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President McCain
Renew America ^ | 01/21/2008 | Adam Graham

Posted on 01/21/2008 6:16:08 AM PST by Keyes2000mt

Republican voters are trending towards John McCain in recent primaries. What would John McCain do as President? Many of his supporters are ignorant of his record, or overlooking it. This column will project what a John McCain presidency would look like. If you still vote for him after reading this, the pain that comes on this country will be on your own head:

Social Issues: John McCain will appoint liberal judges to the federal bench. He will make the defense of his unconstitutional campaign finance law a priority. Those judges who will rule for that unconstitutional abomination are very unlikely to see the error of Roe v. Wade as that requires a strict constructionist judicial philosophy, which those who support McCain-Feingold would not have.

John McCain would fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research. The McCain Administration, by doing so, would not relieve suffering, as recent advances have been able to develop embyronic stem cells without destroying human life, but would rather lead to ennobling abortion as a way for women to take an unwanted pregnancy, get an abortion, and use the stem cells to help those suffering from various diseases. McCain would turn abortion into a noble choice.

Economic Issues: John McCain can be expected to increase the payroll tax as part of a social security fix. He will do nothing to reform our out-of-control federal tax system.

He will rightly strain the gnat of pork barrel spending, only to swallow the camel of overly excessive environmental regulation. Even now, Americans are suffering with higher gas prices, and consequently higher prices on everything, in part because of John McCain's refusal to support drilling in ANWR.

This would deepen as McCain would implement environmental proposals similar to Kyoto with the support of a Democratic Congress. This would further increase the price of energy and fuel for all Americans, and raise prices on everything else.

Sovereignty: John McCain has no respect for America's sovereignty. This shows most prominently in his support for illegal immigrant amnesty, but will show in other areas as well, such as his backing of the Law of the Sea Treaty and the International Criminal Court.

American sovereignty will retract under John McCain Administration in the name of expanding the powers of International organizations that have already failed us.

Havoc on the Republican Party: John McCain will take a wrecking ball to the Republican Party.

Republicans will lose seats under McCain as Republicans loss seats under Eisenhower (the president most similar to McCain), beginning with McCain's own Senate seat, which will be filled by the Democratic Governor of that state. With McCain's policies appealing more to liberal and moderate voters than conservatives, many McCain voters will continually elect Democrats to Congress. If McCain were to serve two terms, by the time he ended his tenure, Republicans would certainly have less than forty senate seats and less than 175 House Seats.

In addition to this, his amnesty for illegal aliens will lead to a host of new Democratic voters, as immigrants tend to be with the party of bigger government that provides more services until they move up to the middle class. If John McCain is President, the 109th Congress may be the last time in our lifetimes we ever see a Republican Majority in Congress.

These are a few of the likely consequences if John McCain is elected President. If Republicans love liberty, they will band together to stop this man. If they do not, John McCain is someone they richly deserve


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: immigration; johnmccain
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1 posted on 01/21/2008 6:16:09 AM PST by Keyes2000mt
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To: Keyes2000mt

FLASH: RASMUSSEN Florida poll to be released: Romney 25, McCain 20, Giuliani 19... Developing...

The medias darling is fading fast.


2 posted on 01/21/2008 6:17:56 AM PST by Ron in Acreage (Thinking of new tagline)
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To: Keyes2000mt

Choosing to vote for either McCain or Hillary would be like choosing between hanging or the firing squad.


3 posted on 01/21/2008 6:20:10 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: Keyes2000mt

Sounds like an Obama or Clinton Presidency too...


4 posted on 01/21/2008 6:20:31 AM PST by tips up
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To: Ron in Acreage

From your/Rasmussen’s Mouth to God’s ears. While I’m not enthused with Romney, he’d be a heck of a lot better than McCain and someone I could vote for. One poll is nice, it’ll be interesting to see if other polls confirm this.


5 posted on 01/21/2008 6:20:51 AM PST by Keyes2000mt (Conservative Podcast: The Truth and Hope (http://www.truthandhope.2truth.com))
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I don’t get it. This guy was toast before the primaries started and he’s such a Rino. There is something up here and I for one can not figure it out...

Okay the polls can be rigged to give the impression republicans want this guy, the MSM can keep propping this guy up, but how are the votes coming in ? Who the hell is voting for him ? None of the republicans I know support him.

6 posted on 01/21/2008 6:22:05 AM PST by Beatthedrum
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To: Keyes2000mt

Glenn Beck just gave a defacto support endorsement of Mitt Romney, noting that Romney is the ONLY one who is at 25% in Florida.

