John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now?
My friends. It’s time for some real straight talk. It’s time to take a good, hard look at the entrenched Beltway Republicans who call you their “friends” — and then repeatedly vote against you, trash you, and mock you in between elections until it’s time to pander again. Look at John McCain’s record, not his latest, desperate campaign fund-raising e-mails.
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John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now?
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
I need a Dramamine to cover GOP Sen. John McCain’s re-election bid. With his desperate lurch to the right, he’s inducing more motion sickness than a Disney Land teacup. McCain’s campaign represents the same self-serving political cynicism that American voters have grown tired of stomaching from the current White House. We need choices, not carbon copies.
After decades of embracing the liberal media moniker “maverick” for his frequent derision of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, McCain has now abandoned the label. He told Newsweek magazine earlier this month: “I never considered myself a maverick.” But countless YouTube videos show McCain and vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin invoking the “m” word. Here’s a typical bit of self-puffery from a McCain stump speech on Oct.14, 2008:
“It’s well known that I have not been elected Miss Congeniality in the United States Senate, nor with the administration. I have opposed the president on spending, on climate change, on torture of prisoner, on … on Guantanamo Bay. On a … on the way that the Iraq War was conducted. I have a long record, and the American people know me very well, and that is independent and a maverick of the Senate, and I’m happy to say that I’ve got a partner that’s a good maverick along with me now.”
With veteran tough-on-illegal-immigration GOP challenger J.D. Hayworth (whom I support) just five points behind McCain in the latest Rasmussen poll, Not-Maverick has now abandoned (or rather re-abandoned) his notoriously long-held open borders stance. Just a few short years ago, Not-Maverick was attacking Rush Limbaugh as a “nativist” for opposing the Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty plan. When GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions introduced an amendment to bar illegal aliens from receiving the earned income tax credit, McCain likened it to Jim Crow laws.
Sessions: “…I do not believe we should award people who have entered our country illegally, submitted a false Social Security number, worked illegally… I do not believe we should reward them with $29 billion of the taxpayers’ money. That is a lot of money.”
McCain: “What’s next — are we going to say work-authorized immigrants are going to have to ride in the back of the bus?”
When Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico called for a cap on the number of visas for legal permanent residents at 650,000, McCain called it un-American and accused Bingaman of “discriminating” against poor foreigners (never mind that the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill itself had a visa cap of 290,000). Like the true progressive he is, McCain never lets the facts get in the way of playing the race card. Unless it’s an election year, that is.
When McCain’s friend GOP Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma put forth an amendment to “require the enforcement of existing border security and immigration laws and congressional approval before amnesty can be granted,” McCain refused to take a position and sat out the vote. The amendment failed 42-54.
Just how beholden and deferential were McCain and his illegal alien shamnesty Republican twin Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to Teddy Kennedy? During floor debate on an amendment that would have required illegal aliens who get legal status to have a minimum level of health insurance, the Washington Times reported, the pair scurried over to check with Kennedy before voting to ensure their votes all matched. The amendment went down.
Actions speak louder than the pro-enforcement, strong-borders rhetoric McCain adopted for his failed 2008 presidential run — and which he has now resurrected to save his seat in his border violence-plagued state of Arizona.
More words you can’t believe in: In a fundraising e-mail sent out this week, McCain pledged that he’s “determined to return to the Senate to continue fighting against the massive expansion of government under President Obama.” Yet, to this day, McCain refuses to admit his own individual responsibility for supporting the pre-socialization of the economy started under George W. Bush and continued under Obama. McCain has never admitted he was wrong about his support of the $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout; the $25 billion auto bailout; the first $85 billion AIG bailout; and his proposed $300 billion mortgage entitlement bailout (which dwarfed Obama’s plan).
His latest McLame-est excuse for supporting TARP? He was “misled.” But all the warning signs and red flags about Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s incompetence and untrustworthiness were there before McCain joined the Chicken Little crowd. McCain is trying to have it all ways — refusing to admit he was wrong, blaming Paulson for duping him, and creating the illusion that he’ll be competent enough to resist the next inevitable bailout temptation when the feds hit the panic button.
