Open-borders/BigGov/Climate Change huckster John McCain blames “Eastern press”
You have got to be freaking kidding me. Mr. I Was The Nation’s Number One Illegal Alien Amnesty Champion Before I Was Against It/Mr. Call Me Maaaaaverick Except When I Need The Right To Get Re-elected is attacking his erstwhile friends in the “Eastern press” for creating the impression that he is a desperate political opportunist clinging to entrenched incumbency.
Here is your emetic of the day, via The Hill:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday blamed the “Eastern press” for planting the idea he has changed his positions on key issues in recent months.
McCain dismissed the notion that he has tacked to the right on matters such as immigration and climate change in order to beat back a primary challenge from former Rep. J.D. Hayworth.
Asked by Politics Daily about comments his close friend and colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made about his move away from edgy past positions because “John’s got a primary. He’s got to focus on getting reelected,” McCain responded, “Lindsey knows that I don’t change in my positions.
“I have not changed in my positions. I know how popular it is for the Eastern press to paint me as having changed positions,” he said. “That’s not true. I know they’re going to continue to say it. It’s fundamentally false. Not only am I sure that they’ll say it, you’ll say it. You’ll write it. And I’ve just grown to accept that.”
Funny. McCain sure didn’t have a problem sucking up to the “Eastern press” — his real base — at his cozy backyard “thank you” barbecue for the elite media just a few short years ago.
Remember?
Straight talk from my non-Eastern blog about McCain’s motion sickness-inducing, election-year lurches on immigration and climate change speaks for itself:
Flashback: John McCain: Unrepentant Climate Change Republican
Flashback: Ugh: McCain & Company melting on cap-and-tax
Flashback: McCain’s “climate change” tour bypasses cooler heads
Flashback: McCain and La Raza/The Race: A “serious lapse of judgment”
Flashback: John McCain gets away with his slippery, open-borders talk again
Flashback: The McCain camp sticks with Juan Hernandez, denies it torpedoed immigration enforcement bill
Flashback: John McCain: La Raza’s voice in Washington
Flashback: Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”
Flashback: McLame: All for his own maaaaaaverick-iness before he was against it
Flashback: Attention, GOP: John McCain is the problem
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 $300 billion mortgage entitlement bailout; and
*The first $85 billion AIG bailout.
His latest McLame-est excuse for supporting TARP? He was “misled.” Via the Arizona Republic:
Under growing pressure from conservatives and “tea party” activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government’s massive bailout of the financial system.
In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown.
“Obviously, that didn’t happen,” McCain said in a meeting Thursday with The Republic’s Editorial Board, recounting his decision-making during the critical initial days of the fiscal crisis. “They decided to stabilize the Wall Street institutions, bail out (insurance giant) AIG, bail out Chrysler, bail out General Motors. . . . What they figured was that if they stabilized Wall Street – I guess it was trickle-down economics – that therefore Main Street would be fine.”
Nearly 15 months later, commercial lenders still are in shaky condition and the commercial real-estate industry is in trouble, he said. On Friday, President Barack Obama announced $1.5 billion in funding for new measures to help Arizona and four other states hit hard by the tanked housing market and by joblessness.
But McCain stopped short of calling the TARP a mistake.
“Something had to be done because the world’s financial system was on the verge of collapse,” he said. “Any economist, liberal or conservative, would agree with that. The action they took, I don’t agree with.”
All the warning signs and red flags about Henry Paulson’s incompetence and untrustworthiness were there before McCain joined the Chicken Little crowd. (See September 22, 2008, “Why Henry Paulson must be contained.”) Stalwart fiscal conservatives like GOP Rep. Mike Pence saw through the smokescreen and kept their heads. McCain’s trying to have it both ways — refusing to admit he was wrong, blaming crapweasel Paulson for duping him, and creating the illusion that he’ll be competent enough to resist the next inevitable bailout temptation when White House, Treasury, and Fed officials hit the panic button.
He blew it on TARP.
Blew it on the auto bailout.
Blew it on the mortgage entitlement bailout.
Blew it on the AIG bailout.
Blew it on amnesty.
Blew it on campaign finance.
