King Him ( Peter King of NY for V.P.? )

National Review Online ^ | May 24, 2008 | John J. Miller

[kellynla]

I recently asked a prominent House Republican who should be McCain's running mate. His answer, without a moment of hesitation: Rep. Pete King of NY. The idea is that the election will hinge on Midwestern Catholic blue-collar voters of the type who reject Obama, are willing to vote for Hillary, and are of mixed mind about McCain. They'd love King, a 64-year-old pro-lifer who would connect with them far better than just about anybody else who is likely to end up on either ticket. He also supported McCain in 2000 and McCain values loyalty. So that's the theory. I'm not saying I'm for it or against it. But it was the most interesting veep suggestion I've heard in a while.

[kellynla]

Aside from the fact that we are fellow Tennesseans & U. of Memphis alumni; I like Fred Thompson but he looked reeeeeeeeel tired during his campaign. Like he had been rode hard & put away wet. One too many Jack Daniels I guess. LOL

I think we can forget about Fred returning to politics.

[supremedoctrine]

Excellent! I wouldn’t have thought of him, and the only apparent reason he didn’t come to mind is because the Press has been selling us Pawlenty, Romney, Huckabee, Crist.....Yet King is one of the few politicians I look forward to listening to when the camera and microphone swing to his way.His exposure over the last several years, especially since 9-11 has been steady and gradual in such a way to suggest he’s not some media creation (like Obama) who we’re meant to think is going somewhere.
He is PERFECT. He is a highly skilled politician with REAL principled stands, and best of all, he’s extremely articulate and may in fact be better than anyone in communicating with the press and knowing what to say in an interview. It’s the IDEAL choice, if McCain makes it!

[ditto h]

I like Peter King.

I am not voting for McCain, but think King is ok.

[Napoleon Solo]

So then just let your non-vote go to the side of Obamamania?

[moose2004]

I agree about NY, but King would be very effective in PA, OH and MI.

[BillyBoy]

RINO Peter King?! This is a joke, right? Surely the only "Congressman King" that would be considered for V.P. is an actual Republican like Steve King of Iowa.

HELL NO to Peter King. This is the SOB who worked his butt to try and save the Clinton's during impeachment, and gloated that he would get "at least 35-40 moderate Republicans" to oppose impeachment (he got a whooping four, which includes himself) How quickly freepers seem to forget that this is the guy that FR vowed to never vote for again , along with the likes of Specter, Chafee, and Jeffords (and we all know how those three turned out).

The fact Hillary Clinton is considered a viable candidate for President after her husband was disgraced and impeached can be directly pointed to scumbags like King coming on TV and decrying the GOP for a "partisan witchhunt about sex" and whitewashing the Clinton's real crimes.

If that weren't bad enough, King is also a shameless terrorist sympatherizer who is buddies with the IRA, a gun-grabber (gets D and D- ratings from not only the GOA, but also the more moderate NRA), and a notorious congressional porker who holds the government hostage til he gets his gravy train. He's also a political whore who loves whoever is "popular" at that moment in history. When Clinton had sky-high approval ratings, he came on TV and couldn't stop salavating over Clinton, when Bush had sky-high approval ratings, a bunch of gullible freepers heaped praise on King for kissing Dubya's butt, and when Bush's approval ratings dropped in 2006, he turned on Bush like a rabid dog and accused the CIA of corruption and engaging in "orgies". He was a McCainiac in 2000, and got in bed with the even more liberal Giuliani in 2008, and did hatchet pieces attacking Fred Thompson for Rudy. He earned a pathetic ACU rating of 68% last year (his lifetime score is consistantly under 80%), so for anyone who thinks McCain is too conservative and the GOP ticket needs to be nudged leftward, King is the man.

There is no way in HELL I will ever vote for that cocky RINO jerk Peter King. I can't even stand the thought of him being on TV for four years as our "Vice President", he's a B-w-w-w-a-n-e-y F-w-a-n-k sound alike. If it's a McCain/King ticket, McCain can win the election without my support. King's "treason" is far worse than anything Lindsey Graham or Mel Martinez ever did, and a quick look at their voting records will show that the latter two look like Jesse Helms next to King's medoicre slightly-right-of-center votes. King never votes anywhere near 90% conservative on his best days.

Yeah. King for veep. And let's have Connie Morella for Secretary of State while we're at it!

[BillyBoy]

>> maybe the anti-illegal alien, pro-life and/or Catholic vote throughout America... <<

I'm one anti-illegal alien, pro-life, Catholic voter who would rather get root canel work done than have to vote for Clinton-loving RINO Peter King.

There are many more like me across the U.S.

If McCain is hellbent on losing this election, we're know it if he picks Peter King. Talk about scrapping the bottom...

[BillyBoy]

Peter King & Barney Frank:
Seperated at Birth?

Peter King on the GOP's chances

Barney Frank on the GOP's chances

[Stentor]

Glad to see someone else draw the line on that guy. Good job preventing his treachery from disappearing down the memory hole.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Peter King who loves the IRA for GOP VP ? WTF ?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Fred may run for TN Governor in 2010.

[firebrand]

King is excellent on national security. Remember, he has to get reelected in his district, so he can’t vote 100% ACU. He is one of the two Republican New York congressmen south of Syracuse, so is trying to stay in office (the other is Fossella). I would suggest sending him $$ for his congressional run this year. (I was sick over the impreachment vote too.)

[Impy]

Not a good idea to leave another house seat open.

