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is quite a contrast to his 2000 presidential campaign, when he openly
criticized and needled conservatives. This last Saturday, he even gave
a graduation talk at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University (though, for
balance, he will also be addressing this week graduates at New York
City’s very left-wing New School).
Reporters speculated on Meet the Press on Sunday that McCain wants to
make amends with conservatives well before he officially announces his
candidacy for president next year. So can he convince people he is
still sufficiently conservative?
Let’s consider just one of these issues: McCain’s claimed pro-gun
record. This was true a decade ago, but since then, on issues such as
regulating gun shows, banning less expensive guns and so-called assault
weapons, and requiring gunlocks, McCain has supported central portions
of the gun-control agenda. Indeed, in a couple cases, McCain authored
the proposed legislation himself. [Friendly Fire continued]
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Ain't we been here before?
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In deference to his service to our nation, I have in the past attempted to give McCain the benefit of the doubt. "His Vietnamese captors beat his brains out"; "He receives instructions from the Manchurian micro-chip
the commies planted."
Regardless, the man is, like Obama, a threat to our
democracy. That he is planning to run again for president
is all the proof I need to offer. It's also proof that McCain is still
comfortable with the people running the Republican Party. But, alas, I have a long record of not being right about such things.
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John Algore McCain. nuff said?
ReplyDeleteDelusional is the only thing that comes to mind
ReplyDeleteMM
Speaking as the son of a civilian Vietnam POW, I say it's past time for McCain to go and take that moronic daughter with him. Live it up on your wife's beer money and just go the hell away.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans will go the way of the Wigs if they field yet another Dem-lite candidate.
ReplyDeleteMcCain is anti gun and held up ANWAR.
RAK
Stab me in the liver, indeed.
ReplyDeletemary
so he can throw another one?
ReplyDeletethey DO think we're morons, don't they?
White feather= Carlos Hathcock
ReplyDeleteI would never have believed McCian would win the 2008 nomination and I would not have believed some obvious con-artist with the middle named "Hussian" would be President eight years after 9/11.
ReplyDeleteAfter all of the anti-McCain rhetoric from Rush and other right-wingers, McCain won the nomination in 2008 anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe rhetoric contributed to a lack of support that helped propel BHO to the presidency. Let's not make that mistake again.
And everybody's darlin', Palin, will support him. Might even be his #2 again.
ReplyDeleteGiving odds...
jd
You know...
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered why McCain was feted for being a POW.
Roman matrons used to tell their sons, "Come back WITH your shield or ON it!"
McCain had his shield shot out from under him. Sat out the rest of the war in the Hanoi Hilton. No, no garden spot to be sure. But how does that make him a hero?
Since then, he's basically been a Democrat turncoat.
Why he gets the time of day from anybody is beyond me.
M
Draco, McCain won only after the media widely endorsed him as the the best Republican candidate, and painted everyone else as a right-wing nut, or plain ignored them (led by especially the New York Times, which went after him the second he secured the nomination)). Add a well organized campaign by ACORN to get Democrats to vote for him in the Republican primaries, and it was over. Why? Because they knew McCain would turn-off conservatives, which is what happened until he put Sarah Palin on the ticket. When the financial markets mysteriously crashed on 9-18, McCain-Palin had pulled ahead of Obama. There was genuine panic in the Obama camp. In short, this was a blatant overthrowing of our government.
ReplyDeleteMark,
ReplyDeleteThat is a Spartan ideal, not Roman.
I can't stand McCain as my Senator, but he was conducting himself in a heroic manor- loitered over Hanoi to cover his wing man, when he was shot down. He also suffered horribly at the hands of our enemies. He also rejected the offer of early release.
But he is and has been far more useful to the Democrat cause than to anything I believe in.
props to all who served our nation, but it's not a free pass to exact revenge later. Jim Webb and John Glenn,for example. Both true warrior heroes, but later sold their souls for political power. Ring in hell 4 all like them.
ReplyDeleteMr. S, do you put Admiral Sestak in that same bag of soul sellers?
ReplyDeleteWhen interviewed on FNC, for example, he get talking points shot out like machine gun bullets, and won't answer a question straight.
I doan like eem. et al.
tomw