Hey, John McCain: Have you bothered watching the ad you condemned yet?; NYTimes piles on
Did you know that John McCain lambasted the North Carolina GOP’s anti-Obama/Jeremiah Wright ad without having seen it?
Yes, this noxious little tidbit was tucked into an AP story three days ago when the controversy broke and has been little remarked upon since. When I mentioned this fact at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference dinner last night, much of the audience gasped. Obviously, the word hasn’t gotten out there enough:
The ad opens with a photo of Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright together and a clip of Wright, whose incendiary comments about race have bedeviled Obama.
“He’s just too extreme for North Carolina,” the narrator says in the 30-second spot. “We asked them not to run it,” McCain told reporters traveling with him in Kentucky. “I’m sending them an e-mail as we speak asking them to take it down.
“I don’t know why they do it. Obviously, I don’t control them, but I’m making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there’s no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don’t want it,” McCain said.
McCain said the ad was described to him: “I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it.”
Let me repeat that:
“I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it.”
He didn’t bother to watch the 41-second video before his campaign leaned on the NC GOP to withdraw it.
He doesn’t want to see it, lest he sully his delicate eyes.
Yet, he’s so indignantly sure “that there’s no place for that kind of campaigning.”
And then he has the gall to turn around and knock Obama’s elitism.
Congratulations, Sen. McCain: You’ve out-snobbed Snobama.
Yes, without having seen the ad or talked directly to the NC GOP officials, he’s absolutely convinced that he’s right about his knee-jerk assessment of their supposedly bigoted motives.
McCain Math is the same as MSM Math: Southern + Republican + video featuring radical leftists who happen to be black = RACISTRACISTRACISTRACISTDANGERWILLROBINSON!
Naturally, McCain’s New York Times editorial board endorsers at the NYTimes were happy to oblige and pile on with a Pavlovian editorial this morning calling the ad racist and divisive, “shameful and ugly.” Congratulations for giving your friends at the NYTimes the rope to hang North Carolina Republicans, Sen. McCain:
The assertion that Mr. Obama is “just too extreme for North Carolina” is a clear bid to stir bigotry in a Southern state…Senator McCain was right when he said, of the new ad, that “there’s no place for that kind of campaigning — and the American people don’t want it, period.”
Now he needs to get his party to listen.
Here’s the vid from yesterday’s Today Show interview with McCain that I blogged about yesterday:
The transcript:
VIEIRA: Okay. I want to switch gears here and talk about the latest controversy. It’s over an ad in North Carolina coming two weeks before the Democratic primary.
VOICE OVER: For 20 years, Barack Obama sat in his pew, listening to his pastor.
REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT: And then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no.
VIEIRA: The ad says, quote, “just too extreme for North Carolina.” Now, you have called this ad degrading and you’ve asked the state party to pull it. But so far, they’ve refused to do that. Why do you think they’re not listening to you, a? And why do you believe they would continue to raise questions about Senator Obama’s patriotism?
McCAIN: They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality in the Republican party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable. I have said that. It will harm the Republicans’ cause. And I’ve done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue. I have engaged in and will continue a respectful campaign of either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton.
VIEIRA: Senator Obama said if you wanted to, you could get that ad pulled because you are, after all, the nominee and the standard bearer. So if you can’t get the ad pulled, does it raise any questions about your leadership?
McCAIN: I don’t know exactly how to respond to that, except that I would hope that Senator Obama would repudiate and apologize for his remarks concerning the heartland of America where his elitist remarks indicated that people who are hardworking dedicated people, who harbor traditional values and principles and value their religion and the Second Amendment of the Constitution would not be treated in an elitist fashion. I hope he’ll apologize for that.
How about you apologize first, Sen. McCain, for running to the liberal media to once again trash conservatives as racists for exposing hard truths about the hard Left?
Not bloody likely.
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Following the cue of McCain and Howard Dean, there are now two TV stations who refuse to play the ad because it is “offensive.”
Always happy to show it here again (with a reminder that the NCGOP could use your financial support):
Meanwhile, McCain continues to give himself special dispensation to challenge Obama’s relationship with Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers.
