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Precisely why I will not be voting for John McCain.

Phil Gramm - “Nation of Whiners”

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From Hot Air, if dude is elected he will fuck us on immigration I guarantee it!

This election is like being stuck between two gun barrels and having to decide which one you want to be shot with, the big gun that will explode your head like a cantaloupe quick death or the smaller less frightening looking gun the one that may not kill you right away exposing you to long term suffering.
Gruesome shit huh? Well that is the 2008 election in a nutshell!

Via Byron York. We know he’s planning to revisit the issue — the day after he’s inaugurated, no less — but the lack of remorse is news to me. What happened to that “lesson” he supposedly learned about securing the border first?

College betting is obviously an interstate commerce issue
(So Nevada should not have the right to have sports betting?)

The issue has been dead for years

(Despite your efforts, and I thought you were running on effectiveness, so how can it be dead?)

I haven’t won on every issue. I didn’t win on immigration reform, but I’ll go back at it. And I’m glad I did it.

Full Article here

In case you forgot - From January 28, 2008 Hot Air Post - Video: Sure I’d sign my immigration bill as president, says McCain

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I know I’m repeating myself, and I will keep repeating this until the election is over.
We simply can’t elect McCain. We right leaning types need to come to grips with reality and just say fuck it, give the country to the Democrats, let them have the keys for the next four years.
I have faith in the strength of this nation and the Democrats no matter how utterly retarded they seem to be can’t completely fuck up the country too badly.

As I watch these McCain clips and some others I have seen on You Tube man I quickly realize that this dude would be a disastrous president when you consider that fact that the Democrats will have complete control of the House and Senate.

I always thought dude was a smarter and better spoken politician. The more I see him in front of a camera or speaking to a group of people he reminds me more of Grandpa Simpson than a legitimate presidential candidate.
At least G Dub had Karl Rove I have no idea who McCain has behind the scenes.

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(article Link) Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is trying to tap a new audience of potential voters by taking his campaign message straight to liberal and nonpolitical issues-based blogs, which reach millions of readers but don’t often delve into conservative politics.The strategy was in full swing yesterday when Mr. McCain invited non-conservative bloggers to join his regular blogger conference call, just hours after he delivered a major speech previewing his war strategy and other priorities for a first presidential term.

It already has started a war among liberal bloggers over how to react to Mr. McCain’s overture.

In answering the first question on the call, Mr. McCain said his likely Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, lacks the judgment to be commander in chief, which set him up for a bruising from the readers at TalkingPointsMemo.com, a liberal-leaning site that joined in the call.

Blogger Greg Sargent said it amounted to “what may be [Mr. McCain’s] most direct attack yet on Barack Obama’s national security credentials.” But commenters were split: Some took aim at Mr. McCain, some said they were thankful for the intelligence on “what the enemy is planning,” and others lashed out at Mr. Sargent, saying he should have been harsher in evaluating Mr. McCain’s attack.

“This IS a Democratic blog, and as such, it would seem to me that there SHOULD be SOME bias with regards to how YOU report of McCain’s craziness, as opposed to treating his ranting and attacks with a sort of dignity they and he DO NOT deserve,” wrote one emphasis-abundant reader.

Mr. McCain’s campaign said the Web outreach is a logical extension of an attempt to reach voters beyond his base. It also builds on his successful use of conference calls with conservative bloggers during the Republican primary, which blunted many of the harshest criticisms of the senator.

“The plan is to take the work we’ve already built on with conservative bloggers and to open up a dialogue with non-conservative bloggers and even nonpolitical bloggers,” said Patrick Hynes, Mr. McCain’s point man for blog outreach.

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John McCain makes my decision not to vote for him easier by the day. It is clear that he does not give a shit about what us conservative types think about him. He is perfectly willing to reach out to idiot liberals and is banking on their support of him.
He figures there are enough white people out there who will refuse to vote for a Negro so he wants to make himself more appealing to leftists by kissing their collective asses on issues near and dear to their hearts.

As far as I’m concerned, this election cycle is over, the liberals have won, the country will be theirs for at least the next four years. I am content to just sit back relax and watch as liberalism erodes the country.

Why should I give a shit, Mexicans won’t be coming in a snatching my job or Mrs. Snoop’s. I don’t have long commutes to work, so I don’t give a shit about gas prices. I’m not rich so money will not be snatched out of my grubby hands.
Jobs will be lost because of global warming alarmist idiot ass legislation; terrorism will no doubt find our shores again, capitalism will grind to a halt and the legions of moronic Democrats around the country who bitched and moaned about the years under G Dub will struggle to come up with answers as to why the country will go in the toilet because they will have nobody to blame.