Asked by a conservative constituent at a recent town hall meeting why the four-term senator deserved to be elected, McCain stammered before giving his best argument: He had more “standing” than anyone else. Entrenched incumbency is not an argument for more entrenched incumbency. Stop this ride. It’s time for McCain to get off.
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*It is in Mexico; People would be surprised how strict the immigration laws are there; We just need to follow their example by enforcing the laws as they do and witness a mass exodus.
*One of the most troubling aspects for me is that at a time of 10-20% unemployment among the American people, our federal government berates states for properly addressing the issue of illegal aliens destroying our beloved country.
Pray and send JD a couple of bucks if you can.
Did no one else pick up the Dr. Suess reference in the title?
Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?
I read the entire collection to my son.
Every night before bed, best time I spent doing anything.
The Arizona illegal immigration bill has been signed by AZ governor. It is now law!
/Pops Champaign cork
give it up McCain ans spend more time with your family, God knows they need it.
McCain doesn’t mostly agree with conservatives. He mostly disagrees.
I agree with Michelle’s refusal to support liberal politicians. If that lack of support causes those liberal politicians to lose elections to more liberal politicians, then so be it.
The current Republican model of allowing liberal politicians to run on their ticket isn’t working! The country is experiencing alarming distress fiscally.
Goodness knows, John McCain has not been a perfect US Senator. But his courage under fire is undeniable. Naval fighter pilots are not known to be wimps. He survived five and a half years in a communist dungeon. His arm was broken and he was given no medical attention. He was almost killed by a crazed mob when his plane was shot down. Those of us who had relatives in the US Navy during the VietNam war ( I had an uncle who was a navy flier and he was taken from us in 1969) know him as Captain John McCain. Service to country has to count for alot. If you balance the years of service to country with some foolish votes in the Senate, the good outweighs the bad. Please watch the video of a terribly injured John McCain being forced to be in a French documentary during the VietNam war and you can see how much pain he was in. Yet he never flinches. That is a man’s man. Yes, he has cast some wrongheaded votes in the Senate. But please balance that with courage during war, courage and devotion and loyalty under captivity and the good has to outweigh the bad. Duty, honor, country!
OT, but I thought you guys might like some of this…
http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/
John S. McCain will you please go now!
The time has come.
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
Go!
I don’t care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
John S. McCain will you please go now!
You can go on skates.
You can go on skis.
You can go in a hat.
But
Please go.
Please!
I don’t care.
You can go
By bike.
You can go
On a Zike-Bike
If you like.
If you like
You can go
In an old blue shoe.
Just go, go, GO!
Please do, do, do, DO!
John S. McCain
I don’t care how.
John S. McCain
Will you please
GO NOW!
You can go on stilts.
You can go by fish.
You can go in a Crunk-Car
If you wish.
If you wish
You may go
By lion’s tale.
Or stamp yourself
And go by mail.
John S. McCain
Don’t you know
The time has come
To go, go, GO!
Get on your way!
Please JohnS.!
You might like going in a Zumble-Zay.
You can go by balloon . . .
Or broomstick.
Or
You can go by camel
In a bureau drawer.
You can go by bumble-boat
. . . or jet.
I don’t care how you go.
Just get!
John S. McCain!
I don’t care how.
John S. McCain
Will you please
GO NOW!
I said
GO
And
GO
I meant . . .
The time had come
So . . .
John WENT.”
IF ONLY!!!
One of our favorites Michelle!
ooops, back on my post #52 I didn’t proof the post close enough, “isle”, I missed the A. Desert Dave, ty you much for pointing out my error. I feel better now knowing someone was watching and thought a mistake of such importance should be pointed out.
I agree and I’m as guilty as the next…not sure why, maybe trying not to slander the man after his well known POW status.
I seem to remember a recent radio interview (Medeved?) with Graham that he said (somethng to the effect that) I was sent to Washington to make changes not to say no.
In this Democrapp driven LSM agreeing times, I think NO is very appropiate.
