They said it: “man this dude is Krazy!” “you sir are an idiot” “you are a lunatic” “are you really black?” “meanest, most divisive, most irrelevant blog I have ever read”
Is John McCain losing it?
On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security “everything’s on the table,” which of course means raising payroll taxes. On July 7 in Denver he said: “Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won’t.”
This isn’t a flip-flop. It’s a sex-change operation.
Read the rest from WSJ Online piece by Daniel Henninger
Read article from the WSJ.Online
Sphere: Related ContentI started to go on a long tirade about what McCain said in this interview and to explain again why I don’t want this man to be president AGAIN but I’m like fuck it. I’m just a middle aged Negro anonymous blogger with a few opinions that I share on occasion. Nobody care what a broke ass Middle American angry Negro has to say about a great American POW survivor war hero…faux Republican.
Although I know my request for insight, inspiration and wisdom will be pretty much ignored I will still humbly ask those of you who are more right leaning or those of you who still identify yourselves as Republican why should I support this idiot old bastard?
I’m thinking hell at least an Obama presidency will entertain me with dude slapping his wife in the ass before they board Air Force one or the shot of him with a 40 in one hand slapping down a double six screaming “biatch” while playing dominoes as he entertains his homies in the Oval Office.
Anywho just posting for those of you who care. *Sigh*
(CNSNews.com) - At a time when congressional Republicans are pressing for expanded domestic oil drilling to boost supply, Republican Sen. John McCain says the goal of his energy policy is to move Americans away from oil. He also said oil companies “absolutely” should be giving something back to the consumer.
Americans “have to” move away from oil, McCain said Wednesday, not only because of soaring gasoline prices, “but also because of greenhouse gas emissions.”
His energy plan says nothing about oil drilling. Instead, McCain is pushing for alternative forms of energy — especially an expansion of nuclear power.
“We have to embark on a national mission to become energy independent — and nuclear power has to play a big role in that,” he told NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday.
Asked if there’s anything he or Sen. Obama could do to ease soaring gasoline prices, McCain said “We could give them (American consumers) a bit of a break for this summer.”
McCain says that suspending the federal gasoline tax (18.4 cents a gallon) between Memorial Day and Labor Day might help a little bit. He also says he would temporarily halt new oil infusions into the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
But between now and November, McCain said he doubts gasoline prices will go much lower than they are now — and they “could go higher.” The situation won’t get much better than it is now, given that a finite supply of oil is controlled by a cartel.
Oil company profits
At a time of record oil prices and record profits — when oil companies are getting various tax breaks and financial incentives from the federal government — shouldn’t those companies “be able to give something back to the consumer?” NBC’s Matt Lauer asked McCain. “Absolutely,” McCain replied.
“And they should be investing in alternative energy and they should be giving back to the consumer and they should be embarking on research and development that will pay off in reducing our dependence on foreign oil,” McCain said.
“The point is, oil companies have got to be more participatory in alternate energy, in sharing their profits in a variety of ways, and there is very strong and justifiable emotion about their profits,” McCain said.
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans prevented a vote on a Democratic bill that would have imposed a 25 percent windfall profits tax on oil company profits. The motion to cut off debate and proceed to a vote failed by a 51-43 margin. Neither McCain nor Sen. Barack Obama cast a vote on the cloture motion.
But both presumed presidential candidates support a windfall profits tax.
Last month in North Carolina, McCain said, “I don’t like obscene profits being made anywhere — and I’d be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax — that’s not what bothers me — but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people or industries or corporations that are distorting the market.”
HERE IS THE INTERVIEW
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I wanted to post this article since we were talking about this the other day.
Peggy U said in a comment:
“I’m definitely thinking a new Conservative party may be the only answer”
I agree 100% - Man I wish I could figure out some way to at the very least spark the interest of a bunch of blogger types to spur momentum on this.
If we don’t we will have more John McCain’s on our future presidential tickets.
by Lynn Woolley - On Human Events
Sphere: Related ContentTravis Childers has become an ominous symbol for Republicans. He has provided a wake-up call to party leaders that the great unwashed multitudes have understood for a while: the term “Republican” doesn’t stand for anything anymore. If the Republican Party is to survive, the brand will have to be rebuilt.Childers, by the way, is a Democrat who won Mississippi’s first congressional district – something virtually nobody thought possible. District One is one of the safer Republican seats in the country. If the Childers win is a harbinger, then look for the GOP to lose another twenty House seats in November. It’s possible that Democrats could pick up five seats in the Senate. If you combine that with a Democratic White House, the Republican Party fades to insignificance.
To understand how this has happened to the once-grand old party, you have to understand the concept of “positioning” of which “branding” is a part. Positioning is the art of creating a concept or “position” for a product in the mind of the prospective consumer. Once that position is established, you have a brand.
For example, both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble have web sites for selling books. But Amazon “owns” the position of being the on-line bookseller while people think of Barnes & Noble as a traditional store. These positions are strong brands.
It works that way with any product. If you buy a can of Folgers, you expect to get coffee. If you open the can and you get beans, you might think a mistake was made at the factory. You try again and this time, you get corn. The next time, you reach for another brand.
