Calm Down? I didn’t sign up for this
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I guess voting in primary and caucus elections are as much of an “emotional” issue for conservative Republicans as illegal immigration. So much so that our post-Super Tuesday front runner for the GOP presidential nomination is compelled to “reach out” to conservatives much as he must reach out to correct his young children.
Calm down?
This scolding message was directed by John McCain at the very people he must excite to put the Maverick senator from Arizona in White House.
I didn’t sign up for this.
I signed up with the GOP in 2000 after 18 years in the morally and intellectually bankrupt Party of the Left to scold liberals and their policies that have had America slouching towards Gomorrah at various speeds for more than 40 years. I was won over by the successful Reaganite policies of: peace thru strength that defeated an evil empire and which inform the successful policies of President George W. Bush that have kept us safe for so long; supply-side economics that produced the Reagan Recovery we still enjoy; and a respect for self government by We the People rather than activist judges.
No, I didn’t sign up with the GOP to be scolded by a regular interloper with the Left. But a regular interloper is not as bad as those with whom one interlopes, especially if the applicant for the job we have to fill understands how to perform the main duty, i.e. defend us from all enemies foreign and domestic.
I did not sign up for this, but we have a job to fill in America, and I am signed up as one of We the People for the duration.
I am excited to keep the Left out of the White House, and we can only fill the CEO vacancy with one of the applicants. I am also excited to fill the Congress with conservatives that will stop the bi-partisan adherents of the Church of Man-Made Global Warming from building on their assault against Edison’s light bulb and Ford’s freely made progeny of the Model-T.
But I am most excited to continue ruling with Rush Limbaugh and Redstate to hold the feet of the hired hands in Washington to the fire to prevent open borders, new taxes and defunding of wars we must win.
At age 44, gamecock finally learns once and for all not to put faith in any man. Put faith in the Lord, his principles and the wisdom of We the People.
I suspect I will get really excited when our imperfect vessel is attacked from the Left by ones that named him Maverick.
Hey, how can I, a follower of the first real maverick, Old Hickory himself, one man with courage making majorities, reject the latest incarnation out of hand?
I won't and can't.
But it takes no courage for a Beltway denizen to agree with the beltway chatterers in co-starring roles on Sunday Shows as he slams republicans.
No, the courage will be required when he has to show the same anger towards liberals that turn on him and attack his conservative views that he has so often shown towards fellow Republicans in the Senate Cloak Room. He will be called a racist, warmongering Scrooge. He will have to risk being thought of by them as he seems to think of us with his “calm downs”, as the Left suggests that most of conservative positions are born of “emotion” rather than any substance.
Then, we can all get excited, for shared suffering will bond us. McCain will become one of us rather quickly then. For by becoming our nominee, he is signing up to receive from the Left what we have too often received from him. He will then truly be one of us, and we can all calm down together!
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with Romney than win with Cain.
The NYT endorsed him.
Nuff o' that...
killing terrorists the NYT defends.
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Help him pass cap and trade (something that I cannot believe how little those on this blog seem furious about), wage a war against the prescription drug companies, allow for backdoor price controls via reimportation of drugs from Canada, and probably provide cover for him to evolve leftwards on tax, evironment, and immigration policies.
Hillary will kill terrorists too. Will she lead the fight in the War on Terror? No. Will we slide backwards a little? Yes. But will we lose an American city during the four years Hillary is President? It would be irrational to think anything but no.
2003 Bill Clinton praised Iran. Hillary wants to talk. Is it irrational to think that Iran thinks it could roll her?
Why would any enemy of the US fear any democrat?
I can't think of one. They all virtually invite enemies to harm us to punish us for sins the left think we have committed.
The choice is stark, and has been since 1972.