For the first time in my adult life I will get to witness complete liberal dominance of the American political system. The country will no doubt survive. Conservatives like myself will not drown ourselves in sorrow and mental anguish because the political pendulum did not swing our way.
We just need to remain positive and be ready to pick up the pieces when liberalism and the Democrats fail.

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By Dr. Roy Spencer - From National Review

John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that there will be no presidential candidate this year willing to question the assertion that global warming (a.k.a. “climate change”) is manmade, or the assertion that we can fix global warming by passing a few laws.

Along with Clinton and Obama, McCain’s proposal to attack global warming now gives voters three choices for a car color — as long as it is black. Like Clinton and Obama, McCain’s proposal involves a “cap and trade” mechanism to legislatively limit CO2 emissions in the coming years, with the free market minimizing the economic damage by allowing a trading of emission credits between companies. He also includes an allowance for carbon offsets, although everyone (except Al Gore) believes this to be more smoke-and-mirrors than a real-world strategy for reducing carbon emissions.

What worries me is the widespread misperception that we can do anything substantial about carbon emissions without seriously compromising economic growth. To be sure, forcing a reduction in CO2 emissions will help spur investment in new energy technologies. But so does a price tag of $126 for a barrel of oil. Finding a replacement for carbon-based energy will require a huge investment of wealth, and destroying wealth is not a very good first step toward that goal.

When the public finds out how much any legislation that punishes energy use is going to cost them, with no guarantee that anything we do will have a measurable impact on future climate, there will be a revolt just like the one now materializing in the U.K. and the EU. At some point, as they are faced with the stark reality that mankind’s requirement for an abundant source of energy cannot simply be legislated out of existence, the public will begin asking, “Just how sure are we that humans are causing global warming?”

And this is where the science establishment has, in my view, betrayed the public’s trust.

Even though there has never been a single scientific paper published that has ruled out natural variability for most of the warming we’ve seen since 1850, Big Science has managed to convince politicians and much of the public that the science is settled. Apparently, our addition of nine molecules of carbon dioxide to each 100,000 molecules of air over the last 150 years can now be blamed for anything and everything we choose. Hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, floods, glaciers flowing toward the sea…. all of these used to happen naturally, but no more.

The warming that allowed the Vikings to farm in Greenland 1,000 years ago was surely natural. But we are now told that warming in Greenland today is surely manmade. Glaciers retreating in western Canada have revealed evidence of previous forests, showing that warming and cooling cycles do indeed occur, even without SUVs. Yet the SUV is now the scapegoat for retreating glaciers.

McCain pointed to shrinking Arctic sea ice and collapsing Antarctic ice shelves as obvious evidence that humans are to blame, even though the sea ice did the same thing in the 1920s and 1930s, and those ice shelves must break off eventually, as new glacial ice flows toward the sea to take their place.

But McCain has made it clear that the science really does not matter anyway because, even if humans are not to blame for global warming, stopping carbon-dioxide emissions is the right thing to do. And if we had another choice for most of our energy needs, I might be willing to accept such a claim as harmless enough.

But carbon dioxide is necessary for life on Earth, and I have a difficult time calling something so fundamentally important a “pollutant.” Maybe the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is higher now than it has been in hundreds of thousands of years. So what? I am increasingly convinced that its influence on climate pales in comparison to the influence that natural climate events like El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation have on regional climate. Indeed, most of the warming we’ve seen in the last century might well be due to these natural modes of climate variability alone.

The trouble is that no one has been funded by the government to investigate such a possibility, and the mandate for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to address manmade climate change — not natural climate change.

So, here we are with bad science ready to support bad policy decisions that will lead to bad economic times ahead, and no presidential candidate who is willing to ask the hard questions. While we hate to be pandered to by politicians, in this case I can only hope that they really are pandering — that this is hot air and not prospective policy.

— Dr. Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is author of the new book, Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor.

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More Republican Party lunacy. McCain I guess wants to present the old white fart and redneck as an alternate to anti-American faux Negro ticket.