[BillyBoy]

>> King is excellent on national security. <<

Ah yes, the same Peter King who was instrumental in getting Clinton to a visa to Sein Fein (the political wing of the terrorist IRA) leader Gerry Adams and then personally meeting Adams as he landed in New York. King’s office worked hand-in-hand with Sinn Fein to allow them to fundraise in the U.S. as well as working tirelessly to set up Friends of Sinn Fein offices in the states. And that's not even bringing up King's "security" efforts overseas, like when he stayed with IRA supporters on visits to Northern Ireland and drank at a Belfast club called the Felons, whose members were all IRA ex-cons. Some were born in Ireland, such as Michael Flannery, Noraid's founder, who once said that "the more British soldiers sent home from Ulster in coffins, the better,"

>> Remember, he has to get reelected in his district, so he can’t vote 100% ACU. <<

Ah, you mean New York's 3rd district, which is 92% White, wealthy to upper middle class, and is considered one of the "safest communities" in the nation. It's takes up half of Nassau County on Long Island. Interestingly enough, EVERY single one Nassau County's state senators were Republicans until February 2007 when a sole Democrat managed to win office. The Republican party of Nassuc is mostly the heavily populated suburban neighborhoods, which of course is the part King represents.

>> He is one of the two Republican New York congressmen south of Syracuse, so is trying to stay in office (the other is Fossella). <<

I should also point out hat Fossella actually represents a New York City district (unlike King who represents an entirely suburban part of Long Island), and Fossella's lifetime ACU rating is far higher than any score King ever got (Fossella's consistantly scored ACU ratings in the 90s)

>> I would suggest sending him $$ for his congressional run this year. <<

Nah, he's already got plenty of outside sources to give him big $$$. "I have an excellent personal relationship with Sen. Clinton and President Clinton", as "Republican" Peter King famously gloated in 2006.

>> (I was sick over the impreachment vote too.) <<

You were? You seem quite fond of Barney Frank's Long Island clone.

[firebrand]

I believe King has changed his viewpoint on the IRA. Believe he saw the "light" after 9/11? Don't know where to find a source for that if it's true and no time to try right now, but I will in a day or two.

I also believe he is in a closer race than usual this year and could use the money.

Don't see him as a Barney Frank clone at all. He's very "out" about being tough with the enemies of our country, though. I see that as the most important issue this year.

[BillyBoy]

>> I also believe he is in a closer race than usual this year and could use the money. <<

Why should we care if a swarmy leftist backstabber with an "R" next to his name gets defeated by a swarmy leftist backstabber with a "D" next to his name? The RATs already control the House. King's defeat would likely lead to the party running a new candidate for that seat who's got a better record and not such an unlikeable pompous jerk so he/she will bring more Republicans to the polls. I'm all for that.

>> He's very "out" about being tough with the enemies of our country, though. I see that as the most important issue this year. <<

That's the kind of mentality on this board that helped elect a RAT Senate in the first place in 2006, when a bunch of "national security conservatives" decided we ought to work our butt off to save Joe LIEberman's career, solely because the whiny socialist twirp who sold who soul to Al Gore agreed with us on the WOT. So instead of donating their money and time to reliable consistant conservatives like Jim Talent and Conrad Burns, they gave it that slimey leftist LIEberman on the basis that "we cannot allow Ned Lamont to win". Well Talent and Burns ended up losing by less than 1% but they got their boy LIEberman back in office, didn't they? And of the course the first thing LIEberman did was vote to hand control of the Senate to Harry Reid. I would have been much happier with a Senate that had 51 Republicans and Ned Lamont, than a Senate with 49 Republicans are our "ally" Joe Lieberman.

Clintonites like LIEberman and King want to suck up to Slick Willie so badly, let Slick Willie have them. Better to send money to actual proven CONSISTANT RELIABLE conservatives in tough races.

>> Don't see him as a Barney Frank clone at all. <<

Well obviously it would be silly to claim King's voting record is like Bwarney's (after all, King has an "R" next to his name and has to "go through the motions" of supporting the GOP on certain issues so he can get the nomination), but it's pretty clear King is a carbon copy of Frank when you listen to these guys give media interviews.

Both Frank and King have that annoying high-pitched, hoarse, lipsy-sounding voice I can't stand and both manage to come across as incredibly obnoxious blowhards, even if they're making an argument I AGREE with. They seem to have the same kind of smug yet angry demeanor too in demonizing anyone who disagrees with them and taking little pot shots and them, and both of them really enjoying vilifying the "extreme right wing" for "hating the Clintons" (translation: not heaping praise on Hillary like Frank/King do).

They're even starting to LOOK alike with that jowly sneer, round little glasses, graying hair, and dark bushy eyebrows.

I swear, you could take a couple of audio clips from King talking and use it as dialogue for a video clip of Bwarney Frank, and nobody would tell the difference, unless it was King talking about one of the issues where he pretends to be a Republican, like abortion, immigration, or Iraq.

MEET THE BLOWHARD LEFTIST CLONES

NOW... WHO SAID IT -- FRANK OR KING?

QUOTE A
"I think this shows that, in fact, there was never a basis for throwing the President out of office, a basis for condemning his irresponsibility, yes, and for his lying to cover-up his private consensual sexual affair. I felt some vindication in the Senate. It was Republicans on the one article, on the perjury article, a very significant number of Republicans saying no, this is not a basis for throwing the man out of office."

QUOTE B
"It's just out of control, and I think Republicans fell into the trap of trying to criminalize and make impeachable issues which in many ways were personal and weren't impeachable. Republicans really lowered the bar by saying that lying about a private sexual matter was impeachable."