McCain Conference Call
posted at 10:35 am on April 25, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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John McCain held another blogger conference call, and started off talking about his effort to reach out to “areas that haven’t been able to participate” in economic expansion. The biggest lesson to be learned from the War on Poverty is that local control and local government is the key to success. Big federal bureaucracies just get in the way. He visited the Katrina-hit areas and toured the devastated areas, and later spoke about improving the response to future disasters.
On the economy, McCain says to anyone who wants to pay higher taxes: “I’m not your guy.” Spending is the problem, not revenue, including a 940% increase in earmarks over the last 12 years. He wants to keep capital-gains tax rates low in order to maintain and increase the revenue from them. “Anyone who wants to raise taxes in tough economic times lacks a fundamental understanding of economics.”
McCain also believes that a gas-tax holiday will benefit the working class, but he says it doesn’t solve the fundamental problems of oil imbalance
Questions:
- What obligation does Obama have to discuss his associations with former radicals, and what responsibility does the press have? — He’s surprised that there hasn’t been more focus on Obama’s comparison between William Ayers and Tom Coburn. Obama owes the American people an apology for both. Maybe he can make a case for Ayers, but the Weathermen were terrorists, and the media should discuss it.
- The North Carolina ad — why pull it? — It’s not the tenor of the conversation McCain wants to wage. It’s open for discussion, but he doesn’t want to make it part of the campaigning at any level. In his view, the ad isn’t appropriate for the GOP, in a similar manner as Bill Cunningham’s remarks earlier in the campaign.
- Can you win in California? — He intends to compete in California; as a Western Senator, he understands the issues facing Californians, and Schwarzenegger’s success there shows it can be done.
- What is his analysis of the Basra operations? — It’s a “pleasant turn of events”. We’ve been pressing Maliki for action, and he persevered through some setbacks to success. Basra now is under Maliki’s control, and it has united the central government. Sadr is marginalized. “Overall, I’m rather pleased.”
- Should voters take Obama’s relationship with Wright into account? — He doesn’t want to tell voters how to make their decision, but he’s concerned about the tenor of the Republican campaign. He can’t order them to take the ad down, but as the nominee, he can make public his concerns.
- Hamas would be pleased with an Obama presidency Has he distanced himself from Carter, Hamas? — A lot of bad actors on the international stage seem to be rooting for Obama, including Daniel Ortega and others. Sitting down without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while Iran increases its support for Shi’ite militias shows how feckless Obama’s foreign policy is.
- Obama withdrew from a debate in North Carolina. Would he be willing to have a “conversation” with Hillary instead? McCain says it’s inappropriate until the Dems have a nominee.
McCain’s next stop will be in Arkansas, where he will make appearances with Mike Huckabee. Afterwards, he goes to Florida for some fundraising, and next week, he’ll start talking about health care and get back on the bus with the media.
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The fence has worked wonderfully in San Diego. refer to my previous post.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Reagan was the pioneer and only took us only so far. After the 80’s, I expected a lot more out of the GOP in returning us to constitutional government. For 100 days in 1994, they were there.
There is absolutely no difference between McCain, Snowe, Collins, and Specter and the democrats- or you.
Valiant on April 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM
I am for all sorts of taxes. I want a tax on all banks that have press anything for Spanish and a tax on all stores that sell anything with Spanish on the box or the inside instructions. I also want a very high tax on any employer who hires illegals.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM
“Are all you McCainites for open borders? I smell a trend. 80% of Americans disagree with you.”
I’m for enforcing existing laws on employers and denying social services to illegals and detaining/deporting illegals when they are found. I’m for cracking down on the Mexican government.
What I’m not for is some stupid fence. Got it?
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 2:29 PM
when he betrays you, and he will, I’ll have the last laugh!! you liberals can have him without my help. I’ve already shown the border fence works, those who say it won’t are idiotic. but then libs never let facts get in the way of their ideology.
oh yeah pontificating in front of cameras, and having drinks with uncle Keg (teddy) is real hard work!!
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM
You should register the “Coalition for Higher Taxes” – this is a good start. Maybe Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton can use your services. Wait…it does’t match with their pandering politics, though…you’re out of luck. Not to talk about Mr. McCain. For some reason, though, your vile spills only toward him.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Valiant on April 25, 2008 at 2:32 PM
I wonder if he’s smart enough to see his own contradiction…
TheBigOldDog on April 25, 2008 at 2:33 PM
If we build the fence, and in retaliation, the Mexicans elect some Chavez protege (they nearly did the last time), what happens is that every illegal immigrant here would have cause to apply for asylum, and there would be even greater incentive to leave Mexico for here.