Read the story at Hot Air

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From Michelle Malkin

The open-borders media has been AWOL on John McCain’s decision to speak to the radical racialist group, La Raza/The Race in July. He has been allowed to skate on the issue in several recent sit-down interviews. Many of the same pundits who blasted Barack Obama for his ties to the radical racialist Jeremiah Wright have nothing to say about McCain’s longtime association with the shamnesty-pushing, sovereignty-undermining, publicly-subsidized shakedown artists of La Raza/The Race.Not everyone’s looking the other way. Editorial page editor Colin McNickle at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review warned today:

“McCain had made significant progress in reaching out to conservatives over the last month or so. But his La Raza embrace is a serious lapse of judgment, one of a number of lapses that, if the primaries are a valid indicator, could lead to a full quarter of the Republican electorate staying home on Nov. 4.”

Guess McCain’s counting on all his left-wing global warming fear-mongering friends to make up the difference.

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More McCain Reading: Paging John McCain: GOP House leader Boehner rips La Raza earmark

John McCain gets away with his slippery, open-borders talk again

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From Examiner.com

Sen. 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.”

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From The Sundries Shack

Let’s Hunt Us Some RINOs! And John Boehner, too.

If 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.

MORE HERE

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From the Rottweiler Empire

In response to the “speech” given by Liar McCain that apparently has Shit Sandwich Republicans in the throes of orgasm with renewed hope and fervor, we have very little to say.Other than: You really, honestly expect us to give a rancid turd when the dog who didn’t like Samuel Alito because he was “too conservative” and “wore his conservatism on his sleeve” suddenly starts barking about the kind of judges he wants to nominate as opposed to his opponents?

You really, honestly expect us to pay attention when the same guy who ripped out the First Amendment of the Constitution with his “Campaign Finance Reform”, shat on the paper and smeared the smelly, old fart, runny load in our faces talks about how he opposes “activist judges bypassing the legislative branch?”

You do? Are you fucking NUTS???

MORE HERE

Also check out: “But He Still Won’t Give Conservatives the Time of Day”

McShitSandwich decides to sprinkle a healthy dollop of diarrhea on the sandwich that he’s expecting voters to eat in November

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WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party’s presumptive presidential nominee. He often adds that he was a “foot soldier” in the Reagan revolution and that he believes in the bedrock conservative principles of small government, low taxes and the rights of the unborn.

What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party, and his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry about becoming Mr. Kerry’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.

There are wildly divergent versions of both episodes, depending on whether Democrats or Mr. McCain and his advisers are telling the story. The Democrats, including Mr. Kerry, say that not only did Mr. McCain express interest but that it was his camp that initially reached out to them. Mr. McCain and his aides counter that in both cases the Democrats were the suitors and Mr. McCain the unwilling bride.

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With all due respect to my fellow blogger at Politik Ditto and any other “conservative, republican blogger or part time pundit, I’m stunned at the amount of limited political framework many of you people have.Now this particular quote is from Larry Elder, you can read the full quote here, but this is symptomatic of what I keep reading in the right blogsphere and from right leaning pundits who are either remarkable clueless or are simply trying to kiss John McCain’s tired ass because they don’t want to be thrown under the bus when the old bastard wins the presidency.

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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By Terence P. Jeffrey - CNSNews.com Editor in Chief

One thing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain all have in common is that they voted to give retroactive Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who committed document fraud.Indeed, McCain voted for it before he was against it.

On May 18, 2006, when the immigration reform proposal advocated by McCain was on the Senate floor, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada offered an amendment.

As written, the bill immunized illegal aliens from being prosecuted for document fraud, including using a stolen, or a fake, Social Security number. Additionally, the bill did not stop the current practice of allowing aliens who are eventually granted permanent legal residency to go back and claim credit with the Social Security Administration for work they did as an illegal.

Thus, the immigration reform proposal advocated by McCain in 2006 would not only have added millions of illegal aliens to Social Security rolls, it would have protected these aliens from being prosecuted for fraudulently using other people’s Social Security numbers.

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Don’t mind this tho… because McKein will unite the conservatives…
There are obviously some folks who have been suckered into buying into McKein’s bullshit, but the operative question for you McKein supporters is ‘Who needs a weird old coot in the White House?’

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From World Net Daily

As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.

In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros’ Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.

McCain used the institute to promote his political agenda and provide compensation to key campaign operatives between elections.

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Found on Six Meat Buffet - Courtesy of See-Dub:

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.

This is so true and why I’ve stopped not worrying about the race for the White House.  Conservative bloggers and alternative media types I’m sure will keep folks informed on true conservative candidates around the country.

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:

(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.

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I shall put myself in “timeout” for falling for such a fucken fraud, Fred Thompson and his phony “conservative” campaign.

Found 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.”

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From Michelle Malkin - Another reason why I need to stop reading the news/blogs because I read more and more shit like this that just pisses me the hell off!

