I watched Colonel Day speak so proudly about his fellow prisoner of war,John McCain.For ‘longtermmemory’to begin his reply about John McCain’s military service as”very moving but irrelevant made me feel not very proud to be associated with Free Republic.Perhaps elections make people say some very harsh things.
Remember, you are as much of a part as she (longtermmemory) is, so be the balance to things that don't make you proud. Yin and Yang.
It takes a hell of a lot of political courage to buck the party establishment in order to achieve results, such as getting an up-or-down vote on Sam Alito while preserving the traditional right of filibuster. I found that to be a remarkable example to statesmanship—not the bald partisan politicking that seems to pass for leadership among too many here.
As one poster (an anti-McCainite, even) said above, McCain is a man. He is, to be sure, a moderate in some ways (though the Conservative Union gives him an 87% rating—what do they give Hillary or Obama, btw?). To many here, that apparently makes him a liberal. I suppose, relatively speaking to some people, he might be. But what they wanted didn’t materialize and if it had, that person would be cooked in November. To me, McCain is obviously not a Buchanan conservative, or a Rockefeller republican, but a Roosevelt (as in Teddy) Republican. I think he’s fairly “Old right”—not to be confused with paleoconservative (a post-cold war phenom), except for his intention to have a vigorous foreign policy.
Perhaps we McCain supporters are a minority here, but McCain will win the election and will be an excellent President and ten times the “unifier” that Obama could ever hope to be.