Back in the wilderness days of the 60’s and 70’s, the GOP didn’t stand for much and wasn’t particularly relevant. Then, in the wake of William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater, came Ronald Reagan. Reagan created a strong brand for the Republicans. He railed against Big Government, called for lower taxes, and a strong military. The Republican brand was established under Reagan as the party of empowering the people rather than the state.
It was a brand that showcased why the Republican Party was not only different from the Democratic Party – but better!
Then came the Bushes. The first President Bush famously said “read my lips, no new taxes,” then negotiated with Democrats to raise taxes. He talked about a “new world order” where Reagan had championed America. He bucked the brand and lost his reelection campaign to Bill Clinton.
Then came the second President Bush, who was thought by many to be more conservative than his father. Campaigning as a “compassionate conservative,” he claimed the presidency after the Florida debacle and began a gradual shift to the left.
He busted the Republican brand by expanding the Education Department and creating an entire new department (Homeland Security). He lost the battle to fix entitlements and responded by creating a new one, the pharmaceutical benefit, and by expanding middle-class welfare through CHIP insurance. For six years, he failed to wield his veto pen as the Republican Congress spent the country silly and tacked on billions of dollars in earmarks. 9/11 exposed the deterioration of our military prowess that occurred under the watch of his father and Bill Clinton.
Now here’s the really strange part of all this:
The more leftward Bush has turned, the more the Democrats and the media have branded him an archconservative. So Bush’s failures have been ascribed to conservative policies when they have been nothing of the kind.
The election of someone such as Barack Obama would ensure that most of the Bush policies (with the notable exception of the war) would be retained and expanded. Where Bush gave us a new entitlement, Obama would give us nationalized healthcare. Where Bush spent big, Obama would spend bigger.
Obama would give us a third Bush term.
McCain would give us open borders, amnesty for illegal aliens and just slightly less climate-change socialism than we would get from Obama. What’s the difference? Only that Obama will be true to his brand. He will faithfully provide higher taxes and bigger government. McCain, as Bush has done, will bust the brand and give us pretty much the same thing.
Work with me people I’m gonna weave a couple of topics and posts into one confusing one, LOL!
From Hot Air
The latest ad from the RNC takes some low-hanging fruit and makes a feast from it. The ad takes the energy policy of Barack Obama and compares it to the last President that tried it — Jimmy Carter. Obama’s call for a windfall-profits tax against oil companies prompts a history lesson about the results from the last such attempt:
RNC Commercial
MORE READINGPDF - RNC Research Briefing: Why Does Barack Obama Want To Increase Taxes Again And
Drive Up The Cost Of Gasoline On Americans?
BUT NOW WATCH THIS CLIP OF OBAMA….
TEXT: Sen. Barack Obama The Age of oil must end speech
“your great mayor” LOL!
“We fuel our oil addiction by sending over 800 million dollars a day to countries that include some of the most despotic volatile regimes in the world.”
“oil money funds everything from the madrassas that plant the seeds of terror in young minds, to sunni insurgents that attack our troops in Iraq, corrupts budding democracies
and gives dictators from Venezuela to Iran the power to freely defy the international community it even presents a larger target for Osama Bin Laden who has told Al Qaeda to focus your operations on oil especially in Iraq and the gulf area since this will cause Americans to die off on their own”
The clip
Now Bush says this:
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,”
said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Because Obama said this….
Obama: “Sure, I’ll meet with Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, etc”
And as Allahpundit noted, from Obama’s own website:
Without preconditions. That means without Iran guaranteeing anything, let alone the big prize of their nuclear program.
MORE OF THIS HERE AT HOT AIR AGAIN
Now I’m confused and I’m the one posting this shit, Obama says to me (Snoop evil dictator) you run one of the most despotic regimes in the world and I plant the seeds of terror in young minds, and you STILL want to sit down and talk to me? What the fuck?
Which is it? Negotiate with terrorist thugs, stop sending these thugs our money via oil, reduce dependency on foreign oil, we need a windfall profits tax to tax the oil companies, oh don’t forget that we have no other alternative energy resources, bla bla bla, yada yada yada.
CONFUSED!?!
Yes I must agree with El Borak, an Obama presidency will no doubt be a fun one blogging wise. Just think the Democrats will fucken have control of the House, Senate and likely the presidency (even if McCain wins the same thing). The Democrats are likely to turn this country back into the Stone Age. And who do we have to blame, Republicans since they are a bunch of spineless no guts assholes that refuse to run on and stand up for conservative principles.
With the Democrats in charge America will in essence be imprisoned by liberalism and thus will become the “tossed salad man”
Sphere: Related ContentMore Republican Party lunacy. McCain I guess wants to present the old white fart and redneck as an alternate to anti-American faux Negro ticket.
Sphere: Related ContentSen. John McCain really does want to tempt the Republican base. …We’ve gotten our hands on an advanced transcript of this weekend’s “The Chris Matthews Show” on NBC and the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Katty Kay offered this nugget during the show’s “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment:
“John McCain is going to be doing more of these themed tours of America, and one of them is going to be on energy and global climate change. It could get him into trouble with Republicans, of course, and with the base, who don’t think there is much climate change going on, but it is something that he’s very passionate about and he’s going to be talking about it.”
