Posted on 02/24/2008 5:13:20 AM PST by Nextrush
Richard Nixon gave us all kinds of new government programs and agencies like the EPA, started diplomacy with Communist China that's led to today's geopolitical situation, started detente with the Soviets that meant nothing until Ronald Reagan changed policy and cut the infamous and meaningless Paris Peace Accords with Vietnam's Communists.
Nixon's foreign policy chief, Henry Kissinger, now endorses John McCain for president.
Nixon was not a great conservative. But he was a victim of the liberal media and his own efforts to cover up the Watergate break-in.
And Nixon, the moderate RINO he was by today's standards, knew he had to have conservative support for his administration as he pursued a more liberal agenda.
Nixon chose to wage a conflict with the nation's news media.
He did it through surrogates since it was his desire not to appear too conservative in public, but to get the conservatives on his side.
Vice-President Spriro Agnew spoke out against bias in the news media in 1969. His famous "nattering nabobs of negativity" speech connected with conservatives everywhere.
Agnew became a pariah in media circles and faced criticism with the White House actually trying to distance Nixon from the comments at the time.
Through surrogates, the Nixon White House tried to use the Fairness Doctrine as a tool against its liberal media enemies, with only limited success.
Some 20 years later moderate GOP stalwart George H.W. Bush got into an on air dispute with Dan Rather during a live interview. Rather was accusing Bush of wrongdoing with his questions about "Iran-Contra." Conservatives were angered by what they saw then and that helped Bush get the reputation as one who would follow in Reagan's footsteps.
And Bush's comment at the end with the mike still on: "The bastard didn't lay a glove on me" was a sure winner with conservatives.
In more recent times we've had the Bush-Cheney interchange on "New York Times" reporter Adam Clymer where current President George W. Bush called him a "major-league a******e."
The liberal media and its bias can be exploited by GOP moderates to anger conservatives and support their more liberal agendas.
And so this tiff last week with the "Times" and John McCain.
Based on my previous experiences with all the above, I feel no need to rush to McCain's side.
But I do take note of this typical liberal media hit-job and it should remind us that the media has an agenda.
But so does the GOP political establishment.
That's to use media hatred to cover everything from the closing of Gitmo to amnesty for illegals, etc. that we could be facing from a McCain Administration.
They want us more angry at the media than upset with all the liberal agendas McCain is behind, including the false notion of "global warming."
Use your mind, don't let emotions cause you to blindly support McCain.
Don't let the GOP Establishment manipulate you into supporting McCain with this issue?
Challenge McCain, don't endorse him.
Has McLame announced price freezes yet?
Don’t give him any ideas, let Obama and Clinton do that one.
“Use your mind, don’t let emotions cause you to blindly support McCain.’
Therefore withhold your vote and let THE most liberal Senator capture POTUS? The race is over for ‘Pub nominee and we lost. Stop the whining. Letting Obama win the presidency has the real potential to be life threatening. Instead of abandoning the party perhaps we can collectively use our power to influence McCain. This is not optimal but it’s our best option at this point. Live with it.
I’m urging people to think and not be swayed by their hatred of the liberal media into tolerating “moderate” liberal policies that would come from John McCain.
The GOP establishment wants us to be silent right now, but I won’t.
Vote against McCain every time you can in the primaries to come.
Send McCain a message.
Frankly, McCain doesn’t need our support.
Older white voters and Jewish voters (McCain Democrats) will come running to McCain if Obama is the nominee.
McCain will clean Obama’s clock without our support like any moderate GOP type would (Arlen Specter wins without conservatives in PA).
Its just that the party insiders want to create a unity picture in the GOP that I refuse to submit to at this point.
I will not support an open borders, climate change, gun grabbing idiot, I have done so for the last time, period.
“I will not support an open borders, climate change, gun grabbing idiot, I have done so for the last time, period.’
Enjoy President B. Hussein Obama.
They want us more angry at the media than upset with all the liberal agendas McCain is behind, including the false notion of "global warming."
