Dick Armey whitewashes John McCain’s fiscal irresponsibility record; Update: Armey walks it back
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You’ve got to be freaking kidding me.
I mean, really. Come on:
As former Rep. J.D. Hayworth prepares to officially enter the Republican primary race against incumbent Sen. John McCain, he probably had better not count on any support from FreedomWorks, the national conservative group closely associated with the Tea Party movement.
In a telephone interview with The Arizona Republic, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, FreedomWorks’ chairman, delivered a surprisingly harsh assessment of Hayworth, with whom he served on Capitol Hill…
…Armey, who was House majority leader from 1995 to 2003, clearly came down on McCain’s side. “There’s nobody who can match McCain’s record on fiscal responsibility,” he said.
Over the last year, John McCain supported everything that the grass-roots Tea Party movement has stood against:
*The $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout;
*The $25 billion auto bailout;
*The $300 billion mortgage entitlement bailout; and
*The first $85 billion AIG bailout.
When push came to shove, McCain and his economic advisers (including his hand-picked California GOP Senate candidate, Carly Fiorina) caved to the Chicken Little chaos in Washington every time and joined hands with Barack Obama.
Reasonable people may disagree on whether J.D. Hayworth or John McCain deserves Arizona’s Senate seat.
Reasonable people may not assert that John McCain is an unsurpassed paragon of “fiscal responsibility.”
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A reminder from Neil Cavuto last fall:
CAVUTO: “For the life of me, Senator Straight Talk, I see no such straight talk with yours…You rail against big government, yet continue to push cockamamie spending plans that make a mockery of it. That’s why you’re losing right now, Senator McCain. Not because you don’t have the courage of your convictions. But because on economic matters, you have no convictions, period.”
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Reminder Number Two – Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome.
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio – enemy number one in the Justice Department/DHS for his staunch enforcement of immigration laws — has endorsed Hayworth. He writes in a support letter:
“I just wish Senator McCain had run as hard against Barack Obama as he is against a conservative like J.D. That could have prevented the harmful, liberal agenda we are all now suffering through.”
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FreedomWorks says that a New York Times article reporting that Armey has officially endorsed McCain is false. Well, how about correcting Armey’s all-but-official endorsement of McCain’s lousy fiscal record now?
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Update 2/11. Armey walks it back…
A number of our members have asked about my recent interview regarding John McCain and the Arizona Senate race where I said: “There’s nobody who can match McCain’s record on fiscal responsibility.”
I was referring to his unparalleled record of fighting politically motivated earmarks. Very few of his colleagues can stand on that ground, but I should have been more clear. John McCain and many other Republicans did vote for TARP. They broke my heart by doing so.
Armey could have been even clearer. It’s not just that McCain voted for TARP. He crumbled. He rushed to embrace every other panicked bailout of failing companies. And these fiscal transgressions are just the tip of his progressive, big-government iceberg.
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Another Tea Party red flag. The movement has been infiltrated by establishment Republicans. First Sarah Palin, now Dick Armey. So far, Tea Party Patriots seems clean (Richard Viguerie’s organization). We can only hope.
Dick Armey HAS TO KNOW BETTER! This is a disappointment.
McCain needs to go and I hope Armey wakes up.
Just another reminder that pols that stay too long in DC become tainted. When first in Congress, Armey was a good guy.
Cripes, Armey having a senior moment, or what!?!??
Perhaps Armey refers to McCain’s role in Citizens Against Government Waste; I recall receiving fund-raising letters from CAGW, ostensibly written by McCain, in which he proudly referred to his successful efforts to cut assorted military budget items.
Didn’t exactly make me want to grab my checkbook, as those kinds of programs were among the last I’d be focusing on when it comes to “reducing government waste.”
But even if one is willing to cut McCain some slack on that account, that leaves what he went for in 2008. Oops.
Many of these organizations are passing around e-mail lists. How I got on Dick Armey’s mailing list is beyond me? Reading through some of his bulletins a few weeks ago, rather than simply deleting it – I blocked it instead. This doesn’t surprise me.