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Was it irrational to think the twin towers would be attacked by terrorists? Yes. But, and here's the tacky but still very true statement I warned about in the subject title, "9/11 Changed Everything". It's not like Hillary isn't going to fund the Department of Homeland Security and talking with Iran is something that Henry Kissinger has been arguing the Bush administration to do for years now. Will Hillary's foreign policy push us in the wrong direction? Yes. But will there be a terrorist attack in the United States simply because John McCain isn't in the White House? That's just silly.
This is the Long War. President Hillary will be a step backwards, but not a catastrophic fallout, especially when we defeat her in 2012.
now. His and Hillary's definitions of catastrophes are a bit to large. I prefer Reagan and Bush's, and McCain's.
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I won't threadjack this into a debate on detente, I simply used Kissinger as an example of someone who I personally have great respect for who doesn't think talking with Iran would be catastrophic, despite that I share your disagreement with him on this issue.
But in terms of 2008 and McCain. I referenced the Long War because I know that if we're going to win, then it will take 75-100 years. We're not going to be able to hold the White House during the entirety of this war. So once one can accept that defeats will be a reality, 2008 becomes a good opportunity to absorb a defeat instead of the more critical 2012, 2016, and 2020 elections. I would rather blame defeat on President Bush and a splintered Republican Party than in 2012 with a new failed Republican presidency. Not to mention that we are almost receiving a gift that if McCain loses in 2008, we might only have to defeat Hillary Clinton instead of a Barack Obama.
to borrow a word from Gamecock, was "rolled" by the North Vietnamese.
The blame goes even further back, when LBJ decided he could make nice with followers of Uncle Ho by sitting down with them in Paris.
While I admit that we are in an extremely difficult situation with Iran, the last thing I want is for leaders of our nation to go, hat in hand, to Iran in order to seek a settlement that will further weaken our position.
So as not to thread jack, I believe that either Democrat in the race will do just as I fear, and get rolled by an enemy that sees negotiation on our part as weakness.
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right to depart from detente, and I also agree that the way Bush talks to Iran is productive, ie he tells them that if they don't stop their meddling they will get blasted. We have killed and capturedmany quds forces in Iraq and they slowed the flow of ieds.
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Actually, no. I was there in 1993 and 2001. There were plenty of signs after 1993 they would try again, but Clinton demurred. More reason and directly to your point, we should support McCain over any Democrat given their explicated positions on terrorism.
That said, I have zero expectations of a McCain presidency, should he be fortunate to get that far. On the latter point, we have yet to receive the flaming balls of rhetoric from Democrats which will surely include the Keating Five, angry man, unpredictable, warmonger, long-in-the-tooth meme. That may be enough with this electorate to place Mr McCain back in Washington to confound Republicans from his current seat ad infinitum
In closing, you are a fine man for whom I have enormous respect. Nonetheless, we must disagree on "Old Hickory" and hope that does not presage a McCain presidency (irrespective of the dissimiliar party analogy). A great warrior and patriot, undoubtedly. However, he was wrong on so many issues including the genocide forever embodied in the "Trail of Tears", his associated "Let him enforce it" line and The Bank of the US debacle, that he will forever be remembered as a Constitutional ligature, wrought by emotion and governing under the guise of often inexplicable irrationality.
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Cherokee, Jackson probably saved the Tribe. Georgians were going to wipe them out for treaty disputes.
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But he used the army to slow walk them to death. Why not to protect them? After all, he was indefatigable at chasing them all over the place. That's fairly indefensible and a mark on this nation's history right next to slavery. Ignoring the SCOTUS decision in favor of the Cherokee just makes it more ignominius, unconstitutional, illegal and undemocratic.
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The Cherokee didn’t call Jackson “Sharp Knife” for no reason at all. Nonetheless, they were the most civilized of all tribes at the time, having their own Constitution and living in relative peace. There were also numerous missionaries and others who were helping the Cherokee’s against the state who was inciting most of the violence over land. They (the state) were encouraging squatters and Jackson looked the other way, not initially meeting with the Cherokee or using any national influence to assist what was both right and legal. He used all his power to force the Cherokee into ridiculous treaties, not even approved by a plurality of their council, which was used as justification for their removal and decried by great Whigs such as Webster and Clay. That’s not courageous or compassionate; it’s calculated and inauspicious to basic American values.
