Posted on 03/05/2008 10:14:20 PM PST by RussP
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If there's a single thread that runs through the e-mails I receive from peevish Republicans, it's that none of the current candidates possesses the conservative purity of Ronald Reagan. One could almost get the idea that Dutch was betrayed by Pontius Pilate and crucified on Calvary. But that wasn't exactly the case. The fact of the matter is that Gov. Reagan gave Gov. Jerry Brown a run for his money – or should I say our money? – when it came to raising taxes here in California. But, in spite of the additional revenue, he was responsible in large part for the streets of our cities being turned into public latrines by the unwashed, the unwanted and the insane when, to save a few bucks, he oversaw the closing of California's mental hospitals. He also signed the nation's most liberal abortion bill. Although he had a change of heart a scant six months later, one never hears him condemned for flip-flopping ...
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What truly confounds me are those cuckoos who would prefer to see such socialists as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama win the election than to sully themselves by voting for a Republican who was only their second or third or even fourth choice. To them I say, before proving that you place your own ego gratification above what's best for America, keep in mind that most of the Supreme Court justices are in their 70s or even, in the case of John Paul Stevens, fast approaching 90. Do you really want one of those two Democrats stacking the Court for the foreseeable future? Presidents come and go, but justices go on seemingly forever. Kennedy and Scalia have been on the bench since Reagan put them there. Stevens, for heaven's sake, was appointed during the ...
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“I sincerely doubt that you are sorry about anything, it is clearly how you feel, you just didn’t enjoy getting blasted by everyone that thought your comments were very inappropriate.”
Yes, that was how I felt, but I should have kept the personal insults to myself — regardless of who I was talking about. (That doesn’t justify you and others hurling personal insults back at me, by the way, but that’s another topic.)
This whole discussion is quite ironic. On the one hand, people are criticizing me for not showing proper respect for a military guy. But here I am trying to get those same people to show some respect for McCain’s military sacrifices.
Why is McCain the Republican nominee? Ultimately, I believe it traces back to his military record. Now, I agree with you that his military record does not qualify him to be President. But I also believe that many Republicans voted for him were heavily influenced by his military background.
Yet many here on FR diss the guy and show no respect whatsoever for the sacrifice he made for his country. And here I am, reminding FReepers of that sacrifice. Quite ironic.
Garbage.
The truth hurts, eh. Especially when it’s so obvious.
Free Republic Opinion Poll:
Would you be for or against McCain?
Member Opinion
against 92.4% 2,989
for 7.6% 247
McCain: Hillary Would Be Good President Feb. 2005
How John McCain Threatens the Pro-Life Cause By Douglas Johnson NRLC Legislative Director
More YOUTUBE - McCain On Abortion (UH OH! YouTube Has a Video of Him in 1999)
McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up
Tom Delay On Faux "McCain Has Done More To Hurt The Party" VIDEO
John McCain: "My Conservative Record" YouTube VIDEO
John McCain, Jack Kemp and Hugo Chavez.
MORE GUN CONTROL: McCAIN-LIEBERMAN FR April '01
Gun Owners of America on McCain's Record.
GUNS AND SCHOOLS: THE POLITICS (McCain tries to grab guns, 1999)
CITIZENS COMMITTEE URGES JOHN McCAIN TO RETIRE FROM UNITED STATES SENATE
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
John McCain Losing His Cool YouTube video
Vietnam Veterans Against McCain YouTube video
McCain Argues for U.S. Troop Withdrawl from Somalia Mr. Blackhawk Down (YouTube VIDEO)
McCain Group Got Big Cable Donation Breath taking corruption, Senator!
THE PAMPERED POLITICIAN - John McCain Keating 5 and other things. FR Nov. '99
McCain gives nod to Kerry campaign (MAJOR RINO ALERT!) June 2003
MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHN McCAIN?
McCain married into the mob.
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate
The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)
McCain Seeks to Change California Primary
John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
McCain-Soros Toppled GOP Candidates Nov. 21, 2006
Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot?
Through The Weeds; John McCain, George Soros and the Reform Institute
McCain’s Reform Institute donor list:
Reform Institute greatfully acknowleges Sen. McCain as past Chairman:
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."
