Posted on 02/04/2008 5:07:07 PM PST by neverdem
Seems like it...
McCain is better than the Dems (which isn’t saying much), but let’s not forget we haven’t had the primaries yet. It’s not too late.
McCain is also the senator that liberal Democrats come to when they want a senator from the Republican side of the aisle. For instance: McCain/Feingold (limits free speech); McCain/Kennedy (amnesty); McCain/Lieberman (50 cents per gallon gas tax increase).
Senator McCain would weaken us in fighting the WOT, as border security is national security. He doesn’t want to interrogate terrorists who would kill our soldiers, and thre rest of us. McCain calls waterboarding torture, even though our own soldiers have had it done to them.
McCain wants to close Gitmo, and bring the terrorists here, and then the aclu would protect them.
No thanks.
When pressed to answer a question about illegal immigrants in his home state, Sen. McCain refuses to answer, while his supporters tell a woman who wants him to answer the question to shut up and she is thrown out of the town hall meeting. See the video here:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1073039/dont_ask_mccain/
McCain’s voting record:
Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006)
Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006)
Voted YES on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship. (May 2006)
Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work. (Jul 1998)
Supports federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. (May 2007)
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
Voted NO on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech not a shield for hate groups. (Aug 1999)
NAFTA has had unambiguously positive impact on US. (Mar 1999)
Pro-NAFTA, pro-GATT, pro-MFN, pro-Fast Track. (Jul 1998)
Voted YES on implementing CAFTA for Central America free-trade. (Jul 2005)
Rated 100% by CATO, indicating a pro-free trade voting record. (Dec 2002)
Supports ban on certain assault weapons. (Aug 1999)
Guns are a problem, but so are violent web sites & videos. (Aug 1999)
Punish criminals who abuse 2nd Amendment rights. (May 1999)
Voted YES on more penalties for gun & drug violations. (May 1999)
Voted YES on reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act. (Mar 2006)
Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act’s wiretap provision. (Dec 2005)
When we had excise taxes on imported goods, American industry thrived. We got addicted to relatively cheap foreign oil and gas. With a barrel of oil now pushing $100, that's undermining the value of a dollar and financial independence.
I am a conservative first and a Republican because they have tended to be conservative. But I will not vote for McCain if he is GOP nominee. John McCain does not fit the bill. So, if he or a Dem wins. So be it.My message to the party is DON’T NOMINATE ANOTHER MCCAIN!
If this country is so stupid to go with McCain, I want a democrat. Our soldiers don’t need to fight over there, while we give away our borders, and everything else the liberals stand for. GET THEM OUT!!!! WE DON”T DESERVE THEIR PROTECTION. THEY DON”T NEED TO BE WOUNDED OR KILLED TO PROTECT SOCIALISM. GET THEM OUT NOW.
GO OBAMA. I will enjoy watching your socialist ideas get distroyed.
“McCain Appeal - A far superior choice to the Democratic alternatives.”
FAR superior? FAR?????
I’d have gone with “slightly” it’s a lot easier lie to pull off.
They voted for Huckabee.
Only in comparison. Which in reality means very little to the end result.
Enough of his military service. The Presidency is not an award for something done 40 years ago. It is what he has done since being in congress that should be considered.
Damn few people don't appear more virtuous than Billary. Not much of a yardstick for judgment. On that basis I should be in the running myself.
More boogey man tactics. sheesh
Not to mention maybe bringing back the fairness doctrine and I would be surprised if they try to shut down this site!
Wouldn't McCain have been court-marshalled if he had violated the rules by allowing himself to be released before his comrades in arms?
And doesn't this guy have anything more recent to prove McCain's character? I mean, if you are a man of character and principle, shouldn't there be some evidence of it a little more recent than the 1960s? How about how he stood up to the Savings and Loan people when they started offering money to cover up for their crimes? Oh wait, he took that money -- the only republican to do so. But he showed character by owning up to his mistake -- oh wait, his response was to claim that everybody did it, they were all corrupt, but that he was so much better because he was willing to admit it.
Still personal freedom comes from economic choice, not forced economic directive.
Some do well with this scenario and some do not so well, but it's still freedom.
How are we doing well buying about 60% of our oil overseas at almost $100 a barrel supporting many unfriendly governments and weakening our currency?
Oil is the cheapest form of energy we have less nuclear power.
Already, even Minnesota "land of 10,000 lakes" is reported as having possible conserns with water usage because of ethanol production for it takes at least 2 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of ethanol fuel.
We aren't doing well by oil usage, not because we are dependent but because we are strapped by bureaucrat's stifling personal freedom by "dictating" via directive to not allowing us to use our own resources available to obtain safe and secure energy.
Windmills "ain't" going to cut it, we have the technology even superior to French technology to use nuclear energy and the available oil domestically to shame those who we buy it from.
It's that d@mn directive word that gets in the way every time. ; )
Do you have a source for that statement? Subsidized corn derived ethanol is a waste.
I heard it on the top of the hour news broadcast on KTLK in Minneapolis however I searched and couldn't get a "paper" reference.
It wasn't an editorial however it had a reference to a government study but I was in traffic and didn't catch the source.
I will never vote for a Liberal.
May as well sell my soul to the devil.
Not going to do it.
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