“Why was Nevada so important to the Democrats, but the MSM wanted to ignore Romney’s dominance in that state,” Beck asked just minutes ago. (paraphrased, actually)


7 posted on 01/21/2008 6:22:05 AM PST by Edit35
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To: Keyes2000mt

John McCain, a multi-decade veteran of Senatorial pseudo-debates and compromises, almost completely bereft of a spine except some war issues, has a far too excessively Senatorial personality to make a good President. He’s too busy compromising his partisan position and getting the Democrats to like him. He’s not a leader; he’s a wimp.


8 posted on 01/21/2008 6:22:22 AM PST by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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To: NCLaw441

Take a look....


9 posted on 01/21/2008 6:23:00 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: Keyes2000mt

“Many of his supporters are ignorant of his record”

Maybe so, but I think the majority of his supporters are simply Democrats.


10 posted on 01/21/2008 6:23:30 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Keyes2000mt

MCCain will never be President. Actually in South Carolina, 2/3rds of the voters voted for someone other than McCain.

Many were probably Dems and Independents. The McCain train is going to derail very soon.


11 posted on 01/21/2008 6:23:42 AM PST by dforest (Since principles no longer matter in the GOP, I am voting for the best looking!)
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To: Keyes2000mt
Republican voters are trending towards John McCain in recent primaries.

What a laugh. McCain didn't even get the most republican votes in New Hampshire. I don't know about South Carolina yet.

12 posted on 01/21/2008 6:24:26 AM PST by McGruff (A "Big Time" Fred Thompson supporter!)
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To: Beatthedrum
Whose voting for him? The exit polls say Independents and Democrats. He split Republicans in SC with Huckabee, and won by 2 points among them in New Hampshire. I'm hoping that if we get into states dominated by Republicans his numbers will drop.

McCain has picked up a lot of votes, I think from Rudy Giuliani. If you take a look at the post-New Hampshire poll in South Carolina, McCain went up by the same margin Rudy went down. I Think those who want a liberal Repblican to lead us have switched to McCain from Rudy.

13 posted on 01/21/2008 6:24:53 AM PST by Keyes2000mt (Conservative Podcast: The Truth and Hope (http://www.truthandhope.2truth.com))
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I don't care if McInsane does become the GOP 2008 candidate.This is what I think of him.


14 posted on 01/21/2008 6:25:41 AM PST by OB1kNOb (Live long, Duncan Hunter, and return soon to win the war against the scourge of freedom, liberalism.)
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To: Ron in Acreage

Most other pre-SC polls had McCain up a little in Florida. I would think that his recent win would give him a boost there. Still, any of McCain, Mitt, Rudy, or Huck could take Florida.


15 posted on 01/21/2008 6:26:18 AM PST by LiveFree99
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To: dufekin

“almost completely bereft of a spine except some war issues”

The operative word is “some.” He had no hesitation in accusing Bush of torturing al Qaeda. His record is better judged by what he did not support than by what he did support. He’s been very silent while the Dems were savaging the Bush war on terror, shutting down the program of eaves-dropping on al Qaeda operations overseas, for example.


16 posted on 01/21/2008 6:27:07 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Beatthedrum

McCain won less than one-third of the vote in South Carolina, barely more than Huckabee. Nobody’s winning this thing except perhaps Romney in the heavily Mormon states of the American West. The purported victory of McCain is merely an illusion reflecting a deeply fractured polity; he won a narrow plurality, not even nearly a majority.


17 posted on 01/21/2008 6:27:42 AM PST by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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To: Keyes2000mt

Under McInsane and the ‘rat congress, we’ll see the biggest illegal alien amnesty in history in the first year.


18 posted on 01/21/2008 6:36:06 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Keyes2000mt

For Honest John to even be considered as a running mate VP for John Kerry speaks volumes for his RINO record.

I think the Commie prison camp indoctrination has finally been released by the swinging pendulum of the MSM codewords.

Liberal. Progressive. mcCain


19 posted on 01/21/2008 6:37:44 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: dufekin

For all the time that Ghouliani has spent in FL, he’s looking poorly. Voters no longer take him seriously. And his law firm, it turns out, is not only involved with selling our sovereignty out in the TTC, but they’re also up to their keisters in the electronic fence fiasco thru Boeing along the Border.

Huckabee has blown it with his “changing the Constitution to be more in line with God’s law”. He’s belongs making stupid jokes in a church, not in a campaign, not to disrespect any church!


20 posted on 01/21/2008 6:39:58 AM PST by levotb
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