Phil Byler on December 20, 2007 at 11:16 PM

I know he said he got the message, but now he has to act on his words. Otherwise he is just another Mitt, changes position without taking any action. Without action, words are just words.
Now I don’t want to insult McCain and put him in the same class as Mitt, so I will state McCain is a real patriot. Mitt sends his kids around the country in an RV and considers that protecting America (similar to our kids in the middle east).
But McCain has to do more than just talk, he has to put some teeth in his words…we don’t need another Mitt in the campaign, we need a man.

Let’s all remembver that John Mccain became a P.O.W. because he was a U.S. Navy jet pilot who flew a jet off a carrier and, after completing a bombing mission of a power plant in Hanoi, was shot down by a surface-to-air missle. The air defenses of North Vietnam were formidable. John McCain then endured imprisonment from 1967 to 1973 while his father was CINCPAC.

Noted.

But that has nothing to do with his qualifications now or his voting record.

I am not suggesting he is or is not qualified.

I am suggesting that to pass on criticizing him because he was a POW is wrong. I won’t grant him a moral authority card.

How is he in McCain-Feingold? Still on the record making a claim that he’d rather have money out of politics than free speech; so that was his goal?

I’m sorry that we disagree, but electing a President who thinks that his whim trumps the Constitution and is willing to make that clear in both actions and words is a deal breaker for me.

If you like I’ll do some google searching and find that quote again (where he makes clear that his wishes are more important than the Constitution). Or see if I can dig up my saved copy of it anyhow. I kept it once I read it to remember to never support him for dog catcher, much less any higher office.

Unless he backs off from that position, I can’t see supporting him; and I haven’t seen him back off from there.

Phil Byler on December 20, 2007

I think we all agree that his service to this country is worthy of our profound gratitude and respect.

But, a fiscal conservative? Wasn’t he against the Bush tax cuts? Anyway, he lost me with McCain-Feingold, and then along came Shamnesty, fighting Bush on “torture”, and joining the gang of 14 with Lindsey Gramnesty, Snowe, and others.

Plus he is ornery.

The fact is that no one in either party is more qualified to be Commander in Chief NOW than John McCain.

I’d call it shameless, but do you want to be the guy to tell a POW who spent six years being tortured by the VC that he can’t include a little politically advantageous religious symbolism in his wartime reminiscences?

huh? Why not? His POW status is no more holy to me then was Kerry’s Vietnam service.

I am starting to get sick of hearing that used to excuse or shield him.

I agree he is a national hero compared to a faux hero like Kerry.

But he also has to deal with the facts at hand, and frankly what he is doing now is more important.

Riehl World View

I don’t want this to sound mean, or to suggest that I don’t have incredible respect for what John McCain went through during Vietnam. But he’s released his Christmas video. YouTube below – it works in a cross, btw. I understand it …

McCain’s not my choice for the primaries, and I don’t agree with some of his legislative excesses, but I deeply respect him for all he’s given for his country.

The second annoyance with Huck is that he implicitly attacks Mitt on the basis of his religion. Tilt. Pitting one religion against another (versus fair criticism) is what’s shameless. I don’t see this from McCain yet, and I trust it won’t happen.

The cure is more religious tolerance, not less.It’s only in recent years, thanks to ‘progressive’ miltancy, that expressions of traditional holday greetings have been put under fire.

Besides, how come we’re letting the left define the debate in THEIR terms on this issue, put us on defensive about identity group politics? After all, identity group politics is the engine of contemporary liberalism.

AZCON on December 20, 2007 at 5:53 PM

That’s what I’m afraid of…re: Bob Dole?

I thought Huck’s face might appear over that cross?

It’s good to hear “Christmas” and see the cross. Even when people simply use it to promote themselves, it’s good stuff.