Posted on 02/02/2008 2:35:16 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe
Back in early December 2007, Mitt Romney (take your pick):
A) was forced
B) felt compelled
to publicly address questions about his Mormonism, to settle any doubts in the minds of voters who might potentially choose him in the primary or general election.
Now, McCain has come out of nowhere to become the ostensible "front runner" -- thanks to the MSM and to a bunch of RINO shills nationwide. McCain keeps calling himself the "conservative" candidate, whereas almost every leading conservative (and almost all of the grassroots) are pointing out that McCain is anything BUT conservative.
Therefore, I sugggest that it's way past time for McCain to do his version of the Romney speech. It's time for McCain to address -- specifically by topic, and directly toward those conservatives whose votes he wants -- how he can call himself a conservative in light of:
1. McCain-Feingold (attack on 1st Amendment)
2. horrible record on gun rights (attack on 2nd Amendment; see http://www.gunowners.org/mccaintb.htm)
3. McCain-Kennedy Amnesty Bill (attack on sovereignty)
4. support of embryonic stem cell research
5. extremely mixed (at best) message of support/non-support of homosexual "marriage" and "civil unions"
6. and let's not forget the "Gang of 14"
There are more, but these six should suffice for now. These policy actions and viewpoints are not only against what most conservatives define as "conservative" -- they are against the beliefs that many non-conservatives hold.
No, I'm not holding my breath -- in no way do I expect McCain to come clean about these issues in a public forum. But I'm hoping that some prominent media person will have the guts to confront him one-on-one with these.
If McCain truly wants conservative votes, then he needs to address these, sooner rather than later. Since he has a reckless history of showing nothing but disdain for conservatives, I suspect he will not do so until it is far too late to be of any help to him.
There is only one speech I want to hear from Senator John McCain (D), and that’s a concession speech.
Of course, I would be satisfied with a simple post card that reads, “Screw you America, I quit”.
Stabbing America in the Back!
For sure this is.
Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, see parallels to last decade’s Chinagate fund-raising scandal, and are clamoring for public hearings to get to the bottom of what may be a new chapter in an old tale of corruption, foreign influence-peddling and espionage. All told, 22 Democrat donors were convicted in the Chinagate probe, which the Justice Department officially closed a few years ago.
After he was convicted of fraud last decade, and allegedly kidnapped by a Chinese gang in San Francisco, Hsu fled to Hong Kong, where he was born and raised. He returned to the U.S. not long after Hillary Clinton won her Senate seat. Then – for the first time – he started donating heavily to Democrats. He gave no political campaign gifts in the U.S. before 2004.
“The source of Hsu’s income at this point is unknown,” a congressional investigator told WND. “It begs the question, where did he get the resources to contribute so much money?”
During the last Clinton campaign of 1996, the People’s Liberation Army launched a massive campaign to buy influence in the Democratic Party and steer military hardware and technology Beijing’s way.
Reports by federal investigators say the PLA used a host of Chinese agents living in the U.S. as bagmen to funnel cash to the Clinton-Gore campaigns and gain access to the White House and sensitive government agencies.
Even U.S. corporate executives did their bidding. Most alarmingly, Schwartz persuaded the Clinton administration to give his Loral Space and Communications subsidiary a waiver to use inexpensive Chinese rockets to launch U.S. satellites into space.
Loral at the same time helped Beijing – over the objections of the U.S. intelligence community – improve its commercial space launchers. That in turn, helped make its nuclear-tipped missiles more reliable as ICBMs, several of which are aimed at U.S. cities.
In fact, it’s believed China’s recent downing of a satellite with a ground-based missile would not have been possible without Loral’s technical assistance.
Schwartz, who was Clinton’s top donor in the 1996 election cycle, insists his contributions did not buy policy changes regarding China. He says the favorable treatment he got from the administration was merely a “coincidence.”
However, two months before he won a prized seat on a Commerce Department trade junket to China, he wrote a check to Democrats for $100,000. On the trip, Schwartz scored a meeting with China’s top telecommunications official, which led to Loral winning a deal to provide cell phone service to China – a deal worth an estimated $250 million a year.
During the 1996 election cycle, moreover, Schwartz created his Loral Satellite and Communications subsidiary. He needed export controls loosened so the start-up unit could launch its satellites on cheap Chinese booster rockets, which are nearly identical to Beijing’s strategic missiles that would greatly benefit from such dual-use U.S. technology transfers.
Schwartz lobbied the Clinton administration to transfer satellite export licenses to the more lenient Commerce Department. At the same time, he pumped $632,000 into Clinton-Gore and Democratic National Committee coffers.
