No, thanks, “my friend”
John McCain wants your money. This solicitation is landing in many readers’ e-mail boxes:
My Friend,
In the time since the 2008 presidential campaign ended I have had a chance to reflect on many things. And as I said on election night, I truly cannot adequately express how indebted I am to you, my entire campaign team and my running mate, Governor Sarah Palin.
The road was a difficult one from the outset. Yet, your faith, your support and friendship never wavered. Just as I have proudly served my country for more than half a century I am as committed as ever to helping see our mission through.
So to continue the movement, I have decided to launch a new grassroots organization called Country First.
Today, I’m asking you as a friend and supporter to renew your commitment to our common goals by becoming a Charter Member of Country First with an online contribution.
Country First will allow us to strengthen our Party, better define our Republican ideals and message, recruit and back strong, dedicated candidates and continue our efforts to bring real reform to government by always putting our country and the noble ideals she stands for first.
Together, we can make government more responsive to today’s problems and more answerable to the people. That’s why I hope you will become a Charter Member of Country First and support our cause by following this link to make a generous contribution of any amount today.
With your help we can work to elect these new leaders to Governorships, Statehouses, the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 and beyond. Once in office they will become fierce advocates for limited government, economic opportunity, personal responsibility and strong national security.
On Election Night last year, I called on all Americans not to despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
Today, I am asking you to join Country First to continue fighting for the worthy cause of revitalizing both our democracy and our Party.
Our goals will never be realized if your voice falls silent. You are the best hope for our country’s success. Please stay in this fight with me; our country needs your service now as much as ever.
I know that together we can make a difference – we already have. Again, I thank you for your unwavering friendship and support.
Sincerely,
John McCain
P.S. Country First will serve as a powerful voice for the American people. It will allow us to get our Republican message out to the voters and elect a new generation of Republican leaders who can go to Statehouses and Congress to fight for all we believe in. Please join as a Charter Member of Country First by following this link to make a contribution today. Thank you.
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What an arrogant bastard…oh, and I’m not your friend, now, in the past or in the future…say Good Nite Juan.
Nope. However, the point here is that when politicians promise the sun, stars and moon in an attempt to curry favor from their party’s base, I just wouldn’t carve in stone tablets. I suspect even Obama realizes that “saying something doesn’t make it so” even if you are the President. Reality has a way of upsetting the applecart.
*McCain was correct on the surge, but dreadfully WRONG on everything else one can think of over the last several years; Country First=Term Limits
*If the RNC learned anything at all from the last election cycle, it is that they need closed primaries in all the states that matter; That’s what the conservatives are saying; Please listen up RNC and quit polluting the well with RINO’s
On January 7th, 2009 at 11:35 pm, purplepeep said:
First time ever that McCain was accused of attempting to curry favor with he party’s base.
Not much to slow him down peep. I happen to think Obama is as serious as a tumor when he talks about bankrupting the country. If he isn’t, Pelosi and Reid sure are.
Meanwhile the opposition cannibalizes itself instead of rallying for what’s coming. Seems that some are determined to help them.
Which Country? Mexico or the US?
I have to ask because McCain told La Raza that comprehensive immigration reform was still his FIRST priority. That means he considers the US his second priority at best.
What does “rallying for what’s coming” have to do with McCain’s solicitation for donations?
Bill Grant stumbles onto the truth.
Bill, you are really proud of your “icehole” joke, aren’t you? That is the third time you have made that strange remark. And you think MY remarks are getting tiresome? Oh, and all those things you mentioned about my son-in-law, Franken, etc. are external issues that I can live with just fine. You, on the other hand, are stuck with your problems every day because they are in your brain. My friend, you have some real issues and I hope you get some help.
Except for when he met with the “agents of intolerance” prior to his White House bid.
And for when he suddenly changed his rationale for opposing Bush’s tax cuts from “they were skewed to the rich” to “they didn’t include spending cuts,” and then decided to support keeping them in place.
Or when he switched from opposition to off-shore oil exploration to “drill baby drill.”
Or, when he chose a genuinely conservative running mate (whom he subsequently threw to the wolves).
Yeah, aside from those instances, the reprehensible derelict has seldom been accused of pandering to the base.
You mentioned “drill baby drill”, so I can’t be accused of going off-topic. I was thinking, now that we have the dems in complete control of congress, the prospect of actually drilling for our own oil is just a pipe dream (pardon the pun). That is the real tragedy for this country, since opening up all that drilling would create jobs, restore our economy and bring huge renewal to a lot of dying towns. And even more importantly, we could stop sending trillions over to the people who want to kill us. It just boggles my mind why the dems can’t see that!! They are all truly delusional. Speaking of delusional, I just brought the subject back to McCain. See how clever I am?