Sekhmet on April 25, 2008 at 2:33 PM
I long ago got sick and tired of the sleazy chuck-and-jive shamnesty politicians of which John McCain has been the chief ring leader. The reason that Republican supporters of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” want it is so that they and/or their campaign contributors can have serf labor. They would probably prefer actual out-and-out slaves but thanks to Lincoln, Grant and Sherman that is illegal.
The reason that shamnesty Democrats want this is so that those who are now illegal can become legal and vote for them. Many of them probably also want to do this for the same reason that shamnesty Republicans do too.
Does anyone think that any of these shamnesty politicians really care one wit otherwise for the illegals.
Does anyone think that any of the shamnesty politicians are going to invite these Mexican Indios and Mezclados to join their elite/exclusive golf clubs?
Come to live in their gated communities, other than as servants?
Invite them to their yachts, other than as low paid deck hands and/or servants?
Invite them to their cocktail parties?
Introduce them to their daughters?
The big majority of the Mexicans who have come here/will come here are Indios and Mezclados, not the Spanish descendant light-skinned ruling class of Mexico. This is a form of ethnic cleansing by Mexico’s ruling class.
So the shamnesty politicians like John McCain are aiding and abetting and facilitating ethnic cleansing.
If the U.N. were not such a joke, they would all be standing trial for trying to reintroduce a form of latter-day-serfdom in the United States and for the mass ethnic cleansing of Mexico.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 2:34 PM
we’d notice a difference? please.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Yeah, and I’m sure they figured that whole idea of enforcing the borders of the nation was silly too.
Still waiting for McCain’s solution…did he learn anything from the time when we (read: conservatives) shut down the Senate’s phone lines becasue they (read: McCain, the RINOs, and their Democrat pals) tried to shove amnesty down our throats?
WisCon on April 25, 2008 at 2:35 PM
AMEN!! thats right, its just another form of slavery.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Does not appear so.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM
right4life,
Okay, did you miss the ASYLUM part of what I said? Right now, when we discover an illegal alien, we have an option to deport him or her. This option goes bye-bye if Fidel Junior takes over in Mexico.
Sekhmet on April 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM
again, whats the difference? we grant asylum only if we authorize it, but with amnesty Juan, it’ll be amnesty no matter what.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM
“The big majority of the Mexicans who have come here/will come here are Indios and Mezclados, not the Spanish descendant light-skinned ruling class of Mexico. This is a form of ethnic cleansing by Mexico’s ruling class.”
I didn’t realize that there was a census on illegals.
Sure, the “ruling class of Mexico” is shoving the illegals across the border. And here I thought they crossed on their own accord.
Perhaps the light skinned ruling class isn’t leaving Mexico because it’s, well, ruling Mexico. Which is better than picking fruit in Peoria, at least in their few.
Thanks for illustrating the paranoid, nonsensical views of a obsessive fence fanatic.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I just tell the truth about Juan and it seems like vile. I don’t need to waste too many rounds on Obama and Hillary as there are plenty of other folks here to do that. Why pile on? Besides Obama and Hillary are not trying to take over the party that Barry and Ronald build and Juan is.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM
If Fidel Jr. gets control of Mexico, it is because they elected him. This is the crux of the problem. The political leanings of Latin America, the Democrats, and McCain is not something we need to import more of.
Valiant on April 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Wake up.
The ruling class of Mexico is “shoving the illegals across the border” by their corruption and poor goverence which keeps Mexico a #hithole.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Myth No. 1: McCain hates Republicans…he’s a RINO. Well, about 9 times out of ten, he votes GOP party line. High lifetime ACU conservative rating. Pro-Life, anti-taxes, anti-gun-control, don’t give up the War on Terror…Yeah, McCain won’t defend Republicans…
JetBoy on April 25, 2008 at 2:46 PM
Mexico Provides Guide to Illegal Immigration
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,143433,00.html
bet you think the whole ‘reconquista’ thing is a ‘paranoid fantasy’. Viva La Raza!
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Fully agree on this one. It’s the unspoken elephant in the room.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Glad you finally admit it.
Valiant on April 25, 2008 at 2:50 PM
I agree that the Mexican government is corrupt and are poor governors, but I don’t see how a fence is going to turn them into anything different. Our Democrats govern basically the same way Mexico’s politicians govern, so are you trying to place more of them into office?
So perhaps the traffic will go both ways?
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 2:51 PM
And “muchas gracias” to you, no Burro, for your inane and vacuous attempt at a response.
