Posted on 05/16/2008 9:30:45 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
When American voters think of the term "maverick," they often think of Senator John McCain because McCain has spent decades associating himself with that term. To some degree, McCain is right to call himself a "maverick," having independently departed the company of both his party and his constituents on many issues over the years.
The fact is, not so long ago every Republican was a "maverick," an independent thinker prone to placing the long-term interests of freedom and liberty far ahead of partisan politics aimed at only serving the party interests at the expense of national interests.
Every Republican should be a maverick, bucking an overtly corrupt system and representing the true will of the American majority which still believes in an "unalienable" right to life, individual liberty and the economic freedom to define and pursue individual happiness without fear of government intrusion or penalty.
Instead, too many Republicans have sold out the basic party principles of individual freedom and liberty for the same greater communal good offered by Democratic Socialists and as a result, Republicans find themselves in a free-fall from power, losing election after election to Democrat candidates smart enough to run to the right of Republicans on the issues, even though they will caucus with Democrats after the election.
The wrong kind of maverick
John McCain has indeed been a maverick in the Senate. But he has been the wrong kind of maverick.
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
Maverick = Backstabber
JB Williams, you are full of it. And stop sending that GOP spam to my e-mail box!!!
I'm not interested anymore.
The term was positive in the good old days.
“John McCain has indeed been a maverick in the Senate. But he has been the wrong kind of maverick.”
I prefer thinking of James Garner or Mel Gibson...
If the definition of conservaive isn’t based upon the notion of “conserving” certain values and principles, what is it based on genius?
The GOP is basically finished. It was killed by worthless sellout politicians who are totally owned by special interest groups and the Mexican government. They serve no purpose but their own enrichment. Screw them all. I’ll spit in their faces if they ever show up on my property.
Perhaps we need to get real here!
Do you really believe the the whole USA will vote a 100% Conversative to the Presidency?
I don’t think so!
A conservative candidate will need to move leftward a bit as necessary to pick up the independent, disgruntled democrats, and the like votes to make it.
I would think it is quite possible he will move rightward a bit once he is elected. After all, his Senate record shows a 70% plus conservative voting. Of course, I worry about some of his lefty votes are like lightnings from a nice blue sky!
The pick of his cabinet will be the key. We need to make certain that a sufficient number of OUR conversative people are selected to fill the spots plus conversative advisors.
Your thoughts?
John McCain said he will have democrats in his administration. How’d Norman Maneta work out for us?
Like it or not, (and I don't), we have some 20 million or so illegal migrants living and working in America today, and more on the way.
Democrats, including Obama and Clinton, see no need for borders at all because they oppose the very concept of national sovereignty to begin with. They are global community socialists, plain and simple. Under their administration, all of them will be rubber stamped, just as Clinton did twice during his term, and 20 million will become 60 million within 24 months, all of them with voting rights and a DNC membership.
These 20 million illegal aliens fill some 10 million or so low end unskilled jobs that must be done in every nation. We only have about 6 million legal Americans currently on unemployment, most of them unemployable. So who is going to fill those 10 million jobs?
Some form of amnesty for those already here and some reform in the system that allows others to come WILL happen no matter who is elected. If Obama or Clinton are elected, the borders will be completely erased. McCain will pass some form sooner or later, but it is not likely to be a form that eliminated national sovereignty.
McCain knows this... even though many conservatives pretend that there is some other viable solution. So, he tries to advance a plan less damaging than that of the Democrats.
This issue will lose him some ill-informed conservative votes, but yes, it will gain him many moderate votes, which will allow him to stop Democrats from erasing the borders entirely.
Just how I see it...
He will move right on some things after the election, and remain left on others. His recent move on the Global Warming Scam is nothing more than vote pandering. He is not Al Gore...
You will enjoy a president far left of McCain then.
The pick of his cabinet will be the key. We need to make certain that a sufficient number of OUR conversative people are selected to fill the spots plus conversative advisors.
Support along those lines ought to give anybody to the left of Atilla the Hun second thoughts about actually voting for Senator McCain in November.
When American voters think of the term “maverick,” they often think of Senator John McCain because McCain has spent decades stabbing his party in the back.
I'm certain that this is true, as he is really across the aisle only about 30% of the time.
And I also believe the Obama or Clinton could do irreparable damage.
Yep...
Do you prefer to see it coming from the front in spades?
I do prefer to see it coming.
Then vote for Obama. You will be left completely defenseless on 110% of your issues, but at least you will see it coming.
Senator McCain has supported President Bush’s war policies 100%. McCain makes a totally bogus argument in styling himself a so-called “maverick” regarding foreign policy. It is surprising that the press has let McCain get away with his “maverick” b.s. for so long.
Obambi was still in diapers when all of those tough choices were made. So he's the only one who can claim to have opposed those decision, albeit unofficially, since he was in diapers when they were made.
“You will enjoy a president far left of McCain then.”
The GOP ‘leadership’ is leading the charge on exactly that right now. Its time to push the reset button on the GOP.
Idiot’s tried that in 1992 and 1996. Ross Perot was the “reset button” of the 90’s and eight years of Bill Clinton was the result.
In 2006, idiot’s thought they would hit the “reset button” again by removing Republicans from office and placing Democrats back in charge.
Since then, in just one year. Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember, it’s Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what’s handed to him.
Quote of the Day........’My friends, we live in the greatest nation
in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try
to change it.’ — Barack Obama
Part 2
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these
statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above
think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest
President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they
will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that
fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen. This is
like the movie, The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
some money and they don’t even know what happened.
PART 3
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:
Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda
that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of
reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of all
the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to
illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for
the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for
Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem
in the US.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal
aliens that crossed our Southern Border; also, as many as 19,500
illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of
drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S
from the Southern border.
