Posted on 02/04/2008 10:53:49 AM PST by TinaJeannes
The prospect of John McCain as the likely Republican presidential nominee has produced a squall of anger on the right. Normally reserved columnists and usually ebullient talk-radio hosts vie to express their disgust with McCain, and their disdain for the Republicans who are about to nominate him. The conservative movement as a whole appears disgruntled and dyspeptic.
Now I have nothing against a certain amount of disgruntlement and dyspepsia. The ways of the world, and the decisions of our fellow Americans, occasionally warrant such a reaction.
But American politics tends to be unkind to movements that dwell in anger and relish their unhappiness. In the era from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, liberals tended to be happy warriors and that helped their cause. The original civil rights movement succeeded in part because it worked hard to transcend a justifiable bitterness. Liberalism faltered when it became endlessly aggrieved and visibly churlish.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
McCain is a backstabbing, egotistical old man who cannot be trusted. I don't want him anywhere near the Oval Office. If you believe he'll make "moderate" choices for the court, you are treating McCain as your personal Rorshach test. Any judicial choices he might make he would first vet with his liberal buddies in the Senate, both to ensure passage, and most importantly, to ensure favorable coverage with the media.
So you are saying that McCain’s picks would NOT be better than Obama’s or Hillary’s? Obama and Hillary will appoint left wing activists. McCain will not.
McCain is the angriest, most dyspesic candidate on both sides. How is this article consistent?
I agree, we need a happy warrior like Reagan. McCain would probably be the most distempered presidential candidate ever. How long before he loses his temper and goes crazy.
And McCain made that promise to you? And you believed him??? Hoo boy...
Your are not making sense.
I saw all of that bs back in 2000. why arent u angry with bush over his statement that he would sign immigration bill? and why did you vote him back in after he signed mccain feingold, which some of you so vehemently oppose. god only knows why. I know that many of you will probably not purchase ads for an election *L*
well so what? at least I supported someone , You guys are too busy whining and frothing at the mouth. I do not want a dem congress and a dem president. Mccain will not raise taxes he will cut spending and that certainly needs to be done.
See if this makes any sense. If it does not, then I'm afraid there is nothing further I can give you, and any subsequent responses to your posts would be unprofitable:
I agree wholeheartedly with Ann Coulter, who wrote:
Id rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, well get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility.
Oh and I didnt join last fall. I joined last month !
Nope no need to say more :)
maybe it was december when i was in florida. Oh well doesnt matter.
Today is February 4th, 2008. Last month was January. November 22, 2007 was indeed last fall.
Who’s William Bristol?
I have a terrible cold, and I feel like hell, so let me just tell it like it is: Krystol is the kind of little girlyman that my friends and I on the street in Baltimore when I was a kid used to bitch-slap about once a month without fail just to keep him from whining us all to death. The’s guys an effeminite little worm.
LOL yeah thats right during thanksgiving in florida. I have been there so many times i forgot which time I joined here *L*
Here are the dates, in the order I put up the links, that those 7 articles were published.
01/09/08
07/11/02
01/21/00
01/11/08
02/22/00
01/12/07
04/04/06
Apparently your honesty is about as reliable as your candidates.
You don't bother to say just which of those highly respected conservative publications and authors is bs-ing or on what.
why arent u angry with bush over his statement that he would sign immigration bill?
I am. Extremely!
and why did you vote him back in after he signed mccain feingold, which some of you so vehemently oppose. god only knows why.
No, I know why I voted for him. One, he didn't author it and he even said it would be knocked down as unConstitutional by the SC. He misjuged the SC. He was right about the bill. Two, in spite of many things I disagree with GWB on he is not a liar.
I know that many of you will probably not purchase ads for an election *L*
Thanks to McCain's CFR bill, which wipes his butt with the Constitution, I can't can I?
She/it has no idea when it signed up. The account was made by some campaign operative.
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