Valerie, Marc, et al.- His past service is no reason to allow him to cast votes opposing conservative objectives. As an active duty Marine, I too admire his service but he is NOT furthering conservative values. John, for the love of God, please, retire. I will not vote for him for any public office. Oh, and GOP- please do not make me choose between him and a socialist again.
The doddering old fool needs to be put out to pasture.
By allowing the “look the other way” immigration policy, we are preventing Mexico from doing what is necessary to take care of their own. The existing Government likes the way things are and those with the power/money do not want any changes nor are they interested in sharing any of their rewards.
So the United States is on the hook for supplying the second largest source of income for the Mexican people. As long as we allow this to happen, Mexico will never have the political pressure to change the way things are down their and that pleases the lords and masters of Mexico just fine.
The United States: Mexico’s relief valve.
cabrerski, exactly correct. I have long argued the same point applicable to Mexico and many other nations. We are actually hurting many countries by feeding them aid dollars. Food for North Korea? F them. Palestinians? F them too. Get your priorities straight and we’ll talk. How can I let children starve? Not my children. Let their parents take responsibility for them, including ensuring their government has its priorities straight. It isn’t like the palestinians care about their children anyway- except as human shields and bombs.
Not only that SpeakEasy,
I have a real problem extending unemployment benefits while illegals are still working in this country, doing the “jobs America won’t do”. Got news for you, Washington. Take away those extensions, lose the illegals, and watch how fast America gets back to work. It may not be the desired jobs, but work they shall.
On Gov. Brewer’s signing AZ new illegal immigration bill John McCain had this to say, “It’s a nice a start but personally I won’t rest until every illegal immigrant is hunted down and bodily thrown out of Arizona and the rest of the country or until the day after my GOP primary. Whichever comes first.”
He should be admired and thanked for his service.
He should not be part of governing this country.
Just how much are you willing to forget or forgive because of his war record?
John McCain is a CFR Rockefeller Globalist that has demonstrated by his voting record that he does not believe in the America as founded by our framers.
He was intimately involved in the “Keating 5″ Savings & Loan scandal
He has been endorsed by the liberal/leftist New York Times
He is a big advocate of the extreme “green” global warming scare, and the economically horrific “solutions” being proposed by people like Al Gore.
He has promoted illegal amnesty for millions of illegal aliens
His McCain-Feingold bill has destroyed much of the rights of people to take part in the political process the way they see fit.
He is a big-time gun grabber who is an extreme advocate of restrictions on 2nd Amendment rights.
He opposes repeal of Roe v. Wade, and opposes a Constitutional amendment to protect all life.
He is no fiscal conservative, and he supports raising taxes on Social Security benefits
He constantly votes for H1B Visa expansion which causes an American to loose his or her job for every Visa approved.
Just how much are we supposed to forgive to give this man a pass because of his actions as a member or our armed services 40 years ago?
I guess I forgive his errors because his courage, sacrifice and suffering in the service of my country were monumental. But forgive does not mean forget. He does NOT get a pass for compromising conservative principles. He gets my utmost honor and respect for his service and a ticket home. Then history should record this man as a hero who later lost his way in the Washington wilderness – but a hero none the less.
An honorable service record does not give anyone a pass to be a corrupt elected official for the rest of his life.
Although I respect his service to his country, I support Duke Cunningham’s prison sentence. Although I respect his service to his country, I wish Jack Murtha could have joined Duke in prison. Although I respect his service to his country, I wish George H W Bush had never been elected president.
See how tedious it is to always begin all references to a veteran with “Although I respect his service to his country…”? Why do we only do it for McCain? Does he have a copyright to insist that no one speak his name without that annoying shibboleth intro?
Idea! Let’s stop doing that! Kay?
McCain has been getting off for a long time, every time he reaches across the aisle.
Perhaps if he had a stronger political record, he wouldn’t have to tout his military service record.
Me too. What irritates me quite a bit about him is the fact that he or his supporters constantly refer to his military record to either stifle dissent or demand support.
For someone who had a very honorable service record, I would have thought he would have had more reverence for the Constitution.