If J.D. decides he’ll not run I’m thinking Sheriff Arpaio could win by a landslide. Go Joe! We loves ya.
I’ll side with Cavuto and Sheriff Joe any day over Dick Armey. I can’t imagine why Armey would destroy his own credibility to prop up McCain. McCain must have called in some serious chits.
Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is about the only one left who actually understands what the Constitution and the 10th Ammendment mean.
Flight 93: Promptly 8 years too early and one hour too short.
I read someplace today that Joe is supporting J.D. I love Joe and he is doing a great job with all the heck he is getting. I sure would not vote for dear john is I lived in AZ I don’t care who comes out to support him.
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Does McCain have some sort of blackmail on these people? WTF??!!??
Let McCain be a fiscal conservative from outside Congress like the rest of us. At least we’d be safe from his spineless “bipartisanship.”
Armey still has a bad case of beltway disease. Anyway, his organization has given invaluable aid to the tea partiers as far as helping them organize, but it would appear that we’ll have to continue to find our own direction home as far as ideology and candidates are concerned.
The unfortnate reality is that hypocrisy is often the rule. There are elected officials who voted against the stimulus and who are now handing out checks.
There are other Senators who scream fiscal responsibilty, lowering debt, cut spending and yet they are the first to line up at the trough to feed on pork for military equipment and FBI components not wanted, or needed.
If you are an elected official and vote against a spending bill maybe your district, or State, should not recieve any funds? Kind of meant to help keep that elected person from making themselves hypocrites. No, that can’t be the answer.
I don’t have an answer. And, shame no longer works either.
I am of the opinion that the “Tea Parties” should be grassroots events and NOT organizations. Any time something becomes an organization, it becomes infiltrated with beaucrats, crooks and opportunists.
Thanks a bunch, Dick, you useless, glad-handing hack. The second J.D. makes it official, I’m sending him a check.
Oh, and Sheriff Joe nailed it.
The only thing Juan McLame has ever cut–is in line to reach across the aisle. RINO all the way. Go J.D.
Obummer can.
The odd sense of no-matter-what-loyalty that establishment Republicans have for each other is bizarre.
Which is probably one of the reasons it was best that McCain lost. Would things be better with President McCain? In some ways, but like Bush he was always reaching across the aisle and also like Bush he would have played the War Card to shut conservatives up (whom both men despised). In some ways he would likely have been worse. President McCain with his democrat friends (fiends?) might have had no more success with a healthcare takeover than Obama (so far), but he might well have gotten amnesty passed.
We were really screwed in 2008. But the full extent of it, the numbing details, the horrifying reality, is just beginning to sink in.
Armey is particularly disappointing given his involvement with the Tea Party. While the Tea Party is not apparently beyond working with moderates to get them elected, I would hope it would serve as a means for removing long-(self)serving incumbents with a distinct need to retire, and McCain is well past ripe. (Yes, Hayworth has served in the past). Time to take such statements with a grain of salt; Armey deserves no more authoritative opinion than I do. Let the grassroots dispatch with all politicians needing a new career.
There go the repubs again, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Johnny Mac has stopped sending me snail mail-I guess they caught on-but I was receiving e-mail from the lad. When I hit the unsubscribe a box popped up asking me why. “I am voting for JD–ask LaRaz for funds“.
Sorry to hear about Armey. Perhaps he should visit http://www.MyAlzheimersSupport.com and see if he can get some help.
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ABM Treaty: Anybody but McCain.
JD HAYWORTH for US Senate 100%!
Think of RINO’s like McCain as Republican progressives. We have seen that Bush was one. Vote conservative and check your candidate’s web site for credentials. It’s not difficult; it’s not rocket science.
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Dick Armey has always been a corporate shill, same as McCain.
Mayor Daly turned over in his grave because Chicago had an HONEST election.
Long time members of the same Country Club…you know the type that got the Republican Party booted out of office in the last election.