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A reader asked me to check into information that President Bush was pushing a massive foreign-aid package to Mexico to help them secure their southern border against the flow of illegal aliens from Central America.“We can’t even get our own border straight, and we are going to provide Mexico with funding so they can solve their problem,” the reader fumed. “I doubt the Central Americans are staying very long in Mexico anyway. We know where they are going!”

Too outrageously outrageous to be true?

Well, I checked it out and it’s even worse than the reader described. Far worse.

The plan is called “The Merida Initiative.” Seems that the White House has had this plan in the works for nearly a year with little congressional input on either side of the border.

READ MORE HERE

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Michelle Malkin Live from CPAC: McCain into the lion’s den; Armey disses Coulter, George Allen, Tom Coburn endorse McCain; Mac: “We should do this more often;” to shamnesty opponents: “I respect your opposition”

I watched his speech and still was not impressed. Although GOP party insiders, desperate to keep the party intact, will pimp for him as much as possible.

I believe that he feels that all of this opposition to him is manufactured, that we will eventually come around and support him for the good of the party.

So the smug bastard spoke a CPAC and received some bogus applause from paid campaign groupies. Big deal!!

Let me focus on one thing he keeps saying and why I don’t trust his ass for one minute.
“we need to secure the borders” no you don’t, you don’t need a damm fence to keep Mexicans from crossing over. If this man were serious about convincing us conservatives that he is serious about illegal immigration, this is what he would have said;

I understand the seriousness of illegal immigration and the threat it poses to this nation.
As president I will do the following:
1) I will stop the flow of federal dollars to cities that harbor illegal aliens.
2) I will oppose giving automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens and foreign visitors.
3) I will work to establish a universal system for checking welfare and work eligibility.
4) I will propose that stiff fines be levied at companies that hire illegal or undocumented immigrants.
5) I will oppose any legislation that seeks to grant drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
6) I will instruct local authorities to report to federal authorities any criminal offense perpetrated by an illegal immigrant.
7) I will end all public benefits for illegal aliens.
8) I will make alien smuggling and document fraud a federal offense.

But who am I kidding McCain won’t say that shit. He will just keep repeating “border security first” and hope that the public will buy into his bullshit.

Don’t forget that his running mate will likely be Mike “Mexican consulate in Arkansas” Huckabee. McCain seriously must think we all have jackass stamped on our foreheads.

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I’m reposting because I guess mutherfuckers are just to dense to “get it!”

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“ Sen. McCain overall is a moderate-conservative, or somewhat but not firmly in the conservative camp. More specifically, he is fiscal conservative, a social moderate-conservative, but a foreign policy moderate (e.g., he favors the War in Iraq, but also wants to shut down Gitmo and opposes torture). He is also a Republican Party loyalist. These ratings also tell me that Sen. Clinton is firmly in the liberal camp (i.e., not a moderate-liberal), and is a Democratic Party loyalist.”"many conservatives are allowing Sen. McCain’s 35% liberal ideology to override his 65% conservative ideology. Now conservatives could argue that Sen. McCain is “insufficiently” conservative for their tastes. However, to argue that he is a liberal is just plain ridiculous. I guess I am just too pragmatic and logical to be a partisan. I really don’t get these conservatives who are in blind dislike, emotionally-based meltdown mode over Sen. John McCain.”

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Over the last several days I have been actively seeking blog posts and Columns containing the idea that (individuals like myself) need to “teach the Republicans a lesson.” This position is usually taken by those in the media and by paid blogs writers who are waving their nasty ass finger at those of us who refuse to play the political game of “crown the clown.” They want us to vote for someone simply because they have an (R) after their name. They want those of us who still insist upon conservative ideals and principals in our leaders to just “shut the fuck up” and do as we are told, support the presumptive nominee, forget about his (or her) past transgressions, and by all that is holy, “Don’t let the Democrats set America back and give us the dreaded socialism!”

I doubt that my little ranting tome here gets peeped by many of the sanctimonious types who are writing these types of posts. I do have some of their sites linked on my sidebar, because I have a basic measure of respect for the quality of their writing. But these series of posts on how we should all make sure that a Republican, any Republican, wins the Presidency are really pissing me the fuck off.

These people clearly have an agenda. And it’s not just “for the good of the Party.” It’s personal.

The vast majority of these blogers makes a modest income by advertising. Their blogs are littered with pointless ads targeted at conservative minded folks who may click on some bullshit with Newt or Ann Coulter in an ad.

