Video: McCain at CPAC–not quite The Uniter yet
CPAC attendee not on board with McCain
Update 8:15pm Eastern. Oy. Sen. John Cornyn endorses the man who cursed him out.
U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign today announced that Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has endorsed John McCain for president. Senator Cornyn issued the following statement on his endorsement:
“In this time of war and economic uncertainty, America must have strong, principled leadership. National security is the first and most important priority of the federal government. We must have a President who will be a leader in the war on terrorism, who will do what is needed to protect our country and its people, and who will not buckle when the political waters become rough. In the Senate Armed Services Committee, and on the Senate floor, I have seen firsthand that John McCain has been right on critical national security issues. He is clearly the man for the job.
“Sen. McCain has also been a real leader on another issue that we have neglected far too long — wasteful and excessive Washington spending. I have watched John McCain take on the special interests and fight the tough battles on behalf of American taxpayers. While we have had principled disagreements on some issues, including some aspects of immigration reform, I am convinced that John McCain shares my conviction that we must secure our borders and restore respect for the integrity of our immigration laws. I will look forward to continuing to pursue these goals with him when he is President.
Just for the record: I am not convinced. One CPAC speech and a bunch of robo-calls repeating his “secure the borders” pledge are not enough.
Not at all.
Not when he has done nothing to repudiate his Soros-tied “Mexico First/”Free Flow of people”/”bloc, not a nation” Hispanic outreach director and his anti-English immersion national finance-co-chair.
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I sat in the back of the ballroom for McCain’s speech. Here’s a short vid clip that gives you a sense of the mix of boos and cheers. The other half of the room also had a front-loaded contingent of McCain supporters and a back-loaded chorus of booers. (Update: Added more photos below.)
One thing I noted was that the crowd included a much larger continent of older attendees than the other sessions. A significant number of anti-McCain people didn’t make it into the room. One attendee told me the overflow room was raucously, anti-McCain–with only a handful of pro-McCain folks.
McCain repeatedly stressed his gratitude for the speaking opportunity and referred to his differences with conservatives in almost every other sentence.
I don’t think a CPAC speaker has ever stressed his differences so many times before the conservative base–not even Sam Donaldson!
I respect his decision to stand in the lion’s den, and I agreed with much of the speech. I found myself nodding as he touted his opposition to ethanol subsidies, national catastrophic insurance, and the Medicare prescription drug benefit. But I don’t for a minute buy his claim that he “respects the opposition” of his staunchest opponents, especially the anti-amnesty crowd. These are folks he has cursed and likened to Bull Connor-style bigots. He has done nothing to rid his campaign staff and finance board of the most extreme open-borders zealots.
I said he needed to do more than mouth the Right platitudes.
Still waiting.
To end on a positive note:
The best thing John McCain had going for him at CPAC was Tom Coburn.
McCain was joking when he said maybe he should “just sit down” after Coburn’s introduction.
A lot of folks in the audience wish he weren’t kidding.
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The Club for Growth agrees with me: Less talk, more action…
Club for Growth President Pat Toomey released the following statement on Senator McCain’s speech at CPAC this afternoon:
“Senator McCain deserves some credit for making a conscious effort to reach out to conservatives at CPAC today, but over the next couple of months, he will need to go beyond talking about those issues on which he agrees with conservatives and address those areas in which we’ve had strong disagreements. More specifically, he will need to reassure conservative regarding his vision on tax policy; political speech during campaigns; global warming remedies; and his general approach towards regulatory matters.”
“In addition, the most concrete manifestation of McCain’s commitment to conservative principles will be his selection of an economic conservative running mate who will unify the Republican coalition. Clearly, an economic liberal like Mike Huckabee will be unacceptable to a majority of Republicans. Rather, Senator McCain will need to pick a vice-presidential candidate who embodies the Republican belief in limited government, economic freedom, and the power of free enterprise to advance prosperity for all Americans.”
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I’ve heard pretty much the same thing Justin Higgins is hearing: Romney’s going to regroup the next couple of days and then work to help unite the GOP against Hillary or Obama. I asked a Romney guy if this meant an imminent McCain endorsement. He said he wouldn’t call it an “endorsement”…yet.
One more funny and half-snort-worthy tidbit: I received in my inbox what I believe is the first e-mail communication from the McCain that I’ve ever received.
Outreach, my friends. Outreach.
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This seems like backsliding am I the only one that notices that a Clinton or McCain presidency, will put us in the Reverse position? I was watching Comedy Central, Jon Stewart had on Tom Brokaw they call McCain a moderate and they are so happy, that he is going to take back the Republican party, from the far conservative right. So what does that tell me, Democrats like McCain, who they believe is a Moderate Republican. I don’t need a Liberal endorsement from the opposing party.
I’m still holding out hope that somehow Obama can beat Hillary.
If Hillary is President, I guarantee Bill will be on the Supreme Court before the end of her first term. Think of how much damage he could do to the Constitution from that position.
Sorry mate, McCain is not MY nominee. I’m now an Independent Conservative. I don’t see MY nominee anywhere. The RNC has to do better to get my vote.
Condi Rice?
Condi Rice??
Condi I Know What It’s Like to Be Palestinian Rice?
Let’s just cut to the chase.
As of now, the illegals will overcome and overpower our country.
It’s OVER.
There is nothing we can do to stop it.
We have tried and failed.
Conservative values are no longer followed in Washington by the GOP.
They have betrayed the very party that voted them into office.
I will not vote for McCain.
I will pass on voting for a presidential candidate.
Then I can live with myself knowing that I did not go against my principles.
Is McCain better than Hillary?
No. Equal pods with different size peas…..that’s it.
Same here.
People have been saying that we have to vote for McCain because of the Supreme Court, without mentioning that he would need the support of a Republican Senate in order to get conservative justices appointed. At the moment, it looks like the Senate will be at least as Democratic as it is now, so even if McCain were to be elected he’d be far more likely to appoint a Kennedy or Souter than a Roberts or Scalia.
