RIP GOP
Posted on 04/25/2008 9:15:49 PM PDT by neverdem
The advertisement criticized Barack Obama for being too extreme. Well, he is. It's not just all of his associations that have come to light in recent months. He was described in the National Journal as the most liberal member of the Senate. The main stream media wouldn't hesitate to describe any conservative as extreme. There's no good reason to gratuitously bash the North Carolina GOP. That wasn't enough. He felt compelled to bash the Bush Administration for the response to Katrina, while ignoring the abysmal performances of the Democrat mayor and governor. When push comes to shove in the general election, does Senator McCain expect volunteers to come forward from independents and moderates?
Since he became a prisoner of war decades ago, the Democrat Party has morphed into the local branch of the Socialist International. Within a few months of toppling Saddam's regime in Iraq, the Democrat Party led by its Moveon.org faction, has been openly undermining our efforts in Iraq and trying to portray it as an exercise in imperialism doomed to failure like Vietnam.
All is fair in love and war. We can't have an honest discussion with the left. It's no time to refuse weapons given to the GOP when the only weapons we really have are the opposition's own words. The left has infected all politics with its vile political correctness so much that conservatives can't say anything about domestic politics without being called mean, sexist, racist or homophobic. In foreign affairs, the left is not satisfied unless American interests are sacrificed, and we kowtow to a useless United Nations. Otherwise, they say we are warmongers. That's the state of the supposedly loyal opposition that conservatives are expected by Senator McCain to treat with due deference. Is he nuts? I'm serious.
This year the Democrats were supposed to do well nationwide, but almost all of our ills can be traced back to Democrats or their their half baked economic solutions, global warming foolery and sedition over Iraq. Our economy sucks because of left wing handicaps of printing fiat currency, easy credit, over regulation of industry, entitlement spending, etc. Our economy is going nowhere fast without cheap energy, energy independence, spending discipline and entitlement reform.
Senator McCain will face either Obama or Hillary, each easily described as an extremist from the left. Both are in the pocket of the NEA, and they promise to improve medical care in this country the same way as the left has improved education in this country. Twenty five years later, education is worse.
Senator McCain's medical history is well known. His left jaw looks rather pronounced. His sanity and his temper is often questioned. The American people, not just the GOP before he actually gets the nomination, deserve to know the results of his current medical status, including imaging studies, IMHO.
U S Grant vs Horatio Seymour
Bet you don’t know a thing about Horatio Seymour?
Grover Cleveland vs Benjamin Harrison
Wow, there were more elections with bad choices than I first thought.
RIP GOP
This election is now down to the last three democrats.
They revolted! 'bout time for another revoulution, if you ask me.
“James M. Cox vs Warren G. Harding. The worst won.”
I don’t know much about Cox, but Warren Harding was a very good President. A lot of nonsense has been written about Harding by Democratic historians, including his “rating” as our worst President. Like Al Gore’s global warming hoax, it’s the big lie that has been accepted as the “truth”.
“A little straight talk about your opponent’s terrorist, anti-American, communist friends and supporters can only help the campaign.”
Well, the problem is that the mainstream media is so corrupt and dysfunctional that McCain runs the very real risk of having any attack on Obama backfire.
Look how people are now talking about the “humanized” Hillary: She’s got a sense of humor, she’s humbled, she’s tough, she’s a survivor, she’s a national-security hawk after all, blah blah blah.
I don’t identify as either a Republican or a conservative, so maybe I see things a little differently than most of the people here. But it seems to me that much of what McCain is doing now is necessary to keep the press from labeling him a “mean-spirited” conservative who will simply be the third-term Bush.
I guess the thing to do is to wait and see if the North Carolina ad is effective or backfires on the GOP. The last thing any right-thinking person wants is for Obama to become a sympathetic figure under assault by the “Republican Attack Machine.”
I’d also ask everyone to keep in mind that McCain and his staff are daily chopping Obama’s positions to bits. McCain just said that Obama is the man Hamas wants to be the next president.
That doesn’t sound very PC to me. I’m actually surprised that McCain has gotten away with saying it.
In the end we all have to vote how we see fit, but I wonder if maybe McCain’s recent comments come not from arrogance but political expediency. Personally, I want to defeat Hillary and Obama, so I’m willing to let McCain play politics up to a certain point.
If he became president, there would be no way he could ram another amnesty bill down our necks even if he wanted to. That kind of betrayal would literally be the end of the Republican party. It would never recover. I don’t see McCain being so fanatical that he’d willingly be a one-term president who destroyed his party, just to please Mexico.
From what I’ve read, no one won that race, especially the people.
Maybe we can draft this real straight talker.....
Warning long, long rant but very, very good stuff.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=7618598
ZACHARY !!!!!
HOW on earth did it come down to these three nightmares?
I do now:
“During his second tenure as (NY) governor, (Seymour) became a leading Northern opponent of President Abraham Lincoln’s administration during the American Civil War. Seymour protested Lincoln’s restriction of civil liberties, as well as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Union’s military draft. He advocated the vigorous prosecution of the war, but protested against Lincoln’s extensive use of executive war powers.”
Sound familiar?
Cox, apart from being a well-respected Governor of Ohio, founded the newspaper publishing company now known as Cox Enterprises.
I think I can make a very good case that Harding versus Cox was one of the best choices the nation has ever had for President.
How do you think I feel? I’m stuck in the people’s state of New Jersey, my friend...
The country is turning Socialist...and dragging conservatives along with it. Hook, line and sinker, we are voting for the "lesser" evil by "holding one's nose" at the polls.
“Grover Cleveland vs Benjamin Harrison”
Grover Cleveland was an honest and incorruptible politician, who was genuinely respected, even by those who disagreed with him on issues. I sure wish we could put Grover back in the White House.
Ignorance of American history is endemic in the USA.
I guess Rush also has an Operation Chaos for Republicans. We have one flawed candidate who will be our nominee. Instead of rallying around what we have in common with McCain, Lower taxes, strong defense, etc, we act like democrats and call names and throw away any potential advantage that we gain through the Dims bickering, by bickering ourselves.
Our primaries are done. Fred, Paul, Keyes, D.H. aren’t going to save us. Man up, be a team player, obey the rules, and start fighting the enemy, not our allies.
“We can’t have an honest discussion with the left. It’s no time to refuse weapons given to the GOP when the only weapons we really have are the opposition’s own words. The left has infected all politics with its vile political correctness so much that conservatives can’t say anything about domestic politics without being called mean, sexist, racist or homophobic. “
No, the idea of having an honest discussion w/the left is like the idea of having one with Iran, Hamas et al - hopeless to think that their minds will be changed in the slightest. As to your latter point, WHY are we so worried about what names we’re called for speaking the truth and simply stating facts? Indeed you’re right also about McCain needing to use any opportunity he’s being given as well. He’s gonna need it big-time. This latest NC fiasco -WTF was he thinking?? Nothing like killing 3 birds with one stone - delighting the libs and giving them more negative ammo, angering reps/conservatives whom he so badly needs, and taking the anti-federalist side (core belief of historical Reps) and intruding on a state’s business, trying to dictate political policy - absolutely out of line
Republican voters elected him. Remember?
“Man up, be a team player, obey the rules, and start fighting the enemy, not our allies.”
I’ve felt that way before. I’m having a problem with that now. This two party system we have is nothing more than corporate BS, especially since our choices are between Demo and Demo-lite.
No. There’s a time when some of us have to take a stand and say “We’re as mad as hell...”
I think I’m there now.
Talk me out if it.
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