Posted on 03/31/2008 8:36:23 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
By now, most McCain haters will have already skipped down to the comments section to post their expletives and tell me how it’s a free country and they have a 1st Amendment right, etc. to yammer on and on about how bad McCain sucks, totally missing the point of my post, again. But I’m here to tell you, in this free country, that in my opinion, you should SHUT YOUR STINKIN TRAP! To all you ingrates, rageaholics, and self-absorbed punks, WE KNOW YOU HATE MCCAIN. You can give yourself a rest now and stop posting on every single thread the same exact comments. I’m not going to name names, but I will if I have to. I think we all know by now who I’m talking about. The folks who post the same pictures and the same comments on EVERY SINGLE THREAD. We got it. You aren’t voting for McCain. Fine. Time to move on. Yes, that’s my opinion. You have had enough time to accept the reality that John Sidney McCain III, WAR HERO, is the Republican nominee. Some folks on FR have used this time to learn more about Johnny, realize that he isn’t as bad as they thought, grow up, act like adults, and get in gear to vote for him. Some of you have decided not only to beat your collective dead horse everyday, banging out the same tiresome gripes about McCain on every thread, but you’ve also gotten increasingly VITRIOLIC. I’m talking about the following trash:
1. Saying McCain isn’t really a war hero because (insert stupid lie here.)
2. Declaring that McCain urged the U.S. government to leave other POWs back in Vietnam (for what reason would he do this exactly? Don’t bother, I don’t want to hear your lies anymore.)
3. Insulting other FR posters who like or support Johnny by using profanity, vulgarity, and name calling. YOU ARE DIMINISHING FR with your hostile posts—this kind of stuff belongs on low rent leftie sites like DU, or Daily Kos, not FREE REPUBLIC, the shining star of conservative websites.
4. AND FINALLY, the filthiest load in the McCain Haters’ verbal trebuchet: wishing, hoping or praying that John Sidney McCain III would come to some misfortune which would prevent him from living to be President. THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST DISGUSTING. How can you wish that a decent, G-d fearing man who suffered and sacrificed out of love for this country, who, BY THE GRACE OF G-D, survived five years of torture and imprisonment only to return to service in the military—how could you wish him anything but a long, long life? Shameful. And don’t DARE try to suggest that you are any better in moral character or principle than the angry liberal scum who wish ill upon President Bush or our troops. If your definition of “conservative” is to rage daily and most repulsively against our next President, then please call me a “right wing Reaganite traditionalist” because I want no part of your scene. I realize that some talk show hosts like Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity don’t like Johnny, but I don’t recall hearing them praying for his untimely demise. No, that is the talk of the dregs of society, not adults who have their act together.
And just a heads up to all the McCain haters: I am ignoring your tirades henceforth. I can’t stop you from posting your garbage, but I certainly don’t have acknowledge it. Basically, the point of posts from people who like Johnny these days is to share daily news: tracking polls, statements he has made, who he is touring with, speeches he has given, leaders he has met with, etc. What is YOUR point? To seek out people to commiserate with? To insult fellow conservatives who’ve decided having a responsible leader in a time of war trumps giving the GOP a spanking? To try and rally others to joins the haters camp?
Are you going to do this for the next several years? If so, the best advice I can give to the non-haters is to wade through the rage and seek out the decent and the productive on FR. Do not waste your time debating the haters, because they seem to thrive on self-righteousness and rage. Try as they might, they have given absolutely no GOOD reason to allow a dem to win the presidency. Their continued daily rantings about why they hate McCain, on EVERY thread about him, only serve to define their insanity.
I seek out those of like mind. G-d Bless John Sidney McCain III.
P.S. McCain haters, please review the link in order to familiarize yourselves with the sound of Skank's voice so you can hear his directive in your head when you are about to post something vile.
I am, in fact, entirely for a much, much, much smaller government, especially Federal.
“...Yet, even those principles change. It is the nature of politics.”
BEDROCK principles do NOT change over time. That’s why they’re called that. If they change, they are NOT core principles. I don’t have a clue as to WHAT they are. Just as the Bible, God’s Word, DOES NOT CHANGE. Too often people change its meaning to suit their current desires. That’s all. If you think it’s OK to change up over time and give up whatever “beliefs” you might hold for whatever is faddish at the moment, YOU ARE A LIVING DOCUMENT LIBERAL. You got a problem with that?
