"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is what so bleedin’ annoying about McCain. He just blindly accepted the premise put to him by the Failed Media. Never once even thought to crame the lie back in the face of the DNC stoodge pretending to be a “Journalist”.
THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL WRONG with the Ad Senator. Grow a spine! Quit kissing the Drive Bys butt!
It is foolish to run anti-Obama ads in a PRIMARY. It won’t help the Republicans, it will help Hillary. I think Rush’s narcicissm as developed into full blown megalomania. He wants so bad for Operation Chaos to be successful that he doesn’t care if Hillary gets elected. Make no mistake, if Hillary were to win NC, she would be the nominee and we will have a Clinton/Obama ticket to compete against.
John McCain does not understand the Republican Party. He is out of touch.
McCain is an embarrassment. He gives me the creeps.
Lets see, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush junior, no I’d have to say I have never been embarrassed of my party’s candidate. I haven’t always been thrilled about the guy at the top, but I’ve never been embarrassed when I went to pull the lever at the polls.
This is going to be a first.
Why not indeed.
John McCain, listen up! You are *not* the Republican Nominee anymore. You’ve been stripped of that mantle. You are the nobody maverick libperv kissass nominee..Get used to carrying your own damn luggage again, you betraying sniveler.
Hyenas never devour their own kind.
A maverick is much more like a donkey than an elephant. If McCain put his glasses on he might be surprised to see a donky staring back in the mirror.
For this Limbaugh and his audience immediately launched into claims that Senator McCain was trying to determine what Republicans should or should not say. Actually, it is far easier to turn that around and see that what Rush wants is the ability and power to determine who is and who is not a conservative.
It seems tacky, tawdry or a trifle over the edge to keep playing Wright's comments over and over again. Actually, he is not running for anything. I know, I know Senator Obama was in his church for 20 years and recently gave the church 26k. So. The church's stated theology is "black liberation theology" which, is as they interpret it, a combination of Marxism and black affirmation. Off the wall in my estimation, but 8,000 parishioners disagree with my take. So. We do have freedom of religion. There is very little anyone can do or say to dissuade them from their views.
Pastor Wright is an easy shot. Doesn't take much to show him as over the top and irrationally paranoid about "rich, white people." So. When does the endless replays designed no longer to inform but to inflame political passions stop?
Rush and many on this thread love the discharge of anger and righteous scorn on real and imagined adversaries. It gives a sense of cleansing and requires little or no reason or thinking to achieve this. But this does not define conservatism, it is not Burkean, it is not Kirkean but rather it is Nietzschean will to power based on a narrow set of precepts not universally shared.
Finally, remember, the genius of America has been to compromise. The Constitution depended on it. Subsequent events have proved its usefulness and the only time we failed to compromise we got the civil war and 700,000 died.
Contrary to what Rush seems to say and what some on these threads seem to say our success as a nation and as a people is based on how we are alike rather than how we are different. If you want someone or some view to hate switch to the weather. Where I am writing from right now the temperature is 30 and there are 4 inches of recent, heavy wet snow.
A couple of things — One, notice how swiftly the left used his conciliatory remarks against him! Is he paying any attention to that at all? lol Second, the North Carolina republicans are doing the work he should be doing! They are reminding voters that ‘birds of a feather flock together!’ Barrack Obama has many associates in the hate-America left, but does he have even one supporter in the pro-America, patriot ranks? Is so, who?
This was a VERY FOOLISH thing to say about North Carolina Republicans, who pay close attention to politics, are used to being in a minority, and dig in their heels when insulted.
Don’t see this as a bug, but as a feature.
Conservatives throughout the Republican party can now punish the Democrats, call them out, and not let them pretend away their hypocrisy and hatred anymore, for fear of embarrassing our candidate.
What will McCain do? He is only the Republican contender by default. And he will win the election only because his opponents are so utterly loathsome that Republicans would vote for a pumpkin just to keep them out of office.
Other than keeping those two Moonbats out, our only hope is if McCain picks a conservative VP. If he picks another RINO liberal, he may be president, but none of us will owe him anything.
Loyalty is a two way street. He gives us none, so he gets none in return. But the *important* thing is that we can take the kid gloves off with the Democrats.
Hillary’s a radical socialist fanatic. Obama can’t be trusted to do anything on behalf of America, only for some undeserving special interests and America’s enemies.
Meanwhile, McCain poses the greatest danger to the Republican party.
I predict this election will have the lowest voter turnout of Democrats and Republicans in history. If McCain wins, it will be because enough Democrats voted for him -- Democrats who are more afraid of what Obama or Hillary would do to the nation than what McCain would do. The problem is McCain would be perhaps marginally better than Obama or Hillary in the short run, but infinitely worse for the Republican party, Conservatism, and hence the United States, in the long run.
McCain may be (God forbid) the first Republican president nominated and elected by Democrats.
He is bitter.