BTW, I am an “obsessive employer enforcement fanatic” not an “obsessive fence fanatic”, just so you get something straight anyway.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 2:51 PM
the purpose of a fence is not to ‘change mexico’ but to keep illegal mexicans, and others, out.
and Juan governs the same way as democrats.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM
And I ask why would ANY conservative NOT like JOHN McCain. I swear, a few conservatives out there have been reading the liberal playbook. “Juan McCain”, “John McAmnesty”, etc etc…
Oh, and continued whining and “I’m not voting” BS…Get over yourselves and do the right thing for AMERICA.
More name-calling. And no substance. Again, sounding more like a liberal than a conservative. I though we held ourselves to higher standards?
And also again, it’s not, nor never has been, that McCain has abandoned or ignored conservatives. You’re deranged to think so. But there certainly are a few conservatives (most know what we’re talking about) who have some false, warped sense of exactly who John McCain is.
But in the end, we will NEED to all come together and support him. Even if you don’t like McCain, you know this to be true. Just say the words “President Obama” or President Clinton” a few times out loud to yourselves…
JetBoy on April 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM
I think the fence-obsessed are missing a part of the big picture in which potential leftist voters and potential leftist guerrillas in Mexico are channelled northwards and out of Mexican politics. A Castroite takeover of Mexico is IMHO one of those things to be avoided at all costs.
Also, I wonder if any fencers were old enough to remember when Hannibal Lecter could cross into Mexico, and the Mexican cops wouldn’t give a toot about looking for him, or when the Mexican police were not dying fighting drug gangs because they were on the gangs’ payroll. The gangs know the cops know who they are, and that they’d let the US come kill them if their gang was caught doing something that resulted in another terror attack on American soil. This keeps the gangs from using their resources to more effectively smuggle terrorist personnel and weapons across the border.
At some point, the Castro regime will fall apart and there will be less need for law enforcement cooperation with Mexico. Then, and only then, we can revisit harsh means of preventing and remedying illegal immigration. Until then, we may be spending less on social services for Mexicans than we’d be spending on defense measures against the alternative.
Sekhmet on April 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Over on the far left they say that Republicans govern basically the same way as Facists.
I think that you both have lost it, big time.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM
:-P
JetBoy on April 25, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Typical McCainite- calling us out of touch with reality.
He’s a damaged Commie media hound. Wake up!
Valiant on April 25, 2008 at 2:58 PM
MB4 – so you admit that you are a Democrat.
Thanks for that info. If you believe our Democrat politicians are even marginally better than Mexico’s PRI, I can see why you hate Senator McCain so much. You are a Democrat.
Democrat politicians in this country are pure, unadulterated, corrupt and incompetent scum. Just like Mexico’s politicians.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM
That is vacuous as no one is obsessed with a fence. Do you even know what obsessed means?
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:01 PM
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Just like you’re a NoDonkey, MB4 is not a (domestic) ass, aka, a donkey.
You’re both entitled to your opinions, though.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Well, if you are not fence-obsessed, and there is some question as to your claims of Thee One True Conservatism, and objections to McCain seem mostly centered on Mexicans and their presence in the US, what the frak am I supposed to call you?
Sekhmet on April 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM
I mealy answered your question
in your language.
Sigh.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:05 PM
A Goldwater conservative.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 3:06 PM
“MB4 is not a (domestic) ass, aka, a donkey.”
Hard to tell, the way he castigates Republicans and meanwhile not a peep about Democrats.
I am not so much a Republican as an anti-Democrat, hence the moniker.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 3:06 PM
A “commie”? Well, that’s a new one…care to elaborate?
JetBoy on April 25, 2008 at 3:06 PM
NoDonkey, the tent ought to be as big as Reagan wanted it to be.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 3:07 PM
You should not be calling me. I think you should be calling Sigmund.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:08 PM
You are not especially observant are you?
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Senior McCain thinks it is all about him … His me, me, me, me, it’s all about McCian, tour ends in November.
Yeck, after reading this, now I need a shower.
tarpon on April 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Those of you fighting MB4, he’s with most of you on shamnesty (go back and look at that fight from last year), and he’s against most of us on the “nation building” in Iraq, having been for the invasion. Both spill over to McCain. His liberal nemeses are a given.
He probably also loves to annoy all of us, now and then. Other than that, he’s probably ok.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 3:12 PM
oh little things like:
Amnesty,
Mccain feingold
tax increases
do you even have to ask???
oh yeah electing a republican who is a liberal democrat is the ‘right thing’ sure.