Blew it on global warming.
In short: McCain blows.
I’ve already warned about McCain Regression Syndrome. The GOP hasn’t even begun to cure itself.
Flashback: John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now?
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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At least he’s being honest.
He likely has not changed his positions.
He’s simply talking as if he has changed, in order to fool voters again.
Hey John, how can we miss you if you won’t go away?
This way to the egress!
There is no cure, some things need to be excised!
Helped by the intelligent, admirable Michelle, the senator had a “Road to (Political) Damascus experience!
Yup.
The infection is in its current leadership. The leadership won’t cure itsself because it isn’t even aware it NEEDS curing. If anything is to be done, then the leadership has to be surgically removed.
Michelle its posts like this that prove to me that you need to be hosting a show not appearing on someone else’s show.
Johnny Mack, just look in the mirror. You’re losing support because of your own mushy moderate/liberal positions.
It is long past time that Dear John retire and hold camp fire round tables with the Gila monsters and other assorted desert denizens.
McCain exemplifies all that is wrong with politics in America … Character, telling the truth, is an elusive quantity.
and diuretic and colonic blast!
The joke here in Arizona is that McShame has changed parties, he’s now a republican.
I’m sure he has not changed positions he is still a lying sack of S**t.
Suppositories are on the house!
“If you like Pina Colonics…”–Homer Simpson
McCain was terrible on Hannity last night. Hannity really made him squirm–especially on birthright citizenship.
(In best Shakespearean voice) Colitus, is that you in the rear?
There was a time when I could admire John McCain. That time is long past. He twists in the wind to stay in power as badly as John F-ing Kerry. What a joke he’s become.
Oops! McCain shoots himself in the foot again!
Whatever JD Hayworth did to earn a “shot himself in the foot” disqualification for the GOP nomination in AZ, it better be that he was caught in bed with a dead woman, a young boy or that he endorsed McCain. Otherwise, what is WRONG with youRepublicans in AZ???!!!!
Raise the GOP Titanic!!!!
“my wife; Incontinentia Buttocks”–Pontius Pilate/Michael Palin
Life of Brian
I gotta give Hannity credit this time. Last week, McCain got real testy when questioned about his posturing on the 14th amendment. He insisted that he supports opening a discussion, not necessarily changing anything.
Like Michelle likes to say, McCain IS what’s wrong with the GOP.
I feel dear john is going to win again. Running J.D. was a big mistake, but it is way too late to change this. I would imagine it will take less than six months for dear john to get back to ‘his old ways’ after election.
L
It doesn’t matter who ran against McCain. AZ Republicans just don’t have the good sense to vote anyone else so they re-nominate that steaming pile again.
What is better than a steaming pile? ANYONE ELSE!!! INCLUDING A CARD-CARRYING DEMOCRAT!!
I saw that too. I also noticed he looked horrible. He is not aging well.
John, just go home and leave us alone.
Maybe Arizonans will get a brain and recall McCain’s a$$ when he starts acting like the Johnny we all know a few short minutes after his re-election…I happen to remember such an effort was in its nascent moments there when it suddenly disappeared after the 9/11 attacks…
Whatever he is smoking has GOT to be some really good stuff.
So…, you’re still supporting Boxer?
Slightly OT, but has anyone read Mark Levin’s comments on the 14th Amendment? It can be clarified by Congress. The means is already there. There is no need for a Constitutional Amendment.
I live in Arizona but can not vote here as a displaced military member. John McCain has been wrong for too long and hurts the Republican party when he sides with Dems. Arizona, please give Hayworth a chance. Its not like he could do any worse.
Flyover- Yes, I heard that. He makes it sound so simple. That’s why I fear it will never happen.
Married to a beautiful beer baroness. Why run for any office?
Retire already before you look completely like a doddering, old fool.
A problem here in AZ is that independents can vote in primaries. That helps McCain.
either he’s getting Alzheimer or he’s expecting everyone else to get Alzheimer. He’s saying, ‘do you believe what I am saying now that you don’t remember what I said before?’