And if we did get a conservative/Republican majority in the Senate, that would likely compel whomever is President to nominate a right-leaning candidate for the Court. So focus on the Congressional elections now, especially the Senate ones.
Michelle,
Any idea where the rent a mob of McCain supporters came from?
I see some McCain people are already trying to stop free speech, tellign us what we can/should and what we SHOULD NOT write. I have not read anything immature on this blog, not at all. Most of the comments are on substance and most people on this blog are CONSERVATIVES, NOT repubicans. So, please don’t tell us what to say or how to think. As far as I can tell, McCain is not president yet and he has not pushed any laws regulating what we can say on the Internet, when it is consructive, and even if it were not. Comments like the speech hampering ones only make me much less inclined and SCARED to ever cast a vote for the like of McCain.
Hey gayle, it ain’t over–conservatism. I understand your not voting for McCain, as I feel that way alternating with “no, I will fight against the Democrats.” True McCain Derangement Syndrome.
I firmly believe this is how conservatism will be reborn.
I can only be depressed for so long, now going on 24 hours, without a spirit of optimism and fight taking over that feeling.
I will go down fighting. I may not vote for McCain, but I will not give up on conservatism or fighting against illegal immigration and the liberal bias of this country.
Our ancestors fought against much worse, so I get that in perspective.
Don’t quit.
I’ll vote for some of the other offices but for president, I cannot vote McCain. I’ll write in Fred Thompson or give it to the dem side.
Think about it, everyone pretty much backed up Bush. Do we want everyone to fold to McCain when he tries to push amnesty *again* or when he tries something worse.
You know he will do it, look how many times MM had to put up that night of the living shamnesty stuff. It will come back, and we wont be able to stop it.
Oh, and the McCain-bots “shut up” style comments only tell me that this guy and his people not only don’t plan to come our way one little bit (to conservatism) but continue to insult us and think that fear against the libs will make us vote for him. FEAR WILL NOT MOTIVATE ME, EVER. Bring it on baby! So the more you try to make me afraid of Hillary or Obama, the less likely I am to vote for your guy, McCain. He is unacceptable, PERIOD. Get used to it. HE is not changing his 20 year style of hating and working against conservatives. We are not changing either. Myself for one, I am no longer a republican. I am a conservative, that is it. the GOP means nothing to me. Adios GOP! I will only vote for conservatives, for any office.
i will vote in November. since i am in the PRC, i have the luxury of seeing how things are going back east befor i vote after w*rk.
if the Dem is rolling over McLame, i will vote Libertarian, even though they tend to be crazier than a bedbug about certain things.
if it’s close, i will vote for the Democratic candidate. better either of those obviously untrustworthy morons than the “Psycho Rino”. at least my back will be safe because Hildabeast & Hussein will stab me from the front “for my own good”.
i will then come home & have a few drinks…..*strong* drinks.
#31 — They would have had no amnesty bill to vote for in the first place if McCain hadn’t invented and pushed it.
Nope, if McCain had won the day, his give-away-America-Amnesty would have gone on to the President for signing into as law. But again, without McCain the Senate ringleader driving it to the point of insane obsession, there would be no Amnesty bill to sign at all. So you’re back to square one with that diversion attempt.
LOL, “imperfect” – another diversion – sorry, but you’ll need a better strawman that that, lad.
Johnny’s on his own course to self-destruct in November, he doesn’t need any help. We can only hope he doesn’t take out too many good, reliable congressmen/women with him on his way to McGovern-like irrelevancy.
I fail to see how anyone that claims to be a conservative can claim to a republican…they are no longer the same.
Once again “I did not leave the party, the party left me”
McCain’s a liar on the hard conservative issues and those congressional supporters are no better. Lost a lot of respect for Coburn and Allen today…be hard to trust either of them again.
McCain is still playing dirty…
in Washington D.C.
With this commercial
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/02/07/this-is-a-giant-waste-of/
I’m a conservative, and I’m still doing a Snoopy dance about Romney dropping out.
MAC IS BACK!
Sorry, y’all…there ARE conservatives for McCain. Maybe you should step out of the echo chambers and you’ll see why.
THAT would be a nice silver lining, wouldn’t it?
Numbers 16 – for those of you who need a bit of comic relief.
I live less than 2 hours from the Mexico border.
You are highly mistaken. It is just impossible to be more highly mistaken. I am not saying she is better – but she is CLEARLY no worse.
I prefer a CLEAN CONSCIENCE.
Numbers 16.
Sometimes the smart thing is standing clear.
Michelle Malkin,
I am from South West Texas, less than 2 hours from the Mexico border.
And for all you do, THANK YOU!
with all my heart.
Thank you.
I saw a man step aside today, full of grace and dignity – he passed his test, with God. I am very proud of him, and I still full intend to vote for him on Texas Primary day, March 4.
These other two rejects from the back alley behind Tammany Hall….
Well, Thank you, Michelle.
Thank you.
I saw A LOT of McCain t-shirts around today, but the guys giving them out said “You have to put them on right now in front of me [in order to get one].” It’s mostly college age students there and, in the words of the guy standing behind me during Mitt’s speech “I’m not going to turn down a free shirt.” This does not, however, explain the crazy mob chanting “John McCain! Mac is Back!” as McCain entered the hotel lobby.
My husband and I are students, but we also work so we don’t have to sell out for a free shirt, hehe. I did stick a Mitt sticker on the back of my daughter’s shirt which people thought was cute/funny.
My willingness to listen to what McCain has to say is more out of respect of Romney’s request today.
With that said, based on the comments I have seen from McCain supporters in this thread is going a long way to convincing me that I have no desire to be associated with such a group. “SHUT UP”? Get out of the “echo chamber”?
If these individuals take issue with a person’s willingness to not waver from their core values and beliefs, take issue with not compromising on deeply held convictions, or take issue with a focus on what is right over what is expedient, they are among those who would bargain away that which should not be subject to negotiation. And the tactics being employed are no different from the attacks we endure from the far left.
Keep it up. As self appointed thought storm troopers, you are doing an admirable job of convincing people that John McCain is not an alternative.