Sphere: Related ContentIf this were a world where Republicans had the courage of their convictions, Pat Toomey would be a Senator from Pennsylvania. Instead, he is the President of the Club for Growth, a conservative think-tank and advocacy group. The Club for Growth has run afoul of the Republican political machine in recent years for not holding the welfare of the party above the promotion of sound conservative principles. Today, Toomey has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal defending “RINO_hunting”, a sport that more conservatives should take up. Here’s his conclusion.
A Republican majority is only as useful as the policies that majority produces. When those policies look a lot like Democratic ones, the base rightly questions why it should keep Republicans in power. As the party gears up for elections in the fall, it ought to look closely at the losses suffered under a political strategy devoid of principle. Otherwise, it can look forward to a bad case of déjà vu.
It is, I think, impossible to look at the last four elections and come to any other conclusion. The Republican party would be wise to listen to Mr. Toomey. Michelle Malkin has a great suggestion:
Club for Growth should print that paragraph on greeting cards so we can send an avalanche of them to the GOP elite in Washington.
This is why, when you listen to pundits, either on the radio or on one of the increasingly annoying talk shows take that into consideration, what do they have to gain by dissing McCain? If you are a Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin who are steadfast in their disdain for McCain they don’t give a fuck about McCain and their success does not hinge on McCain blessing them or reaching out to them.
But before I continue, read the quote:
As to the Supreme Court, think of the many 5-4 decisions, including but not limited to, Bush v. Gore, the decision that put President Bush in the White House. McCain supported nominees like Justices Alito, Thomas, Scalia, and Roberts. Why, he even voted for the “reactionary” Judge Robert Bork. Justice John Paul Stevens is 87 years old, with four more justices near or over 70. One more conservative appointee, and Roe v. Wade could be history. Are principled conservatives truly willing to allow that decision to remain for at least another generation? To quote another John, this time McEnroe, “You cannot be serious!”
Now first ask yourself, why would Elder make this particular statement? I’m thinking no shit Sherlock, that would be one seemingly logical assumption. But Elder is on the lower rung of the talk show posse. Don’t you think that with Elder, being right leaning that he just might want McCain to appear on his talk show one of these days?
However as we will soon see pundits will keep this bullshit trying to browbeat folks into being more enthusiastic about McCain. I’m like fuck McCain, don’t like him, won’t vote for him and I have my little corner of the blogsphere to give my 100 percent honest assessment of him.
Just imagine us in a nice pub somewhere knocking down some shots of your favorite whisky chatting.
First McCain in his early days will no doubt rail about Iraq, the war on terror, national security, bla bla bla, Democrats will again be pissed at fucking up another run at the White House and will no doubt will be bitching that Bush stole the election AGAIN.
But remember more than being president these people run for the presidency to leave a legacy and McCain, someone who is already prone to working with idiot Democrats in order to “get things done” on the domestic front, he will no doubt throw out the olive branch for his domestic agenda.
This is where our friend Elder is either remarkable dense or he conveniently leaves it out of his little rant.
McCain likely will be facing a Congress with larger majorities of Democrats than it now has.
It is far more likely that there will be significant Democratic gains in the Senate. The House looks decent for them too. If President McCain wants legislative victories, he will have to turn to those majorities to get them enacted. And he will be happy to do so. That’s how McCain has always operated, and there is no reason to believe that if he becomes president, he will operate in any other manner.
The conservatives who have opposed McCain during the campaign have cited his positions on immigration, campaign finance, climate change, tax cuts, and legal rights for detainees where he has sided with Democrats.
When McCain decides to work with the Democrats, he is really with them full throttle.
McCain is not someone who simply reaches across the aisle to form coalitions with the other side. He walks across the aisle, and gets into the Democrat huddle.
Every president wants to accomplish shit, no matter how stupid; anyone with any measure of common fucken sense knows he will have to do so on the Democrats’ terms.
So people like Elder can run this “Supreme Court bullshit” all they want, but if you think McCain will be able to get away with nominating conservative leaning types to the court you are badly mistaken.
A John McCain presidency will be a huge disaster for Republicans, that statement is slight irrelevant now of course, if Obama is the Democrat nominee, McCain will be the prez unless he does something or says something stupid in a debate like, “we are going to be in Iraq for 100 years.” Old white people are the strongest voting block, old white people, now in their late 60’s or 70’s, the ones who either stood on the sidelines, pretended that it was not going on, or did not give a shit while black folks we being lynched, and denied access to public places and creating suburbia escaping from Negros are not likely to vote for a socialist Negro.
These Republicans like Romney who are now speaking up for McKein, are doing so out of party loyalty and possible future perks.
Political pundits who speak in favor of McCain are doing so because they want to get on his good side.
Jesus people when you read or hear about candidate endorsements ask yourself one simple question, what does that individual have to gain by pimping for candidate A or B?
If McCain is the prez, and you are a reporter or pundit you don’t think dude will have you sitting in the corner of the White House briefing room behind a support post?
Consider this the next time you read these blogs now as many of them are now political insiders and subject to perks.
Politics are not that difficult to figure out when you factor in the “what’s in it for me” element.
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Somewhere across America there is a politician running who meets your standards for enlightened conservatism. Send him twenty dollars. Every month. And a letter saying what you think is important, and maybe print out an article (or blog post) you think his staff ought to read.