Because, you see, raising questions about a Radical of Color is “not appropriate and unhelpful,” but raising questions about a Radical of Pallor is McCain-tested and RNC-approved.
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From my perspective, the ONLY thing racist about this controversy is that McCain is clearly discriminating between Wright and Ayers…
he can attack Ayers, but not Wright.
The ONLY thing that makes that possible is the RACE of the two people in question.
And that, “my friends”, is racism…
Frankly, I wonder if all of the discussions about McCain are moot.
According to the primary numbers the democrats have two to three times the voter participation that the republicans do. This will probably carry over to the general election in November.
I think I’m going to change my nick to “WeAreSoFrigginScrewed.”
I can’t help thinking, what if they had an election and nobody came?
McCain is the Republican version of Operation Chaos.
Oh, Madamevengier…..yup..
madameveniger: who are these “reliable sources” who put out the “word on the streets”?
#98
As a “so-called” Christian, I am taking a principled stand. Just because it doesn’t coincide with your idea of “principle” does not invalidate mine.
I feel that John McCain is far more conservative then the two Democratic candidates even though he may be just left of center.
I don’t believe John McCain is as liberal and evil as many commenters on this blog do. Is he the ideal candidate? No.
Have you found an ideal candidate? If so, point him or her out? We can probably point their short-comings out as easily as you do John McCain’s. I don’t recall any of the other Republican candidates being the “perfect” candidate.
Again, if you chose not to vote based on your “principles” then so be it. You’ve made your choice. I too have a choice, unprincipled or not.
iamsaved is the sort of Repubican who does not compromise out of neccessity, but because he enjoys doing it. It gives him a buzz of moral superiority. Sort of like the way Bush prides himself on the fact that he keeps his mouth shut while the left destroys him.
I seriously do not like McCain. It is going to leave a very bad taste in my mouth to vote for him.
Just a part of the reason that all three candidates scare me.
Her post is just inside the beltway BS…
I would say the one not voting is the one not compromising. My choice is a compromise if I’m willing to exercise my vote and select the “best” candidate the Republican party has chosen to nominate even though he wasn’t my first choice.
Do you base that on anything other than your feelings? This “far more conservative” man seems to have a much warmer relationship with his left-wing friends in the Senate than with, say, Sessions or DeMint.
One you conceed that the GOP is set to nominate somebody who is left of center, you have to conclude that the convention needs to pass on him and nominate somebody else. Forget principle, which you seem to hold in low esteem. Simple common sense and self-preservation demand that we drop McCain.
iamsaved - your choices are Pontius Pilate or Herod. Which one do you choose? What idea or vision of principle shows you which is better than the other?
I choose to vote for neither. I will support conservatives in local and state races. But in at least one sense, voting for someone is giving them your approval. And whether you say you are holding your nose or not, that vote counts the same as the enthusiast’s vote.
Good Lord. McCain does not want to go negative. He doesn’t want people on his behalf or on their own to go negative because he doesn’t want to deal with attack dogs on the left attempting to connect this to him. (Like the media successfully did to GWB when the SwiftBoat veterans ran ads against Kery. I donated money to the SwiftBoat veterans for Truth, and I liked what they did - so I know what I’m talking about - but the President was still attacked for it despite not being involved.)
It’s his decision to run a positive campaign, and he expressed his displeasure at other people. If McCain decides to make a public statement against, and not watch the ad, than thats his right to do so. He has absolutely no power over the NC GOP, and they will do whatever he wants.
I don’t see anyone here saying that they are not voting. I think you mean “not voting for the candidate I’m supporting”.
Of course. And that was not my point, either.
My point was in response to your snide little shot about the world applauding other people for their insight…people whose principled stand you were denigrating.
IF you can vote for McCain in good conscience…go with power up. I salute you, while totally disagreeing with you.
If, on the other hand, you are considering voting for a man you know to be utterly unworthy of the position, a positive danger to those values you say you embrace, etc., I invite you to reconsider.