Considering McCain’s lurch to the right every election, he knows what conservatives want. This makes his leftist actions all the more disgusting because it shows his actions are deliberate and intentional.
It’s not like he just met some constituents and had an epiphany a month ago. He has known all along and chooses his leftist actions….once safely elected.
Do as you like Phil. Where I come from we give honor and respect where it is due. Respected does not mean elected. In my ideal world he would have retired 10 years ago. Folks in Arizona liked him for some strange reason. He’ll be down the memory hole soon enough with the rest of the POTUS wannabes – Goldwater, McGovern, Humphrey, Mondale, Dole, Goricle and Swifty… How much ink are they worth now? Don’t really understand the level of vitriol for Juan. Good soldier – lousy politician. That’s nothing new. Next.
Then perhaps he should have been respectful to the public and the Country.
…you know, the ones who had their Constitutional rights infringed when he passed his campaign finance abomination.
…or like Krentz, forced to live with McCain’s lack of respect for the citizens of this country, until he was killed.
OK Swede. From now on, I will expect you to extend the same shibboleth to Murtha, Cunningham, Kerry and all of the other scumbags who happen to be veterans. Are you sure you want to go that route?
Never could figure out what Murtha did to deserve his medals – no record anywhere of specific acts of “valor” and he later turned on the Marines at Haditha – 9.9 on the scum scale – and Swifty came home with an unearned Purple Heart and started demonstrating against his country. Wouldn’t put them in the same league as Juan, but you may if you like.
Equivocating a bit, aren’t we Phil?
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Mr. McPain paid a high price for his country, and has been widely acknowledged, thanked and honored for same.
That said, being captured and tormented by America’s enemies does not make you a brilliant statesman, or even a reliable defender of the constitution, not on the floor of the senate anyway.
And time served in a Viet Cong prison does not make you an expert on the intentions and ideas of the founders or framers — much less a proponent of the American idea.
It doesn’t even make you a believer.
Well, his days in the jungle, where he got shot down and captured, are far behind us all, and he’s been in the senate for-freaking-ever, where his performance has been questionable at best.
He is a progressive, NOT a constitutionalist.
It’s just that simple.
The history of the world is replete with much honored soldiers who knew nothing of freedom or individualism.
That’s not what we need in DC.
Time for him to get out of the way and let the rest of us get the country back in order.
Let’s enforce the immigration laws that are already on the books, like the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
This is not a “birther” issue, it is a law enforcement issue.
Everyone who has started a new job after November 6, 1986 has been legally required to present hardcopy documentation.
You could not meet this legal requirement by saying, “Here is a URL link to a web page with images of my Certification of Live Birth.”
So, regardless of where you think Obama was born, why does anyone who respects the Rule of Law think that Obama should be allowed to present to his employers (We the People) a web URL instead of a hardcopy Birth Certificate?
If a URL is not good enough to meet the legal requirements to work a minimum wage job, why does anyone accept it for the job of President and Commander in Chief?
Nobody is demanding purity, but some semblance of Conservatism would be nice.
McCain ain’t it!
My response: Yada, Yada, Yada.
OT
David Axelrod appeared on Leno tonight.
The honorable John McCain has taken the 18-Point Restore Our Border Plan, that was put together over an 18 month period by Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, Border Patrol Tucson Sector, and the citizen ranchers of the San Bernardino valley who have been the victims of the lax immigration policies that murdered Rob Krentz, watered the plan down and reduced it to mushy 10 points, and with Senator Jon Kyl, are claiming it for their own both in their advertising and campaign rhetoric. When asked by the ranchers why only 10 points and not the total 18, McCain said that the rest would come with other legislation AFTER he was re-elected.
Does this sound like an honorable person to do this??? Where is his “character” that he claims in all his ads?? When asked at a Town Hall if he was going to support amnesty again he got red and stated that he never supported amnesty!! Dementia?? ya think??
After listening to his “I was a POW” for over 25 years I’m sick of hearing it. That was the 5th airplane that he “lost” just his misfortune to do it over land that time. If he hadn’t been a POW and married rich he would be a used car salesman now (no dispersions to used car salesmen). He has been no friend to Arizona and a total detriment to the Constitution and his oath to uphold it.