Congress is our firewall. We need it. Whoever gets in the White House, he or she is gonna be a pro-amnesty squish at best and the Shamnesty crew is already doing a little dance about it. So we need to do whatever we can to slow it down in Congress. And we need some Senators who are going to filibuster their little butts off when McCain or Obama or Hillary send some noodle-spined hack through the confirmation process on his way to being a judge or a cabinet member. We can’t lose any seats and even safe seats, like Jim Inhofe’s in Oklahoma, need your attention and support.
Here was a perfect example:
>From CNSNews.com
Fiscal conservatives are celebrating the defeat of Republican Rep. Wayne Gilchrist in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday. The ten-term U.S. congressman lost the primary election to a more conservative candidate, State Sen. Andrew Harris. The Club for Growth’s Political Action Committee, which endorsed Harris, called his win a victory for Maryland taxpayers. “Andy Harris campaigned on a message of economic conservatism, calling for lower taxes, an end to wasteful government spending, and greater economic freedom,” the Club for Growth said on its Web site.
“With a solid victory over Wayne Gilchrest, it is clear that Harris’ strong record of standing up for taxpayers in Maryland’s State Legislature and his message on the campaign trail resonated with Republican voters. Voters refused to settle for pork barrel spending and higher taxes when they had a taxpayer hero like Andy Harris to vote for.” Club for Growth President Pat Toomey said he’s confident Harris will win the general election in November. “It is clear from tonight’s victory that voters want their representatives to stand up and fight for limited government and economic freedom,” Toomey said.
From Lifenews.com
State Sen. Andrew Harris had the backing of pro-life groups in the primary battle as Rep. Gilchrest had compiled just a 16 percent pro-life voting record this year.
While Gilchrest supported both abortion and embryonic stem cell research as well as taxpayer funding of both, Harris takes a pro-life position.
Here in Kansas we will have one of the most highly contested and one of the most important races in the country:
Sphere: Related Content(link) Venerable congressional handicapper Stu Rothenberg is out with his latest forecasts for ‘08.
Rothenberg’s list; He rates Democratic incumbent Nancy Boyda contest in the “pure tossup” category. Boyda will face either Republican Lynn Jenkins or Jim Ryun.
Sphere: Related ContentFound Via Hot Air - (full post here) - The Bolton endorsement and the Fred endorsement on the same day.
While campaigning in Wichita, this afternoon with KS senator and former presidential candidate Sam Brownback, John McCain announced that he had recently received the support of another former candidate. “I also spoke again yesterday to my friend Fred Thompson who assured me he is ready to do whatever it takes to help me win the election in November,” McCain said. “I’m very proud to have the friendship and support of Fred Thompson as well.”
Found on Riehl World View
Actually, Chris Cillizza (heretofore to be pronounced See-Sleaze-Ya’ll) at WaPo’s The Fix blog commits two major sins against the Right-side grass roots: 1 - he left out Mark Levin, and 2) well, read it yourself. Evidently Cillizza simply cannot comprehend that more than a few people in America happen to share many of the views related by Right-side talking heads - and when they diverge, they’re simply ignored. No, we’re just a bunch of idiots waiting to be told what to do.
Make no mistake: Rush Limbaugh (and Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham etc.) are a very powerful voice within the Republican party. Conservatives watch and listen to them daily and often take their marching orders directly from the mouths of these hosts.
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My Two Cents
Taking marching orders from… hardly!
I do find it amusing that the MSM are totally clueless on the McCain vs the Conservative base war.
If McCain is elected president, as a Republican liberals and Democrats also win. His victory would represent a major ideological fundamental shift leftward for this nation.
There are two major political parties for now. Since McCain heavily courts independents and leftists Democrats the lines of the two parties will be blurred. Fundamentally there will be no clear ideological differences between the two parties, as a conservative that concerns me.
Whether you are more left or right leaning, having choices is what makes our political system work. We should be battling for ideas, not party labels.
Politicians talk more and more about reaching across the aisle and working together.
I don’t want the politicians I vote for to compromise ideology or doctrine.
If my side is not convincing enough to win the battle of ideas, then my side should then take a back seat and regroup.
Electing McCain though under the “republican” label, my values still has been compromised.
I have been listening to Rush for almost 20 years and his fight with McCain is exactly the reason why I have respected and valued his opinion over the years. He has never stood up for party labels only conservative values. If you are indeed a conservative and believe that voting for McCain is acceptable simply because he has an “R” after his name and the fact that he recycles conservative sounding rhetoric that he clearly does not believe in, then you simply can’t be a conservative and you have frankly brought into the Washington insider GOP hierarchy. I’m not going to vote for someone who is “republican enough.”
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Briefly on Mitt, first off dude is not a conservative. I doubt seriously that I will vote for him, but he is definitely better than McCain. Mainly because he to me is a man with no political soul or center. He is an empty vessel which basically means that he will become whatever he needs to become to win the White House. So he is playing the right wing card. He knows that there are shit loads of people like myself who hates McCain and simply won’t vote for the liberal jackass out of principle.
If Romney gets the White House he will do what he is told and pretend to follow the conservative example to keep the base happy.
His legacy frankly is more important to him that his political soul. I will admit the fact that old guard Republican establishment types hate him makes me like the dude.
I sincerely hope that over the next few years the true conservative voices will rise up and slowly get rid of these old, tired ass, white haired, country club types, fraud Republicans and start electing TRUE conservatives to the House and Senate.
