Posted on 07/12/2008 8:34:58 AM PDT by Need4Truth
After writing favorably about Sen. McCain’s recent economics speeches, where he clearly shifted toward the supply-side both on tax cuts and producing more energy, I went back last evening and carefully read his 15-page policy pamphlet called “Jobs for America.” Here’s what I found: There is no mention of cap-and-trade. None. Nada. There is a section about “Cheap, Clean, Secure Energy for America: The Lexington Project.” But that talks about expanded domestic production of oil and gas, as well as the need for more nuclear power and coal along with alternative sources. Then it has the $300 million battery and flex-fuel cars. But nope, no cap-and-trade.
(Excerpt) Read more at globalwarming.org ...
Insightful observation. Allow me a minute to pick your brain for your insight into this scenario: Obama coupled with a RAT Congress will get you what?
People who think this way really lack any type of optimism. It must be depressing to think everything is so gloomy.
“If I hear more about McCain coming to his senses like this, I will be able to vote for him without holding my nose.”
You believe this garbage? Or you WANT to believe it? That McCain has “come to his senses” on this issue.
Check out McCain’s website. He is still for a cap and trade system. More propaganda about supposed shifts in McCain’s policies. He is still for amnesty and cap and trade legislation.
Yep. Absence of the term Cap and Trade in a white paper does not mean McCain has dropped one of his pandering to the left schemes.
Can anyone really know what McCain would do as President? I don’t believe anything he says.
It seems like McCain would just screw everything up by trying to be on both sides of most issues. The one thing he has going for him:
That Obama would screw everything up by trying to convert this nation into a marxist paradise. He’d play checkers with Ahmadinejad, Raul, and Hugo. And turn his back on patriotic Americans and friendly nations like Colombia.
“Insightful observation. Allow me a minute to pick your brain for your insight into this scenario: Obama coupled with a RAT Congress will get you what?”
Which is why many of us that do not support McCain say, “When these two became the nominees of their party, America lost.” No matter who wins in November, this nation is going to continue to slide further left.
The most naive thing a person can do is to allow Obama into the White House because they have “principles.”
At this point, as long as he sticks with it after election, I’m all for it.
“The most naive thing a person can do is to allow Obama into the White House because they have “principles.”
After a few more election cycles like this one, principles will no longer be a concern in the Republican Party with one exception, power for powers’ sake.
That seems to be how people are handling the McCain “thing”.
I know they would hate to admit it....but it is really no different than those that pretend Obama is something other than what he is.
I really believe that until people quit trying to convince themselves that a pig in a poke is a fine racehorce, they will get the government they are unwilling to call for.
If you do not like what is offered, you reject it, and ask that the offer be something you can accept.
I don’t know if you saw the McCain video where he was being asked about birth control and insurance companies, but it was truly the most sad and painful thing I have ever viewed. If that video is used by the RATs, it will not be a good thing. I actually had pity for McCain. Gee whiz.
“The most naive thing a person can do is to allow Obama into the White House because they have “principles.””
I agree.
But it’s also naive to think that McCain is any more principled that Obama.
Both are mealy mouthed, pandering, political whores.
I cannot stand either of them.
I just watched the video. Painful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IlGXhCUHo
So amnesty and opposition to global warming are platforms and strategies of winners?
If I agreed with those policies, I'd be a democrat.
Have you checked on how J.S. McCain’s record treated families of POWs, how he and John Kerry swept the issue under the rug, how he wanted a reunion with his former captors? It is on record.
Hey now! Let McCain be McCain. He could have just said "Carly Fiorina doesn't speak for me". It worked so well with Gramm's remark about Americans being whiners.
So amnesty and global warming are platforms and strategies of winners?
If I agreed with those policies, I'd be a democrat.
OMG, just awful, he looked clueless and it aged him. OMG, can’t say it enough, awful. Makes me shudder.
You can go with someone as odious as McCain if you just cast your principles aside, provided that you have any. It's easy to do. Sticking to principles takes disciplined effort and courage, which is why RINOS are more inclined to float the current as jellyfish- no effort, no principles needed until they are washed up on the harsh shore of reality and then it's too late.
Duncan Hunter is fixin’ to surge.
These same folks called in “winning” when Schwarzenegger was elected.
Battered Republican Syndrome?
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