Do not forget “progressives” are not squeamish as to which party one is affiliated with…same goal, change America.
In my view, Dick Armey can no longer be trusted.
Fiorina can beat Barbara Boxer. Lay off.
In this case Armey is supporting McAmnesty because he agrees with him on the issues. Including Amnesty.
Here is a youtube clip of Armey speaking of “freedom” for illegal aliens.
Like so much of the professional “libertarian” movement, the man is a shill for big business. He’s not any sort of fiscal conservative.
Armey, Newt, McCan — the whole lot, gone. Politcal Drano is what is need in washington
Zyzzyg, the answer is to take the check-book away from the Federal Government, except for those things specified by the constitution, and repeal income taxes. Taking away the money- the only power they know- is the only way to stop the abuses.
I can tolerate a RINO in a heavily Dem state, but AZ is not a heavily Dem state.
Geez, mcamnesty is the never ending nightmare. Please Arizona, send the illegal alien loving RINO mcamnesty to Sun City for retirement.
BTW, Fox News and PBS are already referring to Sarah Palin as the leader of the Tea Party movement. With Dick Armey now compromised too, that leaves only Jim DeMint and the Tea Party Patriots. I’m sure there are many other reliable Tea Party groups but at the top level? Trouble ahead.
Somebody’s gonna need some unguin for the nasty rash this thread topic is gonna give him.
Armey is a joke.
Freedomworks is a joke.
McCain is a joke.
Next!
Cavuto rules!
Malkin rules!
These geezers have been swapping spit so long they couldn’t pass a multiple choice test on conservatism.
Vote the geezers out in the primaries and send young, determined conservatives to the Senate.
Stop sending these once-every-six-years-I’m-a-conservative grandpas.
I agree with some of Joe Arrapio’s goals, but the guys got some serious baggage and I’d be careful associating myself or my cause with him. In a nutshell, he behaves like a banana-republic dictator – arresting journalists that disagree with him, trying to prosecute judges that disagree with him (on grounds that would be laughable if the matter wasn’t so serious), stealing information he has no right to (including county records and defense attorney records), etc. He acts as though his whim is the law.
” On February 10th, 2010 at 3:48 pm, revolution said:
These geezers have been swapping spit so long they couldn’t pass a multiple choice test on conservatism.”
Extremely well put!!!
*That’s what happens when you have a Dick A. trying to usurp a grass roots movement; They will always default to protect their own; Beware the entrenched GOP members, as we must target the RINO rat bastards for removal from office, and their titular head is John McCain; I will spare all the coin I can on J.D. Hayworth to unseat this advocacy pimp for illegal alien amnesty!
Keep in mind too that the “pragmatists” in the Republican party are supporting amnesty because, like the Dems, they know the government needs the illegals on the tax rolls. Unlike the Dems, they won’t get their votes.
What, with 40 million aborted babies deleted from the American workforce, somebody has to pay for the Boomer’s retirement.
What does that even mean? 80% of the scumbag Wallstreeters vote and donate Democrat. They even party with them. Corporate shill… jeeze.
Dick Armey may be a for-profit tea party organizer, but if he thinks he “controls” the movement, he’s vastly mistaken. Glenn Beck had a brief clip of Meghan McCain on Larry King (that tells you something right there) proclaiming that she is a “progressive Republican.” Don’t need any of those, thanks, we want someone who knows what the Constitution is all about.
The legacy of Armey, McCain and the Old Republican Guard is Barack Obama and a Socialist Congress. Thanks guys, we appreciate it…. The ruling Republican oligarchy has brought us to where we are now. Even Reagan could not derail them. Any mistakes that young Conservatives and Tea Party Patriots make in promoting their candidates will look like sheer genius compared to what the RINOs have done to the country over the last 20 years.
The “Need to GO” list is a long one! It certainly includes McCain and his pals, Armey & Linsey (Bubba) Graham…& while you’re taking out the trash take Corker too!
Why? she’s no more than another progressive…her and McShame are hand in hand as they walk to the campfire singing the peoples song…dragging the once heralded Sarah behind.