But in the end, we will NEED to all come together and support him.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 3:12 PM
You also have to go to the bathroom, now and then.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM
McCain-Feingold restrictions on free speech in campaigns. He is now trying to slither out of his own rules due to his ineptness as a candidate.
McCain-Lieberman gun grab.
100 year occupation of Iraq.
He is not a Commie in that he is not serious on the war on terror (closing Gitmo- no
torturewrist slaps). He also wants to throw the border open which is not typical of Communist countries. Finally, Communists would laugh global warming initiative right out of the Kremlin. I may have to stand corrected, McCain is not even as good as a Commie.What are you going to say when his 2007 ACU rating is below 50% continuing his steady slide from 2000
Valiant on April 25, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Wow, good points, MB4. I’m not sure if it is an ethnic issue, but it’s definetely true that Mexico’s elite would love nothing more than to export their economic underclass.
Mexico has a top 15 world economy, yet 60 percent of it’s people live below the poverty line. It’s the perfect environment for a socialist revolution unless the landed nobles either a) work to eliminate corruption and cronyism among the political class and the police forces and encourage market competition, or b) export the disenfranchised to their friendly northern neighbors.
I remember Fred Thompson mentioning this, but no other candidates come to mind. Oh, well.
joewm315 on April 25, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Where did I “admit” that I am a Democrat? And is being a Democrat some kind of crime now? Employing Illegals isn’t a crime, but being a Democrat is? What country did you grow up in.
BTW, I still get solicitations from Juan by email after I gave him some bucks in 2000. I just got a survey questionnaire, with a campaign solicitation in it of course, from him.
I think that I will add a few survey questions of my own that I borrowed from a friend named JAM who also still gets solicitations from Juan and add them to the list and email it back.
1. “Is McCain a crazy old corrupt amnesty coot? (yes)
2. Will you vote against the crazy corrupt amnesty coot? (yes)
3. Do you think McCain is a crooked liar who gets a pass from the press for his Keating 5 corruption, his unethical strongarming of the Federal Communications commission for his blonde lobbyist honey? (yes)
4. Do you think McCain sold out the country in exchange for money from serf-wanting agribusiness and other plantation-employers? (yes)
5. Do you think the crazy corrupt old amnesty coot’s medical records and his wife’s tax returns should be released? (yes)
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Must be really depressing to think that a majority, or at least very close to it, of your fellow Americans prefer that.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Anyone not heard the comments by McCain today on the North Carolina GOP anti-Obama commercial? He’s calling them “racists” again. It’s un-fuc*ing-believable.
This guy is going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory; while the DemoRats slaughter each other, he can’t stand the luxury so he commits electoral suicide. The voters calling Rush this morning from NC were speechless; they don’t care if he doesn’t get a vote, they’re focusing on State and local elections.
He must be insane.
Jaibones on April 25, 2008 at 3:26 PM
I don’t think that Reagan would want someone at all like Juan Hernandez in his tent. Juan has him as an adviser.
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:27 PM
I’m starting to think that mccain really is the manchurian candidate.
This kind of stupidity is starting to make me very nervous about the vp selection. If he picks someone totally unacceptable he can still lose the base. I will not vote for president if charlie crist or lindsey grahm are on the ticket. He makes a bad pick and refuses to fight back he is toast.
peacenprosperity on April 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM
No doubt.
Valiant on April 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on April 25, 2008 at 3:30 PM
I am a North Carolina voter. I intend to vote for Huckabee in the Republican primary on May 6th. I recommend that other NC Republicans do the same. At the very minimum it would be a wake up call to McCain if he were to lose the NC primary to a man who isn’t even running against him anymore, but who better represents our values.
Red Pill on April 25, 2008 at 3:46 PM
I just figured out threre are so many McCain-haters around. I listened to Rush today for the 1st time in about a year. That guy is off his rocker with irrational bitterness toward McCain. For instance, after reporting that McCain demanded that B.O. apologize for the “bitter-cling” remarks, Rush reported that McCain criticized N.C. Reps for their Wright ad. Rush then went on a tantrum about McCain never criticizing Dems, just Reps. He just reported that McCain demanding B.O. to apologize!
jgapinoy on April 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Rush criticized McCain for criticizing Republicans. Rush has criticized Republicans countless times, including today when he criticized McCain!
jgapinoy on April 25, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Ya’ think?
You mean I’m not the only one who thinks that?
Red Pill on April 25, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Rush was a jackass today. He’s miffed because McCain hasn’t come and kissed his butt.
Rush – now there is an authentic “conservative”. Who talks the talk extremely well admittedly, but somehow comes nowhere close to walking the walk. His lives the lifestyle of a rockstar, then lectures the rest of us on what a conservative is.
