Well let me count the ways.

1. McCain/Feingold
2. Ammnesty with Teddy boy
3. Lack of support for tax cuts
4. Position on waterboarding of terrorists with info that could save thousands of lifes.

Let me recommend you consider a remedial reading course: It is obvious that in my post above I was specifically (and only) referring to foreign policy.

Only point four of your list qualifies as a truly foreign policy issue.

And you left out this small item:

1. Has unwaveringly supported victory in Iraq, as well as the surge.

I disagree with McCain on most of his domestic issues, as well.

I happen to believe that the enemy hordes are at the gates and that we need to defeat them. In my view, McCain alone — of the current group of candidates — seems to “get” it AND have the savvy to “do” something about it.

4. Position on waterboarding of terrorists with info that could save thousands of lifes.

right, because, having been tortured himself, he can’t have an objective point of view on how totally rock hard and cool it is to support torture.

for that matter, who’s paying attention to what some war veteran might think? TEH ONLY WAR WE FACE IS THE INVASION FROM MEXICO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he, like, wants 2 marry a mexican or sumthing!!!!

Lurking Vet on December 26, 2007 at 6:11 PM

LV – Don’t you think it is kinda’ strange that nobody except you and me want to talk about the Keating Five ?
Surely some of the posters above were around during that era !

McCorn.

Supported the surge when just about everyone else in the Senate hid beneath their desks

bnelson44 on December 26, 2007 at 7:13 PM

For all the woopidoo about the surge the Pres. was in charge of troop strength and sending reinforcements is a normal military response to struggling bogged down troops.
The Pres. knew all along what he had planned, it took Patreaus to bring it off.
Its nice that McCain supported the surge, I don’t understand what made increasing troop levels in time of war so exceptional unless the whole hulabaloo was engineered to humiliate liberals, in which case, OK.

What else has St John done for us? Lately.

I defy ANYONE to tell me that McCain could so easily be taken out of the game.
sanantonian on December 26, 2007 at 9:46 PM

Well let me count the ways.

1. McCain/Feingold
2. Ammnesty with Teddy boy
3. Lack of support for tax cuts
4. Position on waterboarding of terrorists with info that could save thousands of lifes.

No, I am not voting for the sonafabitch just because he spent several years in a POW camp. That kind of thinking has gotten him elected to the Senate several times. Instead of the deadheads in his state looking at his record.

Sorry, it takes a little more than that for me to support someone for the job of POTUS.

What do we need in charge more now? A CEO, a preacher, an actor, — or a sonofabitch?

I’m voting for the sonafabitch.

what have ya done for(?) us lately, John?

Speakup on December 26, 2007 at 7:12 PM

Supported the surge when just about everyone else in the Senate hid beneath their desks

what have ya done for(?) us lately, John?

Uh, does this name ring a bell, Maverick: Charlie Keating? The man who said in effect, “Of course I expect access and influence with politicians: I paid for it”?

Mc Cain may have been the least of the sinners among the Keating Five, but he was there, and that’s all that counts in my book.

So I’m sorry Senator, but Never Again will you get this Arizonan’s vote for meter maid, much less for President or Senator! NEVER AGAIN!

Oh, and thanks a lot for giving McCain-Kennedy a whirl and for McCain-Feingold too. It’s just what we needed down here in AZ.

Our problem is we want it all,…a telegenic presence, charisma, and the proper ideology. It rarely comes in one package.

a capella on December 26, 2007 at 4:09 PM

And in this cycle, it seems like the only thing Republicans are willing to sacrifice is the ideology part.

Contemplates…and throws blanket over head, wishing to fast-forward to 2012.

Try being a centrist Democrat Hawk.

The Rio Grande that is.

No one has a spine any more. No leaders to believe in. Where are the real men? Surely there must be at least a few left. We need at least one, more than ever. Alas, none are perfect and the hellfire lacrima cristi media and righties would crucify them…thus, they won’t run.

Entelechy on December 26, 2007 at 3:43 PM

Hunter has the credentials. Either conservative voters don’t want him, or there aren’t enough to make any difference. Don’t fault the candidates. Fault the voters who feed the polls and provide the funding.
Our problem is we want it all,…a telegenic presence, charisma, and the proper ideology. It rarely comes in one package.

She is going to run for Governor I am told. I used to support her, not any more. And you can bet I will fight to keep her out of the Govenors Mansion in Austin.

conservnut on December 26, 2007 at 3:56 PM

I’ll be here to help you out on that one!