If McCain names Thompson as the chair of his judicial-nominations committee, will that help reassure Hot Air readers that McCain will stick with conservatives?

It will help. Especially since Fred played a similar role in supporting Roberts and Alito.

But McCain has some serious ground to make up, so I would hope he won’t stop there.

It looks to me like “the MDSers and TCs” attack McCain, not with cheap shots, but on principle, while the McKool-aid drinkers attack the MDSers and TCs, with cheap shots, and not on principle.

You don’t defend your candidate by attacking others. But again, it’s much easier to attack others than to defend John McCain. Especially on principle.

misterpeasea on June 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM

Can’t argue with that.

Who do you want to take the blame for massive tax increases to fight global warmism? Who do you want to take the blame for amnesty?

I dont think this wishful thinking helps your case much. We may not get the blam but we will be living with it for much longer under a court with 3 Ginsburgs instead of one. And a rubber stamped foreign policy so convoluted and appeasement oriented that wa have to have armed escorts for every oil tanker entering the Gulf through the SOH.

It looks to me like “the MDSers and TCs” attack McCain, not with cheap shots, but on principle, while the McKool-aid drinkers attack the MDSers and TCs, with cheap shots, and not on principle.

I agree that some (you, LegendhasIt) come in with principled arguments, and most of the time stick to McCain related boards. But some idiot like the one who posted this in the Obama Seal board:

Umm…I don’t think we can question this seal being the dumb white racist crackers that we are! I’m sure Senator McCain would agree that such attacks on his close personal friend from the other side of the aisle with which he has crossed on many occasion to work on behalf of the American people after returning from Vietnam where he was a prisoner are to cease immediately!

Outnumber you.

And. How much will it matter who is President with a Democrat-dominated Congress

Well, with McCain, you might at least get some kind of inverse Souter. This would be my hope. Also, as much as you think it was just McCain being a lib, I think there are enough sensible Dems left to break a filibuster. The types of Dems getting elected today are only getting in because they talk like Republicans. Just a thought.

I never said any of that crap and you know it.

However, the point remains that you dont want to be swayed but the MDSers and TC’s invade every board, even the ones not about McCain and attack like drunk coeeds on Justin Timberlake.

Squid Shark on June 21, 2008 at 7:11 AM

Of course you didn’t. They did.

I’d love to be swayed by John McCain. And it’d be so easy: just stop sounding like a d@mned liberal.

It looks to me like “the MDSers and TCs” attack McCain, not with cheap shots, but on principle, while the McKool-aid drinkers attack the MDSers and TCs, with cheap shots, and not on principle.

You don’t defend your candidate by attacking others. But again, it’s much easier to attack others than to defend John McCain. Especially on principle.

I’ll ask again: would you rather have the next four years blamed on McCain and the Republicans, who end up in the wilderness for 15-20 years, or Bambi and the Democrats?

Who do you want to take the blame for massive tax increases to fight global warmism? Who do you want to take the blame for amnesty?

And. How much will it matter who is President with a Democrat-dominated Congress?

And. The party with the presidency loses seats in the mid-term elections. Especially if that President presides over stupid and costly policies. Who do you want to lose seats in the mid-term elections.

Like I used to try to tell _man, it’s not as simple as McCain = R = good, Bambi = D = bad.

And I’m snarking. I’M snarking. Come on, Squish.

misterpeasea on June 21, 2008 at 12:41 AM

I never said any of that crap and you know it.

However, the point remains that you dont want to be swayed but the MDSers and TC’s invade every board, even the ones not about McCain and attack like drunk coeeds on Justin Timberlake.

And hey _man, that bit about DNC points is really clever and original. What gave you that idea, I wonder.

misterpeasea on June 20, 2008 at 9:34 PM

When you start to take flak, you know you’re over the target. :)

Fred to aid in vetting??? Fred should be a SCOTUS nominee!

I daresay with Fred on the bench we’d not have stupid rulings that override existing law and give habeas corpus rights to enemies of our country.

electric-rascal on June 21, 2008 at 12:54 AM

GigaDittos.

I daresay with Fred on the bench we’d not have stupid rulings that override existing law and give habeas corpus rights to enemies of our country.

You dont want to be swayed, you just want to snark on every damn thread, while the rest of us are trying to win this thing.

Squid Shark on June 20, 2008 at 10:46 PM

Hm. Let’s review.

They said this:

How much money have you given to your guy Obama so far?

Terrye on June 20, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Hey look, dumb and dumber thinks that Obama and McCain are just the same and just as liberal.

So how many DNC points have you two gotten so far by trashing McCain on conservative message boards so you can assist in pissing off real conservatives into not voting for McCain and help to ensure Obama wins?

Enough for your very own 8×10 glossy signed photo of Howard Dean, mid scream?

wise_man on June 20, 2008 at 8:09 PM

And I’m snarking. I’M snarking. Come on, Squish.

wise_man on June 20, 2008 at 11:29 PM

You’re the one proving over and over that you don’t know crap about the him and don’t want to, like a few other McCain KoolAid drinkers here. I’ve known the man since 1982, how long have you known him?

