McCain’s connection to…$oro$?
posted at 4:59 pm on January 25, 2008 by Bryan
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Let me preface this post by saying that I would love to support John McCain for president. I would loooooove it. Electing him to the presidency would be the biggest and boldest finger in the eye to the Clinton crowd that this country could possibly provide. While Bill Clinton was protesting the Vietnam War from England, making a mysterious trip to the USSR, dodging the draft and declaring that he “loathes the military,” John McCain was in the clutches of the North Vietnamese as their guest at the Hanoi Hilton. Five years John McCain spent in that hellhole, while Clinton was shagging coeds in the back of his El Camino and maintaining his “political viability.” Electing John McCain, especially if he’s matched up against Hillary Clinton, would punch more hippies in one minute than Fred Thompson can punch in a year.
But.
The problem with electing John McCain to the presidency is that he would actually serve as president, so you have think past the glory of the moment when all those Vietnam War protesters realize that they have been rejected, to consider what kind of president McCain would actually make. And I don’t think he would make a very good one. It’s not just that he still doesn’t get it when it comes to border security. It’s not just that he really doesn’t know much about economics (though he does have impressive advisers around him). It’s not just that he’s weak on the rights of captured terrorists. And it’s not just that he’s apparently yet another unreliable Republican on judges. And it’s not just that he’s apparently funded by George Soros. It’s all of that. Put it all together, and I think McCain’s weaknesses outweigh his strengths, however wonderful it might be to elect him as a statement against the 1960s anti-America crowd. And believe it, that would be wonderful.
As for the Soros connection, Michelle has it. Go read it. McCain’s patriotic and honorable supporters really need to ask themselves some questions about all this. George Soros has been using millions of his billions to fund some of the most dishonest anti-war agitprop of the past few years. He funds MoveOn, the group that smeared Gen. David Petraeus. He funds the anti-war marchers. He funds the shills over at Media Matters. Soros has made it his life’s work to destroy the Bush administration in the middle of a war. He’s a truly despicable character. And McCain and at least two of McCain’s allies, including Juan Hernandez, are financially connected to him.
McCain certainly has some amazing strengths, especially in his biography of heroic service, but he carries some incredible baggage as well.
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Connect the dots and get an ugly picture. Why aren’t I surprised? Thanks Bryan, and thanks to Michelle and also Ed Morrissey for investigating this. Soros is a bitter old man who continues to try to reshape the world. He’s his own punishment, much like old man Potter in “It’s A Wonderful Life”.
Another Republican administration,(my choice is Mitt) might make Soros even more bilious.
Al Franken could be the “Smithers” to Soros’ “Montgomery Burns”. “Exc-e-lent!”
Doug on January 26, 2008 at 1:16 AM
Heh. AF is “little me” to GS’ Dr. Evil.
“You complete me.”
silverfox on January 26, 2008 at 1:23 AM
Props to BP, Michelle and Morrissey.
Seriously you guys rock.
silverfox on January 26, 2008 at 1:26 AM
Bryan,
That was an interesting take on McCain. McCain is a likeable fellow (when he wants to be), and he is much harder to dismiss than Huckabee, even if his valorous service is set aside. He is just seriously off track and misguided. He just doesn’t seem to be an “idea man.” If only he had invested himself intellectually in conservatism back when the “harmless loveable little fuzzball” had just moved to NYC from California, or sooner he could have actually listened to Ronaldus Maximus’ speeches.
His nomination would have literally been a cake walk!
silverfox on January 26, 2008 at 1:38 AM
Wow. This sounds like a threat.
Connie on January 26, 2008 at 2:00 AM
The new AXIS OF EVIL:
Soros…Red China…North Korea…Iran
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it!!
…and it sounds like someone didn’t learn the story about the fall of the ancient city of Troy, which contains the memorable and ominously still-relevant line:
“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”!!
landlines on January 26, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Michelle’s scoop is the most important of the campaign
So McCain is just another project like Kerry, of the Soros machine.