Verify at:
Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost
of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an
average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year
period.’
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin.
Verify at:
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.’
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
If this doesn’t bother you then just delete the message.
If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck,
I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every
representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long
as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our
policies and enforcement thereof.
April 15, 2008 has just passed. I hope you paid your taxes !
( Millions of illegal aliens depend upon you ! )
When idiot’s hit the “reset button” again in 2008, Muslim Racist Radical Socialist Barack Obama will become the first half-black all-anti-white and anti-American president of the United States.
The borders will be erased completely, 20 million illegal aliens will be rubber stamped, given voting rights and membership in the DNC, along with 40 million of their family members currently living in Mexico.
The war on terror will be moved from the central front in Iraq to main street USA, which will look more like the Gaza Strip than Broadway and 5th by the mid-term elections in 2010, when Democratic Socialists will outnumber Americans by more than 3 to 1.
The top tax rates will return to the 95% of earnings set by Democrats in the past and reversed by Reagan. But only for “rich folks” like you, making more than $30,000 per year.
The dollar will be replaced by the Amero because the dollar will be worth less than a peso. Jimmy Carter era gas lines will return, even though gasoline will be more than $6.00 a gallon.
I can keep going, but you will never get it, will you....
By all means, hit that “reset button” one last time!
bump—
Not really. McCain has been deeply dedicated to "solving" Glowbull Warming for quite some time. Algore should be green with envy to have such a substantive record.
McCain planning climate change tour
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT
EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events
McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation
Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."
New tag Line
My New Name will be Voter#00000000000000
I’ll ignore your insulting tone and name calling.
The list of changes at the bottom of your post are going to happen with the current GOP because half of the current GOP is actually pushing for those things. That’s the half that needs to be reset.
And McCain has had his eye’s set on the Oval Office for how many years?
Gore should practice what he preaches.... or better yet, shut up and die.
Simply not so, but continuing to spread that set of lies will give you what you want, the entire list under Obama.
I just wish you would stop pretending to be conservative and tell people the truth. You are for Obama.
I guess you do have to play to your base. /s
He was snubbed when he lost to Bush in 2000. That was eight years ago. He has wanted to be president since long before that. So yeah, he's been pandering to the middle for a very long time.
That's not so much a rebuttal as it is a fact.
(scratching my head) OK. : )
“I just wish you would stop pretending to be conservative and tell people the truth. You are for Obama.”
You couldn’t possibly make a more deranged comment.
A more accurate comment, you mean...?
One of three people will be president for the next four years.
It doesn’t look like it’s going to be Hillary Clinton, who is pretty well finished in the DNC nomination process.
That leaves Obama or McCain, and since you are dead set against McCain, that leaves ONLY Obama. You are therefore, supporting Obama, even if by default, just as Ross Perot supporters assisted in the election of Bill Clinton, twice.
You are supporting Obama. I can’t help that you are too foolish to know it or too scared to admit it.
I never said I was dead set against McCain. In fact, I never mentioned him at all. I commented on the GOP and our so called Republicans in Washington DC. Nor did I say I supported voting for a 3rd party candidate (a la Ross Perot), but you assumed that’s what I meant. The bottom line here is you completely misunderstood my comments and read things into them that aren’t there.
Furthermore, your political syllogism that alleges that I automatically support Obama by dint of my criticism of the GOP is ridiculous on the face of it. I don’t support some of McCains positions, but that doesn’t mean I DO support Obama’s positions on those issues. That’s a completely false conclusion and it cannot be derived from any of my statements.
I will vote for McCain (I never said I wouldn’t) because he’s certainly far better than Obama or any other neo-socialist on the Left, but I do take issue with some of his positions.
You need basic training in logic and critical thinking skills. But I’m happy to continue educating you if you insist on showing the need for it.
Sounds a bit like...
"Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment’s respite, deserve only the end of a rope... America’s historic misfortune is that her people have seldom been equal to the ideals upon which their nation was established. "— L. Neil Smith, The American Zone (2001)
And I agree whole heartedly...
*List borrowed from FReeper SoConPubbie. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2012279/posts?page=92
You need training in honesty 101. You seem well versed in “liberal nuance 101.”
Why don’t you say what you mean?
Your comments have been 1000% anti-GOP. Where are your anti-DNC or anti-Obama statements?
You take aim only at the GOP and think anyone will interpret that position as pro-GOP?
Be direct and specific, stop hiding behind childish rhetoric. Now that you have whined about the GOP, what are your intentions? To beat up the GOP and drive other voters away from the party, while you intend to step into to booth and vote for the GOP? Are you just parroting others to sound conservative?
Or, you support Obama and spend all your time attacking his opponents while hoping to convince others that you oppose the only guy you are NOT attacking?
You have nothing to teach navy... but much to learn. You sound like other liberals who think they are “supporting the troops” by undermining their every mission.
You are “supporting McCain” by undermining his campaign?
You are fool or fraud. Which is it?
Your interpretation of my comments is completely irrelevant to me.
The rest of your post is semi-literate drivel, demonstrating your continued reading comprehension problem.
If you want to have a pissing war take it to private mail and I’ll happily skewer your ignorant posts line my line. Otherwise, if you have any self respect, let it go.
If you can skewer my assertions, by all means, do it publicly, where you started this battle.
Of course, working to undermine anything can never be described as a means of supporting that thing.
So, good luck! I'm sick and tired of blow-hards undermining the very causes they pretend to support and hiding beneath the guise of honorable dissent.
There will be no honor in seating Barack Obama in the Oval Office, none... And anyone who helps that cause will have no honor either.
Good day!
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