Whereas McCain has walked the walk, in the military and in the GOP.
And since when do “conservatives” get their feelings all hurt when someone disagrees with them. If McCain would have not repudiated that ad it would have been about him, now it’s back to being about Wright. The NC GOP can run all of the ads they want about Wright, they don’t need McCain’s permission.
Why are “conservatives” against McCain, continually acting like Democrats?
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM
I don’t care what others think about John McCain. If Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin all sang John McCain’s praises in chorus format, I’d still oppose him.
If a survey of conservative bloggers resulted in findings that 99.99% of all people who call themselves conservatives support John McCain. I wouldn’t join them.
I don’t care what you say, I’m not supporting John McCain. Call me a traitor, call me whatever you wish. Tell me that by refusing to even consider supporting John McCain I’m dooming the US to defeat in the War on Terror and Liberals on the Supreme Court. I’ll say bs, and I won’t support John McCain. If supporting John McCain is the cost of winning the war on Terror, then the price is too high to me. Especially when I think Hillary would fight to win, despite the statements to Move on and the rest.
You can paint not supporting John McCain as akin to begging for the reign of Satan, and I’ll laugh at you, and tell you I’m not supporting him.
McCain hates Republicans. He always has. I had a grudging respect for him for a while. That respect was deminished during McCain Feingold, and the cowardly caving from the right on the issue. Everybody passed the buck. Congressmen voted for it after claiming it would violate free speech, but they voted for it hoping the President would veto. The President signed the bill hoping that the Supreme Court would do the right thing, and overturn it.
Everybody did the wrong thing hoping that someone else would do the right thing, and they said they were doing just that. They literally said they were voting for or supporting it, but thought it wouldn’t survive the challenge in the Supreme Court.
Ok, I supported the Republicans in 2004. I held my nose and voted for admitted cowards we had in office. Then we came to McCain Amnesty. He was a major architect for the same thing in 1986, and said then his legislation would fix the problem.
McCain’s fix sucked. It didn’t fix a damn thing. Then he and his followers called us all racists because we opposed amnesty. That was the last damn thing I was going to tolerate. McCain finally caved, and said. “If they want the fence, I’ll build the damn fence. I think it’s wrong, but I’ll do it.” So he caved to us racists who filled offices in DC with bricks.
McCain tried to bully us into shutting up, because he knew his argument was weak and really was the pandering we claimed it was.
I say no to John McCain, under any circumstances.
Snake307 on April 25, 2008 at 4:08 PM
but of course it couldn’t be because captain queeq mccain isn’t a conservative.
and who are you to know what kind of life he leads? and if he wants to spend his money and have a good time, the why not?? only libs are concerned about how other people are spending their money, because the libs think all the money is theirs, and we just have an allowance.
he has NOT walked the walk in the GOP. he’s a LIBERAL, how hard is this? and being in the military doesn’t mean you’re conservative.
we don’t, we tell the truth, which hurts.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Reminder – East Berlin wall was designed to keep people in. The fence in Israel and the proposed one on the Mexican border ts to keep people out!
Hilts on April 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM
“and who are you to know what kind of life he leads?”
And who is Rush to decide who is conservative and who is not?
Most of what Rush castigated McCain for today, has nothing to do with conservatism, it has to do with silly nonsense like hurt feelings in North Carolina and political issues in New Orleans.
Do I like that McCain basically blamed bush for the New Orleans fiasco, that was the fault of the city and state Democrats?
Of course not. But that’s not going to sell in the general election and the last thing McCain wants this election to be about is a four year old issue. So he said what he said to move past it. That’s politics.
And I listen to Rush’s show quite often, and he’s pretty open about what kind of lifestyle he leads. I’ve been around the block and I know exactly what he’s talking about. And it ain’t anything approaching conservative. It’s more rockstart then Reagan, in every sense of the word.
McCain is not a liberal, despite “conservatives” desperate and pathetic attempts to paint him as such.
But why are you trying to convince me? If all you so-called “conservatives” plan on voting for Hillary and Obama, go for it. Why are you so insistent on bashing conservatives who are going to support and vote for the only conservative in the race, John McCain?
Feel free to breeze on over to the Daily Kos and mingle with your fellow Obama supporters.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM
THOMPSON: I would say to my friends that, on all of the issues that are most important to this country and to our future, and to the future generations, John McCain is solid on. Certainly national security, with regard to the tax issues, with regard to trade policy, which is an important part of our prosperity also, all those things he’s been strong on for a long time.
