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January 31, 2008
Something stinks
Where are our Men?
Don't ask John McCain. The documentary "Missing, Presumed Dead the Search for America's POWs" focuses on Senator John McCain successfully blocking the release of classified POW/MIA documents, documents that would help bring our Men back home.
and more:
If you think for even one minute that I might get behind such a man and help make him president of the United States of America, well, you best think again. On this issue, he is no better than John Kerry. On other issues, he's worse.
John McCain is not being nominated by conservatives. He is being nominated by liberal Independents in open primaries and liberal RINOs in closed primaries. He has very little support among conservatives and he can’t win in November as a result.
But more importantly, on the issues facing our nation today, John McCain is no more conservative or Republican than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. In fact, after more than three decades in Washington DC, his friends are not Washington conservatives, but Washington liberals like Clinton, Obama, Kennedy, Lieberman, Graham and Martinez.
John McCain says he “changed the strategy in Iraq” and now we are winning in Iraq. But John McCain changed nothing in Iraq. He only supported beefing up the existing strategy in Iraq by putting more boots on the ground. A good move that should have happened sooner, but by no means a “change in strategy.”
Worse yet on this subject, McCain is on record fighting for open borders, legalizing illegal immigration, closing down Gitmo and giving known terrorists access to the US criminal courts, while refusing to aggressively interrogate those who can tell us when and where the next 9/11 might happen. Yet, to hear him from the campaign stump, he’s strong on national security, just not any of the measures needed to actually secure a nation under attack.
McCain now says he is for the Bush tax cuts that he railed against and indeed voted against in the Senate.
McCain sided with Kennedy, Lieberman and Russ Feingold in passing the first legislation to limit free political speech in US history, some of which has since been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Yet he sees himself as a conservative champion of liberty and freedom.
In short, McCain’s senate record is that of an inside-the-beltway Washington liberal, not any form of a conservative or even a Republican. McCain is so far left that he is fully on-board Al Gore’s Global Warming Swindle and promises to usher in the economically disastrous policies drafted and advanced by international socialists for the sole purpose of bringing America to its economic knees.
But none of this is the John McCain touted from the campaign stump. Almost every word coming out of McCain’s so-called “Straight-Talk Express” is an outright lie.
In case you're wondering where that came from, it's from an OpEd at the Canada Free Press. As the darling of the liberal leftist media in this country, McCain is pretty much safe from such scrutiny. They know that his nomination will pretty much seal the deal on a democrat take over of this country.
The article sums up McCain's conservative shortcomings very well, I am incredulous that he is now calling himself “the official new leader of the conservative movement in America.”
If you believe that's what he is, well then, I guess you have been holding your nose for so long that you have forgotten what a conservative smells like.
I haven't.
Posted by LindaSoG at January 31, 2008 07:08 AM
Comments
Thanks Linda, sometimes it's like preaching to the choir, but the message needs to get out nevertheless.
I have ranked McCain with John Kerry for many years now on the the POW issue as well as his willingness to suck up to our common enemy, Communism.
His photo hugging Bui Tin and his refusal to open the dialog with the Communists reinforce my apprehensions about the man and his behavior as a POW. What has he to hide if he is so honorable? He rants as much as Hugo Chavez about calling himself a leader, I see both in the same league, sorry but I can't vote for John either.
Posted by: Jack at January 31, 2008 07:46 AM
You're right, if he is nominated, and conservatives decide to vote for Obama or Hillary or decide not to vote at all, he can't win.
However with Conservative support added to the many moderates and even conservative Democrats he can win and keep Obama and Clinton out of the White House.
The election... all elections are about balance. The Democrats keep losing because they keep nominating people who are too far from the center of the political spectrum. For the Republicans to do to McCain, what the Dems did to Lieberman would be a shame.
Posted by: oceanguy at January 31, 2008 08:46 AM
Although so many of my respected blogging friends are trying to paint a happy face on the abomination that is Leftist McVain, I felt sure that you would call the equation realistically. You never disappoint, Linda. If we hold our respective noses to vote for this traitor, we will all suffocate.