My calculus says that McCain is MORE dangerous than the other two…not because of ideology…but because of effectiveness. He will move the same ball further down the field, and damage the RNC immensely in the process. And, while the RNC is very little to me, it HAS BEEN the party with which I have had common cause for much of my life, and the only PRACTICAL home for conservatives in anything like the foreseeable future.
Dropping McCain at the convention will not happen.
My apologies for the accidental duplication.
Is it plausable that McCain WANTS to run against Obama instead of Clinton? That the differences between the two are more pronounced than between him & Hillary? Again, it’s the electability issue. Who of the Democrats would McCain rather run against?
Ragspierre #118
Spot on analysis. Do you vote for a traitorous quarterback who will turn the ball over on every down or take the field with a unified defense?
You don’t score points in either case but do less damage with the latter until 2012.
Perhaps…
but it does jibe very nicely with what we KNOW about Mr. McCain’s “pattern and practice” as we trial attorneys like to say.
We KNOW that he refused to shake hands with a wheel-chair-bound member of an immigration commission…a solid conservative and universally admired guy…who had the temerity to take a position on the issue of his bill adverse to “my friend” John’s. That was in a public hall, outside a Senate hearing room, as I recall.
Just think how he would have treated the man in private, away from reporters and cameras…
We know that he has cursed Sen. John Coryn, and otherwise treated him with open and hot disdain, over the same issue.
Just think how he would treat Joe Citizen, for whom he feels obvious utter contempt…
and shows it.
I do plan to vote this year, just not in the Presidential election. I’ll concentrate on my local elections.
Memo to McCain, you’re not being elected King here.
Picture three stagecoaches named Hillary, Obama and McCain.
Enthusiastic volunteers are pulling them fast down the road yelling for people to join them and help pull their stagecoach. They say if you don’t help pull you have no right to complain if the wrong coach wins! They scream at us to pick a coach!
Some of us stand by in total amazement. Being of sound mind we notice what most people do not. A hundred yards down the road is a cliff. All three are headed straight for it.
I may have to watch the wreck coming, but I sure as heck don’t have to help pull the wagon over the cliff.
Nor do I have any right, in my world of right and wrong, telling the stage company their route selection is OK…!!!!
LOL…What if we fence the stagecoaches in a corral and let them run in circles?
Despite all the crappy things we know about McCain, I can’t get too much past what the alternative is: “President Obama.” And how many people actually want that? Do you want Obama to place his choice of lawyer on the Supreme Court? Do you want Obama to invite his longtime friends Such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrnto stay in the Lincoln bedroom? And everything in between?
I wanted Romney, not McCain. Others wanted the other candidates, but the morons in our party voted for McCain and when it came to my state, I voted for Romney and it was a waste of my time, because McCain was already out in front. Our nomination system needs to be changed - it would be awesome to dump McCain at the republican convention to a better conservative - but none of these things are going to happen.
Maybe some people would rather see four years of scorched earth on American soil by a liberal president so the chances are better for Thompson or Giuliani to run again in 2012. *shrugs*
It is very clear that McCain does not want to go negative on Democrats. Unfortunately, however, he has no problem whatsoever in going negative on Republicans and conservatives, in particular.
Every time I get to the point to where I think I can “hold my nose” and vote for McCain in November, the stench and blinding noxious fumes of one of his new attacks on conservatives becomes unbearable. He casts a vision of a modern day Napoleon, hand resting inside his jacket, who will go well beyond being a “maverick” if elected, transforming into an omnipotent loose cannon.
Dead on, Jim…
except there would be no need to transform…
just unmask.
OK…as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the democrats outnumber the republicans. This is because Obama has managed to energize the public with his promise of “change”. McCain has not been able to create a similar response among conservatives because of his waffleing on conservative principles. So, regardless of his rhetoric, McCain is dead in the water.
Unfortunately, our government only seems to believe in fences for Mexico and Egypt, not for here.
