John McCain For President: A Hero Leader

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | Colin McNickle

[LonesomeHawk]

John McCain For President: A Hero Leader

Editorial Pittsburgh Tribune-Review February 10, 2008

You have to hand it to John McCain. He has an impeccable sense of timing.

At the very moment that a dangerously fractured Republican Party could have disintegrated -- Thursday, when Mitt Romney, the darling of the anti-McCain crowd exited the race -- Sen. McCain delivered a stunning speech to the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.

Certainly, there was a measured sense of rebuke in the words of the Arizona senator who now has a virtual lock on the GOP presidential nomination. Fiercely independent, McCain made no apologies for positions he holds dear but may be at odds with the traditional conservative base.

But McCain also offered an impressive tutorial on what the core of conservatism really is -- small government, fiscal discipline, low taxes, a strong defense and a judiciary that does not legislate from the bench.

And in the starkest of terms, John McCain reminded those gathered at CPAC and those watching nationwide that the alternative -- freedom-stripping, purse-robbing and security-endangering Democrats -- is no alternative at all.

It was the speech of a hero leader at the exact moment when America is in dire need of heroes and leaders. And we wholeheartedly endorse John McCain for president.

[Racehorse]

Hillary fired her campaign manager - that’s news.

Yes. I read that. The new gal was, what, her chief of staff during Bill's first administration?

When I first read the release I thought Hillary had hired her hair dresser.

Maybe the old gal just didn't have the right attitude. (an aviation term)

[Petronski]

Good grief!

Hero to whom?

[padre35]

Kerry never said that, it is the other way around, even your powerline link states that, so why are you continuing to push what you know to be an incorrect position?

McCain may have wanted to keep the contents of his conversation to himself for obvious reasons, however media at the time made it quite clear.

your 2+2 is equaling 5..

[khnyny]

LOL. Maybe the first campaign manager just didn’t have “the right stuff”.

[Prokopton]

I read the entire article. I honestly don't think there was anything on it I didn't know before. McCain's story is pretty well known to anyone who was alive then. This isn't swiftboat material. I mean...what?

I agree, but I think McCain's people would be wise to not over play the "hero" thing.

[ARE SOLE]

Good post. As for Bill Bennett, that wimp is exactly the kind of go along to get along Rino I am sick of, Jack Kemp too.

Regards

[mkjessup]

I think I’ll go with our Founder’s recommendation and vote “ANYONE BUT McCAIN” between now and the Convention.

We already had one egomaniac in the White House from ‘92 to ‘00, that was enough.

FYI, McCain was near the top of the category “Senatorial Show Horses” in a survey not too long ago.

More like a Horse’s A$$.

[LADY J]

"Saw a bit on the new where Clinton's speaking in a church.

He says "I always prayed I'd be able to vote for a woman for President.

"And," he says, "I always prayed I'd be able to vote for a black man for President."

He pauses, sadly reflective and says, "Why do you suppose God put us in this delemna?" "

Was he lugging his big Bible around when he was saying this?

This slime & his 'so called' wife are just disgusting!!

[DoughtyOne]

If you're like me, you pretty much see conservatism in terms of black and white.  You've voted for Republican candidates your whole life.  Over the years, while doing so, you have started to have concerns that the politicans you were voting for were becoming more and more leftist.  You stood by the party because not to do so would have been catastrophic to the nation you love.  For some strange reason the party felt compelled to assure you of that, even though it claimed it's candidates shared your views.

At varying points in time, we came to realize the party was no longer interested in the advancement of Conservatism.  It was interested on holding certain political positions, but the agenda it passed bore little connection to Conservatism.  Even when it held the majority of the Senate, the House and the White House, it failed to promote Conservatism while the sun shone.

Now we are faced with a situation this year that makes it abundantly clear, that just about every person of respect in the party, or at least the ones we had respected, have come to the conlusion that the standard bearer this year is one of us.  Only he isn't.

And now the time has come to acknowledge what the party is doing to conservatism.  Are we going to stand for his?  Isn't it time we put an end to it?

Isn't it time to face the reality and quit enabling this type of behavior, with our votes.

[ncalburt]

Dascle is reported so bitter and angry about his lost status that he is really out to destroy the Repub party.
You realize he was funneling military contracts to his wife firm with his senate position ! I wonder why he has not been investigated ? The Bush family is a tad too country club nice to the Dems and his enemies which is why we are stuck wit McCain !.

[Racehorse]

p>Was he lugging his big Bible around when he was saying this?

I couldn't tell. It was a head and shoulders shot.

This slime & his 'so called' wife are just disgusting!!

Yes. And rather shameless!

[factmart]

I hate traitors more than my enemies, I will vote dem before Mc Traitor.

[factmart]

McCain was a prisoner of war, NOT a war HERO. I’m tired of him being billed as a hero. (Maybe a hero sandwich)
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If the Republic party meant anything to McCain he would not have run. He knew he would split the party.

But it is all about him, that not a hero!

[Gator113]

You know, some of us may eventually feel compelled to have vote for this cartoon in November, but articles such as this one sure wont help him.

It’s like pouring honey over broccoli and telling me I am going to NOW going like that evil weed. ;>)

I think I need to go throw up now.....

[TigersEye]

What kind of hero does this to their country?

[jonrick46]

Spot on! Ronald Reagan has the same problem during his campaign for the presidency as John McCain has now. The conservatives and the Ronald Reagan Democrats did not see eye to eye then. It was to the credit to Ronald Reagan that he was able to build a coalition of many diverse interests to bring a landslide victory. Thank God Ronald Reagan had the wisdom to make it work for we would still be fighting the Cold War if Jimmy Carter had won reelection. And the Muslims would have caused more havoc for this nation.

[LadyNavyVet]

“But then her grand son just came back from Iraq and she said she never wanted him to go back.”

Thank you. THAT’S what I’ve been trying to tell people on this forum who think McCain’s going to blow out Hillobama because he’s a war hero and wants to stay in Iraq. Some people need to get out of the echo chamber and find out what the rest of America thinks.

Women, who make up the majority of the electorate, are tired of the war, and see the Republicans as a greater threat to their personal peace and stability than the terrorists. Outside of the far right, most people want out of the war, yesterday, and they will vote for the devil himself if he says he’ll withdraw the troops. I have conservative, homeschool mom friends who plan to crossover to the Dems for the first time in their lives on that issue alone.

Forget the base hating his guts, McCain will never be President, BECAUSE of the title of this article.

[Joe Boucher]

Thanks for your service in our nations military John McCain.
That does not make you a leader in the political arena. Ideas do and you have failed in the field of ideas.
NO RINOs.

[LadyNavyVet]

“Who is going to make those charges and make them stick?”

The media. And all they’re going to have to do is bring up the questions in such a way as to make McCain look bad, even if they don’t have all the facts. A good, long expose on 60 Minutes should get the ball rolling.