Just a another great example of why Armey has no leadership role in the Tea party.
I would hope that we the so called conservatives/traditionalist in this country can see past the same ole dog & pony GOP BS that they have been shoveling for at least 20 years. The situation we find ourselves in didn’t just start 1/20/09. We are drifting into becoming no longer a nation nor very connected. Particularly from our roots and no it does not make us stronger. The GOP may not be the same as the Democrats but they are no less destructive nor in any real sense represent me, my family, community nor the America I am trying to preserve and protect.
If we can’t find a way as a people to stand strong against both of these pied pipers. God help us.
This is just further proof that we need, with few exceptions, a clean sweep in Washington. Politicians are our enemy. These guys collaborate (I won’t use the word “work”) on a few bills and they start to think that they are at a country club. They quickly forget who they work for. Washington stinks. It stinks from one end to the other. Not many that go there come out smelling clean. And McCain is a first class stinker, in the finest Ted Kennedy tradition.
huh huh huh huh “Dick Armey” huh huh huh
The same thing happened to the Perotistas in ’92….except the infiltrators were card-carrying democrat operatives. I remember because I was there at the grass-roots level in ’92 as I watched their infiltration.
The people who support the Tea Party movement NEED to select leadership who will back their principles and who will do the hard-core-possibly-lose-their-friends vetting for additional personnel, as the leadership may decide. They need to do MORE than just have a contact person as a go-to for the next protest, as it is clear they are being hijacked; they also need to be clearly in control of the purse strings.
Alright now! [stands on soapbox] You all are my witnesses: I hereby pledge that, unless I see real change, the GOP won’t get another thin dime from me. This means the GOP, the RNC, the RSCC, the RCCC, the whole bunch of ‘em.
PS-MCain needs to go…period..no more LOTE.
Go to Freedom Works and let them know these comments do not in any way represent Constitutionalist Tea Party members.
I agree with everything Michelle has said here. I agree with Neil Cavuto. They are right, McCain has few real convictions that can be nailed down. He’s also co-sponsoring a bill that would break up the largest banks and stop bank investing, meaning all of the big American banks would essentially become credit unions. He’s doing this with Democrats and the news hasn’t taken much notice of it. As a transplanted Arizonan (really a Texan), I will NOT be voting for McCain again.
However, we might want to ask Joe Arpaio what he considers “dangerous liberal policies.” You see, he threw his weight behind Janet Napolitano in both gubernatorial races here in Arizona, including in the first race against Matt Salmon. That year, 2002, she only just barely won. I blame Arpaio for that.
Napolitano set a record for Arizona vetoes: she issued 180 of them. Now Arizona is in major trouble financially. Napolitano is the DHS head who can’t even spell “terrorist”, much less utter the word. ARPAIO helped further this woman’s political career.
Wow, that’s pretty radical!
Welcome to the club! Haven’t registered Republican or given them a penny in 10 years. I support conservative candidates.
Taking the check book away is un-constitutional. The Constitution is quite specific as to how the Government’s purse is managed.
Not sure stopping the funding of items not specified in the Constitution would be successful. Social(ism) Security, Medicare, and MediCaid, for instance would be political suicide. Is there any elected official, or someone who is running for office, advocating eliminating those programs because they are not in the Constitution?
The TEA Party has no leader, and needs no leader.
I was wondering what Armey’s objectives were going to be when he popped up as some sort of ‘organizer’. Propping up old friends, while it may be a noble goal, is not the objective of Tea Partiers.
People that associate themselves with the simple Tea Party goal of smaller government should avoid all high profile wanna be leaders like the plague!
While hearing Palin speak, it was nice to see her recognize that this philosophical association belongs to no person or political party.
Hey Dick – be careful of your associations. Conservatives choose to judge people by the content of their character and not the length of thier friendships. Your associations speak to your character. This good-old-boy Washington stuff has got to go — it has betrayed this country, betrayed its people for too long now.