Trying to fence in any of the government anymore is going to be worse than trying to catch the most wild mustang you can imagine while you are barefoot with two sprained ankles and running through heavy sagebrush. Maybe it is not absolutely impossible but it sure ain’t likely at this stage of the game.
Makes me kinda fear the future!
Great! Then we can call it a chariot race and sell tickets and make lots of money. That would really tick them off.
Agree, Wartip….The only thing I know to do is to take local steps to minimize the damage affecting me personally.
LOL. Rohan…..
Anyone who is willing to vote for McCain is willing to vote for a liberal president and see four years of scorched earth on American soil.
And Giuliani? You cannot be serious. That guy makes McCain seem like a rabid right winger.
I have to say I agree with Rush.
You can read the whole transcript
here
I know Thompson is not interested, but now if someone could just get Romney to run as an Independent, he would win in a landslide!!Republicans would run to him out of total disgust for McCain. Most especially the Conservative Republicans.
The blame for that lies with the RINO’s, Bush and McCain chief among them.
The Democrats are repulsive, but at least they know what they stand for. It’s hard to know what the GOP stands for any more. It used to be the party for law-and-order, limited government, American nationalist types. It has thrown all of those principles in the dumpster behind party HQ.
Todays GOP is globalist rather than nationalist, sneers at law and order, sees itself as the politcal arm of the Chamber of Commerce, and is socially liberal. Take a look at the sorts of candidates Ensign is recruiting for Senate races. McCain is a disaster, but he is only a symptom of the underlying problem.
Ditto here blind_mule!
I feel empowered now that I can view myself as a conservative “maverick”.
I believe that JMac was just trying to give the appearance of being “above the fray” in these matters, but as usual, he is crapping on the base again.
McCain has an almost insurmountable problem if Obama is the Democratic nominee. He is going to lose his chief media strategist, Mark McKinnon.
McKinnon is on record as a huge Obama fan. Earlier this year, he expressed a strong view that he could not stick with a campaign that maligned Obama. And last year, he disclosed that if Obama were the democtaric nominee, he would leave the McCain campaign, given his belief that Obama would make a great President. http://en.afrik.com/article13261.html
McKinnon is touted as the strategist that brought McCain’s campaign back from the dead last year. McCain now finds himself in the position of having to coddle his chief media guru by putting the kid gloves on with Obama. And Come August, there is a very good chance he is going to lose McKinnon anyway.
The wisdom of keeping let alone placating a critical team member who is going to walk out on you 2 months before the general election is mind boggling. It is a virtual guarantee of sabotage to McCain’s campaign in the general election against an Obama candidacy. It is as if McCain is signaling he believes he will defeat Clinton in the general election, but is all but conceding defeat to Obama. Truly amazing, and truly disturbing.
I am getting 4 to 5 calls per week from the RNC (I have caller ID and don’t answer)and a deluge of mailings soliciting contributions. I don’t intend to contribute any money, unless we at least get a decent VP candidate.
My beef isn’t with the RNC, but with McCain. We deserve better than him.
I am donating to the NC GOP today.
Hmmm….What if the American public begins by acknowledging that the 2008 and 2012 elections may be lost to conservatives? But what if we began laying the groundwork for change by electing and grooming local candidates that are more in keeping with conservative/small government principles? Would this not give our children more of a voice in respect to how they are governed?
McCain’s not a complete idiot - he’s still about a tenth of a degree short of that. But if he keeps on acting as a foot soldier for Howard Dean, he’ll reach total bufoonery in no time at all.
::: shakin’ head and rollin’ eyes here :::
correction….”as to how they are governed”
McCain said:
My problem with McCain’s objections is they lack specificity, they lack content. Well, he didn’t see the ad, how substantive could they be? I mean, could he get any more vague? If he said the ad was twice removed, from NC state candidates to Obama to Wright, I could see that objection. Or that the remark was profane and shouldn’t be repeated, or even that it was taken out of context. But he doesn’t say anything like that. He says nothing. How am I supposed to support a statement that says nothing? At least throw me a bone. I need to engage my mind, at least occasionally.