Actuarially speaking a 70+ with harsh physical treatment and hardship in his background, a father that died at 70, and multiple instances of cancer, well he’s only 50-50 to make it to the end of the firs term healthy enough to stay in office, and about 20+ % likely to die before completing his first term.
Its likely that McCain will be a single term President. Thus the VP becomes our guy in 2012. So thats a VITAL positon we can still influence as long as we dont just give up.
So to convince conservatives, if he is smart McCain realizes he needs a conservative VP. And due to the age thing, the VP must be younger than him and more energetic (sadly, this elimintates Thompson), with legislative leadership experience preferrably in Congress (eliminates Huck and Rudy), but not so much to were he cannot assume the “outsider” role. Someone thats done well in business too would be nice, as well as someone that knows true teamwork. Also someone that would appeal to evangelicals without drooling all over himself (not Huckabee). Needs to not have any real “baggage” issues And someone that could appeal to minorities would be a necessity against Obama as Pres or VP, and a bonus against Hillary who defeats Obama with dirty tricks (eliminates Romney).
One guy I know fitst that bill.
J.C. Watts of Oklahoma. And he would be a shoo-in in 2012 running as a serving VP. Talk about turning the political world on its head – the first Black President would be a Republican and a Conservative.
Apropos for the Party Of Lincoln and Reagan.
Zorro,
The mutual respect is appreciated.
I also agree with the person who stated that McCain should resign his senate seat. It was honorable when Bob Dole did it, and still is honorable.
Before many here give up on McCain, wait for his VP Pick.
He is a good man, and he is much better than Hillary.
Obama will not be the nominee.
If Barack Obama wins the Presidency, I will send a picture of myself to Ms. Malkin, and give her permission to superimpose my picture on a donkey under the headline, “another Jack@ss gets it wrong.”
This is a binding contract. I will put it all on the line. Barack Obama will not be President. My chips are pushed to the front of the table.
I do not even expect him to beat Hillary, because her minions have time to destroy him using their typical cutthroat methods.
Respectfully,
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
I cannot think of one valid reason to support why I should believe anything John McCain says.
We have the usual speeches, shaking hands, kissing and making up so we can unite the “party” behind the annointed one.
Well, I’m not buying it. Not this time.
This rogue and his RINO friends, including the current Commander In Chief, screwed us over one time too many for me to ever consider voting for him. They can just keep on movin’ left. I’m not going.
If the Dems win because some of us stayed home, so be it. I refuse to cast my vote for someone I do not trust and I do not like.
And for the record here, I will not vote for Clinton or Obama – they’ll have to find someone else to do that dirty work for them.
Now is not the time to give up.
Start fighting for a conservative VP now.
And remember to fight for the party platform. Don’t be a wuss and give up. Better to fight a good fight than to give up like half the so-called conservatives here are doing.
REAL conservatives stand for their principles and bear the costs. If there is a chance to bring them to the party via a platform fight, then that is where we must fight, regardless of the candidate. And in the meanwhile we will be either beating McCain senseless or beating some sense into him wiht solid conservative positions and principles.
Either way its better for those who truly believe in conservative principles than giving up and walking away.
We have no voice other than our own now. So now is NOT the time to go silent.
For me, McCain first needs to ditch Hernandez if he wants us to take him seriously.
Lets start beating on them with that.
Drop Hernandez to show us you are serious.
I know I’m in it to fight for things that are worth fighting for: a conservative platform, conservative local state and congressional candidates. No matter who the Presidential candidate is, those are too important to abandon while we still can fight to influence them.
If you think walking away when you could fight ever solved anything, tell that to the Marines and Soldiers who cleared Fallujah after they were forced to walk away the first time.
In the immortal words of General G.S. Patton Jr speaking to the Third Army in 1944 (the real speech not the movie version)
Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win – all the time.
If you advocate quitting now while there are still important battles to be fought in the Congress and the Platform and the VP, give some thought to that.
Think about which side of that you put yourself on.
Then come on down here by the border a spell where the latest tactic is grabbing little kids to use as human shields while shooting it out with the border patrol, and I’ll take you on a tour through the cemetary to meet some friends of mine, I’ve known half my life, whose children when to school with my little sisters, and I’ll describe to you the the way they were mutilated to death – eventually – as a side effect of the OPEN BORDERS policies of McSanta Anna, by illegal alines trafficking through the byways out here.
THEN tell me if he is better than Hillary.
Now don’t get me wrong – I ain’t saying she is better….
I just like to have a clean conscience is all I am saying.
That means I don’t wanna be standin’ too close, if you git my drift.
Voting is a way of endorsing, and it is a way of saying, THIS PERSON REPRESENTS ME and is my LEGAL AMBASSADOR and my LEGAL representative. And I accept the fiduciary obligations this representative makes before the law in my name.
“The vote of your opponents is the most honorable mark by which the soundness of your conduct could be stamped. I claim the same honorable testimonial. There was but a single act of my whole administration of which [the opposing] party approved… And when I found they approved of it, I confess I began strongly to apprehend I had done wrong, and to exclaim with the Psalmist, ‘Lord, what have I done that the wicked should praise me?’” –Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1812. ME 13:162
While you may or may not be correct regarding shamnesty, Hillbama is most certainly worse than McCain in terms of the war…
I say: only if Osama Obama and The Hildebeest do likewise. They are all wasting our money, and they haven’t even gotten their dirty hands on the jackpot yet.
Very few people seem to care about the war anymore.
AMEN. I’ll vote for Romney on March 4, in the Texas Primary – but I am content to let the GOP go their own way.
In November, I will do a write-in, like Michelle, Ann Coulter, Olivery North, or Franklin Graham.
When God prepares to elevate a man, he first sees if he is ready to be a servant of all and puts him through a test. If he passes the test with the humility, grace, and tenderness of heart towards hearing God that God is looking for, that man will be elevated, in due time, though not always in ways that all men around him may understand.
(If the man does not pass the test, but still shows some promise to God, reason for God to hope, then God sends him “ONE MORE TIME AROUND THE MOUNTAIN”)
But another man – God has dealt with and dealt with and dealth with, and in private, the man refuses to deal with himself and get his own heart right.