As for JD Hayworth–just the lesser of two evils I fear but can probably beat the mav.
In the perfect world our candidate for Senate in Arizona would be Jim Deakin who is a small businessman, retired military, fiscal and Constitutional Conservative, carries no previous political baggage and is an “honorable man” who would go to DC and be the fly in the ointment in the Senate because he can say the word “NO” and is not willing to compromise the office to any lobbyist or to political party pressure. Imagine just a “citizen legislator” as conceived by the Founding Fathers.
But this isn’t a perfect world and the Feds didn’t secure the border, Rob Krentz a real honorable man, is dead and Hayworth will be the next Senator from Arizona —for ONE TERM because we will be watching!!!
I will not vote for John McCain. Benedict Arnold was once a war hero also.
My point as well. I guess what has happened to the thought processes of some people in this country is that, for them, if a politician literally wraps themselves around the U.S. Flag, their military service, or their self-presumed being (think Obama) why, by God, we are supposed to suspend all critical thinking and just make them happy by giving them what they want, right?
No!
All past awards and service are just that-the past. The most weight that should be given to previous awards and service is to predict how one may handle a future circumstance at best. If one’s pattern of conduct shifts away from what one says they are, such individuals have zero credibility to demand that I kiss their a$$. At that point, I can do what I want.
When we rightfully get angry when some liberal judge, politician, or academic chooses to go off into their blather about the criminal’s upbringing or race/ethnicity being responsible for the crime committed (rather than the individual’s choices made up to and during the crime), we should also get upset when a so-called conservative politician chooses to wrap themselves up in their past achievements to escape the consequences of their present political ignominy.
Just as liberals excuse criminal behavior through creating a state of victimhood for the criminal offender, and thus pitify the same, John McCain, Bob Dole, et al turn themselves into ‘victims’ by citing their War Record similarly to make you feel guilty about convicting them of their wrong and/or corrupt behavior.
Don’t fall for it.
It’s a shame the anti-McCain sentiment in this country didn’t become apparent to the GOP before 2008.
We might not be in the mess we’re in now if it had …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Fence Test
If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on………..
If a Conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a Liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat..
If a Liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a Conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a Conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a Conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a Conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A Liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)
If a Conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a Conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Liberal will delete it because he’s “offended”.
I just contributed to JD Hayworth. There’s a link on Drudge. Let’s help McCain be on his way outta Washington!
But then Liberals are easily offended and it is fun to watch them stew.
They are rather humorless, AZ.
Huh? Would you mind re-reading what you said? I didn’t realize that YOU are the arbiter who decides when the Swede Law is applicable and when it isn’t. If you are going to consider ALL politicians who served in the military deserving of the shibboleth “Although I respect Mr. “X” for his honorable service to his country..”, you can’t pick and choose based on your own arbitrary and personal rules.
Better yet, in the course of trying to have a discussion, let’s leave the salutes to those who write the obituaries and deliver the eulogies. We are just trying to have a conversation. Let’s stop cluttering it up with trite and tiresome shibboleths.
You know Swede, Saddam used to require visitors to kiss his armpits when greeting him. It was an abominable insult.
If you feel that before criticizing Juan McCain, you have to kiss his armpits first but don’t feel compelled to do the same for all other military veterans who have since behaved despicably, what is going on here? Why only McCain?
When Liberals are out of power, they are offended. When Liberals are in power they are offensive.
Last point Swede, Gen. John Stockdale, a man whose POW experience was far worse than McCain and who was treated like a fool when Ross Perot picked him as his running mate in 1992. That man was one of the greatest American heroes ever died virtually unnoticed. To this day, people mock him for the only sin of having agreed to run with Perot.
My point is that McCain is
just because he was a POW. He is not entitled to it and we should stop it. It would not be a sign of disrespect to refrain from doing so.
Sorry, that “quote” was supposed to be emphasized with italics, not boxed in a quote.
