Posted on 03/16/2009 9:47:34 PM PDT by utahson
A few days ago I posted about the Obama administration’s plan to rob soldiers of some of their medical benefits. Today the head of the American Legion (the nation’s largest veterans organization) paid a visit to Obama to talk about the issue, and he didn’t leave happy.Normally I am a staunch advocate of limited government and privatization. But in this instance we have troops who served their country, often in awful war zones that left them scarred and maimed, and they did so with the assumption that medical care would be one of the benefits they’d receive as compensation. The government has no business trying to opt out of that.
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McCain can’t even be labeled as pro-life as long as he supports federal funding for embryonic dissection.
If I really thought you were a conservative, I'd be ashamed to be a part of it.
LOL , You mean like you and McCain?
You see how to do it calcowgirl??
Can't make it to the fairgrounds. Just as well, I may have been arrested for what I would like to have done. The very least would have been to wave my USA flag (3 feet x 5 feet) upside down. This country is in great distress as long as this Kenyan is POTUS.
;-)
If 2006 wasn’t a terrible year which it would not have been if it was Kerry’s midterm George Allen would not have lost no matter how many times he said macca.
Going by history under a President McCain the GOP would be unlikely to have a good midterm election or take back the house and he and the GOP would get the blame if the ecomomy continues to suck.
Like I said, time will tell which result for 2008 would have been better in the long-term.
Of course Obama is worse in the short term. Please understand what I am saying.
You cannot destroy our democratic republic in order to hope for a better outcome. The very judges he is starting to name are going to take generations to undo; this is much more than a mid-term election scenario. I said then and I say now, people have to get out and vote in the primaries and then suck it up in the general election. I was profoundly disappointed when McCain got the nod, but I sucked it up and did my best to help him get elected because I knew how bad Obama was and how dangerous he is with a majority congress and senate. We are 55 days in and sinking faster than the Titanic under Obama... even worse and faster than I thought we’d see.
George Allen lost because he didn’t have the nerve to get out front of his Maccaca statement.... the GOP ... all of them ... need to grow spines (but hopefully more articulate than Grassley)... he may have been re-elected senator if he had, but president? Never... doesn’t have the “it” factor any more than Hunter or Tancredo have it.
Allen was frequently mentioned as a Presidential candidate as far back as 2000 for 2004 if “Gore wins the recount”, that’s why the rats tried so hard against him in 2006 to “bloody him up” and they ended up winning due to macca and the Bush/Hastert midterm disaster.
I know he was mentioned, but I honestly don’t believe he would have made it through the primaries, and frankly, if he didn’t have enough gumption to get past Macaca with Webb they would have eaten him alive in a general election. However, that is all old news and water under the bridge, it is what it is and we are stuck with the puppet now... people need to grow up before 2012 is all I’m saying and go with the strongest candidate who is electable.
Like I said I voted for McCain.
“You cannot destroy our democratic republic in order to hope for a better outcome. “
With a RINO President, and a rat congress and state governmental majorities for another 20 years it would be destroyed anyway.
Under McCain with this economy and his watered down liberalism a further erosion of party strength would have likely occurred in 2010.
History will tell whether Obama succeeds enough in doing damage for that to have the preferred long-term result.
He’s on course to damage his party and lead to a GOP resurgence.
The another party messing up or suffering an economic downturn during their reign is the best way to regain power historically in democracies the world over. Bush and the congressional RINOs messing up is what got us Obama and Pelosi. Possibly now they will lead to the shoe being on the other foot.
Short term, heck I might starve under Obama (hence I voted my interest, for the Republican nominee) but the long view is what I’m talking about here.
If Obama say passes socialist healthcare,and it becomes like social security, impossible to get rid of, that would be a point against what would be better in the long term (provided mccain would veto such a thing).
We don’t know yet.
“I honestly don’t believe he would have made it through the primaries, and frankly, if he didn’t have enough gumption to get past Macaca with Webb they would have eaten him alive in a general election.”
Possibly you are right. But that wasn’t the main point of my post.
If Kerry had won (and Bush was RINO and did nothing good in his second term other than the court, and Rehnquist could have resigned right after Bush lost and O’Conner would have done the same or stayed) 2006 would have been a good year instead of an awful one and with his hapless idiocy and the financial crisis Kerry probably would’ve lost in 2008 and if we didn’t have the depressed Republican party we had in 2008 someone better than McCain might have won the nomination (Allen being an example of a possibly).
That is an example of a rat victory possibly being better in the long run.
Someone better...like Allen or Sanford.
rab... everyone needs to think strength... these men need to show strength and backbone and we have to demand it... Allen showed no backbone and I’m still on the fence about Sanford.
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