WarEagle82, I think what people need to realize is that you and I and other conservatives live in one bubble (of beliefs and views), and Dick Armey, McCain belong to, and live, in another bubble-they are NOT alike.
If we are to see people who are people from our ‘bubble’, then that is exactly WHO we have to look for and select, and not default to LOTE.
Think of it in another way. I am divorced…One of my mistakes, that I have come to realize is that if someone has bad habits or attitudes at the time you are ready to take them to the altar, then you must expect those unwanted attributes to continue long after the ceremony-because they will..meaning that it is nonsensical to believe you can ‘change’ someone’s bad habits…It just doesn’t happen. This lesson applies to politics as well as marriages.
I contacted Freedomworks and left them a message, saying in part:
McCain’s willingness to blow massive piles of taxpayer money on bloated government programs is exactly anathema to the tea party message. How can your group possibly have as its stated mission “Lower taxes, less government” and at the same time sing McCain’s praises? Dick Army needs to clarify what he believes constitutes fiscal restraint.
Chuck Devore can beat Boxer. Did you see the two of them on Beck on Monday?? “nuff” said.
We in AZ are not thrilled with the idea of McCain winning another one, but at the same time JD has been to the “mountain top” and knows how to play the DC game. We do not want another “business as usual” Repub running for Senate. We also have Jim Deakin running for Senate who has spent the last 10 months covering the State and meeting with Tea Party People everywhere. He is a Constitutionalist, fiscal conservative, retired military and most important is a “citizen legislator”–no more business as usual. He is a candidate who doesn’t want to play the DC Game. Unlike McCain, Deakin does have enough signatures on his petitions to appear on the Primary ballot already–McCain does not and JD hasn’t announced yet.
Retread politicians are like gangrene– the only way to stop the spread is to cut it out.
I’d rather see JD as Governor where he can really do a lot of good for the state!! Especially on border issues!!!
That is one reason why I have not contributed yet to the Arizona race…However, if this Deakin is, as you say, then Arizonan Conservatives need to make that happen by vote.
I know alot of people will not agree with me but I say this as someone who lost a beloved uncle in the VietNam war. He was a pilot like John McCain. Those who served in the VietNam war, especially the pilots who did the dangerous jobs of flying jets into the teeth of Soviet antiaircraft missiles, deserve to be cut some slack. I also factor in that McCain never flinched during his years of captivity where every Communist trick in the book was flung at him. I have some issues with McCain as senator, particularly his vote against tax cuts in 2001. But I also think that service to country, loyalty to fellow soldiers and personal sacrifice have to count for something. I don’t include John Kerry as being entitled to any slack. Mr. Kerry did everything he could to undermine men like John McCain and my beloved uncle who fell in 1969, when Kerry was hobnobbing with Jane Fonda. But I do think giving McCain another term in the senate is an appropriate way of thanking real VietNam veterans for their service. I felt the same way about Jeremiah Denton, another hero. For people who don’t remember Jeremiah Denton, please read about him. Truly a great man.
Just dropped by to say buh-bye to my friends here. Headed to Haiti for an extended period of time. Rebuilding and feeding and feeding and rebuilding…
P.S. Thanks Chap for the fine gift.
Take care, write when you can. Hug an orphan for me.
Goodluck..and be safe!
Keeping you and your trip in prayer.
On-my-soap-box: Checked out your site; You’re doing some fine work there; God speed.
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I disagree!! I respect John McCain as a War Hero. I do not respect him as a politician. He was a true hero. He is a lousy Senator. He needs to go. Why would you “reward” a war hero by voting for him to return to being a terrible Senator?? That makes no sense. Reward him in other ways. And respect his service. But he doesn’t deserve to go back to DC next term and continue to hurt the American people, because that is what he has been doing. Enough!
To On-My-Soap-Box: God bless and keep you!!
Weary Citizen we shall let McCain stay in Sedona-the Earth’s Vortex and center of Arizona’s Mystics for he is certainly one of them.