Read the stories of people such as Samuel Worcester or Elizur Butler to see how ruthless both the State and Jackson were in pursuing their ignominy and back room deals. Plus you may have read Cherokee Nation v. Georgia or Worcester v. Georgia and the related history to see how firmly the decisions were rooted in law and primary American democratic principal.
Again my friend, a great blight on our nation with Jackson as the principal facilitator. But I repeat myself.
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broke treaties and had Jackson not removed them, they would have been wiped out. There were only two possible alternatives at the time. But I understand your points and respect them, and agree with some.
I worship no man, only God, but I respect courage in a man, and esp in one that rose so high and accomplished so much from such humble beginnings.
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However, mccain has no more intention of sealing that southern border than hillary does. So mccain would be no better on the war on terror. Heck, he agrees with her on the southern border, gitmo, that wiretapping,etc. have "gone too far". He's big on the iraq war and the surge. That is about their only difference.
With all the other problems with McCain, that he supported the surge is not nearly enough to even the scales.
"Why would any enemy of the US fear any democrat?"
Because any Democratic president would have something to prove (that they are not soft on defense) they are as likely as not to have a hair trigger.
You can bet that whoever is our next president, our adversaries will test them early on, whether by design or coincidence I can't say. I doubt it will be a clearly provocative as the attack on the Twin Towers (though I do not doubt that there are folks thinking about it), more likely an attack on overseas interests. A democratic president will be hard pressed, net root pacifists not withstanding, to ignore any provocation with a plausible return address.
didn't!
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I do not care what they say.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
You've already got the first, lets try for the second.
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i know it's a bit of a threadjack. please excuse.
I certainly hope you and all patriotic Americans are watching this right now
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/ncaa/men/viewcast/2008/02/06...
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at least not on television.
this is one big reason why i will probably never win more than a local election. as soon as the voters find out i don't like football, baseball and basketball, i'm sunk.
Ironically, Mitt looks exactly the same :|
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Where to start... the Paul? The Kucinich? That shot of McCain?
Don't know the show but I like the picture.
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someone actually looks like they spent the time to match the face with the character on the show they most closely represent.
Mr. Two Americas as a split-personality...HA...love it.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
they even edited the reflections of Edwards and Rudy in the puddle...that's dedication to your artform.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
I cannot wait to see him dismissed as he has dismissed conservatives.....I hope to see a chastened man who will come to realize that his friends...my friends were always the base of his party and not the liberals of the other party....I welcome this event as I would a great football game.
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As usual, MM does not hold back.
Cannot wait to hear him at CPAC. Sometimes I think when McCain extends his hand across the aisle, it'll be to shake hands with the Republicans.
-- A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Anyone care to change sides?
-- Saving baby whales and baby trees, but killing baby humans. Huh?
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What a condescending thing to say! I can assure you, so far his efforts to 'reach out' to conservatives have made me want to 'reach out and touch someone'. Namely - him.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
McCain didn't tell others to calm down. Here's what he said in the very same article:
I do hope that at some point we would just calm down a little bit and see if there are areas that we can agree on for the good of the party and for the good of the country.
As I understand the word "we", McCain was also taking about himself and his supporters as well as his critics. I suggest you're misreading this, Mike, aided by an AP reporter who unjustifiably distorted what McCain said. It's not like AP hasn't pulled this crap in the past.
1. McCain, 2. Thompson, 3. Giuliani, 4. Romney
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I didn't see a tape, and you didn't link to one. I'm just reading your linked article as it was written.
1. McCain, 2. Thompson, 3. Giuliani, 4. Romney
Are those with some kind of mental issues. He's clearly not talking to himself here. The use of "we" as a less antagonistic way to say "you people" or "those people" is extremely common usage... and that's what he's doing here.
