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Michael Reagan: John McCain Hates Me
townhall.com ^ | January 31, 2007 | Michael Reagan

Posted on 01/31/2008 3:29:48 PM PST by Dems_R_Losers

Until last night, when I watched the Republican debate, I had no idea how much John McCain dislikes me and just about everybody else but Rudy Giuliani, who if you believe The New York Times is a pretty good hater himself.

As I watched McCain and Governor Romney go at it during the debate at the Reagan Library I was struck by the huge gap that separates McCain -- whose contempt for his fellow humans is patently obvious -- and my dad, Ronald Reagan, who had nothing but the deepest affection and respect for the American people.

The feeling is mutual between McCain and me. I don’t like the way he treats people. You get the impression that he thinks everybody is beneath him. He seems to be saying, “I was a war hero, and you had damn well better treat me as your superior.”

He has contempt for conservatives who he thinks can be duped into thinking he’s one of them, despite such blatantly anti-conservative actions as his support for amnesty for illegal immigrants, his opposition to the Bush tax cuts which got the economy rolling again, and his campaign finance bill which skewed the political process and attacked free speech.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; conservatives; elections; mccain; michaelreagan; reagan; romney; romneyrealtruthfile; talkradio
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To: americanophile

If only McCain were that young!


81 posted on 01/31/2008 4:20:23 PM PST by RobbyS
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To: lone star annie

This should go out to all the RINOs who jumped on the Straight Jacket Express!!


82 posted on 01/31/2008 4:22:18 PM PST by lone star annie (McCain hates me and I'm glad he does)
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To: Michael Barnes

In 1962, Ronald Reagan formally switched to the Republican Party , saying “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.

And today here we, the Reagan Revolutionaries, are watching the Republican Party leave us.


83 posted on 01/31/2008 4:22:19 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Duke Cunningham was a war hero and look where he is now. McCain’s “hero” status is past its expiration date.


84 posted on 01/31/2008 4:22:50 PM PST by NonValueAdded (What Would Hobson Choose?)
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To: Count of Monte Logan

And what party would that be?


85 posted on 01/31/2008 4:25:46 PM PST by donnab (don't blame me ...I supported Fred.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers; All
Just realized another important piece from the article that struck me.

MR makes mention in the article that “McCain treats conservatives as if they were Viet Cong”.

The Viet Cong were not uniformed troops, but were guerrillas in the South. They were an extremely useful tool of the Communist North. They were readily sacrificed, BY DESIGN, by the North during the Tet of ‘68. We killed almost every last ass they had in the south and after that, conflicts were almost solely with uniformed units.

Perhaps the liberal wing of the party has seen that we as conservatives have no further use and can now be discarded and sacrificed. They figure that we have nowhere else to go with our values. We CERTAINLY do not have a home with the democrats. They assume that we will sit quietly like “good little children” and do as we are told.

This Republican Party will not get my money or my vote.

86 posted on 01/31/2008 4:25:56 PM PST by Mr. Jazzy (The United States Marines: Finest and most feared fighting force in the history of mankind.)
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To: rfp1234

This is right on.....

Great piece...”I can’t help it. I know in my heart he hates me, and every conservative. If he gets the nomination the only way he could win against Hillary or Barack Obama would be to be part of a McCain-Limbaugh ticket.”

I know in my heart Juan hates all conservatives, too.


87 posted on 01/31/2008 4:27:03 PM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: GOP_1900AD
... Furthermore, you know what really gets me?

The same “Christians” will huddle together and wonder ... and babble together about who they think the anti Christ is. They wound’t know the Antichrist if he personally bite them in the tush! They don’t know their Bible. But boy those itching ears will listen and believe whatever phonies like the Huckster have to say because he tosses Scripture around for self serving HUMANISM.

What I see is this:

2Tim.4:3

[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

The Huckster spews humanism and they love it!

Those “itching ears” can’t get enough of it.