Eventually God says, well, either he gives up that blackness in his heart, or he cannot be elevated. And if at the same time, he not only refuses to give up his own blackness of heart, he also refuses to give up his scheme to hurt the very things God is working the hardest to do something good and clean with…God will reveal the heart of the man, and also take him down – publicly, if the man forces him to.
But he SEEMS to be elevated ….
Eventually the direction the black-hearted man willfully goes is going to destroy too much, and he still doesn’t listen as God pleads with him to stop, before it is too late.
But if the man forces God’s hand, because what he is reaching out to take hold of and squeeze to death is too important to God, and he would not let God help him with his own heart in private, then in a very public manner, God will show him and anyone else looking, exactly what he really is.
Today, February 7, exactly 9 months to the day before Election Day – following Super Tuesday, and Ronald Reagan’s birthday, a blackhearted man tries to wrest the Reagan reputation for himself to grab power to NOT be a servant of all, but to be a destroyer,
trying to grab the reputation of Ronald Reagan for himself, the very words of Ronald Reagan in CPAC 1975 show the very ironic Truth about a man who does not in fact have an ounce of humility in his entire body – glaringly portrays the stark contrast.
In this other instance, there is no display of humility, of a heart tuned towards God, or mindful of the First calling of any who would be elevated – “Be a Servant of All! First!”
Nothing could be further from his mind or heart.
So we must be looking at one of the most rare and most stunning events being prepared for the world stage in all of recorded human history.
One man passed his test with flying colors – though the world would say he lost everything.
The other man has set himself upon a stage alone – thinking himself to now have EVERYTHING HE EVER FELT WAS HIS DUE within his grasp – he has merely allowed himself to be set in a place where soon his own black heart will be compelled to show the world the material he is made of.
Such events happen often in small local settings, and most of the public who view it may or may not even know that they have “seen a show”.
But this one is of such proportion that God allowed it to progress to the world stage.
The setting is unique – can anyone on this thread think of an instance in the history of America where such a thing has happened.
A black-hearted contender for the highest prize has been set on a stage with NO CONTENDER AND NOTHING capable of taking the Great Prize he longs for from him – SAVE HIMSELF – if HE HIMSELF cannot show himself to the audience to be worthy of being anointed for this receiving of this great prize, HE CAN RIP IT FROM HIS OWN HANDS, YET.
But if he does so, the fact that his last competition for it is removed from the stage with 9 long months for him to sit on a BARE STAGE and keep on showing himself “deserving enough” – for 9 months of days.
He will have no other person to blame - no one he can accuse of “smearing him”, or stealing what is his destiny….
When in America have we ever seen such a thing?
The closest we have to it – but “contenders” were present – Aaron Burr, tricked by Alexander Hamilton into REVEALING HIS OWN TRUE NATURE to the voters….
Jimmy Swaggart being caught red-handed doing that which he was preaching hell-fire and brimstone over every time the camera was in his face….
But a NATIONAL POLITICAL CONTEST…
A full monte REVELATION…
Set to cause the fall of the Berlin Wall to pale in comparison…..
Can you say “CHECK(MATE)!” ???
- From God Himself to Son of Cain
Mcain is fighting to close GITMO because ~~our soldiers are torturing the terrorists~~ – and he is fighting to get exactly the same thing the ACLU wants for them in terms of AMERICAN CITIZENS RIGHTS BEFORE AMEERICAN CIVILIAN COURTS.
For that alone he deserves the same criminal punishment they deserve for their terrorist attacks!
McCAIN LED THE MEDIA OUTRAGE TO CALL ABU GHRAIB A SCANDALOUS EXAMPLE OF OUR SOLDIERS TORTURING TERRORIST PRISONERS AND DEMANDED IT BE HALTED AND THE PRISONS EMPTIED ONTO THE STREETS
McCain is now fighting to have WATERBOARDING OUTLAWED
McCain Anti-Torture Bill
McCain fought and undermined Rumsfield from the git go, THEN CLAIMED THAT HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLAN AND IMPEMENTATION OF “THE SURGE” and was attacked by the REPUBLICANS for doing so.
Ann Coulter and many others, Michelle included all proved HE IS NOT THE AUTHOR OR THE IMPLEMENTER of the Surge, AND NO REPUBLICANS ATTACKED HIM
ALL REPUBLICANS SUPPORTED THE SURGE aside from him – ALL of them!
His response to those who captured and tortured him was to physically shove aside our MIA AND KIA AND POW families on the Senate Floor and curse them and insult them SO HE COULD RACE TO THE WARM SIDE OF HIS HIGHEST-RANKING CAPTOR to make a TREATY with the VIETCONG for business purposes in the South Vietnam, for the advantage of his best bud’s cousin’s business interests – which American Vietnam vets screamed at Congress would rip American protections from our South Vietnam allies, several hundred thousand of who would surely die if we blinded our eyes and looked elswhere.
He raced to that man’s side and gave him a big bear hug!
Late 1990′s.
Within weeks of the Treaty being signed by the PRINCIPLE EFFORTS of Hanoi John, McCain, and Kennedy, between 800,000 and 1 million South Vietnamese FORMER AMERICAN ALLIES were slaughtered.
Without media coverage. Late 1990′s.
THAT is how he dealt with our enemies in North Vietnam IN THE LATE 1990′s.
I’m sure that is how our Iraqi and Afghanistan Vets would like to see McCain deal with our enemies from the Middle East, as well.
Every time there is anything that takes place in Iraq that the media tries to use to paint unfavorable images of our boys in action there, McCain is the FIRST AND LOUDEST condemning our kids, RIGHT BESIDE HANOI JOHN.
If some of you folks BOTHERED to dig through some of the old stories, things you lived through, stories you heard on the evening news AND INSTANTLY FORGOT – you would KNOW that the last thing our kids need is a LOOSE CANNON like McCain making wild charges about THEIR incompetence and VICIOUS COLD-BLOODEDNESS every time the MSM attacks our boys in uniform!
