Posted on 02/29/2008 9:06:53 AM PST by FooBarBaz
So any time someone trips up their words, you believe they are revealing what is in their hearts? There is a difference between stating something and then later trying to make excuses for it, and flipping some words around, correcting yourself, and rephrasing it as you intended.
I am accustomed to the imperfections of man, even when they are politicians.
Well, that’s it. He made one slip of the tongue during one of the hundreds of speeches he makes every month. Clearly he’s not fit to be president. I’ll be sure and send my check to Obama right away.
Sorry, like all know-nothing McCain-haters (just like the stereotypical haters of all liberals), I was out late lynching folks with suspiciously-Hispanic-sounding names, practicing my goose-step, dry-cleaning my white hood, painting swastikas on synagogues, running over homeless people with my carbon-spewing SUV, handing out NRA memberships and guns to small children playing in parks, keeping black people down, and nuking the whales.
I'll try to multitask.
McCain was getting ahead of himself.
He was so chomping at the bit to drop the “liberal” bomb on Democrats that he exploded it on himself.
Laugh at it all you want, but too much attention to this sort of thing will only raise questions about his age and mental clarity.
And then Obama will walk into yet another election unopposed.
First learn to spell "tongue," and people will take you more seriously.
Second, there is a huge difference between a slip of the tongue and a slip of the mind. - As just happened here.
Few people to the right of Castro are going to state that John is not a liberal republican.
“what’s a liberal conservative anyway?”
A liberal who’s pretending to be a conservative.
LOL! Tell it to his peeps working for John's hispanic outreach committee.
Nonsense.
Shouldn’t you be off race-baiting somewhere?
Heh. Then you are going to be just fine with Juan, because he has more imperfections than most liberal trash on either side of the aisle.
I won’t vote for McCain, ever.
To me, his belief in the government censorsing groups that criticize government 60 days before an election smacks of Russia...it doesn’t belong in a politician who swears an oath to the Constitution.
There are some things that to me completely rule out my ever voting for someone, and being that wrong about our country’s 1st Amendment is one of them.
Ed
What a brilliant response!!
We are in awe of your studied acumen! Really!!
Thanks.
Some of us will not vote in the Presidential election; only will concentrate on Congress and local.
Oh please. I remember when President Bush said, “We will fail,” in the war against terror. That doesn’t mean that he meant that and don’t give Senator McCain a hard time for making a slip of the tongue. Haven’t we all said stupid things before that we didn’t intend to?
What exactly do you think RINO McAmnesty is going to do by abolishing waterboarding or bringing enemy combatants in to our courts with LAWYERS?
These are all things he's espoused. Does THAT sound like a way to win a war?
“Respectfully, I submit that (otherwise good) conservatives, who would lose a war.....might be [drinking] kool-aid”
To me, I see just as much danger, if not more, in electing a man who wants to shut down our freedom of speech as we have traditionally enjoyed it, i.e., criticizing politicians 60 days before an election.
To have such a belief, that it is okay for the government to censor groups like the NRA or Right to Life from criticizing politicians during an election, makes him as much an enemy to America as Hitlery or Obama would ever be, and I cannot, and will not EVER vote for such a man.
I wouldn’t vote for a candidate who wants to abolish our 2nd Amendment, and neither would I vote for a candidate who wants to abolish our 1st Amendment such as John McCain.
To elect people who actually disagree with a major tenet of our government...our Constitution’s 1st Amendment, is in essence actually voting to do away with our Consitution.
I see a vote for McCain as a vote to begin dismantling our traditional form of government and our freedoms of speech, and I will not ever do it.
Ed
I’m done with you anti-McCain clowns. I care too much about this country, our troops, and Israel to sit around and let Obama become president. Your attack on John’s slip up is just further demonstration of how childish your position is.
Hey, I’m as pissed as anybody about McCain. There’s no reason not to keep the pressure on him. But it is a sad fact that no Buckley-type (RIP)is going to win a General Election in the near future. So right now, the way it is today, Conservatives can either be a very principled fringe group or push steadily, gradually, in The Right Direction. The other fact is that McCain, even as a RINO, is firmly to the right - even if he’s not far to the right - of these Demonrat pretenders.
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