They don’t want to look at his track record and how that utterly violates Biblical principles or how unethical he is. No. They want to believe a lie - that Huckabee is a Christian. What also plays nicely for Huckabee is the fact that Christians are often marginalized. This is true BUT it is BIBLE based Christians who are the ones marginalized. Their morals and beliefs don't fit into todya's ever lowering social mores. The humanist and the "Christian" left are not marginilzed - because there are so utterly compromised and pose no threat to liberals. This is why the media is EASY on the Huckster and McCain. Neither are "Christians".

88 posted on 01/31/2008 4:27:26 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Vineyard
Synopsis of McCain/Michael Reagan Blowup

Definitely the beginning of the end for McCain in 2000.

89 posted on 01/31/2008 4:32:48 PM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: seekthetruth
I just sent Michael Medved a link to the article by Michael Reagan!

I hope you weren't expecting a retraction. Medved is becoming as vindictive and petulent as his hero Juan.

90 posted on 01/31/2008 4:36:43 PM PST by skeeter
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To: GOP_1900AD

Boy, she’s a scary old crow. Contempt, dripping from her voice.


91 posted on 01/31/2008 4:37:49 PM PST by Harrius Magnus (Pucker up Mo, and your dhimmi Leftist freaks, here comes your Jizya!)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

I think this would make a great t-shirt : “McCain Hates Me”


92 posted on 01/31/2008 4:38:20 PM PST by Cosmo (Liberalism is for girls)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

If this is true, Michael should consider it a compliment.


93 posted on 01/31/2008 4:38:51 PM PST by sport
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To: kalee

I hear ya kalee...sad, no?


94 posted on 01/31/2008 4:39:43 PM PST by Michael Barnes
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To: Always Right

Michael Reagan: This is an interview I tried to do earlier today with John McCain... It would be choosing the judges if John McCain becomes President of the United States, and will they be liberal judges, or will they be conservative judges? That’s an issue many people would like to get an answer to. Is Warren Rudman going to be the Attorney General? That would be a good question to ask. Why don’t we go now, Sen. John McCain. Senator, how are you?

John McCain: How are you?

Michael Reagan: I am just fine, thank you very much. Where are you, are you in Fresno?

John McCain: I’m on the bus, I’m on the way to Bakersfield, I’m headed through a lot of very beautiful fruit tree areas. It’s very pretty here in the valley.

Michael Reagan: Question I want to ask you, first of all, have you decided now to get into the debate that’s going to be taking place on Thursday night?

John McCain: We’re having the debate, will be done by satellite from, we’ll have to stop on our trip back to New York and we had to cancel some, some ah of our New York schedule, but we’ll be there by satellite.

Michael Reagan: All right, let me ask you this, because I think it’s an issue, just isn’t being played out within the campaign, there’s so many other things that are being talked about, but as President of the United States, one of the legacies you would leave would be the judges that you would appoint as President of the United States of America and there’s some great concern if Warren Rudman, who is your overall campaign chair, would be in such a position in a McCain administration to appoint judges like Judge Souter to the bench as was done during the Bush administration back in the 1980s.

John McCain: Ah, Warren Rudman did not appoint Judge Souter, President Bush did, remember he was the president.

Michael Reagan: Yes, but ...

John McCain: Second of all, Warren Rudman is a fine, decent man who served his country in the Korean War, Attorney General of his state, and a Senator who was highly respected. It was, it was President Bush that appointed Justice Souter.

Michael Reagan: Right, but Warren Rudman...

John McCain: Warren Rudman is 70...let me finish, please, could I finish? Ah, ah, Warren Rudman is 70 years old, he’s been, he had a serious illness. He’s not interested in playing any active role in a McCain administration and I resent enormously phone calls that were made by Pat Robertson saying that he was a vicious bigot. I think that one might be...

Michael Reagan: Senator, Senator, Senator, Senator, Senator...

John McCain (talking over Reagan): ...well worth talking about as well...

Michael Reagan: Senator!

John McCain: I’m not...

Michael Reagan: Senator!

John McCain: I asked you, Michael, if I could finish, can I finish?

Michael Reagan: But you did finish... [McCain interrupts]

John McCain: Can I Finish? Can I finish? Yes or no?