I am very aware that many of these bloggers are political insiders. They probably are hired to do work for some Republican think tank, candidate, or governmental office. If they don’t work directly for campaign many are active with political action groups with agendas.

Blogging has evolved into an entertainment medium and some of these same people have enjoyed such a successful readership that they have now expanded into of all things, like “radio talks shows.” They love it.
It helps to create the illusion of influence. Their influence. And that means money in their pockets.

How else do you explain the fact that many of these bloggers have inside tracks on conferences with political leaders or personal meetings with the folks in Washington in the know? You don’t write the kind of bullshit many of these bloggers do if there were not some incentive to do so. Particularly when it comes to steering people to particular political candidates.

Unfortunately bloggers, many who have been granted some measure “status,”have now started to tell their audiences what to think and how to think.
Now don’t get my angst twisted, I’m all for folks pimping themselves for a few bucks and a few accolades, that tis the American way.
My office wall is full of folks with whom I have a basic measure of respect for because of what they have been able to achieve, but many are also those with who I have some serious political and philosophical differences with.

I have never written a post, nor will I ever, seeking to convince anybody as to what they should think or do. I express my opinions. And you can take them. Or leave them. I don’t care which!

The great thing about reading so many blogs is that I am not alone in my angst and anger at what I am seeing from the Republican establishment.
I am not alone when I write about my disdain at my choices for President of the United States.

However one thing I learned is that the quality of my life will never be dictated by who sits in the oval office. This country is too great for one person to completely wack it up in 4 years.

I am also aware that by me not voting, or should I say me choosing not to select from any of the current crop of sellout losers, that I am indeed making a choice.

I am aware that not all candidates may meet all my criteria, but there are some basic political character issues that must be exhibited by a candidate in order for them to win my trust. And my vote.

I voted for George Bush twice because, although frankly I was never impressed by him overall, I never doubted that he would NOT cave into liberal special interests. He could be counted upon to be firm and resolute on some core GOP issues. As his presidency is coming to an end that gut feeling has basically been proved true. Yes G Dub has issues, but the facts that liberals hate him so much means that he did exactly what I voted for his to do, stand and fight against Democrat tards. He took a firm stand on some key issues and put conservatives on the court.  He did what we conservatives counted upon him to do.

I don’t trust any of these current crop of Republicans to do that.
McCain is a politically appeasing fraud. Romney is a puppet candidate with absolutely no political soul. Huckabee is a joke with a cross.
Giuliani? Please; if there was no 9/11 we would not be talking about him. And what the fuck Ron Paul is confusing at best.

Let me address some specifics I found is some posts:

the people doing the most “enduring” would be our troops and their families, both of whom have sacrificed so much for a goal that is achieveable if only we are able to set aside our differences with whoever the Republican nominee is in order to make sure what we set out in Iraq to do from the get go has a chance at succeeding.

Let me be clear, Hillary if she becomes our leader, will not pull out of Iraq. Any notion that things will significantly change in Iraq because a Democrat is elected is ridiculous. Mark my words.

Medved chimes in:

From a conservative perspective, it’s easy to come up with, say, twenty-five issues areas in which McCain would be preferable to Barack/Clinton. How about the war on terror, taxes, socialized medicine, school choice, cutting government, gays in the military, tort reform, curbing abortion, second amendment rights, nuclear power, pork barrel spending, support for Israel, confronting Iran, affirmative action, appointing strict constructionist judges, and many, many more.

And this dude

. . . . Apparently, these anticipated conservative non-voters are annoyed with Republican imperfection. They are disheartened, disappointed, disillusioned, distempered, dismal — and thus plan to dis the party that better advances conservative principles in government.
They appear to have fallen victim to the false syllogism: 1) Something must be done; 2) not voting is something; therefore, 3) I will not vote.

Of course the fallacy of the syllogism is that the second category could be anything. For example, number two could as well read “eating dog excrement is something.” I rather suspect that they will feel about the same afterward, whether they chose the non-voting option or the scatological one. They are both equally illogical — and repulsive –
and would deserve the moniker, “Stupid.”

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I refuse to let the desire for perfection be the enemy of good. No
candidate is going to give me all I want. I can find good in some of
them. I’d even hold my nose and vote for McCain if it came to that,
because I’d at least have done my
part to keep a hard core leftist like Hillary, Obama or Edwards from beating a so-so conservative and influencing my life for the next 4 years (minimum and that isn’t counting Supreme Court nominations). And in the case of McCain, he’s been steadfast for victory in Iraq which is of paramount importance to me. But he cannot be counted upon to stay the course when it comes to key conservative values. He’s shown much too often that he can “compromise” on almost anything (read sell out)
when it helps him keep or attain more power.I understand frustration. I’m frustrated as well. We can’t let frustration make us irrational?

