"McCain has done more to hurt the Republican Party than any elected official I know of."
Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R)
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
I’ve given up routing for sports teams. traded it for praying for Thompson...
> Ironically, Romney is *less* conservative than McCain.
It is impossible to be less conservative than McCain.
McCain is not a conservative at all and stabs conservatives in the back every single change he gets.
That’s why the MSM calls him “Maverick”, which is their cute euphemism for “TRAITOR!”
McCain is treacherous, badly tempered, OLD, and sides with the Democrats on more issues than with the Republicans.
While Duncan Hunter was my first choice, for whom I voted here in New Hampshire, Romney is orders of magnitude better than McCain.
I saw first hand what Romney was up against in the communist workers’ paradise of Massachusetts.
In a state run like a Mafia whorehouse by the vast Democrat machine, it was amazing he made any progress at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzZC92IXHyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Xc-X8LckQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURfrORhWPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6QNQSTWfiM&feature=related
A McCain win will signal an end to the Rush Limbaugh conservative era of media. Those brilliant conservative thinkers we loved to listen to seem to be having less and less influence on us. This original Reagan Democrat was enlighten by Rush Limbaugh is deeply sadden.
Lets hope that Rasmussen poll is correct and Romney destroys McCrazy in Florida. And Guiliani while he’s at it. A McCain presidency wouldn’t be that much different from a Hillary presidency. (He just wouldn’t be having sex with Huma Abedin, lesbian saudi agent.)
I would like to hear McCain talk more about the type of judges he would appoint!
Has anyone else noticed that the last couple of debates have VIRTUALLY IGNORED three big issues--THE SECOND AMENDMENT, ABORTION, AND THE GAY AGENDA (to the advantage of Rudy, mostly)????
I don’t want McVain under any circumstance!!!! He is not one of us! But I will vote against any dim out there, that being said........
His stance on abortion is anything BUT conservative. He also blatantly lies about it saying he changed his position while studying stem cell research ... but it is documented he was still talking up the pro-choice agenda during that time!
He won’t face up to his views on gay marriage and rights!
He’ll promise ridiculous amounts of spending to a state just to get their vote in the primary! Just wait until the general election, how much more money is he going to give away?
Romney is a pathological liar, and he will say *anything* to get elected (and has no shame of it). Remember, this is the guy who said he saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. and was called on it.
I quote:
“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King” (Speech)
“My dad marched with Martin Luther King” (Meet the Press)
“My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. “
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5eKfC6TYjk
““I speak in the sense that I saw my dad become president of American Motors. I wasn’t actually there when he became president of American Motors, but I saw him in the figurative sense. He marched with Martin Luther King. My brother remembers him also marching with Martin Luther King and so I in that sense I saw him march with Martin Luther King. I don’t know exactly where they were standing at the time,” he said.”
““If you look at the literature or the dictionary the term ’saw’ includes being aware of in the sense I have described. It is a figure of speech and very familiar and very common and I saw my dad march with Martin Luther King. I did not see it with my own eyes, but I saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation in that great effort.”
Basically he says it depends on your definition of the word “saw”. Does that sound familiar to another president, anybody?
According to the exit poll, Huck got 32% of GOP votes and McCain got 31%. Fred got 17% and Mitt 15%.
GOP voters were 79% of total.
This guy nails the real McCain except for the fact that on top of all this, he’s a crook. Crooks usually are most comfortable associating with birds of a feather, so look for the people he appoints to positions to be crooks too, a la the Clintons.
He may be. No one knows for certain until it's too late to do anything about it.
At least Romney is NOT a Soros' sockpuppet doing his bidding like McCain has been for years.
From the article:
“McCain would appoint liberal judges.”
Uh huh.
McCain’s favorite justice (by a wide margin) is Scalia.
I am not a fan of McCain, nevertheless, this article is a substance-less hit-piece; little more than a string of Anti-McCain talking points.
But there was one subject that was off-limits, a subject the Arizona senator almost never brings up and has never been open about -- his long-time opposition to releasing documents and information about American prisoners of war in Vietnam and the missing in action who have still not been accounted for. Since McCain himself, a downed Navy pilot, was a prisoner in Hanoi for 5 1/2 years, his staunch resistance to laying open the POW/MIA records has baffled colleagues and others who have followed his career. Critics say his anti-disclosure campaign, in close cooperation with the Pentagon and the intelligence community, has been successful. Literally thousands of documents that would otherwise have been declassified long ago have been legislated into secrecy.
It’s my belief that he screwed the POWs and MIAs that were not returned, perhaps for his personal gain, which would make it even worse. Without any proof, it is just what I suspect.
I heard him quote Chairman Mao the other day.
Seriously.
God willing, this will not be our McPresident.
"McCain has done more to hurt the Republican Party than any elected official I know of."
Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R)
I believe from this point forward the conervatives will come out and squash any hopes he may have. He seems to be relying on the independent vote. His record stands for it self, he is a democrate in a red suit! Mitt or Guliani!
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