Michael Reagan: What else do you have to say?

John McCain: Can I finish or not, I mean otherwise...

Michael Reagan: Go ahead.

John McCain: Okay. I don’t appreciate having him being called a vicious bigot by Pat Robertson in personal phone calls to hundreds of thousands of Americans. He is a fine and decent man and he will play an advisory role to me because he is a fine and decent man who enjoyed a sterling reputation as United States Senator and Attorney General of the state of New Hampshire.

Michael Reagan: So...

John McCain: Now I’m finished.

Michael Reagan: Very good. And what I was trying to get to is the fact that, yes, Warren Rudman did not appoint him, Warren Rudman’s the man who sold [him] to John Sununu, who sold him to President Bush at the time, and what...

John McCain (interrupting): In other words...

Michael Reagan: I want to find out.

John McCain: In other words, in other words, in other words, President Bush and John Sununu did not have any minds of their own. That’s, I don’t think that’s the way it happened.

Michael Reagan: That’s, Senator, let me ask you this. There are, there are...

John McCain (interrupting): I don’t believe that’s how it happened.

Michael Reagan: Well...

John McCain: John Sununu knew Souter just as well as Warren Rudman did, they’re both from New Hampshire.

Michael Reagan (talking over McCain): The question is, the question is, what kind of judges would you appoint to the bench? Would they be Souter-like? Would they be judges in the make of a Bork, a Thomas? What kind of judges could we see from a President McCain?

John McCain: My record is very clear as to who I have supported and my record is very clear in public statements that Justice Scalia is a Justice that I admire very much. I also happen to admire Justice Rehnquist, Chief Justice Rehnquist, who is from the state of Arizona. And, ah, but Scalia I admire an enormous amount as well as others. My record as a conservative is very clear, my record on supporting people who adhere to the Constitution is very clear, and my record as a - 18-year record - of conservative positions both physically and others is also very clear.

Michael Reagan: All right. Next question, education. Big issue. I mean, compared to other industrial nations, we here in America, the children routinely test near the bottom. So what about your plan for a better-educated child here in America? What is the McCain plan?

John McCain: Choice, ah, by the way, before we go into that, ah, are you - it doesn’t disturb you that Pat Robertson would call up people and say that, that ah, Warren Rudman is a vicious bigot? I’d like you to talk about that a little bit.

Michael Reagan: No, Senator. No, Senator. No, Senator, because let me tell you, I think that gets off...

John McCain (interrupting): No, let me tell you, let me tell you, when the man’s name is maligned and his reputation is maligned then it ought to be talked about, okay? (inaudible)

Michael Reagan: Senator McCain, goodbye. (PAUSE) There you go, all he wants to talk about is Pat Robertson and bigotry. He doesn’t want to talk about education. Didn’t matter what question you asked him, he wanted, everything was an attack. Man does not have the temperament to be President of the United States. As somebody said, another hour of the show, said to me, you know, I know Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s a friend of mine, etc., You ain’t no Ronald Reagan. You ain’t no Ronald Reagan. In your dreams, Senator McCain. In your dreams. Only in your dreams. Let’s go to the phones, Mike, you’re up.


95 posted on 01/31/2008 4:41:58 PM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: libbylu

What the hell is your problem?
I replied to a comment.


96 posted on 01/31/2008 4:45:38 PM PST by Jean S
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To: Count of Monte Logan

What party? you mean the liberal party, right?


97 posted on 01/31/2008 4:46:23 PM PST by Lily4Jesus ( Jesus Saves)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

http://www.newsmax.com/reagan/huckabee_mccain/2008/01/04/61736.html

It seems like he liked him just a few weeks ago. I wonder what McCain did to prompt this?


98 posted on 01/31/2008 4:49:25 PM PST by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
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To: Always Right

MAN John McCain has serious anger management problems on that interview


99 posted on 01/31/2008 4:49:49 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: whatisthetruth

Nancy Reagan thinks McNutcase is just wonderful.


100 posted on 01/31/2008 4:54:33 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush in 2008, they have nothing else. Mark my words.)
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