I guess Cato missed the proposed 50 cent per gallon global whoring tax McCain wants to slap on us...
“He is well known as an opponent of earmarks and pork barrel spending”
Yet did vote for it everytime in the last 10 years.
Stop right there. Of actual Republicans that voted in the Florida Republican primary, Romney got more votes than McCain.
Face it, John McCain is the clear front runner of Democrats and Independents voting in Republican primaries. But if you only count actual Republicans, McCain has yet to win a single primary.
The clear front runner? The last I looked McCain had 97 delegates to Romney's 92. It's only over if Republican voters do what the MSM tells them to. The author does however make some good points about McCain's attacks on the First Amendment, which have been relentless over the years.
If I wasn't’t determined to vote for Obama to STOP Hillary
on Super Tuesday, I’d consider McCain after listening to Ziegler.
But... Stop Hillary, I must.
Link to listen: Is McCain the FAKE Manchurian Candidate?
http://www.1260.am/programming/hosts/bios/?host=26
I will not vote for John McCain.
Appears to have? Any time you hear someone use the word 'appears', you know that it was probably a liberal who used it. I hate it when I hear people make statements based upon emotional perception rather than fact. The truth of the matter is:
There, Cato. That's how a rational, objective conservative does it.
This Conservative will not vote for that sonofabitch if he is the GOP nominee. Clinton-McCain is not a race — it is a ticket, and I will not surrender my party to a virtual Democrat like John McCain. McCain has sabotaged our party and our issues too many times to count. The only thing worse than Hillary beating McCain would be for McCain to beat Hillary, because a McCain presidency would destroy the Republican Party’s essence as a party of principles and ideas. It would be better for us to spend four years in the wilderness to rediscover our Conservative roots. I will vote for Mitt Romney on Tuesday.
Good article — thanks for posting it.
I’ve abandoned political relativism, so a candidate has to meet an absolute threshhold in several areas to earn my vote. While McCain has a strong fiscal conservative record in some areas, he (like Romney and Huck) are big-government statists when it comes to government intrusion and individual liberty. Big government statists do not meet the threshhold required to earn my vote.
I’m voting for Thompson (not that it’s likely to matter, since I’m in PA and my primary isn’t until March, I think).
Comrads, I think that pretty well covers it.
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The ugly: McCain is NUTS!
Another group of non-conservatives (libertarians) who just don’t get the fact that John McCain has been operating as a fifth column, within the Republican party for the express purpose of marginalizing the grass roots conservatives and President Bush. Yes, McCain is mouthing the right words, now, but he has not explained or apologized for his previous actions, like blocking the rule change which would have enabled the appointment of conservative judges.
When McCain admits that his actions were vindictive and apologizes, maybe I will consider voting for him.
From a poster at Blackfive Blog: Do you have any idea what this man has done to stonewall, deter and in some cases deny POW/MIA families access to documents that could hold answers to the fate of their loved ones? I think McCain has long out-played his “I’m a former POW” card.
Have you taken the time to read the transcripts from the 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs and read firsthand how he insulted, interrupted and impeded testimony from those that did not agree with his position on the issue? He brought the sister of a missing USAF pilot to tears during the hearings. He has ignored families asking him for help and even yelled at them in the halls of the Senate, and much more.
Here is a link to the official record of that committee: Scroll down and click on the hearings link. It is all there in black and white.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/pow/senate_house/investigation_S.html
He has gutted legislation that POW/MIA Families fought like hell for so that future generations of military families would not have to endure what they had to (That meant your family, Jim) - McCain saw to it that those bills were rewritten to be barely worth the paper they were written on.
Google the Missing Service Personnel Act and read how McCain took the teeth out of this legislation as well as The Truth Bill which later became known as The McCain Bill after he tore it apart. The families wanted the decision regarding a potential captive/MIA American soldier made by the commanders on the ground, McCain saw to it that it got filtered through the politicos in DC and lost time in the process.
You may also want to google the name Carol Hrdlicka and her husband David Hrdlicka. He was photographed in captivity, was made to make audio recordings and had a live sighting in the early 1980’s. He was obviously never returned at Operation Homecoming like McCain, the son and grandson of two high ranking Naval Officers. Do you remember the CCR song, Fortunate Son?
I could explain all of this to you but I want you to find the evidence yourself and make your own decision.
One final thought - if POW/MIA Families don’t support John McCain - What does that say about John McCain? It is the measure of the man, Jim. It’s the measure of the man.
Posted by: POW Warrior