By the way, opponents of the new AZ immigration law enforcement bill are already rioting in the streets. So what is the message from these foreign invaders and their quisling American allies?
And as with the hippies before them they fight like girls-sorry ladies-; the sissies would not do well in the fields or loading sheds.
Haven’t heard anyone arguing that, and it is certainly not my thought process. Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough when I said “Respected does not mean elected” and “In my ideal world he would have been retired years ago” and “good soldier – lousy politician” – but I don’t know how to make it clearer. His meritorious service warrants respect but does NOT – as in NOT (did I mention N.O.T) give him a pass. As in boot him, retire him, replace him – yet respect him. Why is this wrong or hard to understand?
Please, Phil. Respecting his meritorious service is not fawning deference, but making a distinction. I just won’t get on the vitriol band wagon about him. Send him home based on his epic failure as a RINO senator, just don’t pee on him on the way out. That is all.
His senate career is abysmal and he should have been booted years ago. That is, however, not up to me but the voters in AZ. I have to focus my time, resources and support toward unseating David Scott from Georgia district 13 where I live. We already have two conservative senators (Chamblis and Isakson) but Scott’s a flaming Obamabot libtard and has been named one of the 20 most corrupt Reps in congress. If I gave support to Heyworth and every other contested seat in the country I would accomplish nothing. I think we need to choose our battles.
McCain is a keystone of the wall in the Republican party that needs to be torn down to enable a party of republican principles to exist again.
The left has been delighted over that wall and has supported its construction and maintenance as it gives them an opposition in name only.
May the Arizona voters “get it” this time around.
Talk is cheap. Show JD Hayworth the money!
I think it was. To a large extent, party bosses ignored whatever sentiment voters had, while others manipulated the primary process as much as they could so as to favor their candidate.
There were many in this country who had little say in choosing who they wanted, with the media very actively choosing for them in many areas.
It’s too bad the idiot party bosses cannot see they were some of the most gullible in being manipulated…and the current crop gives little hope.
Rather than coming out very soon with a good national platform now and banging that drum hard through election to get candidates at all levels elected, we have scheming hacks more concerned with themselves, or in outright aiding the enemy.
Here’s hoping we have worthy candidates at all levels that recognize many people, inside and out of the Tea Party are PI^*^%$ED OFF, and more than willing to follow if they provide some leadership.
That’s not cool, you need to give that a shot before you disrespect it.
McCain is no conservative, he’s disrespected his oath of office as a Senator, not as a Navy flier.
“Although I respect your service to your country”, you are being obtuse by completely dodging my point.
It is NOT a sign of disrespect for you NOT to begin every reference to McCain with that shibboleth. Ponder that before responding.
That you feel obliged to do so is what I am questioning. Why just McCain? Do you also do that for all veterans you bring up? Why not? How is just getting to the point about McCain without first eulogizing him joining a bandwagon of pissing on him?
Just say what you have to say and skip the pre-obituaries.
I already have been. I just wonder why its taking Arizona so long to figure out they need to be done with McCain?
Yes, I remember Admiral Stockdale, and yes he was treated pretty bad by the liberal elites then and now. He also displayed the appropriate dignity when describing his POW time, unlike McCain who has used it like a crutch.
In the end, however, when will Arizonans quit letting McCain get away with it?
Ok. I understand your point.
How about if I just say I voted for him years ago, will not now and his POW treatment was neither better, worse nor as long than my cousin’s?
I have been holding up a cane for 40 years due to Viet Nam service-it entitles me to a Purple Heart auto license plate and little else. I did not make a career out of being wounded. Most of us moved on-some live in it and it bores me.
Funny that he would use that word. He is the one person with unquestionable standing to question the eligibilty of the One.
He didn’t. No one else did either.
Suckers………..
Sorry to learn you got hit. But, glad you are home, still with us, and grateful for your service.
Maybe McShame gets the 10 points veterans preference in the elections as if applying for a givernment job.
AN, thank you for your service, I thank you and all military service people as yourself.
