after Osama. Did you see him on Jay Leno? If he tipped his hand ever, it was right there. OMG!
Folks, this guy McCain has had a plan since his first day as a captive in Viet Nam to pay the 'bastards' back. Five years of rice and water, five years of pain. Somebody's gonna pay. And that 'somebody' is the left- commrades in arms with the Chicoms. Little else could explain his rise to the top from what seemed obscurity. He may be on a mission from God, and who am I go get in the way?
Dear fieldmarshaldj, sorry for the rant. Spin a record? :^)
Sounds a bit similar...
1 Samuel 16:4-13
4. Samuel did what the LORD said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, "Do you come in peace?"
5. Samuel replied, "Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me." Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
6. When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before the LORD."
7. But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
8. Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either."
9. Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, "Nor has the LORD chosen this one."
10. Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, "The LORD has not chosen these."
11. So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest," Jesse answered, "but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives."
12. So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint him; he is the one."
Hey, who knows ? We’re already in the Twilight Zone. ;-)