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You have the exact quote of what McCain said, using the inclusive "we" rather than "you" or "they", then you have the reporter who twisted McCain's words. I'll be willing to let the tape decide, but without anymore than what Mike provided, I can only judge by what's there.
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all know McCain. So give it up. He is what he is. We all know that holier than thou attitude.
Watch the tape. Watch the knowing embarrassed, wish he hadn't said that cringes of his supporters in the background as the word down releases from his lips.
McCain is a jerk. But he is our jerk.
Just don't insult my intelligence by trying to tell me the last 7 years was a season of Dallas that Pam dreamed.
I was there. I'm a witness.
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..."what do you mean we're surrounded by ninjas?
--furious
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." -- Darth Vader
That the democrat/left/statist/moveon/dailykos crowd mercilessly attacks McCain if/when he is the nominee. Different personalities to be sure, however I believe that the constant attacks from the left pushed W to the right & kept him from "new toning" himself into a single term.
I believe, from the primary turnout, that many conservatives have just sat this one out because of the choices. If McCain wants to win in November, he will reach out substantively to the conservative base that can put him over the top.
I thouroughly enjoyed this post.
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... that make me think many of us really do need to calm down. Gamecock, if you can't see how irrational this diary sounded, maybe you should take a couple of days off from blogging, see a couple of movies, spend some time with friends, and approach this with a fresh mind. I mean that, sincerely, not as an insult but as an honest, friendly suggestion.
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Just for the record, he didn't tell you personally to calm down. He suggested that we all need to calm down:
I do hope that at some point we would just calm down a little bit and see if there are areas that we can agree on for the good of the party and for the good of the country.
Hang all traitors and secessionists! Hang them high!
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He doesn't mean himself + us - he means conservatives who still hate him for his long history of Republican shivving Maverick ways.
Kill the terrorists
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Sounded like a moment of crystallization to me.
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that I made an argument to be OPTIMISTIC about McCain?
Can you please cut the literary criticism? I'm doing ok my way, you aren't being paid to tutor me, and why not apply your method as a monopoly and show us all up!
smile
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What do you mean by "literary criticism." I didn't make any comment about your writing style. It's your logic that worries me.
You took a fairly innocuous comment by McCain, and turned it into an a personal affront. That indicates you were looking for a fight. I suppose this is as good a place as any to find one, but don't expect everybody else to applaud you for it. For my part, I find these "2,000 words of venting" editorials to be excessively tiresome.
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"Then, we can all get excited, for shared suffering will bond us. McCain will become one of us rather quickly then. For by becoming our nominee, he is signing up to receive from the Left what we have too often received from him. He will then truly be one of us, and we can all calm down together!"
I am on fire for McCain, truly!
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Yes, I saw that, but I was responding to the other 90% of the editorial in which you ranted about being offended.
Incidentally, I don't know where you got the impression I disliked your writing. I wouldn't bother interacting with you so much if I didn't think you expressed yourself cogently. If I've given you reason to think otherwise I apologize. Most folks around here rant, but at least you rant intelligently about 95% of the time.
I shall take your advice (and mine) and get some rest. I often don't listen to my own good advice.
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Is that McCain is who is. Ain't gone change. Deal with it and enjoy the things we agree on and the battle with the left on that.
He's a jerk, but he's my jerk, and being a jerk I have an affinity for
jerks!
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I never thought I would see that day that RedState posters would be practically supporting Hillary over a Republican candidate.
Yes, McCain is not the ideal conservative. President Bush was, and look what happened? He refused to work with anyone and lost our Party and our nation a great deal of credibility. At least McCain is, at this moment, more popular with the general electorate.
To the far-right, I have this to say: Judges, judges, JUDGES! A Kennedy/O'Connor is still a lot better than a Ginsburg or Breyer, and that is what you are going to get with Hillary. Forget about 2012... our judicary will be ruined for decards if the Democrats take control of the White House. It is time that you swallow your pride and support the party to prevent this disaster from coming to fruition.
