Et tu, Brute?
Posted on 02/02/2008 7:29:44 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy
Best line of the entire thread!
Wow,, I must have missed that! I've been following the news pretty closely for the past 20 years or more and I just completely missed McCain trying to assure conservatives he was one of us!
Was that before or after his attempt at removing our southern border and providing amnesty for illegals??
Maybe he was doing that just before he got the duct tape out with McCain/Feingold??
Could he have been acting sort of conservative that time he was sticking his middle finger in our eyes?? Remember?? That time he sort of blindsided us all and blocked the Senate with some other RINO's from overturning the rules that allowed Dems to keep blocking conservative judges to the courts???
Gosh,,, where did I miss this??!! Oh, I know,, I DIDN'T MISS IT!! CAUSE HE HASN'T DONE IT!!
McCain is unelectable for one reason everybody forgets.......the Keating Five.
Because, like an alcoholic that can’y admit his problem, he’s really a democrat.
He’s a dishonorable man who’s only concerned about himself. He, as president, will only be concerned with what the press thinks of him and his ultimate “legacy”. America’s interests will always be secondary. Just like his favorite historical figure, Napoleon, all decisions he will make will be for the advancement of John McCain and not America.
If he were to win the nomination, with those planks on hos own maverick platform, would set back conservatism by ten years. That's all.
Don't forget the part about cheating on his wife, then divorcing her. The wife that kept her disabling car accident a secret from him while he was a POW, because she didn't want him upset. The wife that he divorced for the woman he cheated on her with. How long do you think the media's going to keep quiet about THAT, if he gets the nomination?
Anyone who thinks McCain "deserves" to be President because of the 6 years suffering as a POW is not thinking it through. Sure, let's say he deserves a "reward" for being in danger's way. That's what being elected Senator was. Why does he now insist on a double reward? He's already been amply repaid. There are 300,000,000 Americans who can only dream of being a US Senator and a household name.
I have no intention of voting for someone with such deep-rooted narcissistic personality disorder.
This is the key point to remember. SOMEONE is going to be elected President in November. Half the country didn't want Bush in the first place and that number has grown significantly since 2004. Anyone who things a candidate that's even further to the Right can get elected in this climate is dreaming. McCain isn't a conservatives ideal, but would you REALLY rather see Hillary or Obama in the White House for 4, or most likely 8 years? C'mon!!!
I not sure of that. This country might be stronger than that as long as the Sheeple realize their big mistake. We have been down before.
Simple. McCain was a junior Senator who was caught in a huge scandal. He was toast unless he could build a new image. If he were a strong conservative, the press would butcher him. He realized he could coddle the media by becoming the "Republican who was Anti-Republican and Pro-Democrat."
He became a national treasure to the media, and they rebuilt his name under a new mantle--independent, strong, principled, blah, blah.
Of couse, once it's him agaist the dim, it will be a new story. His friends in the media will dredge it all up and the ignorant dummies who ar now voting for McCain won't be able to recognize him in this new and very negative light.
Finally, when the inevitable spit and sputter melt down of McCain occurs, that will be an enduring image for Republicns who made him their nominee.
1. Waterboarding - Empirically, this has been an extremely valuable way of extracting information on pending attacks and has probably saved countless American lives.
2. Closure of Gitmo - This would lead to premature release of terrorists whose religion compells them to pick up where they left off and kill us.
I would rather see the dems get in and stir up republicans in congress for four years before I would vote for this dangerous nutcase.
John Kerry, Russ Feingold and Hillary Clinton to name just three. There are many others. Don’t forget he was the only Republican member of the Keating 5.
Because I hate his freakin guts and will sit at home rather than vote for him or hillary.
Et tu, Brute?
I can nearly forgive the man for all of his foolish transgressions, but I simply cannot convince myself to elect a man that is such an arrogant ass. Every single time I hear him open his mouth in debates I think of him as a five letter word that ends with RICK.
Keating five.
There's always SOMEONE to vote for. In 1960, my then-Baptist mother voted for the Prohibition candidate (whose name she doesn't even remember) rather than vote for either a Republican or a Catholic. Dad voted for the Republican because the only thing worse WAS a Catholic.
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