With Congress's approval at 12% and gas at $4, McCain's strategy is clear

Vanity | 06/21/2008 | Brices Crossroads

[maine-iac7]

no difference between McCain and Obama - they both believe it is the role of government to solve the world's problems.

the obamama is a Marxist and plans to Nationalize industry and to tax us into "You can't drive your SUV's, have your thermostats at 72, you can't eat all you want - and have the world say OK.>

He has stated that he intends to rebuild Africa - and that will be by taking the money our of our pockets to put in theirs,,,redistribution of wealth, aka, Marxism/Communism.

He is committed to total gun control, abortion even to the point of killing live babies that managed to get born before the late term abortion was complete...etc.

McCain is a Federalist (we are not a democracy - we are a Federal gov't) and holds to STATES RIGHTS, per the Constitution. He holds that the states should decide what goes on in their states and not be overridden with mandates from DC.

He is against gun control, abortion, etc etc. (and he has NEVER once taken pork barrel money - care to list the names of all the others who have that record? It shouldn't take long.)

The "no difference between Obama and McCain" mantra is getting old.

Those who continue to spout it are either naive or willfully intent on marginalizing him - and our only chance in staving off the take over of Marxism...

[Grunthor]

“Which potential hard right VP is your favorite? Or more than one if you have a list.”

Hunter

Barbour

Palin(ok, I throw her in because I am a hetero male) but I like her politically as well.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

People need to figure out how to take care of themselves...whether with solar...wind or whatever while the government explores or opens energy sources we have right now.

We already know how to get all the energy we need. The technology is there. The government is the obstacle.

[maine-iac7]

BINGO!

[SlapHappyPappy]

Frankly, the last 5 elections have not been won courtesy of “the base”. They have been votes against someone or something.

The concept of the base is going away as the parties become less homogeneous and the various special interests within the parties come in to conflict.

[CindyDawg]

government is the obstacle.

Can't argue with that. IMO, The American people are being used though. The Dems need to blame high prices right on the right,and can not let the republicans lower them, and make voters happy. The Republicans need high prices right now so that they can tell the voters they would fix it but the dems won't let them. In actuality I don't think either side cares about how much we have to pay and want to sit on the liquid gold that could make a lot of money if the mid East runs out or busts. Why sell it cheap to the peasants?

[geo40xyz]

For those who may have overlook it:

Anyone who spouts the foolish tripe about letting the Marxist candidate(Obama) in now and then we can regain control in 2012 is either a naive fool or an outright Marxist.

AMEN to that brother:-()

[Brices Crossroads]

If you mean by that, Do I consider Obama more dangerous to the welfare of this country both foreign and domestic, the answer is yes. I know, from your posts, you despise McCain and would prefer to turn the country over to Obama in hopes of getting Mr. Perfect in 2012. The problem with that is you have no guarantee of either nominating or electing your ideal in 2012.

Even if you did get your ideal in 2012, remember the lessons of 1976. Jimmy Carter was defeated after only one term. He did immense damage to our economy, but Reagan quickly rectified that. His foreign policy disasters, most notably the overthrow of the Shah in Iran and the installation of the Mullahs, dog us 30 years later and shows no signs of abating. Domestic leftism sometimes can be reversed. Foreign Policy leftism can last for generations. I don’t want the next Democratic foreign policy fiasco to end with a mushroom cloud over an American city.

You think the country would be better off taking the chance of four years of Obama and trying to evict him in 2012. I, and most conservatives, disagree. McCain is not perfect. Neither was Reagan. He gave us Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy. We are still suffering from the latter. The perfectionist caucus gets us Jimmy Carters and Barack Obamas. No thanks.

[txrangerette]

Duncan Hunter would be an out of this world good pick, for conservatives.

Not sure it helps electorally except if it would help him generally with the base, which is for sure where his problem rests.

I like Haley a lot, but hasn’t he said a flat “no”?

Also, prior to being governor and following his RNC stint, he was a big, big time lobbyist. OK by me, but it increases vulnerability on that ginned up issue.

I like Haley because he is a great talker and very, very persuasive. McCain is terrible at both.

Palin’s name was put forward on a thread about a rumor that McCain was strongly considering her. I was amazed at the number of Alaskans who were at each others’ throats in disagreement about who is the true Sarah Palin.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

No, actually, it was corruption among the GOP that got Carter elected. Not Conservatives.(Watergate)

The same goes for the elections in 2006. Conservatives showed up in record numbers and we lost miserably because of the record numbers of ignorant and moderate voters who went to the polls, driven by the press.(Again, Republican corruption.)

They will do the same this election in spite of our best efforts. We are grossly outnumbered by the Left.

especially after the press drags all those skeletons from McNasty’s closet to air out to the public. It will be scandal after scandal. From his wife on down to several of his own.

