Comments on: New leftist ad: You won’t believe how old John McCain is

By: Capitana

Capitana — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:11:37 +0000

This seems more like “fun facts” than “smear campaign” if this is the worst they got on him then this will be a short race.
His MOM is still living…. how does that even WORK?!

By: LevStrauss

LevStrauss — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:33:35 +0000

McCain Dole McCain Dole

Its 1996 all over again, except in the Congress.

By: jimpv

jimpv — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:56:08 +0000

You would look old too, if you spent as much time at the Hanoi Hilton that John McCain did.

But looks deceive, McCain appears to have his “mind right”.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:25:08 +0000

As an encore for Allahpundit to savor,
McCain is older than Fred Thompson.

McCain is too squishy. He is unreliable on everything domestic, meaning everything to do with us here and now.

While Obama and Hillary are having it out, NOW is the time to chest conservative hands of cards in order to pressure McCain to commit to secure borders and facilitation of legal immigrants already pursuing legal entry and residency according to current law.

The problem with any “new” law is that it only perpetuates the trajectory that much further off course from the original point, that point being the Constitution as Urtext, not as progressive liberal judges revised it to be as a “living” document, meaning whatever the new judge determines or wills by prejudice that it now dictates.

Beyond immigration, take another example, a light bulb, and start passing law after law legalizing only certain bulbs, and as others are invented, new laws must be created to determine their legal status, and that light bulbs must be used by all persons everywhere in public and in private, whether necessary or not, ad nauseum.

There’s truth to be had in envisioning contemporary practice. The fault seems to rest with the revision overwhelming the original forever thereafter. That need not be so.

Precedence should only be precedence, nothing more or less. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice, made a notorious decision that allowed the State of Virginia to a salpingectomy in Buck vs. Bell. Holmes “underscored how the health of the organic body politic trumped individual liberty.” (Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, pp252-3.) We hardly have state mandated lobotomies and sterilizations today. So precedence is only as valid or invalid as its particular case goes, and should NOT be wholesale reason for perpetually forcing the Constitution to “evolve” or mutate, as perspective determines changes from the original document to be.

By: BigMouthFrog

BigMouthFrog — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:45:30 +0000

New Leftist Ad: Old John McCain – Older Than Dirt…

by Allahpundit
Not from the DNC ???

The Article
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By: ilitigant

ilitigant — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:49:04 +0000

This is nothing but the new generation of socialists picking up on the ‘you can’t trust anybody over 30′ line from the 60’s. Problem is, nobody under their limit can run for President.. so… what about that 48 year old socialist Obama? What is he older than… hmmmmm Obama was born on 4 August 1961.. got list? The funny thing about the list offered by the loonies is that the things discussed are not ‘old’ at all. They have no clue about age as they are not old enough to qualify as mature to understand that we’ve only been basing our entire planet on oil for about a hundred years, and we’ve only been attacking each other on that internet thing for a few decades. The video and the ignorant ‘blog’ it comes from (they have a domain name does that make them believable, I don’t think so) … are made by children who would run this country and they are led by the socialist hollow candidate who like the Pied Piper will lure them all into their own demise.

For what Obama really is doing, sing along to the video at http://www.countryaboveself.com be a rock star like Barack.

By: jeanie

jeanie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:05:34 +0000

I’m a contemporary of John McCains and what’s wrong with being in your 70’s.Do the Dems REALLY want to offend elderly voters? There are a LOT of us out there and we vote!! Be careful!!

By: Maxx

Maxx — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:30:23 +0000

The young Klan leader went on to become one of the most powerful and enduring figures in modern Senate history. West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd, current chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee (Born: November 20, 1917, in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, current age 91) in his Senate office last week, has written a new book about his half-century in elective office. McCain is a young pup.

By: Grafted

Grafted — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:05:59 +0000

Substantive dialogue about the issues – this is why I love liberals. They seek reasonable discourse.

By: culturism

culturism — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:40:54 +0000

That means John McCain is older than the 1960s New Left and even hippies!!! Respect your elders.

http://www.culturism.us

By: geekrunner

geekrunner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:35:08 +0000

Also, to add to Prf. Blather’s analysis. If, instead of elections, the job of President was filled like any other job, with an interview and review of qualifications, McCain would be the hands-down choice for the job! However, since we the people vote for President, then qualifications mean nothing. Only thing that matters is getting 50% +1 vote in each state in sufficient quantities to get 270 electoral votes. So it becomes a popularity contest at best, or a contest to see who can be the most generous with taxpayer money.

By: geekrunner

geekrunner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:15:00 +0000

Professor Blather gets the Post of the Day award.

So far, only one other poster mentions that this juvenile attempt at humor was created by Steve Rosenthal, the founder of ACT, America Coming Together. One of Clinton Inc’s butt boys. It has the feel of a high school or college freshman attempt at humor. It would have been funny, if actual high schoolers had thought of it, but since it was a Klintoon Kool-Aid drinker responsible, childish is more apt a description.

By: Hening

Hening — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:06:29 +0000

So people that are ten years younger than Maverick are making fun of how old he is? Yah, that’ll work.

Anything but the facts, Dems.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:01:02 +0000

McCain can counter with an ad saying Barry is so young he doesn’t know that his pal Bill Ayers is a terrorist.

By: darkpixel

darkpixel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:14:02 +0000

Juvenile.

But if we really want to know about John McCain, I suppose we could ask his mother….

By: LtE126

LtE126 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:51:11 +0000

When I came on the job, you looked to the older guys because they had experience. And you didn’t dare insult them.

By: meep

meep — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:16:49 +0000

My mother-in-law is about the same age (only 2 years younger than McCain), and she’s pretty dang active. She works for the CDC doing lab work.

Also, a nitpick: Plutonium is much, much older than McCain. Yes, it was first manufactured/discovered in 1940, but there have been eentsy-teensy traces around for billions of years. It gets created in supernovas, and appears in miniscule amounts of uranium ore.

When they kept mentioning things he was older than, I kept thinking “That’s not that old”. They’re going to have to try harder…

By: LifeTrek

LifeTrek — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:45:08 +0000

So ageism is okay, but if someone even looks like they are going to call Obama something like “elite” then that is racism and even that hint of racism is bad.

John McCain is older then…..
(Good!)

Double standards are great aren’t they! If they weren’t then we would see this one:

Barack Obama is more elite then…..
(really bad cause we all know, “more elite,” is code for, “blacker!”)
DKK

By: Chakra Hammer

Chakra Hammer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:43:14 +0000

for McCain being so old he has a Marine son around 18 or 19 and Son in the Navy a few years older than that..
and a daughter thats like 16 or something :}

By: Chakra Hammer

Chakra Hammer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:40:11 +0000

My dad will be 70 in a couple months..

By: RMC1618

RMC1618 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:36:33 +0000

“john McCain is like, so old”

and he’d still kick the crap out of you, ya college hippie!

By: newton

newton — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:19:09 +0000

Remember, people: it is usually those 65 and older who show up at the polls the most.

We should make sure they all know that the DNC discriminates against McCain because of his age.

By: Sackett

Sackett — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:06:06 +0000

ppbbt… did you see the ad from the enviros attacking McCain for supporting Nuclear energy?

That was funny, since the reason he does is because he wants to reduce coal and oil use to save us from global warming.

By: Nahanni

Nahanni — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:03:09 +0000

If this is the best they can do they are in big trouble.

But we already knew that.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:02:24 +0000

All McCain’s people have to do in reply is make an ad with Barack in a baby carriage shaking a rattle and crying, with the line:

“Some people think Senator McCain is too old for the Presidency… maybe it’s time to CHANGE their diapers.”