Words and more words, but what of actions? No doubt McCain will try to reach out to conservatives. After all, we’ve only go two eyes to poke at and he already did that some time ago. But a speech is a very difficult way ……

John McCain will speak at CPAC, the grassroots conservative conference, tomorrow. A good time to take a slight break from this political campaign season, or at least deaden our senses to the pain that may be inflicted upon us soon….

The only Asian-Americans taking offense to McCain’s memory of the Viet Cong “gooks” who tortured every American POW would be Asian-Americans sympathetic to the Viet Cong gooks.

McCain’s reference to gooks is limited to his captors, not to the Vietnamese people or any other Asian or American.

If Romney bloodies his hands to promote divisive sentiment, he seals his own failure.

“McCain’s dishonest performance in the debate last night”

From last night’s posted clips, McCain was beligerant, but not dishonest.

From accounts, it is pushing the envelope beyond legitimacy to call McCain dishonest.

Listening to Laura Ingraham just now, interviewed NYT editor on McCain’s campaign and then her previous boss on the GOP platform.

Coalition is still in the works, whether it’s Romney or McCain that gets the nomination.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/18/MN32194.DTL

Are you listening, Mitt? McLame may have his own historical “macacque” moment to explain…

Not understanding the citizens of the United States and what they think is worth protecting here rules him out for me.

If Romney will pander to you now, he will pander to someone else as soon as the road gets rough and have all new positions. Mac will not.

JayHaw Phrenzie on January 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM

That is EXACTLY what McCain HAS DONE on illegal alien deportation, enforcing the border, building a border fence

If you do not have a winning argument, go for typos!

You are correct, my bad typing proves you are a genius.

JayHaw Phrenzie on January 31, 2008 at 10:30 AM

I have no quarrel with you. I was reminding you how to spell veteran. I’m trying to win anything.

and I have to tell you that last night’s debate performance left me incensed at him.

I got that impression. :)

But, you have got to lookat it in context. In 2000, Mac played the game with his fellow candidates, the “nicey nicey” way. W smeared him, won the nomination and never looked back.

I buried my anger and came on board with W and for most of his term have not regretted it.

But, Mac learned, and he is playing hardball now. Perhaps too aggressively, but he will bring that same game to Hobama. Mac is not going to roll over for anyone any more.

Mac is playing to win and he will keep Hobama out of the White Gouse.

Team Clinton and Team Obama are drooling at the prospect of playing identity politics with a Mormon.

JayHaw Phrenzie on January 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM

I just don’t think it’s pandering, which is the difference I guess. But even if it was, I guess I would rather take a chance on the panderer I don’t know than the maverick that I do know. We already know that McCain will curb free speech and won’t secure the border. I know what he’s saying now, but he also said after South Carolina that he he hasn’t changed his position on border security. So which is it?

I had hoped that he would at least be solid on judicial appointments, but Fund and Novak have uncovered evidence that he won’t be. Would he be better than a Hillary or Obama? Probably. But he’s not being reassuring, and I have to tell you that last night’s debate performance left me incensed at him. Not just about the Romney/Iraq thing, but even more fundamentally, his belittling of free enterprise. That’s the left’s language of class warfare. I don’t want to hear it from a Republican, ever.

have never wavered in my belief that invading Iraq was the right thing to do. Not for one minute, not for one second.

Romney’s hedges do not impress me.

JayHaw Phrenzie on January 31, 2008 at 10:17 AM

You didn’t even waver when they announced there were no WMDs?

fourstringfuror on January 31, 2008 at 10:22 AM

If you do not have a winning argument, go for typos!

You are correct, my bad typing proves you are a genius.

Bryan on January 31, 2008 at 10:21 AM

Now that is a reasonable criticism.

I have wavered on Mac, though I have never questioned his patriotism, but when Rudy’s strategy failed, I came on board the Mac bandwagon and I am not coming off.

I trust Mac. I don’t trust Romney.

