Posted on 05/15/2008 1:45:25 PM PDT by mojito
[snip] ....The sales job is a myth. In reality, a McCain presidency would promise an entirely conventional, center-left, multilateralism.
If you liked the second Bush term, if you liked Clintonian foreign policy, you will find much to admire in a Commander-in-Chief McCain. There would be the same agonizing over European and Islamic perceptions of America; the same doctrinaire commitment to the alchemy of democracy promotion; and the same fondness for heaping more unaccountable bureaucratic sprawl atop the already counter-productive agencies and multinational institutions that frustrate the United States at every turn.
Don’t take my word for it. Read McCain’s own Foreign Affairs essay, published late last year, in which the senator dilates on his philosophy. The leitmotif of “An Enduring Peace Built on Freedom” is that America’s tattered standing in the world must be restored. Typical is this:
"We cannot build an enduring peace based on freedom by ourselves. We must be willing to listen to our democratic allies. Being a great power does not mean that we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume that we have all the wisdom, knowledge, and resources necessary to succeed. When we believe international action — whether military, economic, or diplomatic — is necessary, we must work to persuade our friends and allies that we are right. And we must also be willing to be persuaded by them. To be a good leader, America must be a good ally."
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
CAMPAIGN SLOGAN!!! ;)
Sorry Kent, my GOP gag reflex has been worn out today. I am getting the dry heaves. LOL
I wish you weren’t right, but you are. That is why I am feeling ill.
Explain how Obama or Clinton offer a better alternative. Those are the choices. Better suck it up and get used to it.
The time for this discussion was 8 months ago and no I did not vote for McCain in my primary.
(snip)National-security issues, which McCain sees as one of his strongest points, may end up being his Achilles' heel. Already there is concern among his conservative friends that McCain may lack the disposition to command, showing an uncertain sense of purpose and outright bad political judgment.
"What's the first thing you would do as president?" the Detroit News recently asked McCain.
"The first thing I would do," the candidate answered, "is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel and several others and say we've got to get foreign-policy, national-security issues back on track."
That statement ricocheted through cyberspace, with Washington national-security experts wondering, "Is McCain nuts?" The formula doesn't compute:
Running frantically in the direction of a demonstrable traitor, in order to (in his own words) "get foreign-policy, national-security issues back on track."
Revolting... and absolutely indefensible.
Keep up, would you? McCain only got approval from liberals and the MSM when he disagreed with Bush. Now they hate McCain and will do anything to see Obama in the White House.
“McCain’s age is the only thing that gives me a glimmer of hope.”
Ditto. I feel dirty for thinking that way but I feel I must always look for the silver lining.
“If that happens and he has not selected somone as vice-president, there would be one Helluva scramble on the GOP side.”
They would likely (at the convention) go with the person that had the next highest delegate count.
What and Shrillary or Obama are?
“I’d rather tread water with McCain for 4 years than sink like the Titanic with either of those two.”
Won’t treading water be difficult with all those knife wounds in your back?
Ask me if I care? I could care less about old spineless sellout liberal republicans. If he wins by happenstance, so be it, if he doesn’t, nothing will be any different than under any other Democrat. Doesn’t matter what fox is guarding the henhouse. A fox is a fox.
“McCain only got approval from liberals and the MSM when he disagreed with Bush. Now they hate McCain and will do anything to see Obama in the White House.”
Yes. I...feel...so..bad...for...him.
Yes,and adults will deal with the issue non-hysterically. Those are the choices, as unfortunate as they are. It's like choosing between Nixon and Humphrey or Nixon and McGovern.
I also hope, but ONLY if the right person is selected for Veep.
No. What we need is a CONSERVATIVE in power, not some grizzled old fart who, in the end, stands only for John McanCia. If MacNuts were serious about protecting the US, he wouldn't demand closing down GITMO, he wouldn't oppose "torture" of prisoners, he'd support reducing our dependency on foreign oil by not actively opposing drilling in ANWR, he wouldn't leave our southern border wide open and he wouldn't have supported establishing an Islamo-fascist regime in Kosovo.
BEST to vote for a real conservative and tell the CINO MacNaic to go f__k himself and the elephant he rode in on.
I hope these panty waist turds get what makes them so afraid, they are so weak and pathetic. They have sealed their own fate, and are too dense to realize it.
They need a purge.
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