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Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« on: January 25, 2008, 10:05:34 AM »
For conservatives with long memories, John McCain is about the worst possible Republican presidential nominee - unless, of course, anyone still thinks Mike Huckabee actually has a shot at the brass ring, or you like seeing the GOP split asunder. And the reason why can perhaps best be summed up in two words: McCain-Feingold.

Sen. McCain's campaign finance reform bill - which he pushed relentlessly, almost to the exclusion of everything else - was a frontal attack on the right of free speech. Not commercial or pornographic free speech, mind you. Political free speech. The kind of speech the Founders clearly had in mind when they emphatically declared that Congress shall make no law abridging.

An even bigger problem is that too many Republicans actually agree with John McCain on restricting political speech. Mike Huckabee, for instance.

McCain-Feingold is a constitutional abomination. If John McCain can chuck the First Amendment overboard, no other constitutional protections would be safe under his watch either. Indeed, Sen. McCain has also gone after the Second Amendment with efforts to close the so-called "gun show loophole." But for gun rights advocates, that was no "loophole." It was just another chapter in the gun-grabbers never-ending quest to disarm American citizens.

More at link http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080125/OPINION/768606489
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Re: Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2008, 10:22:16 AM »
You forget, The Manchurian candidate also tryed to push that amnesty bill last year. He's no hero, He's a scum and a LOOSER
The US Navy made him a Pilot, It cost them his training and a multi million dollar air plane, The RINO's try to portray him as a hero, alot of other pilots flew over those targets and managed to get thier airplanes home, so apparently he is a crappy pilot.
 Az. made him a Senator and it cost groups like the NRA their 1st amendment rights and nearly cost Az. their border
so apparently He's a crappy Senator
What will it cost us if this A hole gets to be president , and based on his record he will be a crappy one

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Re: Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2008, 06:05:48 AM »
Wish you guys would quit sugar coating and tell the world how you REALLY feel.   Mac.
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Re: Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2008, 07:19:35 AM »
Wish you guys would quit sugar coating and tell the world how you REALLY feel.   Mac.

Well, you know how we all try to be sensitive and PC here. Wouldn't want to hurt any ones FEEEELINGS (Wooo woooo woooo feeeelings....). ;)
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Re: Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2008, 11:53:38 PM »
It's pretty bad when the you would have to conglomerate the positions of the 3 GOP candidates to create a Frankenstein real conservative candidate. If you follow politics you had to realize that Fred had no chance because he entered way to late in the race. Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina are not conservative states. South Carolina is considered conservative only in a religious way. The voters in IA and NH like to, and expect, to be brown nosed by the political candidates. Unfortunately McCain Feingold gives even more of an emphasis  to these original primaries because it limits the advertising that interested second parties can do. This was quickly realized by the states' partiy leaderships, which is why they fell all over themselves trying to push the primaries up.If you think that wasn't one of McCain's objectives after getting smeared by Rove and Reed in SC in 2000 you are kidding yourself. So unfortunately for the GOP, the states that least reflect its national members, get the biggest influence in choosing it's candidates. Unless we go to a system where there are nationwide primaries on the same day this will not change. Get ready for more Liberal Republicans as the GOP presidential nominee for the foreseeable future.

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Re: Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2008, 07:27:17 AM »
In the post WWII era there have been only two conservative Republicans to win the GOP nomination. Only one, Reagan, was elected. Goldwater went down in flames.


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Re: Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2008, 12:44:09 AM »
My oldest son sent this to me today.....


McCain Presidency Would Be a Disaster
Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:59 PM

By: Ronald Kessler 
 
John McCain’s false charge that Mitt Romney favored a set timetable for withdrawing from Iraq underscores how disastrous a McCain presidency would be.

Any candidate can make a slight misstatement while talking extemporaneously. Hillary Clinton constantly rewrites her own record and has been caught fabricating, as when she made up the story that on 9/11, her daughter Chelsea was going to jog at Battery Park near the towers, where she heard and saw the catastrophe unfold.

But no candidate in this race has gone so far as to baldly fabricate what another candidate has said, as McCain did over the weekend. That same kind of recklessness is evident in McCain’s explosions of temper, which are meant to intimidate those who do not agree with him or do not support him.

Not naming him at first, McCain said in Fort Myers, Fla., “Now, one of my opponents wanted to set a date for withdrawal that would have meant disaster.”

Talking to reporters minutes later, the Arizona senator was more direct: “'If we surrender and wave a white flag, like Senator Clinton wants to do, and withdraw, as Gov. Romney wanted to do, then there will be chaos, genocide, and the cost of American blood and treasure would be dramatically higher.”

Asked about the comment, Romney said, “That’s dishonest, to say that I have a specific date. That’s simply wrong,” he said. “That is not the case. We’ve never said that.”

Romney asked for an apology. Having moved on to Sun City, Fla., McCain said: “The apology is owed to the young men and women serving this nation in uniform.”

A look at what Romney actually said in an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America on April 3, 2007 makes it clear that Romney said the opposite of what McCain claimed he said.