I will be leaving the vote for POTUS blank as well.Only voting for state and local officials. I also remember how McCain threw Bill Cunningham under the bus for saying “Barack Hussein Obama”.He was introducing him at a rally.Cunningham said I’m through with this guy.Everytime people think well we will hold our noses and vote for him he gives us another reason not to. McCain just seems to have glee throwing conservatives under the bus and cuddling up to the MSM,but I have never ever heard him have contempt for the other side when they’ve called our side Nazi’s and the like. Also you really need to look into the facts on McCaine’s so called Conservative record.There isn’t one.As for being pro-life he is for stem cell research and not the kind
President Bush is for using adult stem cells.Just the fact that he will not close the borders despite what he says.We all know how much we can trust his word(wink,wink)as he was trying to backdoor shove amnesty down all our throats.And buying into the whole Global Warming hype.Excuse me we had snow here on April 19th!I can just see our food prices and gas prices soaring even higher than they are now. I highly doubt any of the Founding Fathers would be elected today they would be considered too extreme.Goodbye America it was nice knowing you. Question why can I not seem to get paragraphs on here?
What you need to know, a friend of my enemy is my enemy.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/852357,CST-NWS-sharpton20.article
I’m concerned that McCain will be too easy to lead to the slaughter by conniving, evil liberals.
Thats what makes the Conservative road map to great and so important its simple to read and its always right.
To=so
Here’s my two cents. Come Nov 08′, none of the above.
I am a little tired of people on this blog who whine about John McCain, and yet say they will still vote for him…McCain needs to lose for the good of the Republican Party and if the whiners who still say they will vote for him persist, I have no respect for them.
rad·i·cal, adj. - of or going to the root or origin
pal·lor, n. - unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
Michelle you rock!
I’m getting closer and closer to giving ten bucks to NCGOP. The last time I made a political contribution was to Tom Trancredo and this is about as close to sticking my finger in McSame’s eye as I’ll get until I write in Mitt Romney for POTUS.
OK….here’s a bottom line…..Are you gonna waste your time caught up in current rhetoric?…or are you gonna lay the groundwork for real change in this country?
Thank you Mr. McCain. You just made up my mind for me. I will now sit out this election in November.
By the way ,I, a strugggling 44 year old laid-off, ex-blue collar assembler working his way through college to his MBA has already contributed $10 for the ad with more on the way if the NC-GOP doesn’t cave in
Put your money where your mouths are, folks!
You are right. Just when I thought I might be able to hold my nose enough to vote for him, he reminds me why I have been so disgusted with him all along.
Damn fool.
EXCELLENT!!!!!
McCain views members of the GOP as his enemy. It is clear and simple.
When I heard this pandering fool give Bush an “F” for Katrina while sucking up in the chocolate city, I was stunned yet again. Now he out-mccains that by saying he never really saw the NC GOP add, just heard about it?
WTF senor Juan Mccain?
I haven’t contributed to any GOP cause in well over a year because of the direction of the party.
I just gave my contribution to the NC GOP with the following note:
add=ad
We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable.
See… you ad-mongerers need to understand, McCain is innocent by association.
Sorry iggy I forgot this;
Maverick candidate John McCain…meet Maverick voter rooster
How dare McCain compare “Republicans” (and I use that term loosely) like himself with Lincoln, Teddie Roosevelt and most of all Ronald Reagan. Gag. He needs to lose and every single “Republican” like him on the ticket this November needs to lose with him. It’s time to clean house (and senate)!
You put it so delicately, madamevengier.
Being a strong cultural (as well as political) conservative, I am concerned with style, decorum, manners, civility, and such. (Admittedly though, I am much stronger as an advocate in these areas than as a practitioner.)
But when it comes to speculation that John McCain might die from natural causes before he has time to finish the destruction of conservatism and the sellout of the country, well that is just the happiest thought I can conceive. That’d be one rollicking, fun-filled wake, from my perspective!
And, of course, I would support granting him the decorous interment that his once-glorious service has earned him. But then I’d PARTY on his bones!
I can’t add anything that hasn’t been said. Maybe it is time to start hording rice.
