Posted on 06/27/2008 6:51:37 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Michael Smerconish is thinking of voting for Obama. The Philly talk show host made the admission in the course of subbing for Dan Abrams on tonight's "Verdict" on MSNBC. He actually did so, chatting with Ron Reagan, while criticizing Obama's flip-flops. But the bottom line is the bottom line.
SMERCONISH: I want to think big picture, and I want to do so by showing you a piece of that which was published in today's Washington Post by Charles Krauthammer, if we can put that up on the screen:
The truth about Obama is uncomplicated. He is just a politician . . . When it's time to throw campaign finance reform, telecom accountability, NAFTA renogiation or Jeremiah Wright overboard, Obama is not sentimental. He does not hesitate. He tosses lustily . . . By the time he's finished, Obama will have made the Clintons look scrupulous.
That's Charles Krauthammer. Ron, I voted for the first time in 1980 for your dad. I have never voted for a Democrat for president. I voted for plenty of Democrats, but never for president. I've not ruled it out in this cycle, because I like this guy. But the events of the last 10 days or so make him seem status quo, make him seem like just a run-of-the-mill politician.
View video here.
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Smerconish says he’s thinking of voting for Obama ping to Today show list.
Smerconish is a wimp. I turn the station when he comes on.
“The truth about Obama is uncomplicated. He is just a politician.”
No you idiot it is what he stands for and the direction he wants take this country. Sheesh!
Smerconish is trying to be popular with the IN-CROWD at MSNBC...
No you idiot it is what he stands for and the direction HIS HANDLERS want take this country .
..and there is the rub.. the most dishonest, untrusted, corrupt, slimy career choice imaginable.
Me: Who f*ing cares?
Sheesh! I’ve heard of Smerconish but has he a traceable record favoring freedom & capitalism with the power of his microphone or pen? I am not familiar with him, but he seems confused or under-informed or lacking in core principles.
Bingo!
From the pro-abortion “Republican” Smerconish, this surprises me not at all.
I don’t care for him either. He’s wishy-washy at best.
This guy lost me a couple of years ago when he kept Pimping Arlen Spector and his all but love affair with Michael Scheuer.
I have serious issues with any person who claims to be a conservative but says he’ll vote for Obama. J.C. Watts also comes to mind in this area.
Beyond pathetic.
Bill Bennet is a much better alternative. 990 AM in Philthy.
I can’t stand listening to him. He’s a lib. Only thing I like about him is when he has Nugent on his show.
His love affair with Spector was what lost me too!
Smirconish is number 45 in the Talkers Magazine top 100.
That means he has around 300,000 listeners.
He is scrambling for ratings and anybody will do.
http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44
he subs for Beck pretty regularly
You know, Mr. S is a bozo.
I kind of feel like my Dad did in ‘72. He HATED Nixon but KNEW that McGovern was wrong for the nation. At that time my kid brother (and truth be known, I did too!) read MAD Magazine. During the election, one of the “back cover fold ups” had some jumbled mess of images, that when you folded it the proper way, you ended up with an image of the face of the Statue Of Liberty, with a tear running down her cheek. I showed it to the old man and he said, “That there is the best description of sorry state our nation is in. We are screwed, no matter who wins!”
If McGovern had won, we would have lost Vietnam, the nation would have had all sorts of governmental restrictions put on free enterprise and Taiwan would’ve been sold down the river.
Nixon won and we got Price and Wage controls, the EPA and Taiwan sold down the river.
It took that dope Ford to lose Vietnam.
Ladies and gentlemen, I submit to my fellow conservatives that what we need is not John McCain in the White House, we Americans need ... a miracle.
I’ve never heard of this clown but, okay. So what? I might vote for John McCain.
Yes, I had that same thought. In fact, having seen a few of his tv appearances, I can't imagine listening to him.
When has Smerconish said he’s “a conservative?”
Smerconish is not and never has been a conservative. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, I have suspected it all along although I had nothing concrete to go on.
I have always thought just wait till he comes out for Obama, and here it is.
Loser.
I’d put him right of center, probably at about the 40% marker. Guess what? Any Republican has to get the 40%ers, in fact the 50% ers, as well as us 10/15/20 %ers to win.
I don’t know if anyone feels like e-mailing Smerconish...If not, that’s ok too...
http://www.mastalk.com/mastalk/email.jspx
This is no surprise to those of us who used to listen to his radio show.
The guy is nothing more than a pandering, "big radio star" wannabe. He's a "maverick" - - you know, like McCain. He basks in the attention his "former conservative, now moderate" blubberings elicit from the mainstream Democrat press.
Schmuckconish is the textbook definition of a RINO. He wants to be fawned over like the typical turncoat.
He is conservative with national defense and racial profiling; other than that, I think the guy is a moderate (liberal).
bill bennett has a brain.
Not if he showed up on my doorstep with a million-dollar check and Anne Hathaway and said, “Rich, they’re both yours.”
If Michael Schmo is a Conservative, I;ll EAT MY HAT!!! What a frwaking LIAR he is...a CON MAN. NO self-respecting conservative would EVER vote for Obama...he’s a MARXIST!!
There ya go....he's a FRAUD!!
Smerconish subs for the Jersey tough guy, aka, Mr. Loofah, doesn’t he?
Smernikof (as he fondly refers to himself) claims he is a Republican and has taken exception to being called a conservative in deference to true conservatives.
Smerconish has interviewed obama and mccain and is undecided on who would do a better job at hunting down and killing bin laden.
I hope he does. The guy is an intellectual midget and an adolescent in a man’s body. I wouldn’t expect anything more from him.
