Posted on 01/13/2008 10:14:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Update: (Audio) Rick Santorum makes his own case against McCain
I'm swiping the bullet points of this from Mark Levin: All I can say is that McCain is basically a Democrat on every issue except foreign policy and the war. I'll also add that he should have went through with his attempt to change parties.
It is no secret that John McCain has alienated true Conservatives in this country. As Mark Levin reminds us...
McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing Authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).
Rush Limbaugh talks about this one as well:
McCain-Feingold alone. This isn't Republican, to limit free speech. This is the Incumbent Protection Act, and, of course, the amnesty program, McCain loves to say (McCain impression), "It's not amnesty! You hear me, sailor? It's not...amnesty!" But it's amnesty. It was amnesty, and that's why it went down to a scorching, blazing defeat. It's not amnesty? McCain's "stated opposition to Bush's tax cuts in 2001-2003, largely based on...class warfare rhetoric." He said (McCain impression), "We can't do this, it's tax cuts for the rich. I'm not going to do tax cuts for the rich!" "The public record is full of statements like these. Today he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts," and they didn't want any spending cuts in there so he wouldn't support tax cuts. But people have forgotten, in 2001 McCain was still steaming over 2000 and the South Carolina primary after the contretemps regarding Bob Jones University, the religion and so forth. He had it in for Bush. In 2003, his anger hadn't dwindled much. So he was opposing Bush's tax cut, using class warfare rhetoric. "As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation..." I know people are asking, "Rush, why are you doing this?"
I'll tell you why I'm doing it -- because no Republican in the debate last night did it. Somebody has to do it! "As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies." How many of us can forget the Gang of 14 debacle? Remember that, ladies and gentlemen? The Gang of 14 "prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees." You never had to have 60 votes to get a judicial nominee approved. The Democrats started filibustering, you needed 60 votes. We were going to pull the trigger on the nuclear option to get rid of this once and for all and McCain rides in with Senator Lindsey Grahamnesty and others, to form the Gang of 14 -- which, by the way, has expired, ladies and gentlemen. The Gang of 14 deal has expired now.
All of these issues strike a nerve with Conservatives. McCain-Feingold for silencing political speech of the individual by limiting political contributions, while leaving the door wide open to 527 organizations such as MoveOn.org and labor union funded Political Action Committees (PACs). McCain-Kennedy for its amnesty provisions that reward criminal behavior, McCain-Lieberman for its punitive aspects in the name of radical environmentalism, and McCain-Kennedy-Edwards for rewarding trial lawyers such as John Edwards himself while penalizing doctors, hospitals, and tobacco companies without regard to the impact on the economy, the health care of regular Americans, and jobs.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards profits plaintiffs and trial lawyers at the expense of jobs and more importantly higher medical bills. It seems rather ironic that John Edwards himself is out on the campaign trail decrying the plight of the poor and their lack of health insurance when it is he who is partially responsible for the rise in health care costs. So the next time you hear John Edwards speak about universal health care remember that the current problem is HIS fault along with McCain and Teddy "The Lush" Kennedy.
Read the entire thing (link)
McCain doesn't handle criticism at all. In fact, he's a lot like Clinton in that he takes criticism of his record as a personal attack on him.
McCain-Feingold is an amazing law; basically, McCain was so ticked at being the victim of negative ads that he worked to change the constitutional protection of free speech because he lost votes in a campaign. Incredible.
That's kind of where the whole story begins and ends, for me. That people don't ignore his candidacy right off the bat surprises me; that he may be our nominee is all the evidence one needs for the need for closed primaries.
He never has repudiated that bill. Solly cholly.
Michelle Malkin has GREAT news on her website poll from Friday.
Which GOP ticket do you like better?
Selection
Votes
McCain/Huckabee 4% 216
Huckabee/McCain 2% 122
Romney/Thompson 33% 1,906
Thompson/Romney 55% 3,159
Ugh. None of them. 6% 374
5,777 votes total
~~~
You can still vote... pass it on.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/11/a-tale-of-two-possible-gop-ticket-pairings/
McCain-Thompson. That’s the ticket.
Better hope for a Romney win in Michigan, or else McCain will become a serious frontrunner.
McCain is way beyond McCain Feingold. How about the Amnesty that cost the Republicans their majority. Between Bush and McCain in 2006, they ruined the Republican party. The one good thing McCain says he will veto ANY bill with an earmark. I love that type fiscal restraint!
Romney/Thompson...that would get my vote.
Imagine a scenario where the world is on the brink of nuclear war, and the three big poker players in the game are McCain, Putin, and Ahmadinejad.
Billion dead, easy, before Ahmadinejad busts and opens up a seat at the poker table for Kim Jong Il.
We've got enough lunatics running the world already. Why add another?
SHow me the money honey, because he certainly DID NOT say that on Laura Ingraham’s show this past September.
You are more likely to get “McCain-Gore”. Didn’t you see McCain waving that “Stop Global Warming, save our seasons” sign {in New Hampshire}?
“Many on the right remain angry Mr. Thompson supported the campaign finance law sponsored by his friend, John McCain.
“There are problems with people giving politicians large sums of money and then asking them to pass legislation,” Mr. Thompson says.
Still, he notes he proposed the amendment to raise the $1,000 per person “hard money” federal contribution limit.
Conceding that McCain-Feingold hasn’t worked as intended, and is being riddled with new loopholes, he throws his hands open in exasperation.
“I’m not prepared to go there yet, but I wonder if we shouldn’t just take off the limits and have full disclosure with harsh penalties for not reporting everything on the Internet immediately.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/03/18/fred-thompson-on-taxes-mccain-feingold-iraq/
WHY?
Yes, and apparently he never arrived there, after saying “I’m not prepared to go there yet”. In Sept, months after this, he defneded the contribution limits and soft money regulations, but said “they” - meaning others - put in something he did not like - the issue ad regulations, but he voted for the whole thing anyway.
It was a dissembling at its finest.
Yeah, everything seems to piss him off. I don’t trust him with that power.
I wouldn’t even consider him, even if he was right on the issues. The man seems unstable.
You know what, we’ve seen McStain back the wrong policies and never admit fault. I can accept that Fred makes a mistake. He owns up to it and changes direction. That’s better than keeping the border wide open for eight years and figuratively flipping the public off all the while.
McCain needs to register in the party he continually wants to pass legislation for. If he’s going to promote the democrat action plan, then he should become one and let a bonified republican run for our party.
IMO he went through too much as a prisoner of war. Plus, he's up in years, and at his age, everyone I know is retired. He likes amnesty, which he won't admit, and he's obsessed with torture. Worst of all, he agrees with Ted Kennedy on many issues.
How many more Republican politicians would you like to change sides? Keep that up, and the Republicans will never be the majority again.
“McCain is basically a Democrat on every issue except foreign policy and the war.”
Pretty much sums John McCain other than to add that he is crazy too.
No RINOs.
Wrong. I heard him say that he wished he never supported the bill.
Quote please.
So what we end up with is two democrat parties. So what’s the use? If I wanted to vote for a democrat I’d become a democrat.
In 2000, I predicted that it was a real possibility that Bush would essentially kill conservatism as we know it. And sadly, that’s what has taken place.
Folks would rather vote in a democrat running from our party than stick to wholesome principles. This is a really sad day in our nation.
I went to Houston tonight to a meeting where Tom DeLay was the speaker. He doens’t agree with McCain on ANYTHING! I wish we could have Tom on the ticket. But he is too smart to run for President.
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