In fact, you don’t seem to know a whole lot about how SC justices are appointed and confirmed, judging from

wise_man on June 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM

where you seem not to know that any judge they come up with will have to be CONFIRMED by congress. Give yourself a little education by googling the ones, especially conservatives, that didn’t get through this process.

And take some of austinnelly’s advice.

Maybe someone should tell Fred that it would be nice to mention to all of his loyal supporters that Fred supports McCain. And maybe they might want to look into doing the same.

Fred can do whatever he likes. Who he supports or doesn’t support means nothing to me. If McCain wants to pay me mega bucks to vet his judges, I’d be happy to take his money. Doesn’t mean I’d vote for him. Whizzman, are you taking the pathetic tack that somehow a Fred stamp of approval means something to conservatives? We don’t vote that way. Even the pragmatists who will vote for McCain out of fear, aren’t doing it because ‘Fred supports McCain.’ One of the tenets of conservatism is individualism. You don’t sit around waiting for someone to tell you what to do or what to think.
Now let me ask you a question: why do you keep tilting at the holdouts on the right? Your cr*p candidate isn’t bothering with us; he’s out smooching the left. Why don’t you join him? Go find some Hillary supporters to chat up. I think you’ll be surprised at how much success you have.

In every thread.

Every.

And if they can convince me that not voting for McCain would be good for my country, then I’ll do it.

But other than being pissed off at McCain and having sour grapes because their candidate lost, just about the only thing they can say is that McCain is not a conservative. Some even say that he is as bad or (and I would gather that in a few weeks if not a month) worse than Obama. And the ‘let’s give the GOP a message’ thing, …. right. The GOP is going to look at the election results, and the millions who voted for Obama, the millions who voted for McCain, who won, who lost … and they are not going to bat an eye at the little nancies that voted for Bob Barr (has the same black cloud of loser as Ralph Nader) or the one half of one percent of the country that wrote in some candidate … as the people who decided not to realistically participate in our electoral process.

Indeed, people who do this are making a mockery of our electoral system. A protest vote against McCain isn’t going to bring about a more conservative candidate next time. Why on earth should the GOP or anyone else for that matter give these people the time of day. The only thing that might make that a possibility is for a real conservative to run a campaign that electrifies the republican voters in the next primaries. I’d sure love to see that happen.

Snarking crap about McCain isn’t going to convince me of your ideas being better for my country either. Unless you present to me a viable alternative than participating in the electoral process, then I see your flailing attempts for what they are. Serving one purpose. Getting Obama elected. Oh, that and,

Comedy.

You folks are changing a lot of hearts and minds, I’m sure.

misterpeasea on June 20, 2008 at 9:34 PM

Why bother, those who would rather let this country go to hell in the hopes of some…I dunno, Messiah will never be swayed by any argument.

You dont want to be swayed, you just want to snark on every damn thread, while the rest of us are trying to win this thing.

As long as he does things like hold closed door meetings with US/Latin leaders, he will never have a firm conservative base but there is a fundamental distrust there.

US/Latin leaders, you mean like U.S. leaders and the Pope?

Like that will be the day the pigs fly when he actually picks a Roberts.

How much money have you given to your guy Obama so far?

Terrye on June 20, 2008 at 8:39 PM

Hey look, dumb and dumber thinks that Obama and McCain are just the same and just as liberal.

So how many DNC points have you two gotten so far by trashing McCain on conservative message boards so you can assist in pissing off real conservatives into not voting for McCain and help to ensure Obama wins?

Enough for your very own 8×10 glossy signed photo of Howard Dean, mid scream?

wise_man on June 20, 2008 at 8:09 PM

You two are just perfect together. And hey _man, that bit about DNC points is really clever and original. What gave you that idea, I wonder.

You folks are changing a lot of hearts and minds, I’m sure.

wise_man on June 20, 2008 at 8:09 PM

I’ve hated McCain for a very long time.

But keep insinuating that any conservative who refuses to vote for McCain is an Obama operative. It makes you look real smart… Meanwhile, I’ll keep pointing out exactly why a McCain presidency is as equally disastrous to this country as would be an Obama presidency. Disastrous in different ways, but disastrous nonetheless.

If more people were willing to stop towing the party line perhaps we wouldn’t be stuck choosing between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich.

It would be nice if Fred would pull a Cheney when a vacancy comes up, and suddenly decide he is the candidate they’re looking for. He would make an excellent Justice. At least, after reading his take on the Boumediene (sp?) decision, some of his dissents would probably have some bite.

I can see dimwit Joe Biden during the confirmation hearings faulting Fred for the one that got away on Law and Order. Which perpetrator do you mean Senator Biden? The one where the case was dismissed right before the mouthwash commercial?

Fred! will vet judges for McCain.

Too bad it’s not the other way around.

That is not a bad idea.

How much money have you given to your guy Obama so far?