I work as a retail buyer. All day long people sit down and tell me what they think I want to hear in the hopes of making the sale.

Perhaps because I see so many BS sales pitches as part of my job, it is a bit easier for me to realize that Mitt’s entire campaign is built on BS.

If Romney will pander to you now, he will pander to someone else as soon as the road gets rough and have all new positions. Mac will not.

a capella on January 31, 2008 at 10:15 AM

Yu have the right to your opinion. Heck, I spent part of my life working to help us all keep that right.

But, quite frankly, I have the right to completely disregard your opinion, when you refer to a great American as a traitor.

Petreus is not a traitor. Everyone on this board understood that the left went way to far in calling him a traitor to try to score cheap political points.

Yet, I hear so many on this board throwing that smear at Mac, and for what, cheap political points?

When a Conservative uses the tactics of Moveon.org, that conservative has lost his way.

Hypocrisy is more of a Democrat thing.

Veterens, like me, do not think highly of unaccomplished internet posters

Unaccomplished internet posters do not think highly people who can’t spell veteran.

You call yourself a veteren, but you try to diminish McCain’s heroism, to just being a PO.

JayHaw, I don’t just call myself a veteran…I am a vet and have spent much of my adult life in far away places doing my duty for my country. I have never diminished McCain’s service. You on the other hand attack me and my service because I happen to dislike your candidate’s politics. Once again you attack me and accuse me of diminishing Mac’s service. I have never done that. You are just as dishonest as Sen McCain. You are a f’n idiot!

JayHaw Phrenzie on January 31, 2008 at 10:11 AM

I thought Romney’s comments at that time were inane. Romney has been his own worst enemy sometimes, and that was undoubtedly one of those times.

I for one don’t question McCain’s patriotism, never have. I wrote a few days back that I would looooove to support McCain if for no other reason than to stick a finger in the eye of people like Clinton who were preserving their “policital viability” while McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton. And I would if McCain was better on the issues. But he’s unreliable on everything but the war imho. That doesn’t mean I think he’s evil or bad (though I do question his honesty after last night). I just don’t trust his judgment.

How is pointing out McCain’s record a “smear?”

Slublog on January 31, 2008 at 9:51 AM

Simple; McCain is the LeftStreamMedia’s pick for the R nomination. Therefore, pointing out any of his flaws is by definition a “smear”.

Of course, should he be the nominee, his record will suddenly and magically be a “legitimate target”, along with the Keating Five, the Forrestal, the Hanoi Hilton, his first wife, and his checkered Naval Academy record, all because at that point, he will be going up against a liberal honest enough to have a “D” behind his or her name.

no one has much reason to take him at his word

I have never had much reason to take McCain at his word.

But tell me this, aside from changing his positions everytime the wind blows, name one thing Romney has done in his entire lfe that displays even 1/10th the integrety and sacrafice of Mac.

JayHaw Phrenzie on January 31, 2008 at 10:15 AM

He didn’t dump his wife for a younger, richer, healthier one. How’s that?

But tell me this, aside from changing his positions everytime the wind blows, name one thing Romney has done in his entire lfe that displays even 1/10th the integrety and sacrafice of Mac.

Politically or personally? Because I don’t believe McCain is currently showing much political integrity when he distorts his record.

mycowardice on January 31, 2008 at 10:14 AM

I have never wavered in my belief that invading Iraq was the right thing to do. Not for one minute, not for one second.

Romney’s hedges do not impress me.

jwp1964 on January 31, 2008 at 10:10 AM

You call yourself a veteren, but you try to diminish McCain’s heroism, to just being a PO.

John McCain spent years in a Vietnam prisoner camp, when he could have gone home, because he had too much integrity to allow the North Vietnamese to use him for propaganda.

You can try to dismiss that as,

“I was a POW” line

But tell me this, aside from changing his positions everytime the wind blows, name one thing Romney has done in his entire lfe that displays even 1/10th the integrety and sacrafice of Mac.