The only reason why Bush’s poll numbers are in the tank is because the drive-by media and the rest of the leftist nitwits have been bashing, trashing and slicing him up since mid-2002.
6 years and counting of that is gonna leave a mark.
…not to mention other RINO’s who go limp-wristed when they start believing the left, and start attacking Bush themselves.
Liebermann has provided more support for some of Bush’s policies than some wobbly RINO’s.
Slightly off topic and not a popular opinion I know but I will always hold Lincoln responsible for usurping the power from the states and centralizing power in a (constitutionally questionable) federal system. It seems sadly appropriate in a morbid way.
As for Teddy Roosevelt or Reagan? Well, let the records speak for themselves and judge them by the company they keep … silence from McCain in 5, 4, 3, 2 …
If you don’t vote in November, you’re trusting some one else to choose for you, do that and you’re also validating an illegal voter.
His party IS listening! However, it’s to the real, independent (from the RNC) conservatives that McLib needs to start listening, if he wants our backing.
Once he gets in office, you’d better bet there will be a NEO conservative type movement looking toward 2012, and hoping to replace him as “the” conservative candidate.
His arrogance is astounding. He’s more than willing to work with the “America’s the Enemy” liberals to destroy this country, but unwilling to work with, or listen to conservative patriots.
You’d think he’d learned something from all those years in the hands of the communists (’Thank you,sir! May I have another!’)…maybe he has…
Stockholm’s Syndrome? Hmmm.
There is something very wrong with you. You sound like those lefty BDS nuts at HuffPo. Maybe you should go find some girl in a wheelchair to beat up so you can vent your frustration.
The logic here is simple and straight forward:
“Obama is too “extreme” for us”, ie Obama is an extremist, Obama is black, therefore, extreme, extremist, extremism, etc. are racist epitaphs.
Sounds logical (liberal) to me.
With candidates like the three stooges we have I’m not sure there is anything left to fight for. I will vote on local issues and for my very conserative congressman, but I don’t think I could sleep if I voted for McShamenasty. He is simply Hillary lite.
Thanks for making this point, Rinoalert.
I have seen McCain apologists on this forum, and even in this thread, repeatedly claim as a reason to vote for him that he would apppoint judges like Alito and Roberts.
I don’t know if people saying that are just political propagandists shilling for McCain or if they are running their mouths in complete ignorance of what was what came to light during the primary contests.
McCain reminds me a girl who ditches her date and a party to hook up with someone else. We’re stuck with this guy on the ticket but does anyone think there is a way to remind him we’re still here? He seems to be tacking further and further left.
He’s not Conservative, but he is assuming that he has the Conswervative vote. He is far too in love with himself to see what we see.
He thinks that he can make liberals and independants like him.
He’s out of his fecking mind.
Stockholm syndrome possibly?
Why don’t you go back over to FreeRepublic where everytime some deplorable leftie (Peter Jennings, Ann Richards, e.g.) croaks you can join in the orgy of sentimental sending-up-a-prayer-for-the-family posts.
Yea, McCain is old and he might croak before he can ruin the country. And I should pretend to gloominess over this one bright possibility in our season of national despair. Hell no I won’t, Miss Prisspot.
And thanks for your concern with where I vent my frustration. I think I’ll vent a little of it on you.
And by the way, if girls in wheelchairs ever start pushing for the destruction of conservatism and the abandonment of the borders of the USA, I’ll be just as quick to let go of my sentimental concern for them.
we need to realize that protecting the future of our nation and our culture has now gone from
“I can’t vote for this jerk amnesty traitor liberal McVain”
to
We Must Do All We Can To Defeat McCain
I know that sounds weird to many of you, but this is one conservative who agrees that 4 years of McCain would be FAR MORE DAMAGING TO OUR NATION than 4 years of Obama, and yes I realize how damaging the communist Obama would indeed be.
we need to immediately stop propping up this traitor McVain, who will, as was adroitly stated above, “turn the ball over intentionally on every down.” we need to learn to start “taking the field with a unified defense.”
that is only possible if McCain is disallowed a victory in this race. it’s sacrificing our short-term for our longer-term survival. because if we go with the traitor now, there is no hope of stopping the 3rd worldization of our homeland.
we don’t stop McVain now, we are doomed. frankly, he’s such a total moron, he’s probably already done the job himself, but we can’t take that for granted.
vote against McVain the traitor!