We could COUNT on McCain to react to each incident as Johnny Sutton has with his blessings on the border – the TERRORISTS would be given immunity to testify against our soldiers who would then be ramrodded into convictions for murder.
My nephew was in Iraq – Silver Spurs.
I don’t think you would like it if I gave you a quote of his opinion of McCain “having their back” for them – IDENTICAL to his statement about Hanoi John.
My oldest son is EMS – and you sure don’t want HIS opinion of having to work emergency conditions under the rulings of the likes of McCain who writes things like McCain Feingold, McCain Kennedy Shamnesty, and McCain Edwards, etc etc etc etc.
I spent ten years in a Navy Base Olympic-size swimming pool, taking Red Cross lessons and jumping off the high board, swimming the length of the pool underwater without coming up for air til the end wall was touched.
I cannot imagine anyone on earth spending 10 MINUTES in such a pool having any SYMPATHY or any STOMACH for the sight of McCain on the issue of the WATERBOARDING hysterics he is dishing to our boys, making their jobs the hardest he can – OBVIOUSLY HOPING TO MAKE THEM SO IMPOSSIBLE THE KIDS JUST FLAT DROP OUT OF OUR MILITARY ALL TOGETHER!
The very IDEA of McCAIN being a CONSIDERATION of a Commander in Chief to anyone who has watched his public performance in the MSM for the last 5 years – IN TANDEM AND HARNESS YOKE WITH THE LIKES OF TOADY CHAPPAQUIDDICK KENNEDY AND HANOI JOHN – is enough to make me go CAMPAIGN for the DEMOCRATS AND SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNIT PARTIES IN AMERICA – and RALPH NADER’S GREEN PARTY, TOO!
I may not stop puking for 5 years that YOU had the gall to sit here on Michelle Malkin’s site and ESPOUSE MCCAIN AS A COMMANDER IN CHIEF!
Like Joseph Mengele for teaching BEDSIDE MANNERS TO DOCTORS.
Not to insult Joseph Mengele.
And yes, I am getting MADDER!
I am sorry, I know it is not your fault.
I am not mad at you – I am just very angry.
Best example I can think of!
They can KISS MY GRITS!
Oh, you can trust him!
According to his own definition of CONSERVATIVE!
Remember, McCAIN SAYS HE HIMSELF IS THE MOST CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE.
CLEARLY a CONSERVATIVE JUDGE would be one who agrees that CONSERVATIVE means McCain Feingold
McCain Kenneyd SHAMNESTY
McCain Anti-Torture Bill
Anti-WATERBOARDING
ROW V WADE IS ESTABLISHED, SETTLED LAW
Marriage Protection Amendment and Anti-Abortion Amendment is ANti-Federalism and ANTI-STATES RIGHTS – NATURALLY!
McCain Lieberman
McCain Edwards
Etc etc etc
MUST ALL BE RULED AS “CONSERVATIVE” BY SHEER DEFINITION!
NATCH!
PLEASE INVESTIGATE McCAIN BUTT BUDDY FRED with Ann Coulter, George Will, and a dozen other great columnists before doing something that would make you feel JUST AS STUPID AS VOTING FOR McCAIN!
I’ve posted DOZENS of times – too tired, tonight! PLEASE.
Write in his Law and Order CHARACTER if you must – but HE IS NOT THAT MAN!
John Bolton, Oliver North, Franklin Graham…. C’MON!
All due respect Michelle, but you’ve lost a longtime faithful reader… and so have some of the other conservative blogs out there who have lost their sense of priority.
In your frothing zeal to villianize John McCain, you are encouraging conservatives who cannot accept anything less than absolute purity in a candidate to not vote at all or even worse, vote a Democrat into office, solely for the purpose of teaching someone else a “lesson”.
And when that happens in November and a Socialist appeaser takes the office of POTUS, Ms. Malkin, we will STILL have troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Troops who have been abandoned wholesale because of the petty, self-serving arrogance of those who would put their sanctimonious principals ahead of our National security and the wellbeing of our men and women with boots on the ground.
Two of those U.S. Armed Services personnel, will be my children… my two oldest. My beautiful daughter, and my firstborn son (a Marine who is already on deployment). My youngest child, also a son, is planning to enlist within the next couple of years and he will also be serving under the next POTUS.
All three of my children, Madame.
Let me ask you, what kind of personal investment do YOU have in the war?
It’s very easy to be a trumpeter of partisan purity I think, when you are not personally invested in the outcome of this election.
In case you’ve forgotten over the course of the last few days, we are a nation at war with troops in harms’ way. And those of us who have active duty loved ones don’t appreciate the kind of partisan sabatoge and manipulation that you, Ms. Coulter, Mr. Limbaugh, and others are advocating here.
Military families can’t afford to wait 4 years for the heavens to realign, as many here are suggesting. Our loved ones are away from home now, today, and we HAVE to work with what we have. Even if what we have is one of those evil *gasp* MODERATES.
Make no mistake, the end result of this short-sighted partisan posturing throughout the blogosphere will be the diminishment of all that our Armed Services personnel have worked so hard to achieve, when they have their boots on foreign soil during a time of war. You know this, and yet you persist in this game of partisan one upmanship! Have you lost your sense of direction?
I can’t even bring myself to imagine what a blow this childish partisan behavior has caused to the morale of our troops in the field.
I hope to God that my son hasn’t been on the internet for the last three days, if he could see what people that he has come to respect have been advocating behind his back, he’d be mad as hell.
And the same goes to the rest of you here, who would jump ship and throw our troops to the dogs for the sake of partisan purity. The hell with you.
McCain is not your candidate of choice. So what? This is life, you can’t always get what you want. You need to grow up, and get over it. McCain was not my candidate of choice either, but I’m not going to curl up in a fetal position and whine until November.
You have the power of the pen, Ms. Malkin. Use it to UNITE the party, not divide it, and back our elected – yes, I said ELECTED – candidate.
We know you don’t like him, but suck it up anyway. He may not be perfect, but you can be absolutely certain that he’s going to stand behind our men and women in uniform and step up to the plate on matters of National Security.