Links via Michelle Malkin
Sphere: Related ContentIf there’s one thing we’ve learned in this presidential season so far, it’s that nothing is a sure thing. John McCain says he “assumes” he’ll get the nomination and that he’ll have it wrapped up by Super Tuesday.I wondered over the weekend whether the Rasmussen poll showing McCain and Mitt Romney in a dead heat was an anomaly. Well, here’s Zogby putting Romney 8 points ahead in California:
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led McCain 40 percent to 32 percent in California, where the margin of error was 3.3 percentage points. A win in California, the most populous state, could help puncture McCain’s growing momentum in the Republican nomination fight.
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Look for McCain and Huck to increase their class warfare attacks and conspiracy-mongering, while continuing to coo to each other about their civility.
Paul Mirengoff at Power Line explains why he’ll vote for Romney:
The McCain I saw in the California debate last week didn’t look particularly electable. With the economy emerging as the overwhelmingly central issue in the campaign, with McCain’s nasty streak increasingly on display, and with his reputation for straight-talk diminishing before our eyes, I’m not prepared to base a vote for the Senator on electability.
The decision thus comes down to policy and effectiveness. I give Romney the edge on both counts.
Sphere: Related ContentI have sad news to report.While the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives are willing to fight for conservative principles, particularly those that divide the Democratic caucus in the House, the Republicans in the United States Senate have agreed to capitulate to the Democratic agenda.
Yesterday, I obtained internal Senate emails from Senator Lamar Alexander’s staff. Senator Alexander is in charge of setting the GOP agenda. The emails, which you can read here, signal an intention to cave in to Democratic “bipartisan” initiatives and abandon all efforts to rein in earmarks and spending.
What makes this more troubling is that at yesterday’s GOP Senate retreat, pollster David Winston told the Republicans that one reason they lost the Senate was because of spending. Senator Alexander and the Republican leadership have decided to reject that data and, instead, embrace their minority status.
Rather than push bold conservative issues, the Senate GOP Leadership will instead enjoy the table scraps Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy, and Hillary Clinton throw them from the leadership table.
Please call your Republican Senator at (202) 224-3121 and tell him to reject bipartisan expansions of government and fight for conservative ideas that stop wasteful spending on bridges to nowhere and Hippie museums.
From Michelle Malkin - I hope my absolute disdain for John McCain is not too obvious, LOL!
Sphere: Related ContentAfter spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, “straight-talking” GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first.
On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans’ trust in their government’s ability to defend the homeland. Not all of us have forgotten how the short-fused Arizona senator cursed good-faith opponents in his own party (“F**k you!” and “Chickensh*t” were the choice words he had for Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn during a spat over enforcement provisions).
Not all of us have forgotten that he voted against barring felons from receiving amnesty benefits under his plan. Not all of us have forgotten the underhanded, debate-sabotaging manner in which McCain/Kennedy/Graham/Harry Reid conspired to ram their package down voters’ throats.
For all his supposed, newfound enlightenment about what most Americans want—protection against invasion, commitment to the rule of law, meaningful employer sanctions, an end to sanctuary cities, enforcement-by-attrition plus deportation reform, and an end to special illegal alien benefits that invite more law-breaking–The Maverick remains a Geraldo Rivera Republican. Like the ethnocentric cable TV host who can’t string a sentence about immigration together without drowning in emotional demagoguery, McCain naturally resorts to open-borders platitudes when pressed for enforcement specifics.
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Ron Paul Nutbars Crow About Nevada - From Brainsters Blog
You know you’re pathetic when you point to a state where you got 14% of the vote in a state caucus where you ran the only TV ads. An LA Times blogger enthuses:
Boy, oh, boy! Hidden behind all the hoopla, headlines and the Nevada caucus victories of Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton is one little-noticed but stunning political development and number:Ron Paul, the one-time Libertarian candidate and 10-term Republican congressman from Texas, was in second place. That’s right, Second Place. The 72-year-old ob-gyn who’s always on the end of the line at GOP debates or barred altogether, was running ahead of John McCain, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, in fact, ahead of….all other Republicans except Romney, who easily captured his second state in a week after Michigan.
Woooooot! The Ron Paul Love Revolution is surging!
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Also from Brainster - Drama Queen Conservative Bloggers
Add Jeff Goldstein to the list: I will not, will not, vote for John McCain.Oh, and he won’t vote for Mike Huckabee, either, and would have to hold his nose to vote for Mitt Romney. If Fred doesn’t win the nomination then Jeff’s going to sit this one out. LOL! Funniest thing Goldstein’s ever written.One of John Hawkins’ weekend guests does a little DQ herself:Jeff captures my ennui perfectly. And this reminds me of what I’ve written before: bloggers are a different breed than the average American. The air we breath on the conservative side is as rarefied as the air breathed in newsrooms around America.No, it’s as rarefied as the air breathed in the liberal blogosphere. And I mean that seriously. The idiot lib-bloggers spent all of 2006 trying to beat a Democrat because he was an apostate on one issue. The conservative bloggers look like they’re going to be spending all of 2008 trying to beat a Republican because he was an apostate on one issue.And don’t try to convince me it’s more than that one issue. McCain-Feingold? Tell me that you’re seriously going to sit out an election because of campaign finance laws. Torture (which Goldstein mentions)? Hey, I disagree with the senator on that issue, but guess what? He actually knows what torture is like, unlike Jeff or me.