I remember. It wasn't that long ago that he would assure himself and his audience that no matter the outcome of the elections, as bleak as they may have looked for conservatism, 'the sun will rise tomorrow'. Guess the sun has set on that philosophy.
Mocha Messiah! LOL
>>Sheesh! I’ve heard of Smerconish but has he a traceable record favoring freedom & capitalism with the power of his microphone or pen? I am not familiar with him, but he seems confused or under-informed or lacking in core principles.
He started out as a Conservative, built his audience and gradually swung left. I turned him off about two years ago. I told him in an e-mail that he should stop taking vacations, because he time he does, he comes back more liberal.
His one cause is getting Mumia executed for killing Dan Faulkner, the Philly cop. Fat chance of that happening with this SCOUS.
How about: another leftist thinking he can claim to be conservative for a while, and then one day he can pretend to “see the light” and support a liberal thus convincing conservative voters to do the same.
If Smerconish is not a hard core Marxist, I will be surprised.
Any “conservative” who one day announces support for Obama is an Alinskyite until proven otherwise.
You obviously are ill-informed about our involvement in Vietnam and the circumstances that existed when Ford entered the Presidency. Here are the facts:
August 23, 1972 - The last U.S. combat troops depart Vietnam.
November 7, 1972 - Richard M. Nixon wins the presidential election in the biggest landslide to date in U.S. history.
November 30, 1972 - American troop withdrawal from Vietnam is completed, although there are still 16,000 Army advisors and administrators remaining to assist South Vietnam's military forces.
January 23, 1973 - President Nixon announces that an agreement has been reached which will "end the war and bring peace with honor . "
January 27, 1973 - The Paris Peace Accords are signed by the U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Under the terms, the U.S. agrees to immediately halt all military activities and withdraw all remaining military personnel within 60 days. The North Vietnamese agree to an immediate cease-fire and the release of all American POWs within 60 days. An estimated 150,000 North Vietnamese soldiers presently in South Vietnam are allowed to remain. Vietnam is still divided. South Vietnam is considered to be one country with two governments, one led by President Thieu, the other led by Viet Cong, pending future reconciliation.
January 27, 1973 - Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces the draft is ended in favor of voluntary enlistment.
January 27, 1973 - The last American soldier to die in combat in Vietnam, Lt. Col. William B. Nolde, is killed.
February 12, 1973 - Operation Homecoming begins the release of 591 American POWs from Hanoi.
March 29, 1973 - The last remaining American troops withdraw from Vietnam as President Nixon declares "the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come."
America's longest war, and its first defeat, thus concludes. During 15 years of military involvement, over 2 million Americans served in Vietnam with 500,000 seeing actual combat. 47,244 were killed in action, including 8000 airmen. There were 10,446 non-combat deaths. 153,329 were seriously wounded, including 10,000 amputees. Over 2400 American POWs/MIAs were unaccounted for as of 1973.
June 19, 1973 - The U.S. Congress passes the Case-Church Amendment which forbids any further U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia, effective August 15, 1973. The veto-proof vote is 278-124 in the House and 64-26 in the Senate. The Amendment paves the way for North Vietnam to wage yet another invasion of the South, this time without fear of U.S. bombing.
October 10, 1973 - Political scandal results in the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. He is replaced by Congressman Gerald Ford.
November 7, 1973 - Congress passes the War Powers Resolution requiring the President to obtain the support of Congress within 90 days of sending American troops abroad.
August 9, 1974 - Richard M. Nixon resigns the presidency as result of Watergate. Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as the 38th U.S. President, becoming the 6th President coping with Vietnam.
September 1974 - The U.S. Congress appropriates only $700 million for South Vietnam. This leaves the South Vietnamese Army under-funded and results in a decline of military readiness and morale.
December 13, 1974 - North Vietnam violates the Paris peace treaty and tests President Ford's resolve by attacking Phuoc Long Province in South Vietnam. President Ford responds with diplomatic protests but no military force in compliance with the Congressional ban on all U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia.
January 8, 1975 - NVA general staff plan for the invasion of South Vietnam by 20 divisions is approved by North Vietnam's Politburo. By now, the Soviet-supplied North Vietnamese Army is the fifth largest in the world. It anticipates a two year struggle for victory. But in reality, South Vietnam's forces will collapse in only 55 days.
January 14, 1975 - Testifying before Congress, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger states that the U.S. is not living up to its earlier promise to South Vietnam's President Thieu of "severe retaliatory action" in the event North Vietnam violated the Paris peace treaty.
January 21, 1975 - During a press conference, President Ford states the U.S. is unwilling to re-enter the war.
April 21, 1975 - A bitter, tearful President Thieu resigns during a 90 minute rambling TV speech to the people of South Vietnam. Thieu reads from the letter sent by Nixon in 1972 pledging "severe retaliatory action" if South Vietnam was threatened. Thieu condemns the Paris Peace Accords, Henry Kissinger and the U.S. "The United States has not respected its promises. It is inhumane. It is untrustworthy. It is irresponsible." He is then ushered into exile in Taiwan, aided by the CIA.
April 30, 1975 - At 8:35 a.m., the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon, concluding the United States presence in Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops pour into Saigon and encounter little resistance. By 11 a.m., the red and blue Viet Cong flag flies from the presidential palace. President Minh broadcasts a message of unconditional surrender. The war is over.
The Dems in Congress and the North Vietnamese [violated the peace accords] were responsible for our defeat in Vietnam. Ford was presented with a fait acompli
Thanks for the background information. I did not know that much about him.
Great post...thanks for this quick overview of how democrats costs us 47,000 killed, not to mention the MILLIONS killed in the Killing Fields etc because we left Southeast Asia.
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