Bitch at him about abortion and amnesty AFTER he takes office, if you are so inclined. But for heavens sake, these are dangerous times… and dangerous times call for us to make concessions that we might not otherwise make.
Do not continue to endanger our troops and embolden our enemies with this kind of public divisiveness.
Please think about what I have written here. In my opinion, you and the others who are encouraging this partisan bickering are doing far more harm than good.
IR
Sweet Jesus.
Again; it’s starting-same old-same old:
“You have to be realistic and
VOTE FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS”.
I guess I’m just tired—time to turn in.
First – I’ll view Our Marines.com (THE AD) – I’ll sleep better having watched it.
I’ll touch base with you all tomorrow.
Good night.
CAPITAL LETTERS!
YELLING!
SHOUTING!
VICIOUS INSULTS!
BUTT BUDDIES!
TOURETTES SYNDROME!
RATIONAL DISCOURSE!
Oh wait…make that rational discourse.
I thought I was on the Daily Kos website for a second.
McCain is looking better by the minute, and some of his detractors need to be tested for rabies.
I pray the liberal media does not peruse this thread. Ms. Malkin may wish to cancel the entire thread, my own posts included (although I hope she does not).
Hillary could not ask for anything more than some of the above comments.
Ok, back to leading my normal, mainstream conservative life.
NORMAL.
Respectfully,
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
Well, looks like we are going to have Hillary or Obama as POTUS…..’cause I am NOT voting if McCain is my option.
Well, looks like a lot of people here have decided on having a “yes” President (controlled by the dem leadership) in the new U.S.S.A. (United Socialist States of America). Soros, Streisland, Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy, Moore and Hollywood, thank you for your vote and time. I plan on a “wait and see”. 12 months from now, I want to come into this blog and see nice smiling faces
with everyone pleased. There will be no “wailing and gnashing of teeth” here. As for me, I won’t be in Northern Virginia anymore. My wife and I are looking to move to Southern Virginia later on. We’ll be closer to our grandkids so we can help them learn mandatory Spanish and cope with the mosques blaring out prayers several times a day, because we can’t upset them. Our kids will need more money too, to cope with the “welcome” higher taxes and mandatory environmental restrictions. Oh, yes, because of the “fairness doctrine” guaranteed to be passed by the Dem congress, dem president, and okayed by the new liberal Court, I wonder if Michelle will have to drop this blog…hmmm. Well, one thing, I won’t be listening to radio anymore. Hearing the praises of Bill counseling his wife, or Obama, listening close to Kennedy’s advice, will be too much for me to hear. Might even move to the South Pacific and open a bar (go “bamboo”). Get the NYTimes once a week, for laughs. I wonder what will happen to the economy as a new influx of former military people attempt to find work in the civilian world, due to the big downsizing of the military and all the troops coming home. Should be interesting….
McCains message to conservatives, which is now backed up by the GOP ESTABLISHMENT, is that we need to calm down AND grow up. My message to them is, Fark Off!
The GOP will again learn that it isn’t wise to ignore real conservatives in ’08′ when they lose badly again. Stupid losers!
We don’t need to calm down and grow up. I am calm, and fully grown up. We need to keep the pressure on. That’s why I am a “wait and see” voter. He’ll change his tune once he realizes that he needs us. If he doesn’t, he can forget being President. I’ll be watching him closely. We have many months left, and a convention.
Irish Rose Please take a breath Ma’am. These abusive comments are not being made by Ms. Malkin but by commentators. My suspicion is that some of them may be Paulbots who have got into this site and seek to destroy everything, including the Republican party, in pursuit of their messianic vision. Some of the comments are from people whose names I recognize and who I have found insightful on other occasions.
On Tuesday I voted for Fred Thompson. To me the thought of Clinton or Obama in power is so much more dangerous than McCain that I force myself to carefully look at the arguments of those who I disagree with to consider what I might be missing.
Has anyone considered if Hunter could make a good VP for McCain?
I love it! Faced with the greatest revolt of their own base they’ve ever had – making the ones against them for Robert Dole and Gerald Ford simply pale into oblivion – and the ONLY response they are capable of is “UP YOURS”.
Ronald Reagan, CPAC’75 says it all.
And you do have the right message in response!
Of course, they’d rather the abused wife just get up again, the morning after, and start in and get the house cleaned up right, and get breakfast on the table, and set the furniture back upright, and start appreciating the roof that has been put over her head.
Oh, and quit using stupid excuses to make the kids late to school again – she is just making things hard for them with their teachers!
It’s the culling season, you know – not the learning season.
It’s time for us to get the message, as well – their stance is no accident – and no, they do not “really love us, way deep down inside, I mean”. and we need to take a hint and get over it.
Ditto John Cornyn and James Dobson.
I’m absolutely stunned at both of them.
And at such an irrelevant time to toss their reputations.
Sorry, I’m a website administrator and that doesn’t cut it with me.
Ms. Malkin has been monitoring this thread since yesterday, and has had ample opportunity to tone down the hateful rehetoric and call for reason and rationality on these threads.
She hasn’t, and she doesn’t… because she doesn’t like the candidate, and it serves her interests to encourage party divisiveness. She’s entitled to her opinion of course, but it does come at the expense of others. And thats’ not something that I have a lot of respect for.
John McCain is our candidate, like it or lump it. Like so many others in the blogosphere, Ms. Malkin fails to understand that a vote for John McCain however distasteful it might be, will be a vote to support and sustain our military. And ANY OTHER vote (or a non-vote) will be a vote to yank the rug right out from under their feet.
She is responsible for this ongoing idiocy because she started it, and does nothing to stop it. Ditto with many other conservative blogmasters and moderators who should know better, but seem to have a broken compass these days.
My children and all of our men in women in uniform are likely going to have to pay a very high price for the partisan stupidity that we are witnessing now, but don’t let that notion stop you or anyone else here from foaming on at the lip. Just say no to McCain
They’re just military folks, after all… important to the cause when it suits the purpose of the party, but expendable for the greater good of partisan purity.
Pardon me while I upchuck.
Many are acting like we suddenly lost our minds.