If John McCain manages to get elected in spite of his best efforts to loose, he will be a constant problem for those of us who want to improve (move to the right) the GOP.
McCain’s idea of what the Republican Party is is where he is out of touch. McCain=Republicrat.
#178, What ~you~ said, stoptheinvasion!
There is no acceptable outcome for conservatives in this election. The most important thing to be salvaged is the narrative.
With a McCain victory, the MSM will immediately produce the narrative, “This is the end of the Reagan era. The know-nothing wing of the GOP has passed into history.”
Alternative, if McCain loses, conservative media, blogs, and talk hosts can fairly sell the narrative, “A republican can not win running against his base.”
Some of us as individuals may not accept these narratives as absolutes, but they will be enormously powerful. History is written by the winners, and, needless to say, they write it to their advantage. The young ones listen to these tales and use them to get their bearings.
It would be very hard to attract young conservatives to a movement that had convincingly been written off as dead. OTOH, a conservatism that is able to “show its teeth” would deliver a powerful lesson to all the RINOs.
We can lose the WH, but hugely reenergize the conservative movement.
I thought I might only vote for MCShamnesty if he picks Mitt as VP, but I doubt he will “go away” before destroying the GOP fully, he is too evil. So, I have decided not to vote for MCcAin who is a liberal: (1. Close Gitmo, 2. dislikes ALito type judges, 3. rights to terrorists, 3. sued a Right to Life group for an anti-abortion ad, 4. saying Roe v. Wade should not be overturned, 5. no waterboarding, 6. freedom of speech impeded by him, 7. destroy American business for so called global warming, 8. grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegals). Also, McCain had no problem attacking Mitt Romney’s wealth (which at least Mitt did not marry into) and lying about Mitt, he only has a problem with attacking dems. Let’s clean house.
correct, Ignatius, the sooner we throw traitors like McVain onto the scrapheap of history, the sooner we conservatives can take back over in the form of a real movement.
and I will go on record as one who would be popping the champagne if McVain were to drop dead tomorrow. it takes a real heinous awful human for me to say that about, and he is it.
If there is a distinction there, I don’t see it. Wanting to come off as a good guy to the lefty MSM is the same thing as pandering to them. Consider his support for a bill to give government designated reporters special privileges.
This event helps prove the following point:
You can’t reach across the aisle to your foes without turning your back on your friends.
WOW - Just read the last 10 posts–There are MANY of us who will vote BUT– NOT for the LESSER OF TWO EVILS –Johnny Mc.
RNC Survey - filled out and mailed–where it — the RNC — asks for $$$$–I wrote–when the Party starts keeping its promises and delivers. The RNC failed w/a majority in the mid ’90s–the first Bush blinked on no new taxes–and……on ……and on……and….on……..
I swear, I’m starting to think that Hillary Clinton is the most conservative candidate left in the race. Whenever I find out something new about McCain, it’s always something that makes me want to puke.
We already know about that crackpot Juan Hernandez, and now we find out that McClowns chief media strategist hearts OBAMA of all people.
If it walks, talks, squawks, swims, and lays eggs like a duck, only an idiot would insist that it’s really a horse. McCain’s a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.
Can we ask Bill Clinton if he’ll be our nominee? Compared to McCain, Clinton was Reaganlike.
So, who else will go on the record here and admit that the death of McCain would make them happy? It’s useful to know who the hateful nuts are.
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You know, Papa Louie, it really was more than “turning [his] back” on his friends. It was more like passing along to a group of muggers a tip on when his friend would be passing through a dark alley with a lot of money in his pockets.
He could have ~privately~ discouraged the ad. Or, he could have publicly distanced himself from it without expressing contempt for the NCGOP.