He is one of the few people in the United States Congress, if not the only one, who over a period of several years, who stood strong on pork barrel spending and wasteful government spending and so forth, you know.
And one of the things that we’re going to need in a leader going forward in this country, and one of the things we’re going to need to get somebody elected president on the Republican ticket in these times that are very difficult for Republicans, is someone with credibility.
John’s solid. I don’t agree with him on everything. I didn’t during the campaign. But on the fundamental core issues, he is rock solid. And he’s honest. And he does what he thinks is right.”
So I guess Fred Thompson is a liberal too. However did this happen?
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:22 PM
You guys quit picking on McCain for being insane.
It’s not his fault.
You’d be insane too if you had to live his life.
Trying and failing to live up to his father’s and grandfather’s reputation at the USNA and in the Navy; Knowing that you would have been kicked out of Annapolis for both academic and disciplinary reasons were it NOT for the great Admirals’ influence.
Having five airplanes destroyed while you are in them (one of them not your fault, admittedly), Being severely injured the last time, and very lucky the other times.
Being badly busted up (see above) and then being a POW held by brutal and insidious captors, who, when they found out who your father was singled you out for special treatment…. Special treatment in the form of not merely casually brutal torture, but more ‘refined’ torture, ‘brainwashing’, indoctrination, and being used as a political pawn. With only your attitude of your personal infallibility to sustain you through the worst adversity imaginable for five continuous years.
Then after finally being released by your captors, going through a year or so of painful physical and mental rehabilitation.
Then being forced for political reasons to betray your ‘brothers’: the POWS that were still held by your old captors.
Then betraying your first wife when she was no longer convenient and marrying a beautiful heiress, who’s father despised you and hired a legion of lawyers to make sure that you would never get control of his family fortune.
Then, for decades, being a US Senator as a member of a party who’s core constituents you despise; having to occasionally pretend that you are one of them to get re-elected.
Etc.
So I’ll say it agian:
Quit picking on McCain for being insane.
You would be insane too if your life had been anything like his.
LegendHasIt on April 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM
unlike captain queeq, rush HAS walked the walk for 20 years. and without him we’d be in FAR worse shape than we are already. we ARE in worse shape with Queeq (mccain).
and like Buckley before him, I’m fine with letting Rush decide who is and who is not a conservative. although anyone with any sense at all could see queeq isn’t a conservative.
jealousy is such an ugly emotion
you can repeat it all you want, but queeq (mccain) IS A LIBERAL and he’s walked the walk to prove it.
thats good for a laugh, thanks!!
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM
I realize I wasn’t clear about why the Racist tag bothered me.
At the same time I was labeled as Racist for wanting to know who was coming into the country, I had to take my shoes off to get on a plane. If I didn’t, the terrorists might win. I had to endure the threat of national security letters which bypass the constitution and prohibit me from contacting a lawyer, which is asinine. We had to watch as Washington created a national ID card under the Real ID act, or the Terrorists might win.
We have to pay hundreds of dollars to have the Federal Government investigate anyone who might drive into a port under the Transportation workers Identity Credential, care to guess why? That’s right, or the Terrorists might win. Apparently, the Terrorists wouldn’t ever dream of walking across the boarder however. It’s apparently too hard to do something about that. It’s OK if the Terrorists win as long as they walk across the boarder.
It was a lie, and it stank to high heaven as a lie. Washington and especially John McCain don’t give a damn about us, any of us, or the nation. All they care about is reading fawning headlines in the NY Times. Fine, You’ve made your choices, and you’re going to try and tell us it didn’t mean a thing then.
Don’t ask for my help, I’m concerned that if I do vote for Senator McCain, the Terrorists might win.
Snake307 on April 25, 2008 at 4:24 PM
What the hell does that mean? Ronald Reagan enjoyed his hardearned wealth and so should Rush. If you are bitter about your lot in life don’t resent those who have made the right choices, put in the dedicated hard work and have achieved.
peacenprosperity on April 25, 2008 at 4:24 PM
I don’t care what Rush does with his free time and he earned every dime he has and I’m glad he has it. More power to him. I’m not in the least bit jealous of him, I’m quite happy with all of the blessings I have, which is part of being a conservative.
But he doesn’t live anything approaching a conservative lifestyle and I think he would be the first to admit that.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:26 PM
LegendHasIt,
Thanks for the insane and inaccurate rambling on why McCain is insane, good to hear the loony bin now allows access to the Internut.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:28 PM
what the hell is a ‘conservative’ lifestyle? if I was rich, I’d be hanging out on a beach filled with tanned, topless, tropical ladies….
rush is fighting the good fight, and he doesn’t have to. he’s not obsessed with power, or he’d be a politician. he does it because he believes it, and he LIVES it.
right4life on April 25, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Mr. Ed,
you glossed over McCain’s tour of New Orleans 9th ward with:
You never mention the hammering of Bush that McCain preformed at the press conference. McCain disparaged Bush’s handling of the Katrina disaster, then said repeatedly, “never again”.
