Posted on 12/14/2008 12:31:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
McCain is turning into another Jimmy Carter.
Thank God he’s not president-elect. That would be the end of the party.
That was close.
McCain had his chance and say. He should STFU.
Screw you McCain. I only voted for YOU because of Palin. You were NEVER my pick.......you were chosen by the media. Weak, weak, weak.
Going back for more 'Operation Certifigate Cleanup'????
PS - McCain has made himself insignificant...no one cares what he has to say.... :o
Then do all of us true conservatives a favor and get the hell out of politics and just lay on the beach and watch the sun set.
Scratch that. He was always a complete tool.
There are predators, and there are victims.
In politics, winners are much more effective than nice guys.
I can admire a nice guy, but not when he represents me.
To paraphrase hte fine King Juan Carlos, the appropriate answer to McCain is:
Porque no te callas?
What a loser. THe further we get from the election, the more convinced I become that there were very serious character issues with McCain. He’s done nothing but backstab his own people since he lost. Good riddance.
WTF is little Johnny’s game plan? The guy acts deranged lately.Even worse than he normally is.
Yup.
It could well turn out that the best thing that could have happened to the Republican Party was for Juan McCain to have lost.
There is a silver lining in every cloud, and McCain's loss in itself, was a very good thing for the Republican Party, evil as Comrade Obama is.
McCain doesn’t yet realize that 2012 is beyond his reach.
a) put pressure on McCain's possible thinking and behavior in the next 2 years.
b) have candidate(s) in place before the primary that GOP voters could decide on and coalesce around for knocking McCain out in 2010 and not give a seat to Democrats, because it would be someone already familiar to the public at large.
Same should be done with Voinovich and other marginal Republican Senators, especially in, but not limited to, safe GOP states.
Primaries are where it's at. We need to start NOW to bring in the fresh blood, to vet them and give them visibility and public support, or we'll keep repeating 2006 and 2008, like Groundhog Day. Waiting to do this until the primaries is suicidal, as we'll wind up with the equivalents of Rudy, John and Mitt as Big 3 (if that) in states and districts.
And then we'll be back to “He can win, because nobody knows who these other GOP guys are”. And then we'll be back to “vote for me because I am not a Democrat” ...
Time to start choosing and announcing replacements for these seats is NOW. How do we wind up with 2 Democratic Senators from Montana? By doing nothing to replace the “old guards” from the “Good Ol’ Boy Network” pf Senators and Representatives.
/End of the Call to Arms rant.
I feel soiled that I had to vote for this guy.
By 2012 McCain will be Senior Advisor to whoever is running the DNC.
I think McCain is doing what all losing presidential candidates do. Going for that big “Nobel Peas Prize.” It’s the booby prize for those who come in second in the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. To actually win it though, you’ve got to talk and act as though you’re a big Commie.
Here is my unpublished OpEd that I hope at least grated on some of the Republican elite I sent it to these last few months.
Besides John McCain’s problems of granting amnesty to illegal aliens and restricting freedom of speech, he is severely deficient in the areas of national security and integrity.
Politics is the art of compromise and leadership is the art of principle. Lincoln used superb political skills to implement some of the most cogent and insightful principles to guide this nation. McCain has used political skills to implement compromises consistent with increasing personal acclaim among liberal media and politicians.
The former is dead and the latter is alive, but dead to principles unrelated to his immediate personal advancement. Since leadership is absent from the Democrat and Republican Parties, each individual must make a way to manage commitment to principle and political party affiliation. Each individual must answer questions as to what extent, under what circumstances and when, if ever, do you forsake conservative principles to align with an enemy of your beliefs against a greater enemy of your beliefs? People should not delude themselves into thinking they are making a morally or ethically supportable choice when such weighty utilitarian and cynical issues dominate the thinking in both parties.
John McCain lacks leadership for the War on Terror. His leadership codified the Army interrogation manual making terrorists legal combatants. His leadership granted terrorists American citizenship rights under Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. He thereby ensures information vital to defeat terrorists remains sacred and unobtainable. Terrorists are unresponsive to direct questioning and psychological gambits. Therefore, interrogators need all stress and coercion techniques our military encounters in survival schools. McCain embraces liberal orthodoxy considering those methods torture, but his searing experiences call forth contrary insights he must suppress.
McCain especially understands from the Geneva Conventions terrorists are not insurgents or freedom fighters; when captured, certainly not prisoners of war. They are not armed forces, militias, or volunteer corps of any country or authority. These killers are not members of organized resistance movements carrying arms openly. They have no distinctive identifier. Terrorists cannot even qualify as spies or saboteurs destroying infrastructure required to support military operations. McCain understands Geneva Conventions intended to isolate such forces, provide them no protections, and allow destruction with any overwhelming furies needed to crush their abominations. Knowing these factors he has promised to close Guantanamo Bay, inviting terrorists into our legal system. He has decided to accommodate extraordinarily savage behavior, which checkmates national laws intended to manage simple murder and kidnapping, and renders Posse Comitatus a crumbling deception.
McCain especially appreciates from our Constitution that laws guaranteeing civil liberties presuppose operation within an invincible society. He more than most understands Alexander Hamilton’s words that devastating, unforeseeable perils must lead deliberations. The Federal government’s three branches primary responsibility is to pursue Hamilton’s admonition that powers exist without limitation; providing capabilities thwarting dangers as well as repelling attacks. McCain understands powerful warfare capabilities require potent intelligence acquisition and exploitation before and throughout campaigns.
The framers of our Constitution and the Geneva Conventions held powerful positions throughout the darkest times of our country and the world. They were our Founding Fathers, and parents and grandparents of the Greatest Generation. Their words expressed durable morality earned in our fight for freedom, and against the ultimate bloody deluge of the 20th century. These first generations expressed principles derived from confronting shattering tragedies, and earning peace through victory.
John McCain’s actions are particularly reprehensible because he turns a blind eye to the council of these people. McCain continually seeks popular advancement by placating those coveting luxurious morality requiring shelter from hard choices and danger awareness. His crime is repudiating military and intelligence professionals facing hard choices when confronting shrewd, ruthless enemies obscured behind frightening uncertainties. Instead he follows the success of Bill Clinton, who cemented in politics for both parties the idea that character did not matter. There are no principles, but only ideas that secure possession of an office. John McCain is the most prominent Republican example of this new direction towards possession of power through careful exploitation of perceived expediency.
John McCain succumbed to the terrible addiction of political power. The same addiction expressed itself differently in fellow Navy officer Randy Cunningham, who was the Navy’s first Vietnam ace. Over the decades the honor and moral authority of both were gradually traded away for influence in the political arena. To me McCain is like a cadaver prepared for viewing. The removal of blood and organs equates to the trading away of honor and moral authority. The reputation that remains is like the cosmetics applied for viewing the corpse at the funeral. It is easy for anyone to get onto the same sort of gently downward sloping path. The final result is tragic, but we should not suffer such a pathetic and contemptible modern day Macbeth or Hamlet as President.
P.S. It’s not unlike establishing a “shadow government”, only in this case it would be a “shadow Senator”, “shadow Representative”, shadow Governor” that would let them know that they will not get their nomination and seat back by default, seniority, incumbency, but only on the merit. Republivans are supposed to believe in meritocracy, but they don’t practice it in primary elections.
Prospect of real competition and serious, not token, protest vote and being out of the job after primaries should tighten some muscles in these people and do some wonderful things to their brains as well. And if not, sayonara after primaries.
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