He’s so arrogant. It’s typical of the entrenched mentality of DC. McCain thinks McCain is more important that any office. He can’t stand not being in DC. . . it doesn’t matter what he believes or what he stands for. The only thing he KNOWS he’s always believed is that he should be elected.
Even if he wins the nomination, I hope the Democrat beats him.
Precisely. What’s more, anyone bombarded with negative ads is going to seem ‘bad.’ Minor errors in judgment are portrayed as “shooting himself in the foot.”
Arizona voters who fall for that garbage have no damned business complaining about open borders.
The eastern press…wow! No, it’s the people in the west that totally know you and your agenda. I will rescend every good thing I’ve said about Arizona if you re-elect this sidewinder. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice – I had it coming!
Which he will disassociate himself from should he be re-elected. McLame has played the game too long. Hopefully, the voters in Arizona will disassociate themselves from this old fool.
Too late.
I watched one of McCain’s televised debates against Hayworth. McCain kept saying that he never was for amnesty. The best he could do was a lame excuse that “it’s not amnesty when there’s a penalty.”
McCain is a carpet bagger. He used his father-in-laws money to get elected originally and is out-of-touch with the people of the state. He is a product of the Phoenix 40 who impeached a Republican governer and had ties to the Savings and Loan debacle in the 80s.
An Acorn whistle blower stated that they were ordered to drum up the votes for Obama AND McCain during the primaries.
Reason 2357 to get a majority in Congress.
Listen carefully Tex, YOU ARE A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!
If you can’t engage in a discussion without personal attacks based on lies, why don’t you just go away? Are you five years old?
There’s always that other guy I’ve heard about who always gets around 10% of the vote. N. Decided
McCain is the Republican book-end to Ted Kennedy but in a worse way. No one can ever say that Kennedy destroyed MA like McCain is in destroying AZ.
McCain is senile. He can’t remember where to stand.
We need to e-bomb this to every single person we know in AZ, asking they in turn e-mail it to their friends and family. MM did an outstanding job on this article.
BTW, picked up another copy of ‘Culture of Corruption’ at Costco yesterday – Christmas gifts – and this one was only $9.99. I did peek at the added chapters without breaking the back though.
Four more to go.
No.
And we weren’t kidding in 2008 either.
This is why.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Haven’t posted in a while but this was something that needed a reply.
As someone, who, regretably, voted for this buffoon, I really wish he did practice what he preached. I really wish McCain had actual principles which seem to escape politicians until they need to dig them up for Election Day.
Why does McCain deserve another term? Why? He’s shown himself to be a political opportunist only willing to stand up for his political career and not for the American people. Can someone explain to me why J.D. Hayworth is worse?
It’s time for die-hard Republicans to stop making excuses for this RINO and boot him into retirement where he belongs. I don’t have any problems with Hayworth because he’s NOT John McCain.
The other reason why John McCain needs to be put out to pasture is the abysmal campaign he ran in 2008. It was awful. How can he ever be forgiven for that? He used Sarah Palin to make himself more “presentable.” She ended up being more popular than him.
McCain never wanted to win that campaign. Yet, he thinks he should be rewarded another term. This guy is as dense as the RNC who backs him.
The libs in AZ, including, unfortunately, a few of my own family members, don’t mind if McLame gets reelected…they know he will vote with the Dems when they need him to. He is incompetent..look at the way he managed his Presidential campaign…like it was all just for show. A pox on all incumbents.
Why should they bother?
They’ve got a large number of Americans who will vote for their candidates even if they are losers like McCain.
Until people STOP VOTING for these clowns, they will continue to give us these clowns to vote for.
Money is only part of it, folks. These people cannot win elections without votes, money or not. The simplest and most effective solution to the Republicans’ problem is for people to simply not vote for them.
“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.” – unknown
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
It’s just a matter of degrees. We have our invaders just like everyone else. It’ll come to a head eventually.
No, I’m paying attention to what you say. You’re unalterably opposed to “RINOs”. You say that it’s better to elect a Democrat than a RINO.
You’ve declared yourself unalterably opposed to Fiorina. The only logical conclusion from that and the above statement is that you are supporting Boxer. Watch who you call a liar, putz.
Glad to see you’ve come around, Roland.