It will be McCain corruption 24/7 and Obama sainthood. Get ready for it. It’s coming very soon.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Gee, but I thought Pelosi and Reid and the Democrats came through on their campaign promise in 2006: Vote for us and we will end $2.059 a gallon gasoline. They did just that: Gasoline is now $4.129 for regular at the station near my house. They didn't after all promise to lower the price of gasoline by increasing the supply (which they are against) so they must believe in reducing demand which will only happen as gas climbs even higher.

A vote for a Democrat is a vote for Reid Regular at $8.199 a gallon, Murtha Mid-Range at $8.399 a gallon, and Pelosi Premium at $8.599 a gallon by election day 2010.

I suppose we need to start printing white on black bumper stickers: 01 * 20 * 13
Obamination's Last Day

[buckalfa]

Good thought but one must also remember that McCain is also a member of the Congress that needs to be discredited.

[Brices Crossroads]

I hope you are not going to be disappointed when McCain crushes Obama. Obama’s strength right now is a mirage. Just think how formidable the Confederate Army looked when they stepped out of the woods on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg. Looked unstoppable. As they got closer to Cemetery Ridge, the Cannon and musket fire cut them to pieces.

The same, figuratively speaking, is going to happen to Obama’s wimpy pop Marxist campaign. If the MSM could not save Gore and Kerry, both of whom had some appeal to moderates and Reagan Democrats, how are they going to save a black Marxist with a paper thin resume and six boxcar loads of baggage, who can’t even get a clue when it comes top gas prices? It ain’t gonna happen. This drilling issue is just the beginning. Obama will be lucky to carry 10 states.

[EternalVigilance]

You’re describing parties that stand for nothing, and are therefore useless. Which is accurate.

[TN4Liberty]

Somebody has to fire the proverbial cannons you speak of. McCain has been reluctant to do so, and the MSM is ready to quash any feeble attempt he may make.

[penowa]

"McCain is also a member of the Congress that needs to be discredited."

Absolutely. And one of the most egregious offenders in helping to turn over the Congress to the Democrats.

[EternalVigilance]

I know, from your posts, you despise McCain and would prefer to turn the country over to Obama in hopes of getting Mr. Perfect in 2012

Wrong premises, wrong conclusions.

I prefer no such thing.

I believe that you fight EVERYONE who is destroying our republic on EVERY front, and leave the results to God. And that applies no matter what meaningless party label they apply to themselves. [Obviously it's meaningless to them, why should it mean anything to me?]

"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God." - George Washington

Conversely, by being unprincipled, you've trapped yourself into supporting what you arbitrarily and admittedly consider to be the lesser of two evils. IOW, no matter what, you're supporting evil. [By the way, the littlest imp with the prettiest mask may well end up hiding the biggest and baddest demon of all, no matter how arrogantly you judge yourself able to judge between evils.]

If your only choices are evil, you've gone to a place most folks don't want to end up.

As for me, I know that my God never leaves me in ANY circumstance in which I'm forced to choose evil. Ever.

"Depart from evil and do good." - Psalm 34:14

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Just consider the elections you illustrated for comparison. Gore and Kerry were running at a time when America was at a turning point and very close to equally divided. But today, the Liberal tide has turned and is marching in on us rapidly.

Look how fast it turned around in 2006, when many here on this forum were convinced the Democrats were as good as dead, a totally inept and insignificant philosophy for all eternity. There was no clue that it would reverse itself in a manner of months.

Therefore, I would caution you about gloating or becoming too arrogant in regards to the status of the GOP among the American public. You stand to be greatly disappointed.

[EternalVigilance]

Just think how formidable the Confederate Army looked when they stepped out of the woods on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg. Looked unstoppable. As they got closer to Cemetery Ridge, the Cannon and musket fire cut them to pieces. The same, figuratively speaking, is going to happen to Obama’s wimpy pop Marxist campaign. If the MSM could not save Gore and Kerry, both of whom had some appeal to moderates and Reagan Democrats, how are they going to save a black Marxist with a paper thin resume and six boxcar loads of baggage, who can’t even get a clue when it comes top gas prices?

Hillarious. First, you've forgotten who was firing at Gore and Kerry. Let me give you a clue: McCain has betrayed virtually all of those troops, in ways that really matter and that they won't soon forget.

You also seem to be in denial about who and what McCain is. He regularly shoots our troops and marches in the other side's army. His best buddies are the enemy's generals.

[Prole]

The instant that companies make their official plans to drill Florida, California, Alaska, Mars, wherever, is the instant that the price of oil futures begins to drop.

Even if the prices don't initially drop sharply, I suspect that they will begin to drop more and more with time.

Once the drill bits strike the ground, and the oil is pumped out by the thousands of gallons, you will witness another drop in the price of oil futures.

Just stay on your congress critters and the McCain camp about drilling.

Otherwise, the price of oil futures will only continue to rise as OPEC continues to maintain its grip on our Republic.