JD Hayworth did play some “go along-get along” when he shouldn’t but I do believe he is a hard conservative now aware there is no honest dealings with the progressives.
But then the man is a friend of mine.
“The movement has been infiltrated by establishment Republicans.”
Them dastardly Republicans lowered themselves from silent running black helicopters right into the crowd at the national tea party movement meeting!
Kinda makes you wonder if Johnny beats the hell out of his wife.
Michelle: please oh please keep the heat on McCain. He is overdue for a permanent vacation, as in unelected.
Arpio said it very well,and I’ll add the following, you did not show up for your own campaign and you did unpardonable damage to a great new player, Sarah Palin.
It is time for you to go. We do not need to continue with the MSM endorsed Republican candidacy of John McCain.
JD Hayworth has an uphill battle and it really pains me to see the likes of Amery pulling the plug on him in favor of Mr illegal immigration, and for whom bipartisanship is an end in itself McCain.
Also I really wish Sarah Palin would sit down with JD before she campaigns for McNasty. Hear his side. Well meant but blind support has no place in the upcoming elections. They will be Chicago style dirty you can make book on that.
The people want straight answers, something McCain is very short on these days.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
I do not care which party he belongs to–I want SOMEBODY in Arizona to kick John McCain out of the US senate. He’s a hideous blight upon the Republican party.
For a very long time I tried hard to remember one of the things that always bothered me so much about McCain.
This exactly was it.
McCain always seemed to trot out some crap about cutting some military program…sometimes so ludicrous you knew it would never happen.
He seemed to be doing it for the media attention, or as some campaign ploy, or even to get back at some other Republican.
Whenever there was some outrageous liberal giveaway during the same period, McCain was always silent.
It was as if McCain was playing a game claiming he was conservative because he wanted to cut waste, claiming it MUST be waste because he was such a supporter of the military, then he would go quiet for awhile.
But he never seemed to call for cutting the liberal giveaways.
Serving in the military at the time of his games, I resented the he!! out of his using the military as either pawns, or an attempt for campaign material, media attention or donations.
I thought JD was worth a shot, certainly better than McCain, and the word of someone like Sheriff Joe just seals it.
Donations on the way JD.
McCain? Here’s a big eF you like you were willing to give us.
just attended my LD21 precinct meeting and JD Hayworth was there. He made some very good points as to why he would be a better rep for us than mccain, but I still feel iffy about JD’s spending during his previous run in Congress. I want the man swearing on a Bible that he won’t pull that crap again. At any rate, the politicians in our city are fully into mccain’s pocket, and I hope we can get rid of him one way or another.
Normally I would agree, but then he should have shown loyalty to me while I was serving.
Stay safe, Soap.
Dick once called Nancy Pelosi beautiful.
So of course, he will lie at times.
Last night on Hannity… McCain was making fun of the Snow and those saying it was due to Global Warming..
HUH!!!!! McCain Has proclaimed over and over..even campaigning on his total belief in the false science of global warming.
Hayworth has been the straight talk candidate, which is why he was tossed in 2006. How dare he say illegal aliens should be sent home or punished. Republican republicans need that slave labor, and democrats need those votes. Juan Mcshame supports both those positions, being a maverick he gets to be on both sides of all issues. The question in this race is does arizona have an open primary, because if so, Hayworth should save his campaign money for the general election and run as an independent conservative candidate. Juan will have all his illegal allies not in sherriff Joe’s jail voting twice for him.
Whether it’s global warming or global cooling, it will take decades to see any effect. No amount of legislation, as a grab for power, or hugging trees will change it. It looks like McCain is changing his tune to keep his seat. It will take awhile and close watching to see if he’s honest about it or not.
I didn’t know that there was still enough whitewash left in the country to make McAmnesty look good. Armey isn’t much better.
McCain suffered greatly for his country.
But our country shouldn’t suffer for him or because of him.
He has Conservative religion now like all pols when facing re-election. But he’ll be maverick Johnny, the Progressive Rino as soon as he’s safe again.