But he chose to join and help sustain the old, ugly lie that southern Republicans are just bigots — for them, it is all about race. His words were slightly more oblique but still very clear and overtly nasty.
And what did the NCGOP do to deserve this national storm of contempt for their “racist” campaigning? They created an aggressive politcal ad letting the bilious race-mongering, hate-spewing Jeremiah Wright reveal himself in his own words. And in our upside down world, the creators of the ad become the racists!
So McCain joins with Ted Kennedy, Bill Moyers, Chris Matthews, Larry King and all the righteous leftists who for years have intimidated white southerners with the threat that if they so much as opened their mouths they would be branded as racists.
McCain enthusiastically leaps into this decades-long charade. And he imagines that conservatives in NC — and many conservatives everywhere — are not going to be absolutely ENRAGED at his pious preening at the expense of good conservatives who would have mostly voted for him?
There are no words adequate to the contempt that I feel for John McCain.
Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory McCain you jackass!
I’d like to see all three “candidates” shaking hands in hell by Nov.2nd. That’s the only way this country has a chance of survival, but if your voting for the lesser of three evils, better pray for the Hildabeast. She’s the smartest of them, and she’ll want to get re-elected, so she won’t get to stupid. You can bet she’ll have that finger in the air like an antenna for four years. Screw Juan McChump, he’ll destroy Conservatisim, Hillary will strengthen the opposition.
The moment that anyone tells me they heard of this ad before McCain denounced it, then I’ll believe the outrage.
guess what, folks.
as a write-in name, you can write in “NONE of the above”
on your ballot.
if enough people did so, the pols would quickly get the message.
but, by holding your nose and pulling the lever for McCain, you are just perpetuating the RINO-takeover.
if they got lots of ballots, and exit polling saying they wrote in “none of the above” , then the GOP would be sent a powerful message.
or, even better, “none of the above,CONSERVATIVES ONLY”
I didn’t read all the comments on this page, so I may have missed the “Republicans” comments. The individuals I did read sounded like a bunch of “liberals” have invaded MM. It sounds like B.D.S. is already on it’s way to being cured (replaced) with a good shot of M.D.S.
I may have to take myself to a more “Republican” blog. I have only heard this kind of crying and gashing of teeth from the “Looney Liberals”!
Guess you people won’t get your invite to the Victory Party. Sounds like many of you don’t know how to party anyway. The Fester — has spoken.
A socialist dictated
McCain blindly responds?
Ouch, is this his style of leadership?
the title Republican means nothing if it signifies open borders, illegal alien pandering, closing Gitmo, no waterboarding, U.S. trials and Miranda rights for terrorists, voting against tax cuts, reaching across the aisle to libs while insulting and publicly demeaning your own conservative party base. etc etc
Ignatius, I’m afraid this is only the beginning. Since the Willie Horton ads, any negative Republican spot that features a minority is automatically considered racist. Remember that Al Gore was the first to do a Willie Horton ad, but it wasn’t considered racist until a Republican did it. No one really questioned the facts in the ad, only the color of the subject.
Now, TV stations are refusing to air the Rev Wright ad on the basis that it is offensive, not because of anything unfactual, but because the tone is negative and the subject is black. That is enough for the liberal media to detect a “hint” of racism and justify banning the ad. This is just another example of how Liberals are destroying free speech in the name of Political Correctness.
How long will it be before the liberal media refuses to air ANY Republican ad against Obama because they suspect a motive of racism behind the ad?
Fester said:
Yes, people here do get carried away at times. That is the nature of the Internet I guess.
However, come November, no matter which of the 3 are elected, conservatives will not be having a Victory Party.
“McKinnon is touted as the strategist that brought McCain’s campaign back from the dead last year. McCain now finds himself in the position of having to coddle his chief media guru by putting the kid gloves on with Obama.”
Jim M…..
I had actually forgotten about this. I think that you are right on the money. It makes McCain even more dispicable in my eyes that he would have this man on his team, but then…. he also has Hernandez, so enuff said I guess….