Posted by: Defiant_Infidel at January 31, 2008 10:27 AM
Who is the better alternative? Romney... Huckabee... (chirp chirp)? Please.
While I generally agree with most of what you say... a lot of people consider this nonsense on par with the 9/11 deniers. Conspiracy theories are great fun to talk about.
You may have points when it comes stuff like immigration (although there are many Republicans who are conservative on most issues that respectfully disagree with you on this) and cfr but his record over the course of 20+ years is conservative. Your boy Fred's ACU rating was 86%; McCain's is 80%... compare that to Hillary's 0% or Lieberman's 12%... point is that they are not even in the same league.
If you want to pay more taxes, lose more control of your life, start negoiating with Iran, and precipitously withdraw from Iraq, and see more legitimization of terrorist-run governments, then vote for a Democrat... otherwise realize that the situation is far less dire than the fat loser Rush Limbaugh would have you believe and that a McCain presidency is a far better alternative.
As someone who is in the military (and who will be for the next 15 years or so), I can say that support is coalescing around McCain because he best represents our values. This is the one chance we in the military have to choose our leader and I am sure as hell not going to sit still and let Clinton or Obama do to our military what Bill Clinton did to it during the 90's. If you care more about our military and not about Rush Limbaugh talking points, then you might reconsider this nonsense.
Posted by: Blake at January 31, 2008 01:23 PM
Great blog, but I have a bone to pick with you.
So, let's say, McCain is nominated. Are you going to sit out the election let Hillary or Obama win? As bad as McCain is on many issues, he not nearly as bad as the Democrats. And he is way better on the most important issue of our time - the war against islamo-fascists.
McCain might very well get the nomination. If he does, please vote for him against the Democratic nominee, whoever that might be.
Best regards,
Eric.
Posted by: Eric-Odessit at January 31, 2008 05:24 PM
Forgive me Blake, but it doesn't appear that you read all of my post or that you are aware of McCain's stance on the issues raised.
For instance, why would you say "If you want to pay more taxes, ... then vote for a Democrat..." when, if you are knowledgeable about this issue, you would realize that McCain will certainly raise taxes. Did you forget that McCain railed against Bush's tax cuts and voted against them in the Senate?
You must realize that McCain's open border policies put the entire nation at risk, every man, woman and child. There's a lot more than landscapers coming over that border, my friend, and McCain wants to open the flood gates. There can be no national security with open borders, and I recognize that threat, even if you don't.
Sorry, but I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, if you read these pages with any regularity as you seem to indicate, you would know that.
And you would know that I most certainly do care about our military, and I certainly care enough to be outraged at McCain's betrayal of your brothers and sisters in arms. Do you approve of his fight to keep those missing in action from coming home? Do you support his decision to leave your brother and sisters in arms lying in foreign soil, perhaps in an unmarked grave, rather than risk spoiling his chances to be president?
I cannot trust my future, and this country's future to a man who would do such a thing.
Thank you for serving, for protecting this country and thank you for protecting my personal freedom. I am forever grateful to you for doing so.
and thank you for visiting my site, and for taking the time to comment.
Posted by: LindaSoG at January 31, 2008 08:22 PM
Eric, I see no difference between John McCain and Hillary Clinton, or Obama, other than the war.
And considering that not only does he refuse to even try to keep terrorists out of our country, he insists upon enacting legislation to make it easier for them to come here to kill us in the streets, I do not trust him to maintain his position on the war once elected.
And considering that basically, everything else that McCain stands for, I am against, why would I vote for him?
He is no better than the liberal democrats on the other side, except that he claims the conservative mantle.
He is no conservative. He is no republican.
I pray that he does not get the nomination.
Posted by: LindaSoG at January 31, 2008 11:11 PM
Linda,
You say: "I see no difference between John McCain and Hillary Clinton, or Obama, other than the war".
And then you ask: "...why would I vote for him?"
Well, I think you have answered your own question: the war. If McCain does win, just view the general election as a Democratic Primary (which it would be at that point) and vote for a "Democrat" that is better, which is clearly McCain. At least he will not surrender, so we at least will fight on.
Good luck.
Eric.
Posted by: Eric-Odessit at February 4, 2008 01:47 PM