If there was ever a more duplicitous liar, and fraudulent manipulator of governments and economies than anti-Christian Soros, I cannot name him.
Soros manipulated the Kosovo mess, crashed the British pound for fun and profit, sank the economy of the Pacific rim, and bought out McCain to get dissent from being published at election time under McCain Feingold, so the crooked Soros tentacles can play God
I have been reading and re-reading the op-ed Soros has in the NYT predicting that the USA will sink for ever financially in the coming crash, and only India and China will survive and prosper – unless the USA makes the mistake of becoming protectionist, which will sink India and China too.
Soros is a snake who has obviously made bets with his money on China with the hope to profit as the US fails.
Soros has to manipulate the USA to fail financially.
I now have a dream: Protectionism. Only protectionism can sink Soros. If we drown, we must grab him by the heels and take him with us.
Protectionism does not have to be legislated.
If Americans simply chose to cut back on purchases from China and India even a 10 percent drop will blow the Chinese bubble.
We can do it. I have just begun to fight.
entagor on January 26, 2008 at 2:21 PM
I personally don’t buy anything made, produced, grown, manufactured, assembled or processed in either Mexico or China and damn if that isn’t a challenge at times…like most the time.
oldernslower on January 26, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Landlines,
Perhaps the “-os” ending in Soros’ last name made you think he’s of Greek heritage.
As a deeply conservative and Jewish Reagan Republican, I regret to state that Soros is actually Jewish, not Greek.
Of Hungarian Jewish heritage. In fact, Soros isn’t even his original last name. It’s “Schwartz”. His family changed their last name in 1936 to sound less Jewish. In fact, Soros even admits that “he “grew up in a Jewish, anti-semitic home,” and that his parents were “uncomfortable with their religious roots.”
In other words, he comes from a group of Jews who hate their own heritage.
Clearly, the Schwartz is not with him. (Forgive the Spaceballs reference, but it seemed to fit.)
What dismays me is that I’m one-fourth hungarian jewish on my mother’s mother’s side. What dismays me even more is that my maternal grandmother’s maiden name was also “Schwartz”. I can only hope this is total coincidence and that we’re not related. My grandmother was born in the US in the very early 1900’s and died in 1975 so unfortunately I can’t ask her about it. All I can do is pray that schmuck Soros and I aren’t related. Damn I wish somebody’d take that guy out. I hate how he tries to manipulate American politics. It just ain’t right.
Shirotayama on January 26, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Soros likes to win. Correction, he hates to lose.
It is entirely possible his games with the Pacific rim nations were made because he was already placing bets on China, since the crash fed China growth
Money or Power would be the same thing to him. His life philosophy is based upon hatred. That which he hates, he crushes.
My hasty interpretation of his strangely humble op-ed in the NYT hoping the US does not go protectionist assumed Soros did not wish to lose his money which is bet on China and India growth.
I am now searching for another major financial analysis I received recently which declared the current crisis the worst since 1939. The depression was 1929. 1939 is WWII
1939 is the year Hitler staged various events to give pretext for invasion
Soros did not state what would happen if we go protectionist. I assumed he was fearful, but I was projecting what I would feel
Was Soros warning of crash, or warning of another 1939?
Was Soros warning us, or was he threatening us?
Sigh
entagor on January 27, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Hey, every family has its “black sheep”. There’s a branch of our family tree we will never know about because my otherwise sweet, not-a-bad-word-for-anybody grandmother gave us “that look” and refused to allow any discussion about it…ever…and took those details of our lineage with her to her grave.
When good DNA goes bad, you get cancer.
But I still think the “Greeks bearing gifts” quote is appropriate because it is a general warning to be careful in dealing with your enemies…and it’s very clear that if you love America, Soros is your enemy…even if he is only analogous to the Greek enemy of the ancient Romans.
landlines on January 27, 2008 at 5:25 PM
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