Posted on 02/02/2008 5:17:55 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Mooch-a-mas gracias! That was Ted Kennedy -- the man who brought you "Mike McGwire and Sammy Sooser" -- thanking a California crowd. View here.
John McCain might want to borrow that snippet of smashed Spanish from his amnesty bill co-sponsor to thank Today. The NBC show this morning depicted the Republican primary race as all but over with the GOP establishment coalescing around the Arizona senator. And for good measure, weekend co-host Lester Holt threw in some campaign consulting, gratis, counseling McCain against moving right to appeal to the conservative base.
Holt interviewed Chris Matthews. View video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
All over but the shouting at Today. Ping to Today show list.
McCain is to the left of Hillary, but he obscures it with the R.
A McCain presidency would be like a national HIV infection.
Slow death from something you don’t even know is there.
Hillary would be an open, festering wound. Plain to see and curable.
He is so forcing me to vote for the Hildebeast.
McLame has a real big problem in the general election and it is not from the conservatives.
What record is he going to run on? The one that is McLame-Feingold, McLame Kennedy, McLame Lieberman? Well isnt that issues the dems will run on? SO the dems can tell their base why vote for a republican lite when the same issues are dem platform.
Then you know the press will turn on McLame during the election. I think that is when we will see the McLame temper come out and public meltdown. MSM is working hard to get the nomination and then they are going to bring him down.
That's a flat out lie...Look his ACU rating...It's over 82%.
Clinton is 9%
Hey,when you say “vote for” hill or osama, do you mean by NOT going to the polls or actually pulling that lever?
A person can vote right on a number of small, relatively meaningless votes and stab you in the heart on a few major issues all the while retaining a high ACU rating.
Not all conservative issues a equal.
Good points, but rank-and-file Republicans cannot understand that. Like their Democrat neighbors, they too now believe that the “government” is their “friend” who is there to “help” them. All they know to do is vote “R”.
Thus my reply on another thread:
(I have one child, and he is now an adult in the U.S. Army. He just spent his 25th birthday in a freezing hooch in Afghanistan. He spent his 23rd in a tent in Iraq, which was probably like old times, because he had turned 21 in Iraq. Make no mistake about my concern for American troops; it is real, it is overwhelming, it is enduring and it is very, very personal.)
I will not be led to believe that John McCain cares about American troops much more than Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barak Obama, other than that he will publicly exhibit less disdain for them. Were John McCain to inadvertently lose the veneer of his "support for the troops," then his media-conferred eternal war hero status would avail him very little, and the self-deluded within the GOP would turn their backs on this man who has consoistently made our active-duty troops' mission(s) increasingly difficult (while burnishing his own "maverick credentials"). Unlike the 'rat candidates who also hamstring the mission, McCain knows how to wave the bloody BDU in front of select audiences. What McCain did in regard to POW-MIA issues along with his good friend John Kerry is a damning testament to how much he "cares." If John McCain perceives personal benefit from punting the WOT, he'd punt the WOT faster than you can say "Keating," and sacrifices past/future be damned.
As for fighting communism, there is apparently nothing left in either major political party to fight it with other than another form of communism. Sort of a Sunni-Shia lineup. McCain and the remora-like Mike Huckabee (symbiosis in action) both spout milk-sop manifestos of watered-down socialist statism in quantities that would do FDR proud. If a person is going to pick a hill to die on in the war against communism (or the corollary of oligarchy), John McCain is among the very least deserving of the sacrifice.
I will no longer let them - to paraphrase Al Gore - play on my fears. If John McCain and the GOP think they can hold active duty troops as some sort of hostage in exchange for my vote, they don't know me, my wife or my son.
Mr. niteowl7
And I'll be helping them kick him to the curb.
You are right, those ratings are “fixed”. Members are told in advance what ten roll call votes will “count” for a year. It enables McPain to get a higher rating that he deserves, just like “moderate” voters give him narrow pluralities that look like big majorities to the sheeple who cannot understand.
I believe that's his lifetime rating. His recent rating, I believe, is in the low 60s. And that's without weighting the more critical issues like CFR and amnesty.
By NOT going to the polls, right? We can all sit here and start a “I’m Not Voting For Any Lib Which Is Why I’m Sitting Home Tonight FReeping” thread!
When conservatives vote for “third” candidate (as with Huck now on Feb. 5), the media and the sheeple ignore that meaningless vote. It’s only two choices that are permitted. The people have hard enough time remembering just the two nominees. Ask a man on the street who ran against Reagan, and I suspect 80 percent could not tell you.
Thank goodness! If Fred is not on my ballot (which I don’t think he is, still on NYC though) I will be writing him in as well (if it’s not Mitt).
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