Robin Roberts said to Romney, “You have also been very vocal in supporting the president and the troop surge. Yet, the American public has lost faith in this war. Do you believe that there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops?”

“Well, there’s no question but that— the president and Prime Minister al-Maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about,” Romney replied. “But those shouldn’t be for public pronouncement. You don’t want the enemy to understand how long they have to wait in the weeds until you’re going to be gone. You want to have a series of things you want to see accomplished in terms of the strength of the Iraqi military and the Iraqi police, and the leadership of the Iraqi government.”

“So, private,” Robins said. “You wouldn’t do it publicly? Because the president has said flat out that he will veto anything the Congress passes about a timetable for troop withdrawals. As president, would you do the same?”

“Well, of course,” Romney said. “Can you imagine a setting where during the Second World War we said to the Germans, gee, if we haven't reached the Rhine by this date, why, we’ll go home, or if we haven’t gotten this accomplished we’ll pull up and leave? You don’t publish that to your enemy, or they just simply lie in wait until that time. So, of course, you have to work together to create timetables and milestones, but you don’t do that with the opposition.”

With the exception of Sean Hannity on Fox News, no news outlet fully quoted what Romney actually said on GMA. That’s no surprise. As the New York Times’ recent endorsement of McCain suggests, the liberal media love him. As a former McCain aide told me, that’s because the senator gives reporters total access to him and because he is as liberal as a Democrat on many issues.

On almost “every turn on domestic policy, John McCain was not only against us, but leading the charge on the other side,” former Sen. Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania Republican, has said.

In a stunning example of the media’s slant, the AP’s Ron Fournier wrote after Romney won in Michigan, “The former Massachusetts governor pandered to voters, distorted his opponents’ record, and continued to show why he’s the most malleable—and least credible—major presidential candidate,” Fournier wrote. “And it worked.”

As for McCain, “The man who spoke hard truths to Michigan lost,” Fournier said. “Of all the reasons John McCain deserved a better result Tuesday night, his gamble on the economy stands out”

Not to be outdone, the New York Times ran a story on Jan. 24 headlined, “Romney Leads in Ill Will Among GOP Candidates.” The story said, “In stark contrast to Mr. Romney, Mr. McCain seems to be universally liked and respected by the other Republican contenders, even if they disagree with him.”

The evidence to support that claim came entirely from quotes from present or former McCain aides.

While McCain clearly has formidable supporters, and his stand on the Iraq war was admirable, those who have dealt with him over the years have been appalled by his outbursts of temper, a character trait the media have largely ignored.

In endorsing Romney, Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has known McCain for more than three decades, said his choice was prompted partly by his fear of how McCain might behave in the Oval Office.


“The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine,” Cochran said about McCain. “He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me.”

“He [McCain] would disagree about something and then explode,” said former Sen. Bob Smith, a fellow Republican who served with McCain on various committees. “[There were] incidents of irrational behavior. We’ve all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I’ve never seen anyone act like that.”

Defending his bill to give amnesty to illegal aliens, McCain unleashed a tirade on Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who had voiced concerns about the number of judicial appeals illegal immigrants could file under the proposed legislation.


"F*** you!” McCain said to his fellow senator. “I know more about this than anybody else in the room!” McCain shouted.

“People who disagree with him get the f*** you,” said former Rep. John LeBoutillier, a New York Republican who had an encounter with McCain when he was on a POW task force in the House. “I think he is mentally unstable and not fit to be president.”

Andrew H. “Andy” Card Jr., President Bush’s former chief of staff, told me he has observed McCain’s outbursts.

“Sometimes he was pretty angry, but I felt as if he was putting on a show,” Card said. “I don’t know if it was an emotional eruption or it was for effect," Card said.

Democrat Paul Johnson, the former mayor of Phoenix, saw McCain’s temper up close. “His volatility borders in the area of being unstable,” Johnson has said. “Before I let this guy put his finger on the button, I would have to give considerable pause.”

When I appeared on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show to discuss Newsmax’s disclosures about McCain’s temper, Carlson said on the air, “We got a call earlier tonight from McCain’s Senate office suggesting that we not do this story. [They were] annoyed about it.”

That hint at intimidation is another reason why major media outlets may think twice about revealing what they know of McCain’s temper, which is widely whispered about in Washington. Yet along with track record, such clues to character are a compass to how a president will conduct his presidency.

Over and over, voters have ignored warning signs of poor character and have overlooked track records, only to regret it once a president enters the White House and becomes corrupted by the power of the office.

When he was a candidate for vice president, Richard Nixon became embroiled in an ethics issue when the New York Post revealed he had secretly accepted $18,000 from private contributors to defray his expenses. It should have come as no surprise that he would end up being driven from office by the scandal known as Watergate.

If we elect a candidate with McCain’s monumental character flaws, we can expect to suffer the consequences.

 
"Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History ! "
 

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Re: Why John McCain is wrong for the right
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2008, 01:52:32 AM »
I can't wait till he comes back to NH to campaign IF he gets nominated, I KNOW  I can set off someone like that   :)

 

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