Posted on 02/11/2008 11:09:41 PM PST by zeestephen
"What a kerfuffle! Half a dozen talk-radio hosts whose major talent is that, like hairdressers, they can talk all day long to one client after another as they snip, have decided that the presumptive Republican nominee does not hew sufficiently close to their gospel.
"As anyone who has listened to them knows, the depth of their thought is truly Oprah-like."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
no, they’ll just get screwed
imposable=impossible
I shouldn’t stay up so late. ;>)
I feel your pain...I retired 5 years ago. ;>)
Then there's some sort of convoluted argument that the war is lost, the American military is in decline, it's the fault of conservatives...but...we should vote for the guy who said he'd keep the troops in Iraq "for 100 years."
Maybe we should take odds on when not only McCain, but Halprin and his ilk, will come completely unhinged.
I’m going to say this often, McCain needs us more than we need him.
John McCain’s ties to George Soros
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30556.html
McCain’s Reform Institute donor list:
http://reforminstitute.org/about/AboutDonors.aspx
and where they greatfully acknowlege Sen. McCain as past Chairman:
http://www.reforminstitute.org/about/about.aspx
OK, so they have Hannity nailed but the WSJ isn't fit to shine Rush or Levin's shoes.
Liberals and “moderates” nominated him—let them elect him.
McCain did not care about my vote in January.NOW he expects it in November with a snotty,”Heh heh,sucker,you got no where else to go!”
If he loses it’s HIS fault not ours.
Some months ago I stopped coming to FR (after many, many years of at least lurking here) because of what I viewed as the rigidness of many posters on this site. If I posted anything that seemed off the ranch even a little bit, the attacks were relentless, arbitrary, and personal. Didn’t need it. There are lots of other conservative destinations. I am grateful to FR, but in my limited time to surf I get much more from other places.
I am a GWB fan pretty much start to finish, and when he leaves the scene I believe we will all regret (more or less immediately) not having him to kick around any more. I am a bit off the conservative ranch, as is Bush of course. Not far, though. I wish conservatives, especially on this site, were a bit more accommodating to folks who don’t share their precise views.
Having said that, I could not resist returning here after reading Helprin’s piece in the WSJ. What a load of horse manure! I will hold my nose and vote for McCain this fall. But no one should fault me for doing this with zero enthusiasm; and no one should be surprised when my energies and my zeal and my checkbook are committed to causes elsewhere. As Michelle Malkin has pointed out recently, there are lots of worthy causes. This foolishness by the likes of McCain, McFarlane, Helprin, and their ilk is their biggest mistake. We may have nowhere else to vote; but they need more than our votes — and it will not be forthcoming.
All you have to say is that McCain voted for Ginsburg.
Where have we heard the Mark Helprin name before? Was he not famous for an insider memo that told the news dept. to focus on Kerry and not to mention Bush? Or was it for saying that our troops were aiming at journalists? So many quotes, so little long term memory.
I am sorry, but I am as conservative or more than most of you. But we know what kind of judges and SCOTUS we will have under the Dems, I have to vote for McCain if he is teh only real alternative! We also know what will probably happen to the war on terror under them, but remember, McCain was for the Surge years before anyone else, including most of us here on this board!
I was planning to simply not vote for McCain, but much more of this conservative bashing and I’m going to start an anti-McCain website, and start righting, writing anti-McCain letters to the editior, contributing money to third parties etc.
I normally try to refrain from ad hominem attacks (unless they're high and outside, across the letters like this one), but Mr. Helprin is an IDIOT. I've read a lot of his stuff, and never realized it before until he wrote this line. Comparing Rush Limbaugh to Oprah demeans your intellectual weight, not his.
what I write in the bloody ink of a dying industry may be irrelevant
Your comments are irrelevant because you started from a clearly wrong premise.
Rather than being broken on the wheel of irreconcilable Muslim factions, a supple and intact American power would have shattered Arab elation following Sept. 11, and then by threatening their rule been able to discipline the various police states of the region into eliminating their terrorists. Far more efficient that way, without six and more murderous and unavailing years in which neither a single democracy has appeared nor will one. The surge is merely coincident with a change in Sunni strategy. Instead of watching the U.S. and Iran arm the Shiites for a major sectarian war, the Sunni choose to avail themselves of American arms while simultaneously removing the lunatic jihadists nipping at their heels.
The Democrats' advantage in 2008 is that the costs of the war in Iraq have been highly disproportionate to its effects, not least in the decline of the American military, when it could have been otherwise.
I don't have time to clean up after the rest of his mess, except to say that he clearly thinks he's a political genius when it comes to the Middle East. I say that the Middle East is such a G-d damn mess that NO ONE has the right answer, fancy pants elitist "conservative" North East journalist or not. His comment about the decline of the American military reinforces his elitist world view, and has NO basis in reality. I challenge Mr. Helprin to name one army in the world that can defeat us.
the relentlessly crocodilian Ann Coulter.
Aw, Markie, you're just pissed that Ann has bigger stones than you do (sorry, couldn't help myself).
The more these people speak, the more they convince me I’m making the right decision....to reject mclame.
Yeah, let’s keep dwelling in the past. Let’s sit and pray for the resurrection of Reagan.
I’m voting for the republican candidate. I can’t imagine voting for Obama or Clinton. But I sense like many on this forum of late, you’re going to sit this one out. Good so sit.
“I am sorry, but I am as conservative or more than most of you.”
Okay, so you open your post with an apology, which indicates wrong doing on your part.
Then you must assert your “conservatism” as an “I am more than you”.
If you must “preach your conservatism”, it is YOU you are trying to convince, not us.
“But I sense like many on this forum of late, you’re going to sit this one out.”
Gee, your “spidey senses” must be working ot.
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