Posted on 07/18/2008 4:33:59 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
I was just watching the news for a few minutes. First spoke algore about how we need to have all non-carbon electricity in 10 years. Then spoke Pelosi saying predictable things.
But the next thing I saw is what causes my gorge to rise and I had to grab the remote before I became physically ill. It was McCain saying these words: "I have long admired the Vice President's work in the area of....."
Is he trying to make people who already have misgivings aplenty about him either stay home or vote for somebody else? Does he really believe what he is saying or is he just pandering like he does on other subjects? Does he have any idea just how frustrated people are and how precarious a position he has put people like me into? I'm sorry, but I am just becoming more discouraged by the day about the prospects for this country, even if the election turns out as I would like it to. For the first time since my first presidential election vote in 1968, I may well not vote for the Republican candidate.
McCain is an idiot. His beloved drive by media used to tickle behind his ear as they would with any dog who obeys most of their commands, but now McCain is dismayed because the drive by media is in the tank for Obama and it must hurt him.
McCain has shown by McCain/Feingold that he doesn't understand freedom of speech and he has shown by McCain/Lieberman (next will be McCain/Trotsky?) that he doesn't understand science.
If I had meant Cheney rather than gore, that would have been a non-sequitor since I never mentioned Cheney but had mentioned algore. Great minds don’t always run in the same channels.
I am livid. If I get the chance to cross McCain in public in a Q-A town hall meeting, I will cut him to pieces with facts.
I have been a solid Republican for 30 years. If McCain heads my party I will have to leave it. I am still hoping this brain dead moron drops out for any number of reasons.
You did fine.
Sentence one sets Al Gore up as the subject under discussion in your post quite well and it is clear that he is the VP McCain refers to.
"First spoke algore about how we need to have all non-carbon electricity in 10 years."
"...the next thing I saw is what causes my gorge to rise..."
"It was McCain saying these words: "I have long admired the Vice President's work in the area of....."
Got rid of my teevee a short time ago. Still going through withdrawal, but feel much the better for its absence...
“he’s just plain not too bright”
I’ve come to that conclusion myself. The man is only slightly smarter than some of my cows.
He’s gotten ahead by connections, duplicity, and his “friends” in the media.
when someone says "the giant's quarterback" i think of eli manning even though i grew up with phil simms. BOTH of whom are superbowl MVP's, though!
I agree. Usually the tv readers are reading only the heatlines, nothing else.
Should McCain drop out....who will step into the void? nobama will walk into the whitehouse.
You must have some very dumb cows. At least I would bet that they are honest and stable minded. Some of my best friends have been bovine. I might cast a write in vote for Else as our first female President.
Pelosi is trying to make things worse inthe country at this
time trying to get Obama elected.She is total scum!
Someone forwarded this email to me. Apologizes if you have seen it:
An email from Ireland to their brethren in the States...a point to ponder despite your political affiliation:
We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you had a pants-wearing lawyer, married to a lawyer who can’t keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against another lawyer who goes to the wrong church and who is married to yet another lawyer who doesn’t even like the country her husband wants to run.
On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with ‘Mc’, and who’s married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship.
What in the Lord’s name are you lads thinking over there in the colonies??
I have felt exactly as you feel. I guess we’re supposed to just sit here and take it and overlook all the humilitation as layer upon layer of indignity is heaped on us.
I believe I will go into the clothespin bidness because the demand for them is going to be huge come November. I want to be able to vote with both hands so a clothespin may be the best answer.
Semper Fi from a fortyoneeleven Jarhead and a 13bravo artilleryman.
Turner Classic Movie Channel. It’s what I watch about 90% of the time. I can’t stand to watch ANY of the news channels anymore.
McCain is not going to change - you just can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Anyone that thinks he’s going to see the light between now & election time is just fooling themselves. If the Republicans want to win, they had better get rid of McCain however they can. My gosh, this is the year that almost anyone could have beat their candidate Obama - but we have McCain! If this is the best the party can do, they surely deserve to lose. Anyone this stupid is not fit to be President. Don’t give me any junk about “he’s better than Obama”. Not so sure about that, he will drive the party & the conservatives into the ground. Better get rid of him while it’s still a possibility.
I’m just trying to get into a “bunker down” mode myself. The next four years are going to be horrible no matter what.
McCain is just an honorable but foolish old man. He is not “trying” to do anything other than what he thinks will help him get elected. Obama is far worse. Obama is actually “trying” to do something which is drastically change the order and priorities of our nation.
Have some compassion on McCain (and your country). Vote for him. McCain will probably lose anyway. When Obama leaves our nation weakened and handicapped for generations to come, you will not look back and wonder whether you could have done more to prevent it.
I completely agree that global warming is a bunch of highly dubious conjectures, and to act on it in the ways being pushed will be highly injurious to our economy. McCain and Obama disagree with you and me. Theoretically, either of them could be eliminated, but the odds are one of them will be President. Given that, I place my hope on a scenario where McCain becomes president and wakes up from his folly when he begins to see the costs to our country. I think that is more likely to happen than that Obama wakes up and changes course. Therefore, I will vote for McCain even though I disagree with him on global warming (and several other things).
He’s avoiding giving the media an arrow with which to shoot him in the back by making him look like a mean and nasty old man.
He’s being politically adept, you should know that.
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