Call me, Snoop irrational? Because I decide to make the conscious choice to stand on my principals and not reward the GOP for continuing to cave in to liberal interests and ill fated logic, I’m irrational? Fuck that!

Many of these bloggers posting this bullshit stood by and did not do or say shit when Republicans like McCain boldly thumb the GOP in the eye assuming that during his quest for the presidency we would all just lie down and kiss his old tired ass because our fear of a Democrat occupying the White House would be enough to grant him what was rightly his.

In addition this blogger criticism of people like me, and all the shots at Rush are also bullshit. I have far more respect for Rush now that I ever had because his refuses to compromise his conservative principals for political convenience.
I sincerely hope he chooses not to endorse a single tard Republican candidate, because none of them frankly have earned it. I doubt that the majority of his listening audience thinks that any of these frauds deserve his endorsement.

I said before and I will say it again: all of my life I have considered myself proud to be Republican. However, I must say the good thing about this election cycle is that I realized how silly and bogus it was for me to put on the figurative GOP uniform. It doesn’t mean what I thought it meant. Not any longer.

It is not enough for someone to simply proclaim themselves a Republican.
I want substance in any candidate I choose to vote for. I must believe that, although I may not agree with a given candidate on all issues, I must believe that a candidate is willing to stand on and uphold the basic principals that I hold dear.

Washington is full of conniving shady shyster rednecks on both sides of the political aisle. Most, particularly those on the Republican side are more afraid of losing their lofty status on the hill and are more willing to kiss the ass of Democrats to stay in power than fight against liberal Democrat ideals that certainly will steer this country in the wrong direction.

I don’t give a shit what you detractors say, there is no fundamental difference in voting for any of the current crop of Republicans than there is voting for Hillary or Obama.

If you people are so damm concerned that this nation will slip further left than you should have spoken out and voiced your concerns to the GOP and your particular political representatives and figuratively fired a shot over the bow and sent a message to the likes of John McCain that he is not the type of Republican we want representing the party.

Goddamm McCain should not even be among the choices anyway!

The fact that McCain is what we are left with is embarrassing. This silly old bastard is perfectly willing to compromise and kiss Democrat ass simply to cement his “legacy”, just like Hillary.
You would think that because the GOP party coffers locally (in my state of Kansas, the GOP is flat BROKE) and nationally are empty because folks like myself won’t donate and support these punk ass frauds would have gotten the message.
Democrats are rolling in the money because their national push to the left is working, and the base is vigilant and has made the Republicans open their collective legs are allowing themselves to be fucked by the Democrats like a two dollar an hour tramp.

You fucken people either have short memories, or you really don’t give a fuck, or you are on the payroll. We are not under any obligation to support this punk ass fake ass Republicans.

Before 2012 those of you who consider yourselves conservatives better speak up and be more vocal about the direction of the party or else there may be a long time before another Republican occupies the White House.

Aiming your attacks on those of us who choose to stand on principal is frankly stupid and misguided. When I find a Republican candidate who represents my core values - not just in words but in deeds - then and only then will he or she get my vote, otherwise they can go fuck themselves.

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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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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

If 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.

Much more here

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Remember the possibility of a McCain John Kerry ticket?
From The Daily Oakland Press [2004]:
McCain has said he would not run with Kerry, but last month he renewed speculation when he was asked on ABC’s “Good Morning America” whether he would consider running with Kerry. He replied, “Obviously, I would entertain it.”

From The Hill:
“Look,” McCain said on the radio show, “I was approached by Democrats, sure. I was approached by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to run as his running mate in 2004 and I rejected it out of hand.”Laughing, McCain added, “It was the smartest thing I ever did.”
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John McCain Hillary Clinton Best Friends

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This is an old post from Think Progress in 2006, just in case you did not catch before…

John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles. Some highlights of the legislation:

– Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.”

– Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.

— Social networking sites will be forced to take “effective measures” — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is “associated” with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists, and blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries.

Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes that this proposal may be based more “on fear or political considerations rather than on the facts.” When he introduced his legislation to the Senate, McCain offered no evidence that children are being victimized by people who post comments on blogs.

McCain’s legislation could deal a serious blow to the blogosphere. Lacking resources to police their sites, many individual blogs may have to shut down open discu