McCain Is Booed by Labor Activists
Captains of Industry Could Populate McCain Cabinet ( Lieberman Potential Cabinet Member)
McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)
McCain calls Jeffords' switch lesson for GOP FR May '01
McCain Antics Weary Arizonans in G.O.P. FR June '01
Believe NYT on McCain corruption scandal
McCain Ties to Lobbyists Troublesome - Newsmax Staff
Billboard owner bars ad targeting McCain Viacom refuses anti-Amnesty billboard because it bashes McCain.
McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004 FR July '01
How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great Escape (Gave floundering McCain 2000 campaign a direction.)
McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
His staff set up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.
McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats
John McCain Goes Left for Money
McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing
Sens. Snowe, Collins to head Maine exploratory committee for McCain
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004
Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP
McCain denies he was close to quitting GOP
Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO
John McCain's Newt Problem (Infidelity to first wife.)
How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction(stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team) (McCain used his influence to cover it up.)
McCain and his Chicom Connections: Posts #17 and #18 by Calpernia
TEN REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN (Free Republic thread from 2000)
McCain Blames Bush For Osama's Escape
McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)
The Real McCain Record Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate
John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
It depends on the meaning of “never” (McCain's Convenient Memory)
UN Double Talk from Straight Talker McCain (Law of the Sea Treaty)
The Conservative Case Against John McCain In 2008
John McCain: Hypocrite by Mark R. Levin
This Man is Not a Republican (re: McCain) (FR thread - Jan. 2000)
Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
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McCain says:
"Why don't you shut your political pie hole?"
Stifling the www? Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)
"1606 is needed because federal courts have ordered the Federal Election Commission to regulate "electioneering communications" on the Internet because of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). If H.R. 1606 fails to become law, your Web site or blog could be shut down for the 30 days prior to a primary election and the 60 days prior to a general election should you express "electioneering communications."
John McCain, enemy of free speech
I know all about McCain’s problems. But I also have enough perspective to realize that he is head and shoulders above either of the rats. I suggest you read the following little email I received a few days ago from Michael Zak.
On this day in 1973, Lt. Commander John McCain was released from a North Vietnamese prison.
The missile that shot down his fighter-bomber broke both arms and a leg, and he nearly drowned after parachuting into a lake. He was then bayoneted and beaten. McCain refused his captors’ demands that he divulge military information in return for medical treatment. Despite being tortured, McCain also refused offers from the communists to free him ahead of other servicemen who had been imprisoned longer.
President Richard Nixon welcomed McCain home, after five and a half years of captivity, much of that time in solitary confinement.
Son and grandson of admirals, John McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. In 1967, a massive fire broke out on the deck of his aircraft carrier. As bombs and jet fuel exploded nearby, McCain was injured trying to rescue a fellow pilot. One hundred and thirty-four men died in the inferno.
In 1982, McCain was elected to the first of two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1986, he won the first of four terms in the U.S. Senate.
President McCain — what a terrific campaign slogan that would be! It sounds great and brings to mind the horrors of the Democrat alternative.
President McCain
The War Secrets Sen. John McCain HidesIn response, the backers of the original statute cited the Pentagon's stained record on MIA's and argued that military history had shown that speed of action is critical to the chances of recovering a missing man. Moving "the bureaucracy" to Washington, they said, was merely a way to sweep the issue under a rug.
Chilling effect cited
One final evisceration in the law was McCain's removal of all its enforcement teeth. The original act provided for criminal penalties for anyone, such as military bureaucrats in Washington, who destroy or cover up or withhold from families any information about a missing man. McCain erased this part of the law. He said the penalties would have a chilling effect on the Pentagon's ability to recruit personnel for its POW/MIA office.
Those are only two small paragraphs in a long article full of his betrayals.
I don’t know why McCain fought these POW/MIA measures, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was not acting maliciously.
Do you honestly believe that he wanted to abandon POWs and MIAs, considering that he was a POW himself for over five years? Or do you perhaps believe that he has something to hide?
