This is how I see it. First let me done my liberal MA resident hat.
A Republican or Conservative who gets deferments or doesn’t enlist in the military, the real military, not that fake National Guard weekend warrior thing is a hypocrite that does not hold to their principles. Therefore Chaney and Bush are hypocritical cowards that couldn’t even stand up for their principles.
On the other hand a democrat or liberal who gets deferments or doesn’t enlist in the military is holding to their principles. Therefore Clinton, Biden and BO are all men who not only talk the talk but walk the talk.

This is why BO and JB have so much more integrity then McCain and Palin. Yeah I know McCain was a POW but does sitting in an interment camp for years really count? It’s almost like being in the National Guard and lets face it it’s not like he was being held in a place like GITMO.

Speaking of hypocrites not standing by their principles. There is the lovely, too some, mayor of a small town and beauty queen Ms. Palin. She purports to be pro-life yet has an underage child who is pregnant. A little girl who will be burdened the rest of her life with a baby. So how hypocritical is that?

Lets face it who do you really want answering that phone at 3am? A guy that spent the war on his butt in a detainment center and has a mom as a sidekick or a teacher that snorts coke has racist and former terrorists as friends, has never spent a day in his life commanding or running anything and has a draft dogging professional politician and lawyer as a sidekick?

The choice is yours and I hope you can choose wisely or at the very least let the liberals choose for you.

Remove liberal hat and done radical conservative hat.
What we have here is the ticking bomb and the terrorist exercise. If you are not familiar with it, it goes something like this. You have a bomb about to destroy the country and you have the guy that knows how to defuse it in custody. Do you beat the crap out of him in the hope that you can get the information to defuse it before it goes off or do you stand by your principles and not torture him and let the bomb go off.
Translated to the election.
What we have is a candidate and a party about to destroy the country and you have the ability to hopefully not let it happen by voting. Do you vote for the party that has an over the age of consent pregnant daughter or do you sick to your principles and not vote or vote for the other party?

Well in the first case if you stick to your principles it’s really kind of ok because you will be dead. On the other had in the second case you will still be alive and live the rest of your life knowing you helped to destroy the country..

jmarcure on September 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM

Sorry, jmarcure, I missed the sarc in your post. My bad.

fossten on September 2, 2008 at 10:15 AM

Rats! I was all set to try and sucker you some more. :)

I really expected to get nailed on the National Guard and McCain stuff first as it was carefully loaded with what I thought was inflammatory stuff. I figured that because I was pro-military and tried to serve, I got discharged from Basic Training due to being injured, I knew how to trip the triggers of the pro-military crowd.

jmarcure on September 2, 2008 at 10:47 AM

The liberals died on that hill, though. Twice. Believe me, I understand the desire to point out every piece of evidence that Big Media has a double standard vis a vis liberal politicians and conservative politicians, but just because it was wrong of the press and the left to pursue such lines of attack against conservative politicians doesn’t make it right for us to pursue them against liberal politicians. And it’s not about turning the other cheek or “rising above”, either. It’s about going all in against the ante on a mediocre hand. The potential payoff just isn’t worth the risk.

holygoat on September 2, 2008 at 11:31 AM

At one time I would agree but it’s a different world and we are now playing in their game with their rules. It’s hard to accept that but it’s pretty much the reality because the world has become connected and people that never mattered now have a voice and things that would never come out now do. It’s sad we have to lower ourselves into their world we can’t drain the swamp without getting our feet wet. We can’t win this with unmovable righteous positions or by taking a knife to a gun fight. They set the agenda and we have to work within it or get the hell out of the way and let them have what they want.

jmarcure on September 2, 2008 at 11:54 AM