McCain will be more like Reagan than Bush ever was

Modern Conservative ^ | September 17, 2008 | Michael Donnella

[mountainbunny]

Did you see the former Clinton fundraiser who is backing McCain now? She’s making it very clear that she sees a McCain administration as a means of advancing her agenda.

You have hit on a vital point. Every time I see crowing about the latest Hillary-ite to cross over to support the McCain camp, I am puzzled.

Because it isn't as though they gave up a lifetime of work and beliefs, woke up one day and said, "Wow! I'm suddenly and inexplicably conservative and it's grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!" These are people who live, work and breathe their political beliefs. They aren't changing overnight - especially when they remain demonstrably loyal to Hillary.

So, it's more like, "Well, McCain has been willing to reach across the aisle before. He'll meet us half-way."

It's nothing to be proud of. It's nothing to crow over. It should worry the heck out of every conservative who thinks McCain won't compromise.

Everyone should ask themselves the question: what do these Hillary supports see in McCain?

[sergeantdave]

“...not only was President Bush not like Reagan...”

I’m going to disagree on this characterization.

Mr. Bush sent up the Heritage Forest Initiative. This proposal offered the opportunity for hunters, anglers and gun owners to take back the federal forests from the eco-fascists.

The heritage proposal would have allowed local citizens in states to set policy in the federal forests for logging, fishing, hunting and access.

The proposal died on the vine, as they say.

And, as usual, the federal forests are dying. And nobody can figure out why other than stupid and lazy conservatives not getting involved in local and state issues.

Mr. Bush offered us some good ideas and we never ran with them... Too bad.

Conservatives are like puffer fish - disinterested or laying there and looking fat.

You’d need a damn chain, a big tow truck and a 12 foot pry bar to drag most conservatives to local county meeting.

[CommieCutter]

I picture a McCain administration more like “Weekend at Bernie’s III.”

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III? Was Bernie a skeleton by then, or a bag of bones? I wouldn’t admit I even watched that.....

Funny jab though.

[VRWC For Truth]

McDemocrat is Jimmah Carter with an (R) after his name.

[driftless2]

"moving away from Bush... a good thing"

Yes, let's raise taxes, appoint liberal supreme court justices, and talk nice to our enemies instead of killing them. Bush had some bad but a lot more good than bad.

[E. Cartman]

O.K., whatever one’s interpretation of the Gang of 14, which Andy and I found troubling, McCain’s comment about Alito should cause grave concern about the kind of judges he, as president, would nominate to the Supreme Court. Maybe his buddy Warren Rudman would have a role. Maybe not. But this requires more attention now — and more inquiry of McCain.

Thanks for the post.

I'm increasingly beginning to think that McCain uses one of those old board-game spinners to decide what position on policy to take that press conference. Because, just like every other two-bit politician in Washington, the only thing he's consistent about is his inconsistency.

[E. Cartman]

When a guy like McCain talks about the need for “reasonable gun legislation”, this is the type of thing he’s talking about. I don’t always buy into the claim that some phrase is code for something else, but “reasonable gun legislation” is one phrase that is exclusively a code catch phrase.

You mean like "compassionate, humane immigration policy" really means "Blanket amnesty for 20,000,000 illegal aliens, mis amigos"?

[E. Cartman]

Well, doesn’t anyone else find it farcical that the first order of business of a new President should be planning his state funeral?

[mysterio]

McCain will be more like Reagan than Bush ever was

Neither of these men are like Reagan. Reagan believed government was the problem.

[DoughtyOne]

Si.