But I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness.

Impressive. McCain called Obama a political party hack, a inexperienced rookie, and a liar or at the very least two faced in one sentence.

No one outside of your very tiny world here on “Hot Air” gives a loose shit!
Have you guys figured that out, yet?
You’re “strokin’ your Buds!

Do yah get it?

No you dimbulbs don’t…don’t tell me. You’re in a right wing “circle jerk”

It’s fun to watch!
Olde soldier sends…!
I’ll keep reminding you and watching your backsides…

gosh low oxygen content…!

Bloggin’s fun!
Get off your backside and walk or run!

It’s goode for me it’s goode for you it’s goode for the folks behind the tree!

Hold your breath…!
Back in 45 minutes…!
1700 meters up and back!

Veggies are good too!

Wyrd on March 27, 2008 at 3:27 PM

Sigh, once again, you try to force a false choice…

Now its either armed insurrection or vote for McCain?

You do know that there have been other political partys? That they have to start somewhere?

As to McCain? He is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

He has done NOTHING to enforce border security.

He has seriously put a crimp into free speech, while giving politicians control over what we can say when… (McCain Feingold).

I didn’t hear him saying anything about the largest increase in government size EVER (Homeland Sec Dept.).

I don’t hear him speaking out to how disfunctional Home Sec Dept is…

I do hear him being pro military about Iraq, but not a word about securing OUR border (and yes, I’d put troops on the border in a heartbeat).

He cast the vote that STOPPED us from drilling in Anwar…

Need I go on?

Once again, you try to force us into a the other guy is worse situation, instead of giving us a real alternative.

Even though McCain is not the ideal candidate, he is better then the opposition. Get him into the white house and let the liberal party self destruct more. As they implode more moderate people can be brought under the conservative wing with the basic tenants of:
1) Judge a person by the content of their character
2) Hard work should be rewarded
3) a person is responsible for their own actions
4) government is meant to be small, and to provide for the common defense, not a nanny to take care of everyone.

Educate the people of what it means to be an American, and instill in the children some real values, not the tripe they teach in school.
Course if this all fails we can always go back to armed revolt. That was what Jefferson had in mind back in the day.

Then maybe, just maybe, we won’t be given this choice between the lesser of evils in the future…
Romeo13 on March 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM

Right On!
Ron Paul…!

Wyrd on March 27, 2008 at 1:05 PM

Sorry, but there are many, like myself, who will longer follow that “choice”.

Both partys have a vested interest in keeping a two party system going, so they control the government. This idea that we HAVE to vote for one or the other of the two partys candidates or we waste our vote plays into the perpetuation of that system.

The “other guy is worse” arguement is part of the reason that 1/3 of the electorate is now registered independent.

As long as people continue to vote ONLY this way, the two party system, which is no longer truly representing the American voter, will continue without any change.

With the disaffection of a LOT of Republican voters (Conservatives), and the Cat fight currently in the Dem party, the time is ripe for a real Voter revolt… and I for one will help.

Then maybe, just maybe, we won’t be given this choice between the lesser of evils in the future…

Senator McCain’s “senior moments” are one issue. To me as an olde soldier; his personal temperament and supposed ‘anger moments’ as experienced by others are more serious.
http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_052106.htm

What you must understand here; is that “military politics” when you get to the “staff level” is just as cut throat as it is, in politics at the Presidential election.
You civilians didn’t know that, did you? Oh hell, well, better let “dead dogs lay”!

I only spent six years in the military, two in training and four deployed on multiple missions to Vietnam. All of my service was spent on the non-commissioned side of the service. That doesn’t mean I was a complete fool and couldn’t read the political moment on the commissioned side.

During that period I had opportunity to observe many fine leaders and heroes’ and yes, complete rectal sphincters.

When President Kennedy authorized the [re]formation of the Special Forces Group at Ft. Bragg, NC. I jumped from the 82nd Airborne, downtowne, over to Smoke Bomb Hill, in a Wisconsin [New York] minute, country side!

I transitioned from a “spit and polished” highly trained “STRAC” combat unit, to a group of senior training [somewhat grizzled] NCO’s, who were schooled in a rather unique form of new war craft.

By “grizzled” I mean they weren’t as much “spit and polish” more inclined to “rock climbing” over and over…and without a rope… you soldier… climb, find the hold, left, up… Gocht…! Pinch your fingers… in that crevasse…good! Climb! Left foot up! Feel the notch?

Something I’d never done before in training. This physical and mental skill training tended to stimulate my “juices” more then polishing my “boots for inspection”!

Eventually they shipped my sorry asse off to Vietnam. I survived multiple missions!

Thanks gentlemen!
You know who you are… if you “haven’t bought the farm”…!
Thank you, you very fine soldiers and gentlemen! An olde country boy sends, I luved it [your attention to detail and professionalism] and I luv you!

May your operating mechanisim be “oiled and clean”!
May your bore “be bright and shiny”!
May the wind “be mostly at your back”!
May your trek “successfully complete your mission”!