Great work! I can appreciate the time and effort you put into the post. Thanks!
Right. And I suppose all you McCain supporters are perfect ladies and gentlemen towards those of us who dissent. Except for telling us to shut our stinking traps. And except for calling us self-absorbed punks. And oh, that rage-oholic thing...and then there’s...well, you get the picture.
I don’t hate McCain, nor am I a McCain apologist. I am deeply disappointed that the GOP nomination process came to a point where the “best” the GOP could come up with was to choose between McCain, Romney, Huckabee, or Rudy. That said, while McCain is woefully inadequate to get this conservative enthused about the election, he is light years better than either hillary rodham or Barak Obama.
We must do whatever is necessary to prevent such an obamination to the country that either democrat candidate would bring, so I will hold my nose and vote for McCain on November 4.
Actually, you can say "SHUT Your Stinking TRAP!" legally already.
This has probably already been answered by now, but it comes from the Hebrew tradition of using only the consonants in the name of "Jehovah" (Jhwh, pronounced "Yah-wey") whenever writing God's name in the Scriptures. It signifies such a reverence for God's name that we are not even worthy to write the name out in full.
The number of hate posts from one side is nowhere near the other. It's not even a decent fraction. The small-tent conservatives are a league unto their own in that respect. It is shameful.
Of course Hillary and Obama are terrible, but McCain will be just a little slower in paving the highway to disaster. I believe that no matter who wins, the people and the Congress are going to have to rise up unlike anything we have seen before in order to stop the idiocy. Presidents are not gods and they can be dealt with in a political fashion. We the people can handle these clowns and begin the process of taking the country back.
I am not interested in watching as the United States sinks further into the abyss. I want my country, my freedom, my Constitution, and my government back. And I mean government 1791 style plus a few Amendments. In achieving what I want McCain is of no more value than Obama or the beast, so let them all rot.
Thank you Jay. I appreciate the note.
I should have written POWs and MIAs instead of just MIAs in my previous post.
Ross Perot did support bringing home the POWs in his platform when he ran. I honestly don’t remember if he specifically mentioned McCain.
Though that is the long-term goal all thinking conservatives have, if you think that there was anyone in the GOP field (or in the current third party fields) who would deliver that as president, you need some serious medication.
Meanwhile, every time you post I hear "pocketa-pocketa-pocketa."
This election sucks because there is a good chance that one of the three people running will be President. McCain's military favorable positions make him qualified to be a supporter of the military, but beyond that? I guess we'll find out, be sure has disappointed many of us as a Senator. Makes me wonder what being qualified actually means in 2008.
Let's say there are ten most important issues the next president needs to address. What his supporters are saying is that the other two potentials get all 10 wrong but McCain gets one thing right, but nine things wrong, so he's qualified. As logic goes, that's pretty thin.
First, we're talking more like six things, not one.
Second, when I use the word qualified, I'm not talking about ideology, I'm talking resume. Now for sure McCain is closer to we conservatives ideologically than HillObama, but on an experience level the two Dems wouldn't have any business in the Oval Office even if they were rock-ribbed conservatives. They have accomplished exactly nothing that qualifies them; Obama hasn't even had to win a real campaign to get any of the offices he's held.
On ideology McCain is the much lesser of two evils. On resume he is like Brett Favre standing next to Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.
There are a lot of people in the POW/MIA community who hate McCain, but he’s made it clear that he thinks there’s nobody still over there, so when they act as if he’s knowingly abandoning live Americans or didn’t care in the first place they are attibuting motives to him he doesn’t have.
Here here! I’m with you Cinnamon Girl.
LOL!~ You sure opened a can of worms CG! Sheesh. I agree though, there is no point to McCain-haters continually repeating themselves. I find them tedious and boring and wonder what they think they will accomplish. Sort of like the Hucksters, who finally and thankfully have slunk away.
“If you can’t bear the thought of one thread where you can’t post your dislike, it’s pretty pathetic.”
Agreed. I think Sen. McCain is an incredibly rotten Presidential candidate. I will not vote for him and I will encourage others to refrain from voting for him as well. That said, I see some advantage to carving out a DITL niche for Sen. McCain supporters. I would hope that the same courtesy would be given to the Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates.
It’s up to Jim Rob of course. It’s his website.
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