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.
I won’t vote for him either.
Then how do you explain Thompson and Hunter? Both spoke conservative principles, yet both were ignored by the electorate at large.
It takes someone to speak, but also someone to listen. The latter is the responsibility of the voters. Overall, they - we - have failed to keep our part of the deal. It is easier for most to vote for who they have heard of, who the media plays up. Real decisions take real thought and real information. That's apparently too much work for most.
By Democrats and Independents switching over in Florida, Iowa and Michigan to vote in the Primaries and give him the lead in Democrat run Counties. Yet the Dems are crying over our retaliation in Operation Chaos! (bad grammar but you get the jest)
Well McCain is sometimes willing to criticize the other candidate..... I’m having trouble keeping straight when we’re allowed to say that Obama is an ally of Hamas and when we’re not allowed to say that Obama is an ally of a ranting racist anti-American “minister” ...... if anyone could clarify the McCain “rules” for civic engagement it would help us all going forward!!!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/26/mccain_plays_hamas_card/?page=full
McCain plays Hamas card
April 26, 2008
John McCain sought again yesterday to tie Barack Obama to the terrorist group Hamas, a move that Obama’s campaign said violated McCain’s pledge for a respectful race.
In a conversation with conservative bloggers, McCain said, “I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas’s worst nightmare. . . . If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly.”
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ABSOLUTELY!! It looks like he's growing a golf ball in that left jaw. What's going on???
“He felt compelled to bash the Bush Administration for the response to Katrina, while ignoring the abysmal performances of the Democrat mayor and governor.”
This statement isn’t quite accurate. He bashed all levels of government on his visit.
There is little downside for McCain to distance himself from Bush. Bush is the most unpopular president at this point in his administration since Truman. He doesn’t even have good numbers in Texas any more. McCain is smart to distance himself from Bush.
He is wrong, however, to chastize the North Carolina GOP for pointing out Obama’s record. That is indeed nauseating.
The only “straight talk” that McCain expresses comes in four letter expletives when he’s forced to act like a conservative.
Thanks for the ping!
Here’s some McCain ‘straight talk’....
April, 2006
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: “ My friends, I’ll offer anybody here $50 an hour if you’ll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for whole season. So — OK? Sign up. OK. When you sign up — you sign up, and you’ll be there for the whole season. The whole season, OK? Not just one day. Because you can’t do it, my friend. Sign up.”
(END VIDEO CLIP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2006856/posts?page=176#176
“Our primaries are done. ......be a team player, obey the rules, and start fighting the enemy, not our allies.”
Have you figured out who are the enemies and who are the allies? Pretty darned hard to tell. Our ‘primaries’ were done before they started. Many haven’t even voted. This is a sick joke of an election.
McCain was my last choice. I warned the Fredheads that if he kept attacking Huck and ignoring McCain, McCain would win SC and FL and it would be all over. Fredheads and Rush GAVE us McCain. Now we're stuck. Can we really pull out of Iraq and let the region fall while letting our troops down again? Can the economy afford tax hikes? Do we want more liberal Supreme Court Justices? We have no choice but to vote for McCain. It is the responsible thing to do.
Watching what he does, rather than listening to what he says, convinces the rational person that he's simply a liar.
Straight talk, my rectum.
I haven’t voted Democrat in over 40 years, but each day it is becoming harder and harder for me to cast my vote for McCain.
I am wishing for a conservative to run on the 3rd party ticket.
And I am starting to think that it will be easier to fight a democrat president then a Republican so I may vote for the Democrat this time and let the RINO’s know I do have opther options.
Can't speak for dangerous or egotistical in '76, but Ford and Carter were close in shallowness. In '96 we had the shallow Dole against the dangerous and egotistical Clinton. And, if we're honest, in 2000, Bush and Gore rivaled '76 in shallowness, as most are seeing now.
But your point is surely correct, I suspect: never such a combination on both sides of the ballot in my lifetime.
Without 60 votes to end debate in the Senate, neither side can control Congress. Were you sleeping during Bush's attempt to appoint federal judges and the Gang of Fourteen led by McCain?
“How in $*%&$ did he ever become the GOP candidate?”
Because his competition ran what has to be some of the worst campaigns in modern political history. That — and let’s be candid here — the Republicans just don’t have a good stable from which to draw.
We need to draft Oliver North.
Were you asleep while our federal debt went from $6 trillion to $10 trillion; while Bush and Congress passed the Prescription Drug Act, the biggest socialist giveaway in the last 30 years; while the Presidency became an office which can operate outside the law...?
No. I didn't approve of the former. As far as the prerogatives of the Commander in Chief during hostilities, I'm willing to sort it out after the fact. I don't care what rights I have after I'm dead. I was born in Manhattan, NYC. I didn't need a TV to see what happened on September 11, 2001. Looking out of a window was enough.
How is either Obama or Hillary, both closet Marxists, as Commander in Chief going to help the situation? Forget about a third party miracle. Anyway, I didn't ask for McCain's medical records for no reason. He's not the official GOP nominee yet. I am hoping for the best.
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