You know, everybody on the conservative side of the aisle got a big laugh out of the gag that Hillary’s new theme song was, “It’s My Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want To”, and now what happens? Less than two weeks later, they’re singing it too!
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Oh what the hell, so I’m a drama Queen Conservative Blogger, I’m still not voting for McCain. John McCain can kiss my black ass and any blogger who is supporting him who wants to write this trifling bullshit chastising me for my political decision making can also kiss my black ass.
I said before and I will keep saying, the Democrats can have the fucken White House; I don’t give a shit anymore.
McCain all of these years has been comfortable with kissing the collective asses of Democrats and he is frankly more comfortable with them than he is with his right leaning homies.
The more posts like this I read from McCain pimps just makes me laugh.
Fucken people on these radio talks shows getting on the air and sounding off about these sorry ass candidates, it’s not only irritating it is downright embarrassing.
The political contenders in this election cycles, candidates on both sides of the political aisle are all idiots. I must admit that I frankly feel like a complete jackass for falling for Freds faux candidacy. It was clear that he did not want the gig, I knew this from the beginning but I was searching for something, anything to latch on to. I was a fool, particularly since I posted my support here.
That won’t happen again.
Nobody can convince me that any of these people are worthy of my vote, they all suck; America has successfully fucked the presidential selection process. I seriously doubt that we will ever have a candidate who is truly worthy of the position.
Anyone worthy of the position is too smart to run.
We will be forever left with sinister, lying ass, soulless, pandering slugs who are not even deserving of being mayor of Mayberry much less the most powerful position on the planet.
All these candidates need to do is bullshit (lie to) enough dolts, speak somewhat eloquently blurt out a few crap phrases and magically you have a candidate.
John McCain supporters keep bringing up his time in the Hanoi Hilton, like being a POW automatically shoots you to the front of the presidential line.
POW or not, if your political ideology is full of holes, then you won’t get my vote.
If that draws the ire of you McCain supporters then screw you.
This from Michelle Malkin
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The results of Republican nonbinding straw polls in some Wyoming counties Saturday don’t jibe with the statewide delegate selection results in favor of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.In Johnson County, for example, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee came in first in the straw poll, while Romney was in fourth place.
Johnson County Republican precinct voters chose as an alternate delegate Bob Snowdon, who is uncommitted and was the only person nominated to attend the national GOP convention, said Jerry Eastwood, chairman of the Johnson County Republican Party.
Johnson County Republicans who contacted the Star-Tribune Monday, including Ruth Osborn of Buffalo, questioned why statewide straw poll results had not been publicized.
Osborn, a state GOP committeewoman, said in a telephone interview Monday that people were asking why the national news media were reporting Wyoming voted for Romney when her county’s straw poll gave him fourth place.
“I’ve had several people say to me, ‘Why did it come out for Romney? I’m not in favor of Romney,’” she said.
Folks I hope those of you who come a peep my little blog realize one thing, one of the main reasons I blog is for my own educational purposes.
This blog is hardly viewed by nor will it ever be viewed by enough people for it to be “influential” or relevant.
I am an obsessive blog reader, I have said countless times I love my homies on the right, even those with whom I may not agree with on every topic mainly because they are truly educated in the world of politics and most are passionate.
I am really pissed off this morning, partly because I’m a bit cranky since I have been on Mrs. Snoops South Beach diet. I am munching on celery, cherry tomatoes and cottage cheese for breakfast. She says the first two weeks are the hardest, it’s true. I have not had ANY alcohol in almost 3 weeks, no joke. Anywho, Snoop, anger… aimed at so-called Republicans. I usually keep the TV on in my office and I watch the pundit gab fests as background noise and I constantly get pissed at all of the networks including Fox who continue to prop up these fraud ass Republicans and intentionally leave Fred out of the election conversation and it has worked.
I listened to several radio talk shows, (not Rush, he was out yesterday) and the phone lines were filled with “republicans” saying that they did not know ANYTHING about Fred Thompson, and how he has failed to articulate his views on issues.
Forget abut Fred for a minute here, my problem is with these so called Republicans, bunch of old dumb ass ignorant fucks who continue to be so easily swayed by these jackass GOP phonies while at the same time say that “while I was excited about the possibility of a Thompson campaign, he just has not shown me anything.” What the fuck is he suppose to show you, does dude got to dance on his damm head and do magic tricks to get noticed?
I’ve got to give it up to Ron Paul fans, although dude is frankly a political train wreck, his peeps got the word out about him and has forced people to pay some attention to him.
I won’t mention Paul’s treasure chest of issues including his racist past that his fans refuse to acknowledge.
But hey, dude got 7 percent of the vote last night, major props.
Libertarians should back their own, guy and they did it.
However the Republicans, at least the people I hear bitching and moaning are infinitely clueless.
At least the Democrats have a choice between liberal candidates’ number one, number two and number three, while the Republican field is being led by a bunch of closet liberal Democrat flunkies.
I’m angry at the party, and feel that the Republican Party is in deep trouble. I was sent another Republican Party questionnaire and this contribution form, I would not send the GOP a fucken dime, I need to even stop referring to myself as a Republican.