Still, it would be nice to see you take a stand AFTER the primary, which is when Republicans really need it.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Capt. McCain,
I recommend miniature train sets, perhaps HO scale. Build entire sets in your den or garage. Little towns and mountains, bridges, and crossings. It will make you feel like a little God, but is harmless to your neighbors and the rest of the country.
How could anyone with an affinity for the Tea Party deny that Obama will ultimately have been better for America than McCain?
No Obama? No Tea Party folks. McCain would have kept up the incrementalism, and half of America would still be asleep.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
As predicted by Joseph Farah and others.
RWR,
The Bible says we’ll have 3 years of war followed by a thousand years of lasting peace. That doesn’t mean I advocate starting a war.
Two points to make here:
First: John Mc-Lame always reminds me of the infamous line: I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
2nd point: the Conservatives who want to throw the baby out with the bathwater should remember that we CANNOT allow more years under DemonCrat rule. There are better ways of dealing with this. I don’t think you can vote Demonut AND be a conservative, while trying to prove a point that you won’t vote for RINO’s. He!! no, we don’t want wishy-washy Repubs in – but if they are making it through the Primaries, then let’s support their candidacy, and keep HAMMERING HOME to them that they are to be our Representatives. Not D.C.-partiers.
More needs to be said, but, alas, I have to get back to work.
Michelle… like I stated in another thread, if you’re really going to confront them, you MUST start quoting the Constitution.
I would LOVE for people to keep pointing out that every one of those bailouts that he voted for, have NO Constitutional authority, and by voting for them have violated their Oath of Office.
…and then ask him if he would trust someone who repeatedly violated their oath to others.
You’re entitled to your opinion, but the post had nothing at all to do with Obama. To address your point, you may be right, although it didn’t appear before the election that people were asleep. They were mad at Bush for being too leftist, and did exactly what Phil is demanding of Arizona (and what you appear to favor also) – they elected Democrats. We’ll see how much if anything of the damage they’ve done will be repaired. My guess is little to none – after all, Obama still has a veto, even if the Republicans regain Congress. In my own opinion, I suppose in some people’s minds it’s better to die immediately of a massive heart attack than slowly of prostate cancer, but either way you’re dead – although with prostate cancer you have a chance for treatment and a cure.
Conclusion? Anybody who would argue that Obama has been good for America would argue that al Qaeda was good for the WTC.
My vote for 2010 is we give the primaries our best shot. When we have done that we need in November to get a majority in at least one house of Congress to control the comittees, supenoas, and legislative agenda.
That’s what’s needed IMHO to stop Obama cold and start to turn the ship to a new course. It’s going to take decades to get to where we want to be.
You beat me to it, Rogue.
Kennedy’s worldview, and the results/consequences of his acting on it, have, if not destroyed (yet) our country, at the very least severely damaged it – including Massachusetts.
In fact, especially Massachusetts, because there are so many dangerous fools here who hold a worldview similar to Kennedy’s.
Which should be no surprise; this is the state that sent Kennedy to the senate for 47 years – for 40 of those years, as someone who had left a young woman to suffocate in an air pocket in a submerged car; because he was too busy thinking up a story to salvage his political career, instead of trying to save her by banging on doors of nearby cottages, calling police/fire/rescue/etc.
FIFY. I don’t care if there’s an R or a D after their name, if they’re a Progressive, they need to go NOW… and that includes McCain!
JD should at least get some kind of bump out of this.
Come around to voting for a Democrat because I loathe the Republican?
No, RWR, I have not ‘come around’ to being a clueless idiot who doesn’t understand the importance of having majorities in Congress.
The trouble is a lot of republicans gave this guy a pass because he was ‘good on the war’. This became the single issue that defined republicans from 2002 onwards. As a result, good conservatives like Pat Buchanan were thrown out of the right as unpatriotic while committed leftists like Christopher Hitchens were welcomed with open arms. And bad candidates like Lindsey Graham and John McCain were promoted over the likes of Tom Tancredo.
Come on Arizona, vote for J.D., I have watched McCain side with Democrats for years, I have seethed with anger at this Rino, and his constant push against Conservative values.