But it would make people less dependent on government, and we can’t have that.
JOHN MCCAIN, YOU ARE A SORRY, GOOD FOR NOTHING, TREACHEROUS, SISSIFIED LOSER. YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT, NOT A REPUBLICAN SO GET YOUR WRINKLED RINO A$$ OUT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. YOU ARE A TRAITOR TO THE CONSTITUTION AND TO ALL THAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT IN AMERICA. IN SHORT, YOU ARE A CREEP. WE WANT SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES SOMETHING INSTEAD OF A WEENIE FLIP-FLOP-OTHER-SIDE-OF-THE-AISLE BASTARD LIKE YOU.
JOHN MCCAIN, LEAVE AMERICA ALONE. GO AWAY. YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE ALREADY.
We can thank/blame him for the next 4 years (minimum) of pain and suffering in this country for all hard-working, patriotic Americans.
I got that email this morning. I read it, considered for about 2 seconds then said, “no thanks, I only give money to “grass roots” conservative causes that are headed by something other than a Republican In Name Only”.
Interesting that I’m not alone in that assessment.
happyscrapper said:
An oldie but a good one. According to you it isn’t a joke though. Maybe the time you spend on the internet would be better spent working on that…
Thanks for confirming that you are “just fine” with having Al Frankin as your senator. Guess you can stop complaining… You truly belong in Minnesota.
On January 8th, 2009 at 11:00 am, Socky said:
Great news Socky, you got someone who DOES pander to his base.
On January 8th, 2009 at 12:26 pm, MtsEdge said:
Sure it isn’t because of the 4 million + supposed “conservatives” who sat on their asses and didn’t bother to vote/contribute/do anything but whine on 4 November? Wonder if I have ever mentioned this before: there is nothing conservative about electing Barack Obama.
Note to frostrt: I’m getting that “treadmill” feeling again…
On January 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm, MtsEdge said:
Not really a counterargument there…. It’s great to see Michelle working on bringing about the same set of circumstances for next time though. What do we want to bet that whatever politician comes out of the primaries will be labeled a “RINO” here…
No more feeding the troll…O.K? It has gotten incredibly tiresome.
On January 8th, 2009 at 7:57 pm, happyscrapper said:
Hey, if you can live in Minnesota you can bear up under any tiresome activity.
You mean Obama? So what? McCain panders to the liberal left, too. They’re called ‘the media.’
On January 8th, 2009 at 8:32 pm, Socky said:
Perfect.
If there was one single idea that I’ve ever had where I wanted people to consider it’s full scope and offer thoughtful and reasoned comment, (instead of ‘oh well that just won’t work..) – it is this one:
My cure for conservatives getting ‘John McCained’ in a presidential primary is very simple and would be easy to implement. I think it would be dramatically effective.
The problem as I see it is that if we have only one liberal leaning candidate within a field of several more conservative leaning candidates plus enough liberals crossing over to the RNC to affect the primary – THEY WILL SKUNK OUR VOTE AND I THINK THEY DID LAST YEAR.
If our last primary had been ONLY, say for example, Duncan Hunter versus John McCain – I believe Hunter would have won. If it has ONLY been Rudy Giuliani versus McCain – I believe Giuliani would have won, etc.
A majority of conservatives within the RNC simply does NOT in any way guarantee that a conservative will be nominated using the current approach when there are several conservatives on the ticket and one ‘ringer’ like a John McCain.
My solution, which I believe would be similar in outcome to a run-off style election, (but effected on a single ballot rather than by multiple elections), is:
THE “YEA/NAY PRIMARY BALLOT”
It allows you to not only vote for the candidate you want the most – it ALSO allows you to vote against the person you want the LEAST. I am convinced that had such a ballot been in place last year during the primary – there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that McCain would have won.
Here’s one idea of how it might be implemented on an optical scan type primary ballot. As before, the first column is wide listing the name of each candidate.
However there would be TWO marking columns instead of just one. One column would be headed “Yea and the other column headed “Nay”. Each voter is permitted to make only one mark in each column, (more than one mark in a column would invalidate that column). Each voter is also permitted to leave either column blank if they wish.
The total vote for each candidate is simply all of their yea votes — minus all of their nay votes.
I know that I for one, along with my yea vote for Duncan Hunter, would have used my nay vote to stop McCain. I suspect that a majority of us would have done the same thing and maybe we would now be celebrating the presidential election of an actual conservative to the WH instead of crying in our beer.
We definitely need to make a change for the better and this could do it unless there’s a downside that I’ve not considered. Can anyone think of one?
(PS – I think democrats ought to do the same thing cuz many of them are so stupid they’ll vote yea and nay for the same candidate!)