I understand that New Hampshire was not going to be competitive for Fred, but for him to get one fucken percent of the vote is just retarded beyond belief.
Rush talks about this scenario and I totally understand, I really get it, but my hopes for Fred are fading, not for him as a candidate, but that so-called Republicans either too stupid, or increasingly vulnerable to TV pundit yammering and are just too damm lazy to understand the difference between these candidates.
Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter two rock solid, plain spoken individuals without a hint of leftist pandering are nowhere to be found in the conversation, except for most of these politically educated right leaning blogs their message is obviously over most “so-called” Republicans heads.
Folks I would have not problem with people saying to me, I have studied all of the issues and looked at all of the candidates equally but I support candidate A.
But that is not what “Republicans” are doing and saying, they are claiming ignorance, something the party and it’s peeps are showcasing more and more each day.
Sphere: Related ContentRUSH: Now, I want to remind all my Republican friends that there are many states after Iowa and New
Hampshire where the Republican populations are far more indicative of the conservative base, and to get caught up in what happened in Iowa, to get caught up in what’s going to happen in New Hampshire as though they’re the only two states that matter and that they’re going to determine the fallout on both parties is a little bit over the top.Iowa is a caucus; it’s a weird setup. New Hampshire allows independents to vote in the Republican primary, which is why McCain is doing as well as he is doing, and it’s why the media want this to be a bellwether against Romney. I mean, Pat Buchanan came in second. He came in a very strong second in New Hampshire in 1992. Now, I’m not saying that these contests are not to be taken seriously here, and that they’re not to be fought and to be won, but we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. New Hampshire is no longer the conservative barometer it used to be. The state has changed, it is now quite liberal. A lot of people who used to live in Massachusetts have moved into New Hampshire to escape New Hampshire’s high taxation and other problems. New England generally the northern states, states like Iowa, is not where the conservative base resides in large numbers. The Drive-By Media would love to destroy the conservative coalition. They would love to destroy the conservative base to the Republican Party. That’s why they are promoting Huckabee; it is why they are promoting McCain.
The Drive-By Media, ladies and gentlemen, will tell us each and every day who the true conservatives in the Republican primary are, and they will tell us by virtue of who they attack and also by virtue of who they prop up. They are propping up McCain; they are propping up Huckabee. The Drive-By Media hate conservatives. They want to destroy conservatism. It is the bulwark standing in their way of power and monopolistic control of all the apparatus of the country, government, media, and everything else. It’s one of the best indicators I can offer you. If you’re asking who is the genuine conservative out there or who is most conservative, who is most liberal on the Republican side, just take a look at who the Drive-Bys are enamored of and you will be able to answer the question yourself without me having to tell you. Why do you think that Senator McCain is making his big stand in New Hampshire? Because he did well there in 2000 and because he knows he runs really well with independents. He knows that New Hampshire is not a big conservative state.
If McCain were running on a genuine conservative agenda he’d be focusing on South Carolina for example, but he’s not. He’s focusing in New Hampshire because he thinks conservatives can be outnumbered there by this new influx of independents. You know, he’s up there in New Hampshire, if you listen to McCain, touting his left-wing environmental agenda with Joe Lieberman, for crying out loud. Now, recently there has been an endorsement that have people scratching their heads. “Jack Kemp, supply-sider, endorsing McCain? What’s this all about?” I’ll give you two reasons, and I’m just hazarding my own guess here, but I think it’s the old boys club in Washington, the inside the Beltway establishment apparatus, and the dirty little secret: Congressman Kemp is an open borders guy. So is Senator McCain. Have you noticed that in these forums and debates, McCain doesn’t want to talk about immigration; he doesn’t want to talk about campaign finance reform; he doesn’t want to talk about the things that genuinely rile conservatives? He wants to sweep those issues under the rug, and try to redefine what those issues were all about and what his position was on both of them.
GOP hopeful now claims he ‘never supported’ reprieve for illegals
Sphere: Related ContentSen. John McCain’s Straight Talk Express may have derailed in the New Hampshire debates.In tonight’s Fox News presidential forum, the GOP hopeful denied charges he favored an immigration-reform plan that offered amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
“I have never, ever supported amnesty, and never will,” McCain asserted.
During the ABC News presidential debate on Saturday, he angrily denied it and even suggested anybody who says he did support amnesty is a “liar, is lying.”
But in a May 28, 2003, press conference in Tucson, the Arizona senator said Congress should pass a guest-worker program that includes “amnesty” for illegal workers in the U.S.
“I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people,” McCain said. “Amnesty has to be an important part, because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens.”
“He used the word,” noted GOP rival Gov. Mitt Romney during the Fox debate, referring to amnesty.
He also pointed out that McCain co-sponsored a bill to provide so-called Z visas to illegals who “earn the right,” as McCain explained, to stay in the U.S. That includes paying a $5,000 fine and maintaining a job here, McCain said.
Dear Iowa Republicans,I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?
The news coming out of Des Moines (literally, French for “tell me about the rabbits, George”) tonight is distressing in the extreme. 32 years ago, your Democratic brethren took one look at Jimmy Carter — the worst 20th Century President bar Nixon, and the worst ex-President ever — and declared, “That’s our man!”