Amnesty, Cap &Trade, McCain-Feingild, McCain-Kennedy.
Armey and Sarah are on the wrong side now.
They can not be trusted
Before the Tea Parties I didn’t see much of John McCain on Fox News. But lately he pops up every night like a regular contributor. Wouldn’t Fox invite him before or did Sarah put in a good word for him? Maybe it’s the action of the Tea Party folks. What do you think?
Those of us who lost loved ones in VietNam just feel different about John McCain. Maybe being 10 years old and going to the funeral of a beloved uncle who fell in that war and seeing the fellow airmen from his training days and soldiers who came to the funeral gives you a different and indellible view of the men who fought and bled in that war. But I just can’t bring myself to disown McCain. Yes, he is selfrighteous and his vote against tax cuts in 2001 was pure spite. But you have to balance the bad with the good. People also said that Jeremiah Denton was an undistinguished senator and Mr. Denton lost his seat to the windbag Howell Heflin. Maybe I am not being totally rational but I just think that on balance, personal sacrifice and courage under fire counts more than an occasional idiotic vote in the Senate.
So much for Dick’s credibility.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
When it doesn’t balance, that’s where the problem lies. McCain has done so much damage to America since coming home, it’s all nullified any good he did during wartime. What good does his fighting to protect our freedom from external enemies do if he’s just going to become an internal enemy afterwards?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
There was a Tea Party member on Fox and Friends this morning. He said that the tea party movement doesn’t support John McCain.
He advised Republicans to nominate Conservatives.
Fiscally responsible or not, one cannot use the argument against Hayworth, as he has not had the opportunity to be in McCain’s position
The moral of this story: Don’t trust ANY politicians, we must hold their feet to the fire at all times. And run them out of town on a rail tarred and feathered when they betray conservative Constitutional principles.
We have to return to LIMITED Federal government, that exercises only its ENUMERATED powers. As James Madison said (and as I wish it truly were), “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.”
Instead the Federal government mostly exercises its power on US, who are more and more becoming its subjects instead of a free people.
I too somehow turned up on Armey’s email list. Just another old RINO I have no interest in and immediately removed myself from his email. The Tea Party movement will NOT allow itself to be co-opted by ostensibly Republican shills like Armey, and they had best wise up to that fact pronto. Do these clowns think we’re as stupid as the Dems think we are?
And thanks to reader FLENSER for the lead to the Armey video – I’ll be using that in my blog.
AMEN!
The infestation runs deep …
Since there is no official Tea Party membership, and I went to the Tea Party in Atlanta, I say “NO!” to John McCain. People are smart enough not to be fooled by fear that the incumbent is the only one who can win. Senator McCain has earned our respect, but in a primary, it’s what’s best for the country (and also what’s best for the state of AZ), not what a man did 30+ years ago that counts. I may just send a few bucks to J. D. Hayworth, even though I live in GA.
I agree with the analysis about McCain.
However, the Tea Party movement has to be very careful of their rhetoric, so they do not end up sounding like The Left.
I think Armey and Palin are mistaken in their assessment of McCain, but I think it not logical to leap to the conclusion they now somehow lack integrity.
Is our reaction to a differing opinion to rip people apart on a personal basis?
That is naive. Everything in politics is calculated by a successful politician to express what they truly desire, and if they don’t have your values at heart right off the bat, they never will.
Palin, I would say, has decided to just cash in, and go with the flow to the top. Her ego is getting the better of her. Her integrity to the values she claims to espouse is in fact questionable when she continues to endore McCain, a man who has done conservatives and America zero good.
Palin is good, I have to admit, at playing victim when it suits her politically, but that can’t work forever. Yes, I did read her book.
Conservatives need to support policy over personalities if they want to get ahead.
Dick Armey?
Please… he wouldn’t know fiscal responsibility if it bit him in the neck.
This is where the Tea Party Movement will make its stand – going after each and every RINO, including (perhaps STARTING WITH) the RINO’s in their own midst.