Tell me again why it is the responsibility of the Federal government to rebuild peoples home destroyed by natural disaster?
Especially since in your telephone conference call McCain said:
Then revisit his comments on increases in Federal spending, and ask him how he intends to have FEMA handle every natural disaster which occurs, and do it without more Federal spending and higher taxes?
Honestly, I don’t know why I bother pointing this out because the McCain loyalists are blind to the truth, and those of us who are unhappy with our choices are already convinced.
rockhauler on April 25, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Where am I inaccurate?
Be specific.
Show your work.
LegendHasIt on April 25, 2008 at 4:35 PM
“if I was rich, I’d be hanging out on a beach filled with tanned, topless, tropical ladies….”
I think he’s doing more than hanging out on the beach with them, at least he insinuates he is. Which is his business. But it’s not the least bit conservative.
So you think being married three times, fathering no children that he acknowledges during those marriages and developing a severe prescription drug addiction is living a “conservative” lifestyle?
Gee, and I was stupid enough to think that keeping my wedding vows and raising children with my wife were part of a conservative lifestyle. I guess not.
Now I know why you people support such loopy concepts as a border fence. Anything you want you just cram into a trash bag and just call it “conservative”. Which is why McCain is not and I guess I’m not either.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:35 PM
“thats good for a laugh, thanks!!”
Here’s another laugh – conservatives such as Fred Thompson and Tom Tancredo agree with me and not with you.
But hey, when the band strikes up “Hail to the Chief” in honor of President Obama and our new First Lady Michelle, you can tear up and say, “I’m so glad I stuck to my “principles”.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:44 PM
“Show your work.”
Sure, I’ll spend hours hunting down documentation to refute your specious, undocumented Democrat attacks on Senator McCain, wait right by your computer until I get back.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Come on… If you really love McCain, you will make the effort to prove me a ‘lying Democrat’….
Me; the ‘paleo-con’ who won his first schoolyard fist-fight in fourth grade, in an argument because I supported Nixon over Kennedy.
Me… who never voted for a democrat in my life.
(Although I’ll admit I voted for the Libertarian Senate candidate in Arizona, back in the early 90’s when, purely by coincidence, I was a neighbor of Jim Hensley….. Because I couldn’t personally trust McCain even way back then when he did have a high conservative rating.)
Come on, big man: You who are so free with the insults for anyone who doesn’t fall on their knees to worship your idol; : Prove me a liar.
LegendHasIt on April 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM
You’ve proven it yourself, you don’t need me.
If you were just a disgruntled “conservative”, you’d sit home.
Instead, you are actively working to elect a Democrat President, by spreading lies about John McCain.
I define Democrats by their efforts to elect Democrats to office.
How many votes for Obama do you think your little cut and paste screed will get for your hero, BHO?
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 5:25 PM
First off, how do you know what kind of a “lifestyle” Rush lives? And second, most of the liberals I know live a very similar lifestyle to mine, have the same personal values and similar behavior and are, generally, very good people. It’s what makes their voting preferences very puzzling and frustrating.
peacenprosperity on April 25, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Because I listen to his show?
What happened to “the lovely and gracious Marta”?
His third divorce. Is breaking wedding vows before God and community, “conservative”?
Several times over the past few months, he’s clearly insinuated that he’s spent the night with one of his stable of women.
Which again, is his business. I’m not condemning him. Before I got married, I lived a similar lifestyle. And I knew it wasn’t conservative.
Finally, he admitted on air that he had an addiction to prescription drugs. Is that “conservative”?
I would wager that Rush himself would be the first to admit that his lifestyle is not the least bit conservative. I’ve heard him talk about his reverence for this father and his father’s lifestyle was NOTHING like Rush’s.
I like Rush and he talks the talk better than anyone, but he does not walk the walk.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Show me, show all your fans here at Hot Air, even one phrase that I have ever in any way supported Obama.
“Cut and paste”??? Not one word of that was cut and pasted. All typed from my feverish little fingers.
If I can’t support McCain for his liberal ways, what makes you think that I could support Obama?
I can’t “sit home”, because I have a real conservative to try to help get elected to the Senate; I’m a campaign volunteer for Congressman Steve Pearce(R-NM)…. One of the few REAL conservatives running for Senate.
