If you want good Republican candidates for the Presidency, work towards electing good Republican governors (for your particular value of “good.”)

BroncosRock on May 15, 2008 at 8:39 AM

I have a great fantasy world too, it involves Denise Richards and Jessica Alba.

Is this the HuffPo? Why all the negativity? It does make a difference who wins this election, and McCain is the best choice we have left.

connertown on May 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM

Ha! It is a combination HuffPo/Ron Paul Day Camp for several posters (and their sockpuppets?) here, easily identified by their incessant highchair-banging and other toddlery tantrum-tossing.

But, of course, it does make a huge difference who wins this election. Thank you for bringing up many excellent points.

I think the one thing Juan might eventually get to be in his favor is if he picks a decent VP.

When I hear his prediction about Bin Laden it makes me hope Jorge brings him out of hiding before leaving office. I can’t really explain why. It just does.

Saying Osama will be captured or dead is just as irresponsible to say now as when Bush said it.

Sooner or later the actuarial tables will impose their will. What is unknown is whether we will ever be informed of it. What ever happened to the American Taliban Adam Gedahn? No one ever told us if he’s flirting with his 72 virgin goats or not.

connertown on May 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM

I’m certain the Obamaniacs are loving us on “right leaning” websites tearing a hole in McCain at every opportunity. They’ll be smiling all the way to a Dem in the White House.

(caution…soapbox clause approaching)

It’s time to grow up and do something positive. I’m naturally cynical, too. But being cynical is very easy…the more important work is in figuring out how to get the most out of what we have to work with.

(I’m off the soapbox now)

I am truly looking forward to an honorable campaign competition between McCain and Obama. The last two elections were W vs. John Kerry and Al Gore. This is infinitely better. For all his vaguery, I have much more respect for Obama than either of those two phonies.

Bush had his good points, but his utter failure as a communicator cast a long shadow on anything positive he ever did. McCain seems to have more of that charisma that yielded so much for Reagan. He ain’t perfect, but I think it’s time to get behind the Maverick.

Super-state governments are not a good idea whether they are called UN or League of Democracies.

Democrats are asked to serve in his administration, he holds weekly news conferences and, like the British prime minister, answers questions publicly from lawmakers.

Makes me sick.

Except for national security and judges It hardly matters who is elected president. The Dhimmicrats will have such huge majorities the entire liberal agenda will pass overriding vetoes where necessary. If Obama wins so does Iran…

Annar on May 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM

National security and judges are the biggest reasons I’m strongly supporting McCain. I hope your prediction about veto overrides is overly pessimistic in terms of taxes and domestic spending, but you may unfortunately be correct.

After Allah’s hammer mushrooms out over Israel, urgent committee meetings will be called to offer relief aid investigate and blame those responsible. Nothing else will be done.

We will be in observation mode to see exactly how our European betters replace their old laws with Shari’a law. Of course, we hope to resist but just in case we’ll know how to assure our own peaceful transition when the time comes.

The ad, I believe, tries to do everything at once. Instead, it would have served better as a series of ads with a little more meat on the bone. It doesn’t say too much about John McCain but instead sounds like a generic wish list that any candidate could use. Who isn’t for economic growth and a reduced threat of nuclear terrorism? I may not like Barack Obama as a candidate, but I’m certain he’s for them, too. I’d prefer to hear how McCain will accomplish it, but the only area in which we get a hint of that is with better health care through consumer choice.

Mr. Morrissey,

Barak Obama has gotten all the way to becoming the presumptive choice of the democratic party without being specific on most of his “promises” or “policies” he plans to impose on this nation. His generic rhetoric of hope and change has resonated to delight of his base while no one (the media or his electorate) ask for demands that his plans for this nation be specified and vetted.

John McCain’s ad, (while you claim fairly that it appears generic), may very well have taken a page from his “presumptive” opponent that rarely leaves any “meat” that can be digested. The difference is how these two candidates intend to accomplish their specific goals. Maybe this (McCain’s) ad was intended to be anything but specific. Most of the fine folks here at Hot Air have done a fine job of vetting John McCain—thru dissection and sometimes outright disgust. Can the same thing be said about what our alternative (Obama) “candidate” has in mind for our future?

austinnelly on May 15, 2008 at 10:43 AM

LOL I stand corrected, sir. I have been slain by your superior wit. [no sarc intended]

malan89 on May 15, 2008 at 8:38 AM

That’s all you got? If you’re against McCain you’re a paulbot? Great strawman, cheerleader. I don’t know if fossten supported Paul or not, but for myself, my problems with McCain have nothing to do with any other candidate I supported.

Fossten, gotta take issue with your cheer. A good McCain cheer needs to pop and attack the other candidate since you can’t actually promote McCain because he sucks so bad..example:

Forget Ron Paul
He’s no conservative at all!
Vote McCain
He’s got a massive brain!

Lame, I know, but it captures the rhythm as well as the shallow platitudes the cheerleaders start batting about when you go after him on threads like this.

It’s still a toss-up. Obama alone is weak and unelectable. Clinton is strong and unelectable. McCain is old and unelectable.

Doug on May 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM

So, when an unelectable force meets an unelectable object, what happens? Perhaps we should ask the collie…

PaulBot located. PaulBot must be terminated. 1…2…3…4…PaulBot destroyer launched.

malan89 on May 15, 2008 at 8:38 AM

Just shows your ignorance. I would have voted for Fred or Mitt. Paulbots would never do that. So your lame “Paulbot Destroyer” missed its target.

What a simpleton! What an unadulterated simpleton! Who are the idiots who nominated him? Hope you feel stupid.

ultracon on May 15, 2008 at 9:57 AM

It’s so stupid, it’s almost brilliant. Here’s a stupid man relying on even stupider people to make him the King of Stupidville.

We don’t need weekly radio addresses (are we still in the 40s?)

We need a leader to be on YouTube and on cable every week. Tell us and show us where we are on the major issues of the day.

I thought it was an Obama Faith Hope and Change ad until I saw McCain at the end.

Middle East stabilized. Are you kidding me?

ronsfi on May 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM

Excellent!

Don’t forget the maps!

Detestable, backstabbing and weak, like everything else that this POS does to his party.

instead sounds like a generic wish list that any candidate could use.
8:20 am on May 15, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Actually it reminds me more of a Miss America Pageant question and answer response. “I would like to see such as World Peace…”