Au contraire?
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Don't repeat that canard about Bush---he tried to work with Democrats, and has nothing good to show for it.
...a Republican presidential candidate would chickenhawk this country's productive class...
I chose Patriotism over Profits.
...IN THE PRIMARIES no less. And Charles Keating's blood money was which?
Judges in Kennedy/O'Connor mode?
O'Connor upheld UMich in Grutter and the FEC in McConnell.
Kennedy upheld City of New London in Kelo.
Both upheld Planned Parenthood in Casey.
Affirmative action, 1st Amendment, Takings, Abortion -- spare us more such judges.
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in this one-minute video from Hannity's show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fTNZfD4EOo
and so does Bill Bennett in NRO today
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YmI2YjE1Y2QxODI1ZGI1ZGNhNmQwO...
as someone who is going to support McCain in the general (he wasn't my first choice), and made an arguement in a previous thread about supporting him, the calm down statement was pretty stupid. He'll have to do a much better job of pretending to like the conservative wing of the party if he wants to win the general. In fact, his primary focus for the next 3-4 months (while the dems are battling it out) should be reconciliation with the party base. He is going to have to eat some crow if he wants this job. The question is "can he"?
Also, if McCain blows this chance, I'll hold him accountable for losing the election, and whatever consequences follow it, because it is entirely in his hands now. It's a no-brainer. Make peace with the base, that's all he has to do. If he thinks he can do it without them he'll be sadly mistaken.
"Also, if McCain blows this chance, I'll hold him accountable for losing the election, and whatever consequences follow it, because it is entirely in his hands now."
Despite the multitude of issues I have with Sen. McCain on the issues, it is his condescending attitude and his vulgar and vitriolic tirades against those on the right (never on the left that I know of) who dare to disagree with him that have me concerned.
He need's to do something to assure me that having him become the titular head of the Republican party won't result in a wholesale purge of conservatives from the party. I'm not asking him to change his position on all of his apostasies (I'm not delusional) but if he doesn't at least show that he doesn't always "know more than anyone else in the g-- d---- room" then I'll find it difficult to support someone who I fear will set the conservative movement back by years.
So, I totally concur.. and if he's so stubborn and arrogant that he can't utter the words "I was wrong" on anything , then his failure to lead the entire party is on his shoulders.
"All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
McCain has no intention of conforming with the party base or platform. He sees this as vindication and now we must all fall in line behind him.
Before he wanted mavericks, now he's got mavericks. Don't fall in line, be a maverick. I'm just one more Republican maverick who wont lift a finger for this guy.
Elections have consequences. I don't like McCain either and I think you're exactly right about his attitude. But we had our chance to do something about it in the primaries and we lost.
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I don't believe for a second he was truly including himself in his call to calm down. Using "we" is a common rhetorical trick when engaging in condescension. I know this all too well :) Consider that "let's calm down" is also used in this manner.
At the same time I would very much like to be wrong on this. Evidence of this would be an admission from him, in his CPAC speech, that he has often unfairly disparaged the good faith of those in his own party who disagree with him.
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I'm impressed by the fact that Sen. Sam Brownback has not only endorsed McCain, but that he is now actively defending McCain's record on pro-life issues:
"Pro-Lifers Can Trust McCain," by Sen. Sam Brownback
http://ncregister.com/site/article/7967
Sen. Brownback was my original choice among the GOP candidates. I was disappointed that he didn't do better. He would never endorse McCain if he thought for one minute that McCain would be bad on social issues.
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This is absolutely true. I know some of Brownback's staffers, and he's not only endorsed him, but actively supported him in every way he could.
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Once a certain maturity has been achieved. At 72, Johnny Mac is about ready!
rooster's lawyering skills for what will soon be my "client", aka Maverick, aka MY JERK, as I go to bat for McCain against the Libs!
