Posted on 09/25/2009 7:33:20 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
We do...he’s a longtime Freeper.
Good post. I completely agree. Was McCain for Cap and trade...yes! Was he against the tax cuts? Yes.
Was he anti-gun? Yes! If I heard gun-show loop hole out of his pie hole one more time I think I would have spewed!
Glen was spot-on on this one.
You said, “Reagan called himself a libertarian”. I’m still waiting for your proof. And the bet is open.
I didn’t contradict myself and have no idea what your talking about. In the interview, Reagan never called himself a libertarian and for good reason. Beyond that interview Reagan never discussed libertarianism again.
If you want some insight into the mind of a libertarian nutzie, read what the founder of liberatarianism, Murry Rothbard, had to say about Reagan after he left office.
Right now we need to prevent a 1 party system. The BHO party has the White House, the House and Philabuster proof senate, SCOTUS depending on Anthony Kennedy’s desire for awards and good publicity.
Mark Levin is great, he correctly proclaimed Benjamin Netanyahu the leader of the Free World. But I disagree with his take on Ron Paul and Beck. They are standing up for the Constitution which is what all elected offials in the country.
The GOP is a dead rotten corpse.
The GOP, as illustrated by your post, has been using fear tactics and coercion to keep people in line for years.
Vote GOP or the country will die under Clinton...and what did the GOP do? They nominate Dole. And lose.
Vote GOP or else algore will ruin the country! and what did the GOP do? They nominate GHW Bush who had many terrible policies and did very little to advance COnservative thought in the country...people on all sides were so tired of Bush that the ‘anyone but Bush’ philosophy permeated the voting population.
The GOP was so indescribably stupid that they nominated McCain who was more singly responsible for undermining the GOP majorities than any other person.
McCain was such a weak candidate that an nobody with nothing but a slogan to offer beat him despite the GOP’s scare tactics.
The GOP has too many Rockefeller hold overs, too many democratic non conservative converts, and too many moderately leaning liberals to be anything other than Democratic-lite.
IMO the GOP is a dead carcass that needs to be burned and buried. It cannot be rejuvenated. It cannot be revived. It is dead.
Bury the GOP and have a funeral and mourning.
Then establish something new and move on.
Uhhhh. Forgive me but seriously. Anyone that thinks this Kenyan born, Indonesian citizen is anything less than a "lifer" when it comes to occupying the office of President of the United States then said person/people are smoking way too much peyote.
JMHO
I have to disagree. I think he believes hes a one term president and is jamming all he can into it. I think hes too lazy to do it for four years.
Barring a change in the constitution or martial law, he wont make it to two terms.
Well said, and I totally agree.
I have not respected John McCain since the 1992 POW/
MIA hearings that he shut down.
As more time passes, it becomes clearer to me that John McCain threw the election last year. The 2008 election was the most important fight of his life, and in typical McCain fashion, he threw it away.
He was given Sarah Palin, and Joe the Plumber, a neophyte Presidential opponent who was plainly a Marxist and an opposing Vice Presidential who is a first class idiot.
Even a financial crisis where he could have exerted leadership he completely blew.
McCain has been riding the wave of a reputation of mythic proportions. I have no illusions that he got as far as he did because of Dad and Granddad. A person who graduates second from last from Annapolis doesn’t get a stint as a pilot on a carrier, unless someone is pulling some serious strings.
Even his lukewarm and delayed defense of Sarah Palin when she was savaged after the election showed his lack of loyalty and class.
McCain needs to retire, and stop damaging the country he “loves” so much.
Exactly. He is a Communist that has publicly said the constitution is irrelevant. He is a dictator of the first order and will have no problems declaring martial law the minute H1N1 is seriously suspected of becoming a pandemic or another Katrina/Ike type national disaster strikes.
ANYONE that does not for a second understand just how set this man is on ruling the world is high on peyote or some other mind altering drug.
One term? Yes. Either he will serve as der furer of the United States of America for the rest of his life or he will destroy the United States of America as a free and independent sovereign nation by bringing it into the "NEW WORLD ORDER" of which he will be the supreme commander for the rest of his life.
His aspirations are quite lofty.
Remember! He is Baraq O Bamah.
Many of us cringed, and here on FR were immediately met with indignation that anything about Bush’s policies would be questioned: since 9/11 he had kept our country straight and how dare anyone judge him on anything else.
This article isn’t really too far off. To be fair, saying Palin sounded like RP isn’t quite fair. Many, many nonPaulian economists have made exactly the point about the Fed’s easy credit creating and furthering the bubbles from the ‘90s.
Beck explained the comment on on O’Reilly the other day. The reason McCain would have been such a poor choice is that he would have dropped us further into the whole we found ourselves in after the Bush era. If you look at McCain’s policies, (i.e. his utmost respect for Ted Kennedy) you will discover that the man is the incarnate compromise of conservatism. I tend to agree with Beck.
OK then go out and form a new party. Waste your time and energy. Divide that anti-Democrat vote. History proves over and over that your party will only siphon off votes from the larger party. This is why Rush warned against this. He knows what he’s talking about. Also, read the Republican Party platform. It is quite conservative. We as conservative activists just need to retake our party just like we did in 1964, 1980, and 1994. As a practicing Catholic, I did not abandon my Church when the horrific pedophile priest scandal was made public. No. I did just the opposite. I joined the Knights of Columbus—(I am now a fourth degree knight), I got have active in my Church- I am now a Eucharstic Minister at my church. Instead of abandoning my Church, I decided to get active and take it back. That is how I view the Party. You abandon ship if you like, but I will follow Rush’s wise advice. Have fun forming your new party.
Hi rabscuttle385,
I find ACORN very disturbing. I called McCain’s office to demand why he had not voted on defunding them recently; the roll call reports he was absent. A person on his staff told me he was doing townhalls, and had learned that there were enough votes against that ammendment, or else he would have come back to Washington to vote against it.
Don’t worry, I plan to keep pressure on him on amnesty and other illegal immigration nonsense.
When my other senator, Kyl, opposed Obama on something about the stimulus bill, Obama threatened to take away stimulus funds from Arizona. I looked it up and it was to build low income housing and bring in first time buyers. I want to find out more, because it looked like it is ACORN associated, or at the least HUD related, which just burns me.
His office is near my home in Oro Vallley, so I will drop by soon and see what the details are.
I am planning to go down to the Tucson ACORN office and confront them on what they are spending our tax money on, and why they believe they deserve it. I have to make use of my lividness and get some answers and denounce them in person.
This may be kind of dangerous, so I might just wait until I get a long range pepper spray or take an open carry gun accreditation class.
And, if my beloved 1992 clunker gets out of the auto shop in time, I will go downtown and protest against the brown berets, La Raza from California, who will be demonstrating against border reinforcement and “racial profiling”. I am not quite sure when they will appear, and as far as I know, there is not an organized push back, but, if I get my wheels back, I’ll be there to tell them to get lost.
Rabscuttle385,I have good news for you. The local radio station did a poll asking if McCain is part of the problem, and 95% agreed. So it looks like you might get your wish, that he won’t be re-elected, as your wish when you worked against him(I’m assuming) that he not get the presidency.
Feel free to ping me the threads and comments on this site, when you have written your senators and representatives, the gist of your phone calls,letters, protest signs and meetings, about the same issues and policies that bug you about McCain. Your ferver is amazing. I am sure you are very effective on the march against all your local politician whose beliefs and voting records you do not find agreement.
Politics is messy business. I just try to make the best choice amongst imperfect public servants.
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