I’d like to remind you, this is the same McCain we so very decisively rejected from ruling over us in 2000, because he was so much further “out there” than even Bob Dole, with anti-Republican activities in the 1990′s.
He hasn’t spent the time endearing himself to the same base that rejected him then.
In fact, he has spent the time from the date that Bush won the General Election taking vengence on Republicans, and on Bush.
Therefore, he has consistently won EVERY SINGLE POLL since then of the Most Hated Republican BY REPUBLICANS.
We’ve spent YEARS begging the GOP LEADERSHIP to develop other candidates than the divisive ones – some that all sides of the party could unite behind – and never for one single day have any of the Conservatives been misleading the Party about the depth of their persuasions regarding this man and the issues of the far left he has worked to entrench in his version of bi-partisanship.
Yet you’ve insisted on going to him like a moth to the flames.
Our Founding Fathers were insistent that our government NOT be ruled by PERSONALITIES – but by PRINCIPLES – including RULE OF LAW BY MAJORITY.
Not by monarchial whims of popular personalities.
You have picked that which you already knew ahead of time we despised most in the world: The leading GOP advocate of the most hated of Dim policies.
It reminds me of some women I have seen who take a survey of the various family members who will be present at a certain set meal in the near future, finds out what they love most and hate most, and takes her entire menu off the list of what most of them hate the most — them complains that they have abused her when they refused to eat the meal she worked so hard on.
You guys knew going in you were deliberately encouraging the campaing of the person most likely to cause a repeat of the Robert Dole effect.
It was not H. Ross Perot’s fault – all his support put together could not have brought Dole close enough to be in CONTENTION with Clinton.
CLINTON didn’t win by a simple majority of 50% – so that doesn’t speak to the matter, either.
You cannot plop a dead vulture on the dining table and get mad at the folks for not sitting down with the family and having a nice holiday meal with you.
And go pick up the furniture YOU knocked over with my bruised body, yourself.
And YOU wash my blood off your hands and the walls – and do it without my help.
I’ll be busy elsewhere.
Irish and Ombre…one person with two identities? Both ramble incoherently like they’re on meds. Please guys/gals…keep it under 10 paragraphs and stay on subject.
Irish Rose is right. I have had the same initial reaction of revulsion to a McCain candidacy as MM (whom I do greatly admire) and so many other committed Conservatives. I think McCain-Feingold has been a disaster (albeit one the Supreme Court may yet dismantle, God willing).
Similarly, McCain’s attitudes on immigration and amnesty have been extremely troubling. You may choose to believe his recent statements recanting those beliefs, or not — but know this: his opponent in November will be a liberal who has never embraced the need to control our borders, or the need to prosecute the war against Islamic fanaticism.
Don’t let a desire for the perfect keep you from choosing the good. McCain, and America, needs and deserves your support. The alternative will be abject surrender to our enemies at home and abroad, and an expansion of the nanny statism that is busy dismantling and surrendering Europe. That is far too high a price to pay for ideological purity.
This is a must read today
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2008/02/08/why_they_cant_vote_for_mccain?voted=5
When McCain talked about “our reasoned differences of opinion yesterday, my stomach revolted.
My detestation of this man has nothing to do with “reasoned differences of opinion”. It has to do with his character.
What irritates me is that I live in Ohio…
WE HAVEN’T EVEN HAD OUR PRIMARY YET!… IT’S ALREADY DECIDED!… WE HAVE NO VOICE!
Far, far too high.
And I’m glad that someone else is able to see this truth, and rise to the occasion.
Unfortunately, I’ve had to walk away from a blog community that I love and friends that I hold very dear to remind my fellow conservatives that we are still at war, and stand up for our men and women in uniform (when the very same people who have promised to stand up for them in the political arena for the last four years are now treating our troops like a disposable commodity). I shouldn’t have to be put in this position as a military parent, but there it is.
I am asking all of the purists here to stop your griping about John McCain, and stand behind our U.S. Military. Please.
John McCain is a moderate, folks. Contrary to popular opinion, moderacy is not a tool of the Devil. Its’ time for the party purists to stop whining like thwarted toddlers, step up to the plate, and do what has to be done.
If our men and women in uniform are willing to suck it up in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan, those of us here at home should do nothing less than follow their example.
And I’m just waiting for someone here to suggest that John McCain is not the best choice to serve as our CiC.
Reality check. He is the ONLY pro-military candidate running.
Wallowing in denial is not indicative of intellectual, political, or moral superiority. I’m sorry that this is so difficult for so many of you to swallow, but you have to.
On February 8th, 2008 at 8:05 am, orlandocajun said:
Come back and lecture me when Ms. Malkin gives you the official designation of moderator, and a set of guidelines for the rest of us to follow.
Until that moment comes, STFU.
On February 8th, 2008 at 8:16 am, Michelle Admirer said:
THINK about what you just said.
McCain Feingold. “albeit one the Supreme Court may yet dismantle, God willing.”
KNOWING GOD DOES NOT VIOLATE YUR WILL – YOU tolerate McCain Fiengold AND exponentially compound that by choosing to ELECT ITS AUTHOR TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO SELECT NEW JUDGES WHO ARE NOT GOING TO BE SELECTED BASED ON A BRAND of judicial philosophy likely to OVERTURN the LAWS ENACTED by the same President who APPOINTED them.
ALL with your tolerant BLESSINGS.
What, here, is God supposed to save you from??? YOUR OWN FREEDOM OF CHOICE???
God seldom does such things.
Do you MAYBE get some sense of INCONSISTENCY in your own post – there???
HINT: THIS IS CALLED – “getting exactly what you asked for.”
And McCAIN HAS??????????
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051108-102817-8909r.htm [DEAD LINK]
“…Sen. John McCain’s so-called anti-torture amendment. …wouldn’t clarify U.S. policy at all. What it would do is create a de facto zero-tolerance policy for proven interrogation techniques and provide political cover for its supporters in the event of another terrorist attack. ”
http://www.tortureisnotus.org/fulltext.php
“Listen to John McCain explain in his own words why he is leading the fight to ban torture…
McCain: “America is the only country in the world that asserts a legal right to engage in cruel and inhuman
treatment…”
WATERBOARDING of TERRORISTS is TORTURE by HIS definition.