Use your mind, don't let emotions cause you to blindly support McCain.
That is the pattern that the Globalists and Socialists always use to disguise their attack against humanity. The current set of filthy politicians are just pawns of the global social conspiracy.
The Globalist goal is to reestablish a system of special privileges and "Royal" status by controlling all the money, property and power. A system where 2% of the people control 98% of the money is fine with them. This is why they are flooding the country with third world peasants who are more accepting of such a system.
The Socialist's ideas are similar. Their goal is to establish a system where the masses are controlled by government programs and handouts in a system where illiterate peons are so totally focused on the collection of benefits that they are oblivious to the fact that a few privileged live extravagant lifestyles and are immune to the common law. This is why they are destroying our educational system and importing Third World peasants in search of for government aid.
Do not be confused by the smoke screen of "Hate & Hell." These evil oppressors are working hand in hand to over throw the world's governments and to reestablish a ruling order similar to a confederation of Monarchs. The times are changing, and the tide has turned away from individual liberty and freedom. Is this just another swing in the historical cycle of civilizations or is this the fulfillment of the final prophesies? Time will eventually reveal itself, but for now, the pattern fits both.
“McCain will clean Obama’s clock without our support like any moderate GOP type would (Arlen Specter wins without conservatives in PA).”
Time will tell. The alternative has the potential to be disastrous. I’m almost as PO’d as others here that McCain is the ‘Pub nominee but who’s fault is that? Us conservatives need to take part of the blame.
Now that the media has selected the Republican candidate, how much of a chance does he stand against Obama or Hillary?
I see the media destroying him early, than Obama sliding straight into the White House to begin further dismantling of the great foundations of this country.
What happened to the true conservatives in this once great party?
I tell you what I will enjoy, that is voting for the candidate I want, not the candidate the RNC, and other repulbican rinos, want. I will not compromise my principles simply because McCain is a registered republican. If we simply vote for the one the RNC picks for us we will never again have a conservative President, they will simply keep putting in candidates who are more and more to the left, simply to win as many votes as they can and to hell with what it does to the country. Obama is an idiot, but if he gets elected he will soon crash of his own weight, the republican party will come to its senses and realize, once again, they can't win elections without the conservative vote.
Vote for McCain, it is the same as voting for either Barrack or Hillary, they all have the same positions on 90 percent of the issues, I choose not to vote for a left wing communists, and that includes McCain.
I respect your opinion and I hope your crystal ball is clear. An Obama presidency has the possibility to “crash him of his own weight” but it also has the possibility to do long term harm to our country especially with respect to foreign policy and the war on terror. I prefer to not take that chance.
I don’t a crystal ball, what I do have are beliefs and principles. I will vote those and not be told or coerced into voting for someone simply because the RNC and the other Republican Rinos dictate it. I will vote conservative, lacking one to vote for in the Republican party, I will vote 3rd party if one is available or write in one of my choice. Duncan Hunter would be one of my choices for write in. Wasted vote you say? BS, a vote used for what a person believes in is never wasted. According to the elites of the republican party and a bunch of fools who hang out on FR trying to undermine conservatism, we should not worry about the politics of the nominee just simply vote for who is nominated, regardless if the nomination was actually legitimate or not. I don’t consider open primaries to be a legitimate nomination tool. Republicans don’t need Democrats and Independants picking their candidates. If we had one big primary with only republicans voting, McCain would not be the nominee. I won’t vote for the man, he doesn’t believe in the same things I do, he doesn’t stand by the constitution, he won’t appoint conservative Justices and he will push for amnesty. He is a socialist(read communist) and I refuse to vote for him.
I agree with you about Duncan. I donated to his candidacy. I also agree that the nomination process is flawed and stacked against conservatives. However if you think McCain’s Supreme Court appointees would be bad what do think Obama has in store? That’s one example where he can do long term damage to the country. Obama could make Jimmy Carter look like a right winger.
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