You stoop to insults and paranoid accusations of McCain critics because you CAN’T actually refute what they say.
LegendHasIt on April 25, 2008 at 5:36 PM
OOPS… Be careful there…. Treading on thin ice…..
I don’t suppose you know of Cindy McCain’s little adventure into that territory????
LegendHasIt on April 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Not that you can blame Cindy for that.
I’d have to be drugged into insensibility too, if I had to live life that closely attached to John McCain.
LegendHasIt on April 25, 2008 at 5:47 PM
I didn’t realize that Cindy McCain has offered herself a the beacon of conservatism, set to judge who and who is not conservative, like Rush has.
“if I had to live life that closely attached to John McCain.”
Maybe, but if I had to attempt to please the completely unpleaseable “conservative” nutbag base as represented by the likes of many on this forum, I’d be shooting heroin.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 6:01 PM
I’m late to the dance today…
For the “fences don’t work” crowd: Do you bother to lock your doors at home? After all, locks are just like fences. If you lock your doors you are a hypocrite.
cannonball on April 25, 2008 at 6:51 PM
You also have to go to the bathroom, now and then.
Entelechy on April 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Not if you have an Al Gore eco-friendly “green” .1-liter flush toilet.
TexasJew on April 25, 2008 at 7:05 PM
I like Rush and he talks the talk better than anyone, but he does not walk the walk.
NoDonkey on April 25, 2008 at 5:33 PM
I don’t listen to Rush to examine his lifestyle, which has been messy, but then again, I’m not a 100% rock-solid social conservative. I am a conservative, however, and respect Rush for his solid and consistent fiscal and defense-based security views.
I have no problem with Rush. He’s a genius, and has been more responsible for the conservative resurgence than any other living person.
As for that schmuck Huckabee, as we say down here in Texas, “I wouldn’t p*ss on him if his face was on fire”.
TexasJew on April 25, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Please tell me exactly how actively campaigning against John McCain will get you your fence? Is Obama gonna build it?
And don’t count on 2012. We haven’t even predicted 2008 yet. Moreover, a Dem win in 2008 is not going to do anything towards getting George Soros to give up. It will also keep the on-credit relationship between the Democrat Party and its publicists, media hounds, and guys who follow candidates around waiting for them to say “macaca.”
Sekhmet on April 25, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Finally gave yourself away, liberal troll.
peacenprosperity on April 25, 2008 at 7:36 PM
That’s the ‘brilliant’ thing about this election. He doesn’t need a democrat to win this time around. No mater which Bozo wins, they will be indebted to
Ernst Stavlo BlofeldSoros.http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/02/soros-funded-maverick-mccain-since-2001.html
LegendHasIt on April 25, 2008 at 7:51 PM
WoW.
WTH does addiction have to do with a “conservative lifestyle”? That’s got to be the most specious (read: dumb@ss) attack I’ve ever heard leveled at Rush.
But here’s the thing that moots it: he. took. responsibility. THAT’S a conservative lifestyle.
Back to McCain:
Now who’s out of touch with reality?! Arnold’s a joke! CA’s back to the budget deficits it faced when Beige Davis was recalled.
His stances on Goreball Warming, health care for illegals, and raising taxes in the face of declining tax revenues is right out of the Dem playbook.
*phew!*
I got out of CA just in time.
X_LA_Native on April 25, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Ask John McCain what he thinks this:
Will John McCain condemn Nancy Pelosi?
John McCain has been all to happy to condemn conservatives in the past…we’re the “Agents of Intolerance”, remember?
Red Pill on April 26, 2008 at 4:52 AM
I assume “right4life” means that you are pro-life. If that is true, you can’t in good conscience vote for Hillary. She voted:
- Against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
- Against the confirmation of John Roberts
- Against the confirmation of Samuel Alito
Voting for Hillary is being an accessory to murder.
(Ditto for Obama)
Red Pill on April 26, 2008 at 5:02 AM
He is part of the problem, not part of the solution. That is why he does not deserve the Republican nomination.
Red Pill on April 26, 2008 at 5:03 AM
Check out the conservative candidates being supported by HuckPac. If you like what you see, send your money there to show your support. If HuckPac is more successful at fundraising than the RNC, maybe Juan McCain and the RNC will get the message.
Red Pill on April 26, 2008 at 5:09 AM
And he has a son in Iraq.
Red Pill on April 26, 2008 at 5:15 AM
Interesting perspective. You might want to find a way to work this in.
Red Pill on April 26, 2008 at 5:32 AM
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