Posted on 05/12/2008 6:43:43 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Courtesy reply:
I have noticed that when I post some comments concerning anything to do with my opinions about racism from the left I do get quite a number of flames shot my way from posters who's sign on dates are fairly new.
However, be aware that many trolls with old sign up dates from wars past have been lying in the weeds waiting for their opportunity and I see them coming out to fight for this dangerous man.
No, American politics can only work properly when the citizen votes his conscience. That is our duty.
Since you are only a member since 2007 I find it ironic that you feel free to speak for other patriotic freepers.
I will stand with Grunthor any day.
To now have all of these people on FR, expressing their concerns about his ascendancy is a sure sign that they must be some sort of troll. In fact, anyone who doesn't defend McCain and praise all of his programs, must be an Obama plant!
In fact, you probably couldn't find a single thread on FR in prior years that did anything but praise him!
Oh.... err.... wait a minute.
McCain Still Trying To Gag Gun Owners From Criticizing His Anti-gun Record
McCain blames fellow politicians (and guns) for fostering bigotry
Friendly Fire - If McCain’s going to claim he’s a conservative on guns, then he’s got some...
Friendly Fire (“pro-gun”conservative McCain ..explain ??)
McCain names [anti-gunner] Mike DeWine as Ohio campaign chair
Father of slain teen urges McCain to speak against gun violence
Giuliani up 25 points over McCain: poll (GOP "Unaware" of Rudy's Stance on Guns, Gays, Abortion)
McCain Backs Gun Rights After (VA Tech) Shootings
McCain Backs Gun Rights After Shootings.
McCain heckled over gun rights stance
John McCain: "I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight."
Owner of Florida Gun Shows Endorse McCain
(Vanity)Romney Surge In Georgia, Missouri Romney Up In California, Huckabee Rides Shotgun For McCain
McCain tried to Eliminate Gun Shows
John McCain Is A Liberal Gun Grabber
GUNS AND SCHOOLS: THE POLITICS (McCain tries to grab guns, 1999)
(October 5, 2000) McCain changes tack on gun background check
McCain’s sharp tongue: An Achilles heel? [As predicted,Drive By attacks have begun]
Gun Games (McCain Archives- May 2002)
McCain weighs in on gun case at Supreme Court
McCain Weighs in on Gun Ban Case
McCain has ‘work to do’ with gun owners: NRA ("He's not there yet," NRA says)
Dear (anti-gun) Senator Mccain
McCain targets gun-show loophole
McCain Is a No Show on Guns:The Arizona senator's questionable commitment to Second Amendment rights
Pro Gun Groups Denounce John McCain
McCain Planning Gun Control Bill
"McCain Planning Gun Control Bill"
Sen. McCain Wants More Gun Control
The McCain-Lieberman Gun-Grabbing Machine
MORE GUN CONTROL: McCAIN-LIEBERMAN
Preview of Coming Attractions: McCain on Guns
McCain Shills for 'Gun Safety'
McCain, Lieberman Promote Gun Control Bill
John McCain: Traitor to Gun Rights
Anti-gun Senator John McCain on Chris Mathews now advocating STUN GUNS on planes.
McCain: Terrorists bypass laws by using gun shows ( McPain wants to take away your guns )
McCain, Lieberman seek gun debate
Gun Shows and Gun Control: McCain Is at It Again!
John McCain Subscribes to Global Warming Hoax
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy
Fight Global Warming For $20 a Year . . .
Promising Vote on Global Warming
McCain heads overseas to observe global warming effects
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming
Election Watch: Paul Bashes McCain for Global Warming Alliance with Gore
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed)
World 'at tipping point over global warming' (McCain)
McCain slams Bush on global warming, Iraq policy
Global warming is the real deal, not 'Hollywood' myth, sez McCain
Global warming bill advances in Senate
The One Environmental Issue (Huck and McCain side with dems on Gorebull Warming)
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
LAT Endorses McCain: Weak on Fences, Strong on Global Warming
McCain-Lieberman: Higher Gas Prices, Anywhere From 26 Cents To 50 Cents To 68 Cents Per Gallon:
John McCain For President? (someone who favors higher taxes, illegals and global warming)
Hmmmm, I notice this poll has been scrubbed from the FR server. Nevertheless, it was a real FR poll taken about nine months ago. I guess over 92% of FR were DU trolls then.
Yes... McCain has *always* really been loved here at FR, LOVED I tell ya!
Those polls were RIGGED by deeply imbedded PLANTS for Obama!
It’s obvious—Saul Alinsky planned it all!
There was another poll that asked if he were the nominee how would you vote and it had a very different result. Do you have that one?
And so is McCain. He is a traitorous bastard, and no comfort comes in voting for him over anyone.
With McCain's experience, the ties he has made and an R on his chest he will be far more effective at implementing his agenda than Obama OR Hillary would. And it's entirely a destructive agenda. Almost identical to Obama's and Hillary's. That's how.
McCain-Feingold is a big mark against him plus he only has a C+ rating with the National Rifle Association. The Global Warming is just total BS. On the positive side after McCain’s lack of support for the Bush Tax cuts he did vote for it and has pledged to make them permanent.
Citizens Against Government Waste 2008 Congressional Pig Book Member List
Clinton 296.2 million dollars in pork
Obama 97.4 million dollars in pork
McCain 0.0 NONE
McCain’s lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union is 83. He has been ranked favorably by other conservative organizations: National Federation of Independent Business 100 percent; Concerned Women for America 100 percent; Family Research Council 100 percent; National Tax Limitation Committee 94 percent; Citizens Against Government Waste 91 percent and the National Taxpayers Union 88 percent.
Barack Hussein Obama, says of his nominees, “We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old and that’s the criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges.”
John McCain says of his nominees, “The duties and boundaries of the Constitution are not just a set of helpful suggestions. They are not just guidelines to be observed when it’s convenient and loosely interpreted when it isn’t. In federal and state courts there are still men and women who understand the proper role of our judiciary and I intend to find them and promote them. My nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power.”
I don’t know where any of the polls are now. Were they removed with the format changes? The poll you’re talking about was very recent since McCain became the only Pubbie left. It doesn’t change the fact that he polled 92% NO WAY before or that there have been virtually dozens of threads since FR’s inception exposing McCain’s liberal agenda and perfidy towards the GOP.
Great answer! /s
After you. You're the one that started blathering about plants.
Please tell me how an Obama Presidency would be better for this country than a McCain.
The race is already lost. The country will move left, no matter who gets elected. The question now is who will able to move it to the left faster. I contend that candidate is John McCain. See here and here if you actually care about any opinions other than your own. IMO, the best we can hope for is pure GRIDLOCK.
McCain’s current ACU rating is about 60.
Thanks. Sadly I feel the facts will mean nothing to the Alinskys on this thread. Thanks again.
I’d rather have a patriot like McCain in office than either of the two anti-military, coward liberals
That's a lie.
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