Posted on 02/10/2008 2:42:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I posted a squib on the National Review Web site about a robo call I received from John McCain. (Virginia's primary is Tuesday.) The call stressed that he would, if elected, be a down-the-line limited government conservative who would never raise taxes, would defend life, would enforce immigration laws and would win the war on terror. The candidate is trying, I said, to meet conservatives "more than halfway." The response of readers was, shall we say, emphatic.
One lady wrote that she would never vote for him as "He is the most disloyal, ill-tempered man and he brings out the worse in all of us. ..." Several readers made the point that after decades of suffering abuse at McCain's hands, conservatives are not going to fall into line for him now, no matter what blandishments he offers.
I know how they feel. The problem with McCain is not just that he strays. George Bush has strayed from conservatism, too. So has Fred Thompson. Certainly Mitt Romney has as well. But Sen. McCain has a knack for saying things in just the tones and accents that liberals prefer. In 2000, he condemned the late Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as "agents of intolerance." In 2004, when Sen. John Kerry was getting his comeuppance from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, vets who had known him during the war and couldn't remain silent as the Democratic nominee distorted his war record, McCain weighed in by calling the Swift Boaters "dishonorable and dishonest." When the Bush Administration was being vilified as a nest of Torquemadas for using waterboarding on three occasions, McCain came forward to condemn waterboarding as torture.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldnet.com ...
“I don’t care if John McKennedy loses this election any more than I cared that Bob Dole lost. “
Gosh, it was a huge blow for us when Dole lost. We had a chance for serious conservative governance and instead we got the Clinton scandals and the beginning of the end of a conservative congress (after newt left).
I believe the decline of an effective conservative movement lies directly at the feet of today's Christians, the bode where "conservativism" has its traditional & social moorings. With the modernizing -apostasizing - of modern assembly worship (Rick Warren, entertainment/mega-church movement, etc) and de-emphasizing spiritual growth (verse-by-verse teaching), we are cast adrift without any impact upon our present generation. As goes the "faithful remnant", so goes the nation.
Who?
That analogy doesn’t work: You’re going to end up being forced to “drink” a president whether you like it or not. I’d rather have the least horrible.
thanks for electing a democrap!
treasonous.
What we really need is a powerful lightning strike on stage at the next Republican debate.
I find it difficult to equate “losing” with John McCain not being elected President.
lol
Horrible choice of words...
The Republicans were stupid in 1996 and beyond. They could have boosted their majorities in the House and Senate if they'd focused their campaigns on the positive: "Bill Clinton thinks the welfare reform bill he signed was great. We do to--we wrote it. He thinks xxx was great. We wrote that too. Etc." A strengthening majority in Congress would have been better able to keep Bill Clinton under control.
As for impeachment, I found myself longing for some Republican to say "Hey look: do you think we'd rather go into 2000 without a Democrat incumbent, or with a Democrat incumbent who will be eligible for election twice more? We don't want Al Gore to be President. Nonetheless, if Bill Clinton committed impeachable crimes, then we are obligated under the Constitution to give Al Gore the Presidency whether we want to or not." Had the Republicans done that, they could have improved their image. Instead, they made themselves look bad with the impeachment debacle.
“The issue for me is Amnesty.”
Exactly! Even if McCain completely shuts the border w/ Mexico the illegals here will stay and continue to populate. If those hear are granted citizenship we will have roughly 110 million “former” illegals and children of illegals in two generations. The will be the largest single voting block in the US...and they’ll all be US voters as the result of criminal activity.
Jesus Christ Is LORD. That is what I believe.
Now, what about you?
Do you believe that Jesus Christ is LORD, Savior and Messiah?
Yes, or no?
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Since Nov 19, 2007
nice try lib troll - you can’t bring the shouting and multiple explanation marks that are the signature of D.U. and try to sneak in like a suicide bomber.
Just another supposed vet who’s in love with Psycho McCain, the most dangerous man ever to run for President...I think most conservatives are smart enough to disregard “robo calls”. I hang up on them. They’re as insulting coming from Psycho McCain as they are coming from Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein.
Good luck with your vet, vet. It’s third party time for a lot of us.
And they will all be Democrats unless, of course, they start an Aztlan Party.
Where in the HELL did you get the idea that I was backing Juan McAztlan, and secondly, are you calling me a fake veteran/PX commando? Who the f*!k do you think you are?! Look at my profile, or if you're too lazy for that, I'll put it right here for you: "Was an Intelligence Analyst for Army Intelligence. Served in Korea in 1978-79 at Special Troops, I Corps (ROK/US) Group G-2 and 1981-82 at Headquarters Company, 102nd Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion (Bn.)(CEWI), 2nd Infantry Division. Also stationed at Ft Hood (191st Combat Intelligence Company, 312th MI Bn. (CEWI), 1st Cavalry Division) and Ft Polk (Headquarters Company, 105th MI Bn. (CEWI), 5th Mechanized Infantry Division)." Are you a veteran?
What they must say in public and what they will do under fire are two very different things - There are many areas where I disagree with his positions, but I would put my trust in McCain to sacrifice his words, career or his life to save possibly hundreds of thousands of Americans -
I would NOT trust any democrat to do the same.
His rating was 65% in 2006.
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