That same year, in a major policy shift, President Clinton overturned an earlier 1995 decision by Secretary of State Warren Christopher and transferred authority for satellite export licenses to the Commerce Department, where Beijing managed to plant an agent by the name of John Huang. Loral got its waiver – over the objections of the Justice Department – and Schwartz kept on giving to the Clinton machine, in the end contributing well over $1 million.
Schwartz not only met with top officials at China Aerospace International Holding Ltd. – a PLA front – but he even formed a joint venture with the communist front company.
A key contact at China Aerospace was Liu Chaoying, a lieutenant colonel in the PLA.
In 1998, in the course of plea bargaining with the Justice Department, a Chinese bagman by the name of Johnny Chung confessed that at least $100,000 of his contributions to the DNC and the Clinton-Gore campaign had come from a Chinese aerospace executive – a lieutenant colonel in the Chinese military – who had given him $300,000. It was the same Chaoying involved with Loral, who happened to also be the daughter of the PLA’s top general and a key member of China’s Communist Party leadership.
Chung later told prosecutors that the $300,000 had been ordered into his bank account by the head of Chinese military intelligence, whom he said he met through the lieutenant colonel.
During the 1996 election cycle, Chung was a regular White House visitor. All told, he visited 57 times. During one visit to the first lady’s office, he handed Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff a check for $50,000. Three days earlier, he had received a $150,000 wire transfer from the Bank of China.
Hillary Clinton posed for a White House photo with Chung and two Chinese officials, and later penned a personal note on a print of the photo for Chung: “To Johnny Chung with best wishes and appreciation – Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57450
I’m not voting for the guy but that is pretty low considering what he went through. Don’t think comments like that have a place in the discussion even if it was a rather poor attempt at humor.
Thanks. Glad you liked it. That’s sure how I see the guy.
Support Romney if you don’t want the Clintons back in the White House.
I will support any Republican over Hillary.
Does anyone want to vote for this kind of straight talk ?
LOL The Clinton machine would pick Romney apart, chew'em up and spit him out!
On this video link, Willard looks even worse! We see Romney the abortionist from 1994 and 2002. Video link
>>>>RETIRED ADMIRALS AND GENERALS SUPPORTING JOHN MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT
I’d be careful with that list. All may not be as it seems.
Not a chance of them getting the better of Romney. But, wait until you see what they do to their friend McCain, if it becomes necessary. They’ll eviscerate him without hesitation, and with the pleasure of knowing Republicans set up the kill for them.
I’m not familiar with any of the names on your list. If you say that they support McCain for President then I have no reason to doubt it.
I wonder how many of the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans support McCain. It would not make a difference to me, but your list makes me somewhat curious now.
eviscerate, I have a question, How did Romney get elected in a State run by Kerry and Kennedy? And why did he not call for the investigation of the 15 billion dollar overrun on federal tax dollars as related to the Big Dig project?
Do not be naive, if the gloves come off and HIllarys case in LA superior court on Feb21 hits the fan it will be Obama vs ron paul. LOL
So far, McCrazy has gotten the better of sleazebag Romney. If Fat Ted Kennedy took care of Willard with ease, the Clinton machine will have no problem burying him. LOL
Romney would make mincemeat of McCain one on one. Kennedy is unbeatable in Massachusetts.
Wouldn’t it be prudent for the GOP to nominate someone who doesn’t have dirt in their background? Something that can be used against him? I mean, the Keating Five scandal. The Dems will trot this thing out and use it repeatedly against McCain. And then there’s the Arizona Cardinals/Budweiser deal.
Romney has nothing of this nature in his background.
Why do you think the libs are trying to help McCain now?
Rear Admiral Patrick D. Moneymaker, USN (Ret.)???
I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be disrespetful, but that’s just funny, anyway you look at it...
To: Jim Robinson
Saturday, February 02, 2008
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday Hillary Clinton with an eight point lead in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. It’s now Clinton 45%, Obama 37%. (see recent daily numbers).
In the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination, it’s John McCain at 30%, Mitt Romney at 30%, and Mike Huckabee at 21%. Ron Paul is supported by 5% of Likely Republican Primary Voters (see recent daily numbers). Romney leads by sixteen percentage points among conservatives while McCain has a two-to-one advantage among moderate Primary Voters.
Today is the first day of daily tracking for the general election. McCain leads Clinton 47% to 41%. A week ago McCain had an eight point advantage. New match-ups will be added in the coming days.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Try to make him look liberal like many here are doing because the polls show he can beat here.
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