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Better put some ice on it - the steam is building up again
Posted on 02/09/2008 10:32:20 AM PST by TenYearLurker
There's an old Groucho Marx riff in which he launches a new career as a stick-up artist -- while worrying that his native cowardice may not induce the requisite fear among his victims. Sure enough, after a little time in a dark alley he springs out to confront his first victim, points his gun to his own head and says, "Take one step closer and I'll kill myself."
Such is the posture today among pundits on the far right of the Republican Party as Sen. John McCain moves closer to receiving his party's nomination. Consider the destructive implications of their pledge to work against Mr. McCain's nomination and even -- in the event he is nominated -- not to vote in the general election. Start with where it would leave our country -- presumably under the leadership of either Democrat candidate -- in the two domains where we will face critical challenges in the years ahead: our national security and the threat of an economic meltdown.
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Any conservitive congress critter or senator that may be running that cycle. The POTUS is lost.
I love FR because people here think and debate and ponder and argue about issues -- it is to FR's glory to reveal a matter. To find out the truth. (Ask Dan Rather.)
McCain's personality was formed by his POW experience. He was in a time machine in Hanoi Hilton, that took him from the "Happy Days" of the early sixties and sweet school prayer to when "the gooks" finally let him out in the seventies -- and he was confronted with Hippies, anti war protesters, pot smokers and porn shops. In one decade from the early sixties to the early seventies, we went from schoolkids all over the country saying prayers for the nation to schoolkids getting pregnant, on drugs and abortion. McCain came home to a very different America. Plus, he was probably "broken" by "the gooks" because everyone in those POW cells were broken and confessed more to their torturers than they wanted to. (Even Christ needed Simon of Cyrene to help with the cross...)
McCain soldiered through his time travel POW experience by becoming the crusty maverick we know him as but do not forget how much prayer and intercession went up inside those POW cells. Read Jeremiah Denton's book WHEN HELL WAS IN SESSION. Reagan did. McCain is mentioned. Your view of modern McCain will be altered. Oh yeah, and pray for McCain. He needs it.
conservitive=conservative
You're the one whose post was so over the top it was removed by the mod ...
Better put some ice on it - the steam is building up again
ya know that does look kinda like Bill Clinton at 1yr old... LOL!
I respect McCain’s military service, just not his political service. Huckabee is the guy who represnts my political views the best. I am grateful he is willing to stay in the race and continue to give people like me a voice.
Typical WSJ view of the world. How they can pretend McCain is the best one to fight Islamic extremism while he would leave our borders wide open, and grant Z-Visa amnesty to every illegal in the US (after an impossible to do 24 hour background investigation), it’s just beyond me.
Actually, it’s not beyond me since a continuing supply of cheap and illegal labor seems to be the WSJ’s number priority re: immigration policy. The seem to have missed that fact the the WTC was located very near Wall Street, and not in Baghdad.
But what are a few terrorists running around blowing up buildings compared to plenty of cheap labor to keep lawbreaking employers happy?
Well-done
A very Hardy Amen to that!
Welcome to FR.
I wrote of this a few days ago (Three US Senators Seek the White House - No Free Pass), not just with regards to John McCain, but to the two leading Democratic rivals.
All three share some important similarities. All three have stated and articulated issue positions. All three are also current members of the US Senate. Follow me here, but this of the most critical importance.
Voters should be demanding, not simply hoping, each of these three give something of substance Americans can weigh. Make the three Senators author and introduce bills in the US Senate NOW that reflect what laws they would want enacted to fulfill their campaign promises if any of the three were to be elected President. Let their proposed bills be scrutinized by all NOW. All three should be up to the task. What more could any future President hope for but to uphold laws they authored?
Such scrutiny could make or break their campaign ahead of the conventions and well ahead of the November elections.
To all my fellow Americans, we have the three leading candidates cornered in the Senate. Each of the three is seeking a way out of the US Senate by way of the White House. MAKE THEM WORK BEYOND MERE CAMPAIGN PROMISES! This is the only opportunity we will have forcing them to play their hands.
Consider for a moment:
How will Americans react if all three propose legislation granting illegal aliens amnesty under any disguise?
How will Americans react if any of the three propose tax increases?
How will Americans react if any of the three propose expanding the federal government?
There's many issues on the table. Let's force all three leading candidates to put up, or shut up! The burden should be on them to prove an alliance with most Americans, not us. This unique opportunity must not be squandered by the American voters.
No one can deny that it took guts for McCain to get through almost six years in the Hanoi Hilton...but that was forty years ago. While that's good enough reason to trot him out to display every Memorial Day, that is not sufficient reason to make him POTUS, and what he did these last twenty-four years in congress is sufficient reason he should NEVER become President.
Someday, when the Hildabeast decides with a stroke of the pen to seize their assets, the Poobahs of the WSJ are going to rue the day they first giddily supported undermining the rule of law by demanding amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens. The rule of law might slow down their ability to make cheap and easy profits now, but when it's gone they sure as hell are going to miss it.
Only then might they understand how expensive cheap labor really was.
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Surrender of the country as we know it through international treaties subjecting us to international law, governance and taxation (among other things); open borders in the presence of almost-bankrupt social programs; degradation of the meaning of citizenship and national-pride through shamnesty...
John McCain as POTUS would be an imminent threat to the United States.
McFarlane wants a Global Warming president. If you don't know what he's been up to in the last decade or so, perhaps you should check it out. Not that his performance prior to all that was very good, mind you.
At this point, who is better to fight Islamic extremism?
Coulter likes Clinton. Do you go along with that?
John McCain as POTUS would be an imminent threat to the United States.
This isn't the Roman Empire. Last I checked -- tongue in cheek -- we don't elect dictators who stand in for legislatures.
None of which is relevant to selecting a qualified candidate that will advance the conservative agenda (or at least not retreat). He can't run on his POW resume any more than John Kerry could run on his war-hero resume. When faced with the question "What has John McCain done for us lately?" one must objectively conclude that he has a LONG record of being on the WRONG side of conservatives.
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