I worry what McCain will do in the Senate between primary day and January when he leaves the Senate! I agree he needs to go but who knows what this guy will do if he is jilted at the polls this summer. It is a scary thought that the “real” John McCain might get unleashed in the Senate. What would constrain him at that point…
True, but I am more concerned about the boatload of lame duck Democrats after November 2. I hope Republicans are ready to fight off the “Final Push” before the Democrat Happy Time comes to an end.
Of course, I am equally worried about what McCain will do AFTER primary day if he should win. He has bought into Cap and Tax and “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” more than most left-wing nutjobs…
I guess he thinks everyone is stupid and forgot about the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (S. 1348)and the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act (S. 1033), a bill proposed in May 2005 by Senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain, sometimes referred to as the “McCain-Kennedy or McKennedy Bill”.
As a pilot myself, I commend you for bringing up the fact he crashed 4 jet aircraft which any one of them would have resulted in a discharge from the Navy if it were not for his father the Admiral. Especially the one on the USS Forrestal where he released a bomb on deck.
Lets just hope that Arizona voters have a good memory and throw him under the bus in the upcoming election. Everyone I know in Arizona cannot stand him and wonders how he keeps getting elected.
I think the who immigration reform issue has changed drastically because of the cartels. Also, the Tea Party Movement which did not even exist the last time this was tried and will be in the fight. Also people dying does not help La Raza’s cause.
I think “amnesty” is going to be received like a pork roast in Mecca.
Cap and Trade is NOT going to happen. The IPCC meltdown is a huge factor, but the major factor is people are at the limit of their willingness to accept any more spending. This will especially be true for a premise that has less scientific merit than The Flat Earth Theory.
Flyoverman,
I hope you are right and I will be on the Mall and on the Capitol lawn with the TEA Party every time they meet to help make sure these Marxists in Congress know they are not representing the will of the people!
McCain is vindictive and will no doubt assist the Democrats on anything they want after Aug. 24. if he loses. He may join them on amnesty and cap and trade even if he survives the primary. Lindsay is playing the maverick for him for now.
Agreed. Standing up (to bullies or anyone else who does not have our best interests at heart) -like anything else- isn’t a free lunch. All I am going to do is cover my butt as best as I can.
I think between this Summer and early next year we are going to see the true faces of our elected and unelected officials, and there is no doubt there will be surprises-many of them very unpleasant.
For example, Graham is now pledging to drop his support of Cap and Trade (which has zero chance of passing) if enough Republican senators support his amnesty bill. This would kill McCain but could help Reid since he needs Hispanic votes to even have a chance at re-election.
Eleven Republican senators supported amnesty the last time. They only need nine this year and maybe less after August if McCain loses the primary and other incumbent Republicans appear hopelessly weak in the polls.
Meanwhile, the lefty pro-illegal immigrant protests turn violent right from the get go. No Tea Party “racists” in sight. Just illegals throwing stones at police.
Isn’t it amazing that violence marks most, if not all, left-wing protests (even the “anti-war peacenik protests”) but somehow the TEA Party rallies are incredibly peaceful. Yet we get called “violent” by the “fellow travelers” in the MSM…
Much of North West DC was closed this weekend due to “anti-globalization” wing-nuts here to protest the IMF/World Bank meetings. Violence from the left is expected and largely ignored…
The MSM sees no reason to report left wing violence. Those acts are justified by the “greater good” they hope to accomplish.
It’s the mindset that justified burning six million Jews, starving seven million Kulaks to death, and killing tens of millions of Soviet-bloc and Chinese citizens.
Given those values, I really do not mind them having a little fear of us.
It’s the fear that cowards get when they look into the face of calm, resolute defiance. We outnumber them in a republican democracy. Their only hope is to incite us to violence or make it look like we started the violence and so justify violently suppressing us.
I fear we have a Tiananmen Square in our future. It may all someday rest on whether our military honor their oaths to only obey lawful orders while defending the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.
Listening to the Sunday news show discussions about “immigration reform”, I think it is important for our one-party system in DC to understand that we already have enough laws to fix the border. There is no point discussing the rest of it until they have secured our borders and will keep our borders secure after we revise our immigration laws (which desperately need revision) and we have cleaned up the “illegals problem”.