I don’t live in Arizona, so I can’t vote him out, all I can do is depend on you conservative Republicans in Arizona to do the right thing by your Country, and get rid of him while we still have a chance of taking our country back!!
Pointskaroon.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Did you mean exorcised??!!
I’m a Californian, not too thrilled about Fiorina, but if anything, getting Babs Boxer out as chair of the Senate Public Works committee, where she espouses the theory of man caused global warming (or climate change, or whatever the terminology this week is) is worth pulling the lever for Carly.
You’re going to have to do better than that.
Look around you, sir. It couldn’t be more obvious.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
All based on the faulty, yet well-established assumption that Republicans are in any way equipped to advance any kind of conservative agenda.
Wake up before it’s too late.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Amen.
Until conservatives understand that a progressive is bad regardless of party affiliation, progressives will continue to have their way. As long as there is no threat at the ballot box, Republicans will continue to put progressive clowns on the ballot.
No more sleepin’ in bed, folks. The time is now.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
juan mcshamnesty needs to go!! as do all libtard progressives!
FYI, I did not vote for the Democrat, and will not unless, like the conservatives I vote for, espouses the things I want to see in office.
Just because I didn’t hold my nose and vote for your joke of a candidate doesn’t mean that I chose the Democrat.
People like you are the problem. The Republicans know, and the fence-sitters within the party know, that you will just vote for whomever they put out there, so they just do whatever they want. The fence-sitters just follow the leaders, like you do. Since they know you’re just going to vote for their candidate anyway, your vote makes no difference to them.
If you were to stand your ground AFTER the primary, they MIGHT get the message. Doing what you do, they don’t need a message.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I look at it this way, would you like the bandaid pulled off the scab quick (Obowmao) or pulled off slowly (McCain)?
Defeating Republicans and electing the more Democrats will only give us more leftist government than we would otherwise get.
If we can’t even win 25% of the electorate (roughly enough to win the Republican primary), we aren’t going to be convincing anyone the R Party should move further to the right.
But you know this. You just want to elect Democrats. Increasing decadence makes you happy, since it ‘proves’ your kind of irrational extremism is ‘necessary.’
Nope, excised, as in: –verb (used with object), -cised, -cis·ing.
1. to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
2. to cut out or off, as a tumor.
——————————————————————————–
Origin:
1570–80; < L excīsus cut out, hewn down, ptp. of excīdere to excide
But excorcise could work also.
If pulling off the bandage means I’ll quickly bleed to death, I’ll opt for slow.
Seems pretty obvious.
This is correct. He still believes in amnesty and open borders.
How about defeating PROGRESSIVES?
Putting an R in front of a candidate’s name does not make him more desirable than the guy with the D.
Once people get that, America can begin its recovery.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Go on believing this if you want.
While you’re at it, I have some really nice oceanfront property to sell you just outside of Aspen, Colorado.
Enough of the LOTE crap already. It was old in 2008.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Wow.
What better expression of Tea Partier Hubris Syndrome: the donks have spent the past year and a half basically arguing, “We have to destroy America in order to ‘save’ it” — and there are those in the movement who now find themselves standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the proponents of that philosophy, based on a shared set of emotions: hatred, anger, superstition and revenge.
The situation is like being in a boat that has been steadily drifting perilously close to a waterfall: two men vied to become the new helmsman, one of whom may have done no better than to steer in circles; but he got rejected in favor of the guy who grins, aims the bow straight at the precipice, and guns the motor.
What’s more disturbing to see isn’t the suiciders who put the madman in charge; it’s the other passengers in the boat who, while claiming to disagree with the direction of the new helmsman, rationalize to each other that “It’s better this way!” — and then get really testy when anyone disagrees with that opinion.
The inherent risk of the tea party movement is that if it’s taken over by the over-zealous of its adherents, it’ll end up unintentionally benefiting no one but the donks.
But until now I never thought that I’d see anyone under the tea party banner actually coming out and cheering on the donks, after nearly two years of seeing first-hand what it means to have them at the wheel. Today is a red-letter day, it seems … albeit in a sickening sense. The tea party hasn’t jumped the shark yet, but there are those who are enthusiastically building the ramp.