Persevere!

I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble. Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won’t make the same mistake again. …

But I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness. Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us. Good luck to you, Senator.

Just D@MN! LMAO! BWAHAHAHA!

How’s that? Do I fit in now? Am I a ‘true’ conservative now? Well, maybe not. You’re right, I didn’t really mean any of that. I was just trying to capture the spirit of the bootlicking that was going on earlier in this thread. I actually think I captured it quite well; it really was that pathetic. McCain is insulting a liberal for change and not his own party! Yay! Better use up that confetti, because it probably won’t happen again.
Don’t feel self-conscious though, guys. I mean, lickspittle is a time honored, and necessary profession, and it bears more than a passing resemblence to the other one…Eliot Spitzer knows the one I mean. Keep sifting that pepper, boys. I’m sure there’s something good to be said about McCain…isn’t there? :D

because he is better then Obama or Hillary. Unless a viable third party candidate comes up I don’t see much of a choice. I love my country too much to sit at home being bitter come election day. So I’ll cast that ballot for McCain, and I will write my letters to congress voicing my position, and I will hope for the best.
Or I could stay home and watch Obama/Hillary win and then watch whats left of my country be destroyed. My pride is not that great. I’ll vote for McCain.

Wyrd on March 27, 2008 at 1:05 PM

Can’t be said enough…you little Mitt (and Huck) whiners, get over it. The only chance Mitt or any other candidate has next election is to have McCain win.

Here is your main problem with McCain, he is not Your type of candidate. He is not all the way to the right. He actually comes across as more of a moderate. He is willing to work with the other side and make consessions. U
A far right or far left person will not be voted into office. The majority of the country will vote moderate, and thats where McCain will get most of his votes. The fringe element (both left and right) are just that. Fringe elements. And both sides are too blinded by their own glory and sense that they are the only holders of truth to realize that they are blind. Granted, the extremist come in handy, they help define what a moderate is. But they will always be a minority.

I have plenty of issues with McCain, but I will vote for him because he is better then Obama or Hillary. Unless a viable third party candidate comes up I don’t see much of a choice. I love my country too much to sit at home being bitter come election day. So I’ll cast that ballot for McCain, and I will write my letters to congress voicing my position, and I will hope for the best.
Or I could stay home and watch Obama/Hillary win and then watch whats left of my country be destroyed. My pride is not that great. I’ll vote for McCain.

J_Gocht on March 27, 2008 at 12:23 PM

McCain could sure use those cards – imprinted with a message so as to remind him: “Remember that you’re a Republican, schmuck!”

On illegal immigration, it’s not wrong to want to secure the borders first. And people really need to see the truth about “amnesty”. McCain never wants to grant illegals any immediate citizenship. On campaign finance, yeah…most of it was wrong, but it’s also old news. On justices, again…it’s precisely because of McCain and the “Gang of 14″ that Roberts and Alito were appointed. He successfully prevented a Dem filibuster.

As for liberals and the media…McCain was never “cozy” with them…just open to them. And as we see even now, whatever perceived love affair between the two you may see, it’s fading quickly.

JetBoy on March 27, 2008 at 10:14 AM

I was talking about John Sidney McCain, the guy who toyed with becoming a dem. An understandable mistake on your part. It’s a common name.

“McCain/Kennedy!
Seven Percent Solution on March 27, 2008 at 12:33 PM”

How about McCain/Feingold?

“Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us.”

You think?…………….. two words:

McCain/Kennedy!

“And don’t give me crap about how old Reagan was; Reagan knew how to take the fight to the democrats, unlike prematurely-senile hacks like Dole and McCain. Reagan knew who was damaging the country and he didn’t mince words or lay down for them. He had never been a “country club” Senator like those two.
He was, in short, a true conservative.
TexasJew on March 27, 2008 at 12:17 PM”

When he’s speaking extemporaneously in public and is prone to senior, Reaganesque moments?

Why doesn’t he do, what President Regan did…utilize 3 by 5 cards on the podium?

After Dole and McCain. can’t republicans learn to nominate people who DON’T wear Depends? Or at least republicans?

And don’t give me crap about how old Reagan was; Reagan knew how to take the fight to the democrats, unlike prematurely-senile hacks like Dole and McCain. Reagan knew who was damaging the country and he didn’t mince words or lay down for them. He had never been a “country club” Senator like those two.

He was, in short, a true conservative.

That’s your boy McCain.

Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us. Good luck to you, Senator.

If anyone asks what passive-aggressive means, show them this letter as Exhibit A. A master stroke.

I’d like this to get out to the MSM to show that Senator Hope and Change is the same old same old. Not much of a uniter if he is that easy for Nancy to rein in on a bi-partisan issue.

“Man, I wish I could call somebody a Liar with as much eloquence and panache’ as he does.
Subsunk”

Now if you do so believe, as Subsunk intimates; do you think Holy Joe was nearby?