Three decades later, and along comes Mike Huckabee. Same moral pretentiousness, same gullibility on foreign affairs, only-slightly-less toothy idiot’s grin. Then you so-called Republicans took a look at Carter’s clone and said, “That’s our man, too!”
And by a pretty wide margin.
I’ll give you some credit where it’s due: you guys had sense enough to give Fred Thompson a breather, and Ron Paul a pretty solid kick in the (ahem) nuts. But Mike Huckabee? Really? We’ve seen this game before, and its name is… every other single stupid, un-winnable candidate you’ve ever picked — which is most of them.
So I repeat the question: What is wrong with you people?
All my love, you corn-sucking idiots,
PS You’re making Iowa Democrats look like Albert freakin’ Einstein. How’s that feel?
DITTO!!!!
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I’m listening to Rush as usual and my head hurts listening to this one caller who claims that he is undecided as to what GOP candidate to endorse.
Then dude eventually comes clean and says that he supports Suckabee because he is the “most” conservative. He then says later that Giuliani would be a good alternative.
Now I understand that people are willing to go to great lengths to give props to their candidate of choice and even flat out lie about his or her credentials.
However those of you who claim to be Republicans and yet support the obvious liberal tendencies of a candidate like Suckabee or Romney, shit even John McCain is amazing to me.
I have said prior, it’s not like you can’t go to You Tube and listen to what these candidates have said before or read prior articles on legislative action taken by these individuals while they occupied former offices. You can go to countless websites and see specifically the records that many of the GOP candidates try to conceal or misrepresent.
Despite all of that, I hear to way too many callers talk shows, (exceedingly funny when they try to pull this bullshit on Rush), trying to redefine what conservatism really means and moving solid benchmarks that should be required of any good solid GOP candidate.
As Rush and countless other political pundits have pointed out, but Rush in particular, Republican candidates need not pander to the left to win elections.
Kissing the collective asses of liberal Democrats is not what any TRUE Republican candidate for president should be doing.
The fact that I keep reading and hearing supposedly Republican voters pimping for the likes of Suckabee, the lying fraud Romney and a cross dressing Rudy is somewhat disturbing.
Maybe these campaigns have adopted the guerrilla tactics of Ron Paul supporters and have been instructed to manipulate poll numbers, frequently call talk shows, write letters to the editor, spam websites and blogs completely ignoring the essential substance of their candidate of choice.
Here is a portion of a transcript of Rush’s show where he talks about “Identity Politics”
particularly talking about Sucakbee and his followers.
Basically tard Christian types who think that just because Suckabee is this former preacher man that he must be the “God” candidate. I can here the redneck accents as I type this, “I support Huckabee because he is an Evangelical Christian”
(remember to say that in your best hillbilly voice)
Never mind his actual record and the fact that well….Suckabee is a closet liberal tard!
Note to you die hard people pimping the fact that Suckabee was a former preacher and “man of God”, look I have several former classmates who back in the day said point blank that they were going to be preachers because of the money they could make.
Yes all are now pretty successful preachers, one pimping parishioners in one of the oldest and most prominent churches in Alabama.
The only difference between them and yours truly is I much rather play Xbox and chill than eying the collection plates while “entertaining” folks on Sundays.
That is what frankly way too many shyster bible wavers engage in. Suckabee has just chosen to take his carnival road show into politics.
It worked in coning the people of Arkansas; I just hope that the American people won’t get screwed into supporting another man from… Hope?
Sphere: Related ContentRUSH: Okay, folks, let me tell you what’s going on now. I sadly, and unfortunately, must make this point reacting to our last caller. What we have going on here is identity politics, I think, in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee. Identity politics is what the left does. Do you know what I mean when I say “identity politics,” Rachel? Okay.
Identity politics is: You vote for the Christian. You vote for the black. You vote for the woman. This is traditionally how the left looks at people. We, as conservatives, don’t. We don’t see you, for example, in a political sense, and see a woman first. We might see a woman first because you’re beautiful, but we’re men and we can’t help it. In a political sense, we wouldn’t say, “You don’t qualify. You’re not smart because you’re a woman,” and we wouldn’t say you deserve anything special because you’re a woman. We wouldn’t look at a black and say, “Oh! Poor, disadvantaged, slavery heritage, presidential material!” without knowing anything about the guy.
We wouldn’t if there was the first admittedly open gay running, we wouldn’t say, “Oh, terribly discriminated against, really has had no chance! We’re going to vote for the gay guy because it makes us feel better about ourselves.”That’s identity politics, or a little strain of it, and that’s what’s happening in the Huckabee race. The identity of Huckabee is: “Christian, Southern Baptist minister,” and that identity is covering and is being translated by supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he’s governed. Like the pastor who just called and said Huckabee is a light at the end of the tunnel. Pastor, the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can’t get off the track!
That’s the light at the end of the tunnel, and I think identity politics was a fundamental feature of the Perot campaign as well. People really didn’t even care what his policies were. He didn’t even have to articulate policies. Remember that? (classic Ross Perot impression) “I’ll tell you, Larry, here’s what we’re going to do! We’re going to get rid of all these 737s, going to hire a bunch of Lear 55s. We’re going to have smaller airplanes.” He cares so much! “You own this country! You own it. This is your country. We’re going to give this country back to you.” That’s identity politics, and this is traditionally not what conservatives and even Republicans, right-wingers, do.