No, I don’t have to do anything. You’re the one arguing that electing more Democrats is good for the country.
That’s what I’m thinking, but apparently it’s not obvious enough for you. I don’t buy the argument that if your candidate doesn’t win the primary that you quit and go home and let the Democrats win the general. As I said before, you and yours tried that strategy in 2008, and you stuck the country with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.
So, a slow painful death for you it is then.
Nobody cheered the Donks – at least not I.
I did, however, give the Donks fair and deserved credit for waking the American people to the fact of the phallus that has been constantly working in and out of their posterior for the last hundred or so years, a feat John McCain with his incrementalism would never have accomplished.
All anyone in the Tea Party wants is the Constitution followed. That is what the movement is about. Nothing more, nothing less. To call a proponent of that “over-zealous” simply because he refuses to be part of the problem is sick beyond measure.
The part that’s almost funny is that eventually people saying this stuff are going to realize that the “over-zealous” were right all along. It happened to me after the 2004 election, and the rest will follow as well. There is sadly nothing in this country worse than a LOTE voter – not even Barack Obama. Complacency of that magnitude is ridiculously foolish at best. America cannot unite against progressives if those who purport to want to defeat progressives go ahead and vote for them anyway.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
We do have only one Arizona right? Is the same state that passed the recent “catch the illegal aliens” law going to re-elect McCain? Do they have stupid days and smart days in Arizona?
I have never once advocated electing more democrats.
I have advocated electing constitutionalists, and refusing to elect progressives, regardless of party.
At some point, you are going to have to take a stand against progressives as well. Might as well start now while there’s still a chance to do some good.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I’d started with a much longer post making more or less the same points, but it’s hopeless. They’d rather go down with the ship than compromise their principles and bail.
I don’t buy the argument that you quit and let the progressive win, either.
If your party puts forth a candidate that you cannot support, you can’t rightfully let him win, either.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
yeah well I tried it your way in 00 and 04 and didn’t get anything acceptable then either.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
You argue against electing Republicans. It’s the same thing, except in your and Phil’s twisted little minds.
The ship is going down anyway as long as LOTE voters keep getting their way.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Any way you slice it, that’s arguing for the election of Democrats. Sorry that you don’t like the two-party system, but this isn’t Europe.
I argue against electing PROGRESSIVES.
A progressive is a POS, regardless of party affiliation. What you are doing by electing progressive Republicans is the same as electing more Democrats. Look at McCain for your perfect example.
RWR
http://www.rightrwingrocker.com
Wrong.
What you are doing is electing Democrats.
The only difference is the letter they have after their name.
A progressive is a progressive is a progressive.
So you elect a Republican and get exactly what the Democrats offered. Who’s advocating electing Democrats? And who cares if democrats win if Republicans are only going to do the Democrats’ bidding once in office.
So you elect a Democrat with an R after his name. Great job, skippy. You get to say your party won. Now eat the same crow the Democrats would have given you.
I say don’t elect people from EITHER party until you get one that is acceptable.
Eventually you will be forced to take the same stand.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
So I’ll ask you the same question I ask your Phil incarnation: Is it better to have a Fiorina with maybe a 50% ACT rating, or a Boxer with 7%? Sorry those are the only choices, but I didn’t invent the system.
Then your choice is to either win a primary or sit out the general, thereby making yourself completely irrelevant, either in the electoral process, or in this conversation. ‘Bye.
That’s where being single issue on the war gets you into trouble. You support guys like McCain, Graham, Specter and Lieberman because of their support for the war. Yet once elected these folks facilitate the progressive agenda legislatively and judicially through their support of the policies and judges that are causing the rot of this great nation. The irony is that most republican voters consider themselves ‘tough on security’, but don’t fully realize that more damage is being done to the USA on the inside.
As long as there’s hope sanity will prevail and death can be averted, of course. You don’t just give up and die because there’s some pain.
Seems obvious, again. Are you just joking around?
So you support the one party with two names instead?
You aren’t making much sense.
RWR
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He isn’t making sense to you because your approach is so stubbornly simpleminded.