There IS a humane solution to this problem that will get us back on the right path. But another cynical cramdown that will leave us with a permanent second-class citizenry stuck in 13 1/2 year “pathway to citizenship” or blanket amnesty for unskilled non-English-speaking people who are not ready or capable of being productive citizens outside of bondage is unacceptable.
We are not ready for an immigration bill. FIX THE BORDERS AND CLEAN UP THE MESS FIRST!!!
BTW, I’m seeing a lot of kudos to Graham over his protests to re-introduce another shamnesty bill on the grounds that it would derail his efforts to cramdown Cap and Trade. Let me make it clear that the main reason he is protesting is that this latest shamnesty effort positions the Democrats as the only hope for La Raza. It positions the GOP as the main obstacle. It’s the getting cut out of credit for even trying the has Graham all bent out of shape.
There is only one goal for any immigration reform bill that THIS gang, blanket amnesty. Until the back room discussions are brought out in the open and until American citizens are invited into the discussion that have so far been limited to our government, the slave owner interests and LaRaza, there is no reason to support any bill.
There is only one reason that the government refuses to use existing law to secure the border. It would their main bargaining chip for securing blanket amnesty and cheap labor for unscrupulous employers.
There is only one reason that the government refuses to use existing law to secure the border. It would ELIMINATE their main bargaining chip for securing blanket amnesty and cheap labor for unscrupulous employers.
*And all of the advocacy pimps for illegal alien amnesty in the government and the private sector, including all the RINO’s like McCain, need to ELIMINATE amnesty once and for all from the equation, and remember what JFK said in 1962, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”; Peaceful revolution has allowed the Republic of Arizona to legislate a way to address their most pressing state issue, and 70% of its’ citizens approve; I strongly urge those in D.C. to remember what JFK said and quit monkeying with the system!
Unless we can really clean house in D.C., and I mean defeat 80% of incumbents, there is no way we are ever going to get any meaningful enforcement. They want the invasion to continue.
The non-enforcement that has encouraged more illegal aliens entering our country has been deliberate. Amnesty is the only answer that these people will offer. Look how well the last one worked.
One more and we’re done…………..
The left has three critical issues, they need replacement voters, get reelected and destroy the Tea Party.
Using demagoguery to achieve every bit of that and more is the slim liberals are made of.
The Right has to get a clue and perform a preemptive strike, this isn’t a react and win scenario and preemptive pandering ain’t it.
Speakup,
To that I would add that the GOP half of the one-party establishment seems to be determined to either usurp the Tea Party or destroy it.
Very true, Pasadena. The Tea Party is a threat to the GOP too. Too many republicans have joined the power bandwagon. I have a feeling the GOP isn’t interested in conservatism, and certainly not in a new “contract with America”. If they were serious, Mr. Steele would be gone, along with McAmnesty.
I think the GOP doesn’t understand: resistance is futile. Yet.
The “GOP” that doen’t get it is a subset of their leadership at ALL levels. The hierarcy keeps the Michael Steel’s in power.
If you want to win this revolution the structure of things does not provide you the opportunity to “decapitate” the RNC. The Tea Party and others like me need to disburse, win the local precint battle, then the district, then the state. That is the critical objective if you want to reform the GOP.
Just my opinion.
Oh don’t be a smelly dog wet blanket.
Steele has met with the Tea Party, real inroads have already been made.
All things in good time, or maybe a little sooner.
pssttt… anyone else worried about MM? I’ve never seen so much time between posts. I hope nothing is wrong.
I hope she’s enjoying some well earned time off doing whatever it is that she likes best other than writing.
Do you ever get the sick feeling this child of Saul Alinsky and Williams Ayres really wants a greater race divide leading to a race war? That he feels that his time in power may be limited and this is the time to act? Many of those “young people” to which he appeals would be the first victims.
Errah, JD Hayworth should hand out W.W.R.K.D. (What Would Robert Krentz Do?) bracelets at McLame ralllies for all brainless RINO supporters.