Well, maybe the experience of being tortured and denied badly needed medical treatment, then “breaking” under the pressure, is so personal that he wants to keep it under wraps. If so, who are you to say otherwise? Give the guy a break for crying out loud.
I find it a bit strange that FR prides itself on being so patriotic, yet people like you gladly trash an American war hero.
He did abandon POWs and MIAs. I can’t crawl into his head and see why and I don’t want to. He worked hand-in-hand with John Kerry on it and I know what we all said his motives were.
What do you think his motives were? Sorry, but I missed that discussion. Are you suggesting he had something to hide?
I forget the relation but John Kerry had a relative who wanted to do business with Vietnam. It was not my thought but many did note that ending the POW/MIA investigations was necessary for trade relations to be OKd.
The author can pound sand.
At least for now, I still have the freedom to vote for whom I wish (or not), and I intend to exercise that right.
Why does this nimrod assume that a Prez Juan McLame would appoint conservative Supremes? That would be offensive to his best buds, the Senate Dims, and “maverick” Juan always stays in their good graces.
I remember reading that about Kerry, but I don’t see what it has to do with McCain. Kerry is scum, but I think McCain is an honorable man even if he is wrong on some major issues.
David Horowitz had an article on Frontpage a couple of weeks ago written by one of McCain’s fellow POWs at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton.” The guy said that McCain did nothing wrong there. Until I hear something credible to counter that account, I will give McCain the benefit of the doubt.
It doesn't matter. If you don't have a problem with him attacking the 1st Amendment in the biggest infringement in the history of our country why would you care about anything else?
His F rating with GOA. His wanting to institute Kyoto style restrictions on our country, leaving all other countries to do what they want, costing trillions of dollars for Glowbull Warming. Amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens who will then be anchors for all their family members costing directly from the treasury billions of dollars without counting indirect costs of taking jobs, crime and so on. Also creating a super-voting block of Dems that will continue to grow as they bring in family members. If that all sounds honorable to you then go for it. Vote for the man who takes Soros money and gets legislation passed for him.
You didn't read the article I linked to you did you? I didn't say one thing about his time as a POW. If you can't even read one article to find out who you are voting for you're wasting my time. And your vote.
I have a problem with all those issues. But the rats are just as bad or worse than McCain on all of those issues.
McCain beats them hands down on the war and his commitment to the troops. He also beats them on taxes. Yes, I am aware that he voted against the Bush tax cuts, but he has a decent lifetime record on taxes, and he has said that he will work to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. That’s a hell of a lot more than you can say for Osamabama or Hillary.
Yes, McCain is the “lesser of two evils.” Until Jesus Christ returns and runs for President, that is the best we can do.
“If you can’t even read one article to find out who you are voting for you’re wasting my time. And your vote.”
The irony is that people like you, who refuse to lift a finger to stop the rats, will be the loudest whiners if and when they take over the government. And right here on FR no less.
That’s pretty lame. Where did you get the idea I don’t lift a finger to stop the rats? What do you do?
Good on taxes. Trillions for Global Warming. Billions in entitlements for illegals.
I agree with you that McCain has some terrible ideas. But as I said before, the rats positions are as bad or worse than his on each and every one of those issues. Tell me one issue where you prefer the rats position to McCain’s. I’ll bet you can’t name one. But I can name more than one major issue where McCain is preferable to the rats.
We’re in trouble either way, but we’re in significantly less trouble with McCain than we will be with Osamabama or Hillary. If you are willing to overlook your emotional reaction to McCain and think rationally, that will be clear.
Suppose you are driving your car and you find yourself headed for an unavoidable collision with the car in front of you. What do you do? Do you at least *try* to slow down as much as possible, or do you just say “screw it” and don’t bother even braking?
The only difference of importance I see, and has nothing to do with my decision not to vote for him, is that Republicans in Congress might fight liberal bills if the Pres is a Dem. If the Pres is a Pub the Pubbies in Congress will not oppose liberal bills. McCain will be called a conservative and the MSM will call anyone who opposes his liberal bills extremists and the countries idea of conservative will move a long way to the left. Real conservatives will be equated with Tim McVeighs.
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