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supposed to be more loyal to the republican party than McCain has been?
"Where I stand does not depend on where I'm standing." Fred D. Thompson
best applicant for a crucial job we must fill.
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Which one of those three do you think is the best applicant, vs. the one most likely to get the nomination?
With Romney gone there is only one small government pro individual liberty pro business conservative left, and it aint McCain or Huckabee.
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PS: Any consolation, gc: I didn't sign up for this, either. Ach, well, there's plenty of House races to work with.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
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I will not work for John McCain to be elected. I will work ceaselessly at my local elections and make sure the Republican officials I have any say with hold true to conservative values.
For John McCain to get my vote, he has to stop treating me like a six-year-old. I tell my son to calm down. I don't tell my dad. For the first "outreach" to conservatives he needs to elect him, this failed. He has to do better.
He makes it sooo difficult for me to hold my nose and vote for him. Grrrr.
We just gave a wonderful little speech to all the little Conservatives at CPAC today, didn't we Mr. McCain. I'm sure we're really proud of ourselves, aren't we.
K.
See, this kind of condescending talk is why I never got on board with the straight talk express. Not because I believe McCain’s a closet liberal. Nor do I buy Podhoretz’s absurd contention that people hate him because he’s too cozy with Democrats.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/2304
Yes, he’s a friend of Lieberman. That’s refreshing. But see what another Democratic Senator, Harry Reid, just said about McCain. Now McCain is our man (and not just a club for beating up on GW) we’ll hear from plenty of other Democrats who hate him. McCain’s an unpredictable and cantankerous old crank. The man pisses off a lot of people & needlessly burns bridges. A Happy Warrior he is not.
Look, I respect the man's service to his country. Couldn't care less if McCain won't make nice with Limbaugh or kiss Jerry Falwell's ring… It's just disconcerting that these right-wing talking heads who should be in McCain's corner cannot seem to make peace with the man. These very same people were ready to line up behind pro-Abortion Rudy or Boston Mitt.
This suggests that their problem with McCain is his personal style, not so much his substance. This does not bode well for a showdown with Obama’s brand of style over substance. Obama’s a whacky leftist yet he still comes off as a pleasant guy. I’ll vote for McCain, absolutely. But my vote's not going to wing the election.
when he said that Hillary in the White House would be opposed by enough Republicans to have a good deal of resistance in getting her agenda accomplished, but McCain would pass a similar or even more left agenda with virtually no resistance. Democrats would go along with him, and enough Republicans would that the country will be remade into a socialist state faster than scatology wends its way through a goose.
McCain in the White House is, I think, ultimately WORSE for the country than Hillary........ not that I think he can actually beat either her or Obama.
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The MSM got what it wanted the Democratic machines got their target. You are about to see McCain in such a negative light now. Republicans ae following the Democratic/MSM playbookk play by play. What fools we have become.
a long ago Senate cloakroom McCain temper incident that they covered up in the past. more will come
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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I've made my peace with the fact that the Republicans won't represent me anymore. It's good to get a fresh start once in a while, and we're both happier without each other.
If I could just get them to quit sending their solicitations for money........
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Sorry anti-Rombots, you can't kill the Mormonator. You can only delay him for a while.
tribute and pic... for a yankee! dry land variety
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I'd be careful associating Romney with working to defeat us from within.
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I'm pretty sure the tired old Washington hack wing of the party will do a god job of losing this election by itself and, neither I nor Lucianne Golberg speak on behalf of Romney anyway.
I guess you can throw Lucianne and Jonah into your conspiracy of intelligent dedicated conservative activists who are now the traitors because they are not enthused to support a Republican who has been a thorn in their side for the past tenty years, even though he represented a red state.
Even if he does win, I suspect he'll only serve one term or may be ripe for a primary challenge. I dont expect much from a McCain presidency and a Democratic Congress.
positives of McCain and win now. Then, we oppose him when he gets out of line in office.
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