For President: None of the Above!

www.humanevents.com ^ | 05/07/2008 | Joseph Farah

[tueffelhunden]

It's probably no secret to anyone who reads my column regularly that I will not be voting for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president.

But I also will not be voting for John McCain.

I could tell you all the reasons and have expressed them already in a number of columns in recent months. But this time, I'll let someone with whom I seldom agree express them for me.

His name is Jonathan Chait, a senior editor at The New Republic. Here's what he wrote in that magazine:

"Even though it is in the public record, McCain's voting behavior during Bush's first term is almost never mentioned in the press anymore. Yet McCain's secret history is simply astonishing. It is no exaggeration to say that, during this crucial period, McCain was the most effective advocate of the Democratic agenda in Washington.

[SoConPubbie]

Reagan would never try to convince people not to vote, or to let the other party win to teach the GOP a lesson.

Reagan never had to face a presumptive nominee with a history like this:

1. Gang of Fourteen (Kept some of President Bush’s best judges from being presented for a vote) See here and here
2. McCain-Fiengold (Assault on Free Speech and Pro-Life
3. McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty for criminal Illegal Aliens)
4. McCain-Lieberman (50 cents a gallon tax)
5. Total support for global warming scam, including the Carbon Cap-and-Trade system. See Here
6. Support for embryonic stem cell research (Murder of unborn babies).
7. Wants to moderate or soften the Pro-Life plank of the GOP Platform. See Here and Here and Here. 8. Wants to close Gitmo and give Terrorists access to our legal system.
9. F grade from Gun-Owners of America.
10. C grade from NRA.
11. 65% score from American Conservative Union in 2006
12. Wants to bail out sub-prime losers (many of which are either illegal aliens or lied on thier applications) with US tax money.
13. Voted against President Bush’s tax cuts (called them tax-cuts for the rich)
14. Flirted with the idea of crossing over to the Dems in 2004.
15. Wants to implement a socialist Health Care proposal that includes providing tax-coffer monies (your tax dollars) to the states to provide Health Care Insurance for those who either refuse to pay for it, or are unable to afford it (mostly illegal aliens).
16. Divorced his wife after he got back from Vietnam. The same woman who remained true to him and raised his kids while he was imprisoned.
17. Refuses to drill in ANWR. See here and here
18. Agrees with Democrats that our Foreign Policy has been arrogant and we need to be more humble.
19. Thinks and states that Pharmaceutical companies are evil
20. Has accepted funding from Soros and Teresa Heinz-Kerry for his institute
21. John McCain's Top 10 Class-Warfare Arguments Against Tax Cuts
22. "I think the Democrat Party is a fine and I have no problems with it, in their views and philosophy"
23. Strongly against Same Sex Marriage Ban Constitutional Amendment
24. Voted for Pro-Abortion Bill and Here.
25. Voted against bill that would impose sanctions against foreign governments and companies that invest more than $20 million in Iran's energy sector until the president certified to Congress that Iran had dismantled its weapons of mass destruction Here and Here
26. Voted against repealing the death tax.
27. McCain-Edwards-Kennedy    (Many Democrat inspired bad rules included in this monstrosity)

[SoConPubbie]

I have some more "silly" questions for someone who butts into a fight that is not theirs.

You are wrong about that.

The soul of the GOP is every conservatives fight.

You are acting out of fear of the Democrats, we are acting out of fear of John McCain destroying the conservative nature of our party, the party itself, and by extension, our country.

You are short-sighted in your efforts, we are taking the long view.

[TigersEye]

I think she can fight her own battles.

Without a doubt. It can't be that hard when the response is an emotional rant without substantive content.

[TigersEye]

PA Engineer obviously doesn't know me, nor my posts.

Apparently not even though you have been posting on this for some time. It would seem this old time poster also missed my links post that I posted a thousand times or more beginning in Nov. 2006. Having neglected her chance to be a responsible voter/citizen when the opportunity was there the only thing left seems to be a slash and burn campaign against those who did. I guess misery does love company.

[TigersEye]

My best friend is a Marine LRRP with pre-Vietnam SEA experience. He has no use for McCain. Nor does our Nam tank corps vet friend. This board is loaded with vets of all eras who don’t.

[PA Engineer]

You have got a lot of nerve. Did you ever provide the link you promised on numerous other threads that "McCain Leaked top-secret information concerning CIA prisons in Europe". Can you provide that link since you fled every other thread you were nailed on?

By the way your posting history is very well known to other Freepers here and not just your amen choir.

[PA Engineer]

Apparently not even though you have been posting on this for some time.

Exactly.

[PA Engineer]

If you had truly checked out my posting history you would have found that I was first focused on stopping Rudy, then the Huckster, and now the last RINO, Liberal crud of a candidate McAmnesty.

Interspersed among that was posting on Religion threads.

You admit to having a history of disenfranchising the Republican vote on FR. This one is a keeper.

[dforest]

This article pretty well sums it up. I will be joining Farah this time.

It will be those that accept McCain as a candidate who will be electing Obama.

[PA Engineer]

You are short-sighted in your efforts, we are taking the long view.

In your case that is the destruction of the Republican party in the ushering in of Obama. There is no other outcome. I wish you and your gang would answer that one question. The only result of your self righteous behavior is a victory for Obama and the loss of the SC for a generation. The Democrats will control all facets of the government because of you and the rest. Non of you can deny this. Non of you have denied this. You can't and neither can they.

[dforest]

I find it absolutely breathtaking that McCain cheerleaders call conservatives trolls on FR.

It wasn’t too long ago that JR wrote that scathing piece about Juan.

Anyone who would get behind McCain, lined up from the left because that is where McCain will take us, killing conservatism for many years, if not forever.

[tueffelhunden]

Yeah I like him EV :D

[tueffelhunden]

Yeah you’re right, some folks are stuck on stupid.

Continuing to vote the same way year after year expecting a different outcome is as stupid as a person can get.

[tueffelhunden]

lol priceless picture

[Dante3]

I will not vote for any of the three candidates. If GOP nominates McCain, it indicates we have a one party system. The Democrats did us a favor and nominated their weakest candidate Kerry last time. Now GOP appears to return the favor and nominate a left-wing Democrat. Those two are so similar McCain was considered - or asked to be considered - VP for Kerry.

[tueffelhunden]

Thank you for posting that link. Something that is little known about that is, he was in cahoots with J F’in when they ramrodded normalized relations with North Vietnam before a full accounting of the POW’s and MIA’s were made. At least that’s my recollection.

[BlackbirdSST]

I am convinced now that you are a DU troll.

I'm convinced that you're educated way beyond your intelligence. Blackbird.

[Ditter]

Thanks NOT! I could gone all week without seeing a picture of Traitor Perot.

[PA Engineer]

Obama is the default POTUS because of idiots like you. You have no other effective options to propose. By the way the CU rating in 2006 for McCain was 60. Pretty sad until you compare it to Obama at “8”. You don’t have to worry about being educated beyond your intelligence. You have to have some sort of intelligence to start with.

[TigersEye]

Exactly.

Thank you for admitting your ignorance. ; )