Posted on 02/15/2008 7:44:27 AM PST by old school
(1) Ford was a supporter of Nixon's price controls - perhaps the most dramatically socialist policy ever held by a GOP canddiate.
(2) Ford was a champion of abortion on demand, enthusiastically supporting all forms of abortion as President as well as helping found Republicans For Choice.
McCain, to my knowledge, has never supported neo-Soviet price controls on goods, nor does he support abortion on demand.
"There is no Communist domination of Poland, and there will not be under a Ford Administration."
John Paul Stevens.
LOL so true!
Your tagline makes me :)
http://webnewsroom.blogspot.com/2008/02/mccains-far-left-funding-receiving.html
Guess who’s been funding John McCain?
Since 2001, the year President Bush took office, Senator McCain’s Reform Institute has received funding from the Far Left billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Institute. Soros once compared President Bush to the Nazis. McCain’s organization has also received funding from Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Tides Foundation. In 2004, McCain seriously considered becoming John Kerry’s running mate.
In July 2001, the Reform Institute listed Senator McCain as the chairman of its advisory committee. Several staffers on his 2000 Presidential campaign found jobs at the Institute before rejoining McCain for his 2008 campaign. Also on the advisory committee of the Reform Institute since its birth in 2001 is the ultraliberal writer and website operator Ariana Huffington of Huffington Post.
Soros has also funded the Far Left character assassination websites MoveOn.org (which ran an ad contest for ads to oppose President Bush and posted two on its website that called the President a Nazi), Media Matters for America (also funded by a large grant from the Clintons), and other such organizations. He was a large contributor to Senator John Edwards. MoveOn.org has accused American Jews of having dual loyalties.
One of the directors of Soros’s Open Society Institute is Morton Halperin, a leftist formerly associated with the Institute for Policy Studies, an organization the U.S. government officially identified as a Communist front.
Why is a Republican Senator and Presidential candidate accepting funding from a hate-mongering, anti-American smear merchant like Soros?
Soros likes to throw the charge of being a Nazi at his opponents and likes to describe himself as a Holocaust survivor. But he admitted in his book that as a 14-year-old boy he went around in occupied Hungary fingering the local Jews for the Nazi occupiers. In other words, he is by his own admission a Nazi collaborator. As David Horowitz and Richard Poe wrote in their book The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, Soros “survived [the Holocaust] by assimilating to Nazism.”
Soros was also an associate of the late Francois Genoud, who met with the Grand Mufti on direct instructions of Hitler and who was the keeper of the Nazi fortune after World War II.
If we can expel little people like John Demjanjuk from our country for their forced service in the armed forces of the Nazis, why can’t we denaturalize Soros for his willing service to them and send him back where he came from?
McCain should be ashamed of this funding. Although he has severed his formal connections with the Reform Institute, he should publicly condemn Soros and formally call on the Reform Institute to return the money. It is about the most tainted money you can get.
http://webnewsroom.blogspot.com/2008/02/real-mccain-john-mccains-long-liberal.html
While I respect and admire Sen. John McCain’s military career, I wouldn’t vote for him if voting were mandatory and his name were the only one on the ballot.
He votes like a Democrat on all the critical issues.
“Hi, I’m John McCain. I’m not a Republican, but I play one on TV.”
He opposed the Bush tax cuts, voted against them twice, not (as he now claims) because there were no spending cuts attached, but on the same class warfare grounds that the Democrats use. (The Congressional Record establishes this clearly.)
He co-wrote and co-sponsored the worst restriction on free speech in this country since the Alien and Sedition Acts.
He said publicly he would not appoint judges like Alito. (Remember, it was Republicans who gave us Stevens and Souter and earlier, Blackmun, Warren, Brennan, and the like.)
He is co-sponsoring a bogus “global warming” bill that would shut down American industry.
He co-sponsored amnesty. Even though he says he’s never supported amnesty, a search of the Congressional Record shows that he was explicitly for amnesty back when it was still called amnesty.
He’s for closing Guantanamo and bringing the terrorists into our country.
He flat-out lied about Romney supporting timetables. Romney said he would veto timetables.
Then, of course, there is the Keating Five. McCain is a person of low character and can’t be trusted. Why would anyone support him?
He’s unacceptable and would destroy what’s left of conservatism and of the GOP (not that I care all that much about the latter.)
He may not support price-controls(no proof yet), but he will and did support federal funding of human embryo research, so instead of aborting one child he supported killing millions of unborn children at a time. That smacks of hypocrisy if you ask me.
And you know this how, exactly?
That does not change the fact that Ford was the bloodthirstiest pro-abort the GOP ever ran for president, yet Reagan supported him.
Again, McCain is an unattractive nominee, but Ford was an out-and-out left wing radical by today's GOP standards.
Ford was to the left of Bill Clinton on abortion and on welfare.
Notice I did not put a period after will. I will assume, just like me sometimes, you missed the comma and lack of a period.
McCain is a perfect example of today's "Republican". He is also nobody's conservative. What this primary cycle should have taught us is that there is now a clear and distinct difference between the two.
Agreed. For conservatives to reward the man who has at every turn tried to undermine what they stand and believe in is the ultimate in self-abasement. For the last twenty-four years, McCain has hung a "kick me" sign on conservatives' backs (figuratively speaking), and the only thing he deserves from them is an unlubed two-by-four up his ample tookus.
While I respect astute politics, I hold in greater esteem self-respect and adherence to one's principles. To cast a vote for John McCain would be self-betrayal. Only a man who holds his values cheap or has none to begin with can continue to do that over and over and over again.
In short, I will NEVER vote for John McCain.
JFK certainly talked tougher than Ike. Of course, he agreed to remove American assets from Turkey as a trade for the USSR removing nukes from Cuba. A real sissy move.
Both Ike and Johnson sat idly by while the Soviets crushed democratic movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Nixon and Ford folded on Vietnam. Carter went cap in hand to the Soviets and let iran run roughshod over the US.
Truman didn't put up with all the garbage he inherited from FDR (he insisted that East Austria be relinquished by its Soviet occupiers), nor did Reagan - who started out as a Truman Democrat who was unimpressed with Stevenson.
I’d revise it. “Thall shalt not speak ill of a fellow conservative.”
Reagan signed the 86 amnesty into law.
Yes, Reagan signed an amnesty bill and his VP George Bush enthusiastically endorsed it. Hispanics rewarded Bush by voting 70-30 for Dukakis over him.
McCain will lose the Hispanic vote this November to Obama or Hillary.
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