Yeah, McCain is willing to fight the war on Terror – BUT ON WHOSE SIDE!!!
Pray! DO TELL!
Neither will I let it FORCE ME to choose the very devil.
Just where do YOU propose to draw the line!
CPAC 1975 Ronald Reagan: “Let them go their own way.”
I recommend that you go rent “The Mortal Storm” with Jimmy Stewart. Sit down with a bag of popcorn and watch it carefully.
Instead of doing something all you do is cry.
Wah Wah Wah.
You’re all a bunch of half-*ss*d conservatives. Wimps. Babies.
Grow up. And stand up.
Some of you are giving up now, when there are still important things that we CAN influence if we stand and fight hard, and if there are enough of us fighting.
We have no one left to voice our concerns for us, so we MUST raise our own voices. Like we did on Immigration.
No matter WHO the nominee is, and no matter if you plan to vote or boycott him, the platform and legislators are too important to abandon to the “McCain” wing of the party.
First:
Argue and fight for CONSERVATIVE platform planks on IMMIGRATION, BORDER, TAXES, JUDGES.
And then there are the fights for CONSERVATIVE candidates at the local, and state, and congressional level.
And there is also the VP slot to force a trustworthy conservative in there, so we have someone that deserves conservative support in 2012 after the debacle this year.
Or are all you “I hate McCain” types so gutless as to walk away from that fight? You give up your principles that easily?
Have the courage of your convictions.
The time to lay the groundwork for the new conservative base of the GOP in 2012 is NOW. Just like Reagan in 1976 set things up for 1980. He didnt quit. And yet many of you are quitting.
Many of you are so consumed with hating McCain that you have ABANDONED conservatism by quitting in order to spite McCain and the GOP establishment. There is one word for you that are giving up in a fit of pique, for you who will not stand and continue the fight while it still matters:
COWARDS.
Stand and FIGHT like real conservatives!
Why I will be voting for Johnny Mac.
Illegal Immigration – I don’t trust anyone on that issue. I’m sorry, that issue is going to be won or lost with we the people. We have to do more, far more to convince lawmakers to enforce the border, and enforce current laws.
When I hear Juan McCain ask his buddy Teddy & John F’ing sKerry for their help to get drilling in Anwar, or to stop partial birth abortions, I may believe his sincerity. As long as he gives in to their ideas, without getting any of OURS passed, he will hold no credibility with me. The Constitutional Party candidate looks good…anyone know who that is? Me either, but he/she still looks better than Juan McCain!
No. As it stands I will NOT be voting for Juan McAmnesty.
If we hold our noses and vote for McCain, then we are abandoning our conservative prinicples. You have to be willing to stand up to your own party and tell them “ENOUGH!”
A vote for McCain is an endoremsement of his agenda, which will move the party closer to the left.
If it means 4 years of a Democrat in the White House, that is a smaller price to pay than losing my party forever.
If McCain wants my vote in November, he’s going to have to make a lot of changes to his message.
Who said anything about quitting the fight for conservatism?
Just because I happen to think McCain is not fit to be the President has nothing to do with my support for other conservatives like Jeff Sessions in the Senate. I will continue to fight to get conservatives elected in Congress and the Senate.
It just amazes me that some think people whom actually think principles matter are “cowards” and have abandoned conservative principles.
Ombre Rose:
Thank-you for your great posts here on this forum. I could not agree more and it refreshing to see that some have not forgotten about Juan McCain’s despicable past record. It seems some would rather forget his record and support him in the name of the so called GOP that is betraying everything it used to stand for.
Irishrose,
I agree with you. I admire Ms Malkin, but some of her supporters have gone bonkers. Many of them oppose McCain for principled reasons, but to vote for Hillary is insane.
I wrote the “FALL INTO LINE” article that trackbacks here. I want people to see how rabid some of the opposition is.
It is her blog, she can do whatever she likes. Yet some of the commenters do seem to be hurling invective.
Respectfully
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
Speak for yourself. This is YOUR candidate …
McCain is a liberal.
– He excoriated Samuel Alito as too “conservative.”
– He promoted amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants.
– He abridged citizens’ free speech (in favor of the media) with McCain-Feingold.
– He hysterically opposes waterboarding terrorists and wants to shut down Guantanamo.
– He denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
– He opposes ANWR and supports the global warming cult, even posturing with fellow mountebank Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of solar panels.
The only site that would have been more appropriate for Schwarzenegger in endorsing McCain would have been in front of an abortion clinic.
Feel free to vote for the liberal of your choosing. I’ll do the same, but it will NOT be for McAmnesty. I’ll vote for the more honest, less insulting [to me] liberal, thankyouverymuch.
Frack off, McCain and GOP establishment. The time to send you a reality check is quickly approaching.
Congratulations on making your choice for POTUS, but shame on you for expressing your desire to see Michelle implement a targeted version of the Fairness Doctrine here. Free speech is what it is that you demanding to be usurped. I am not too surprised after looking closely at the candidate which you are supporting though.
Instead of criticising Michelle perhaps you should be more critical of yourself.
AMEN! When your stomach is in the same identical knot over any of the dims as it is over Son of Cain and Huckleberry, then it ain’t God or Jesus telling us we have to vote for them.
The little voice in the ear of the abused wife telling her to “SAVE HER MARRIAGE” above all else is hearing a desperate lie.
I have a wonderful sense in my stomach when I realized NOTHING could make me vote for McCain.
Absolutely nothing.
Because nothing can make it the “RIGHT THING TO DO”!
On February 9th, 2008 at 7:35 am, DannoJyd said:
Hey, Danno – me, Rose, from Chazz’s forum!
You go, Man. give ‘em the Dickens!
Whatever.
You might consider getting yourself a bigger following than Michelle’s before you decide you have something to tell HER about how to run a great forum.
They have a word for folks whose ego is bigger than their own performance, ya know.