Posted on 03/07/2010 1:49:16 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Until last night, when I watched the Republican debate, I had no idea how much John McCain dislikes me and just about everybody else but Rudy Giuliani, who if you believe The New York Times is a pretty good hater himself.
As I watched McCain and Governor Romney go at it during the debate at the Reagan Library I was struck by the huge gap that separates McCain -- whose contempt for his fellow humans is patently obvious -- and my dad, Ronald Reagan, who had nothing but the deepest affection and respect for the American people.
The feeling is mutual between McCain and me. I don’t like the way he treats people. You get the impression that he thinks everybody is beneath him. He seems to be saying, “I was a war hero, and you had damn well better treat me as your superior.”
He has contempt for conservatives who he thinks can be duped into thinking he’s one of them, despite such blatantly anti-conservative actions as his support for amnesty for illegal immigrants, his opposition to the Bush tax cuts which got the economy rolling again, and his campaign finance bill which skewed the political process and attacked free speech.
I am appalled by his contempt for the intelligence of his listeners when he flat-out lies and expects them to believe what he says even when the truth is staring them in the face.
A prime example cited by columnist Robert Novak was McCain’s denial that he had privately suggested that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was too conservative, insisting that he recalled saying no such thing, adding that Alito was a "magnificent" choice.
“In fact,” wrote Novak, “multiple sources confirm that the senator made negative comments about Alito nine months ago.”
In last night’s debate, McCain stubbornly defended his charge, false on the face of it, that Romney wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
"I have never, ever supported a specific timetable" for withdrawing troops, Romney said, adding that McCain's accusation on the eve of Tuesday's primary "sort of falls into the dirty tricks that I think Ronald Reagan would have found reprehensible."
What Romney said last April, was merely that U.S. and Iraqi leaders "have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about" in private, which in no way suggests he was in any sense talking about troop withdrawals.
Despite the evidence, McCain charged that "of course he said he wanted a timetable" for a withdrawal, even though he had never said any such thing. It was McCain daring to ask us if we wanted to believe our lying eyes or his demonstrably false allegation.
McCain must think conservatives are dumb enough to allow him to get away with claiming he’s one of them. This is from a man who opposed drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and who twice voted against President Bush’s tax cuts and sponsored the campaign-finance reform legislation that Romney claimed "took a whack at the First Amendment."
In John McCain’s eyes, conservatives are the Viet Cong of this generation and he treats us as such. It’s either his way or no way.
I despise his habit of talking down to us, like a wise father to an idiot son. He’s just at a loss to understand why everybody doesn’t grovel at his feet and accept his every word as wisdom handed down from his lofty perch atop Mt. Olympus.
I can’t help it. I know in my heart he hates me, and every conservative. If he gets the nomination the only way he could win against Hillary or Barack Obama would be to be part of a McCain-Limbaugh ticket.
Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is heard on 130 radio stations nationally as part of American Family Radio. Look for Mike's newest book "Twice Adopted" (Broadman & Holman Publishers) and "The City on a Hill," other info at www.Reagan.com.
And that kind of surprises me cause I swear Lindsey Graham is in to young boys not old farts.
There isn’t much doubt that the VC did things to McCain’s head. He should be retired and sedated!
What is the point to posting this ‘article’? From 2001, most of it ‘feelings’..........
Where’s the article on ‘issues’?
Me too; but he already knew he was going to lose for the cause which he supports.
"Assuming that John McCain will be the Republican nominee, you can bet my father would be itching to get out on the campaign trail working to elect him even if he disagreed with him on a number of issues.
If John McCain is the nominee of the party, this Reagan will happily campaign with him. The alternative is unthinkable to anyone who loves this nation."
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For the record, I don't like McCain. But you are MISREPRESNTING Michael Reagan's position. His point is that the primary was one thing, but once McCain became the nominee, he was supporting him, because "the alternative is unthinkable", as we are finding it out...
When McCain got to the senate he forgot his fellow prisoners and befriended that traitor Kerry.
This man is not admirable in any way at all.
He may have comported himself well during his captivity but upon is release he reverted back to his dirtbag ways.
McCain is in a primary.
And yet Palin continues to support this flaming socialist.
What did he do on the USS Forestall?
I am almost through his book. It’s easy to see why he was not elected president and why many people over the years have decided that he was not worthy of their support.
Google the followin: Mccain forrestal fire
One of my son’s served on the Forrestal back in the 70’s....Its nick name is the USS Zippo....The Saratoga was the The Sinking Sara....
What am I looking for?
Was McCain double-parked in front of a fire hydrant when the Zuni cooked off the F-4???
John McCain shares more culpability in the looks of his daughter than he does in the Forrestal fire. Both comments by ntmxx were gratuitous.
I aplolgize for the sarcasm, but it’s been a long day, and most of it was without benefit of Free Republic
The feeling is mutual McLame.
“I can’t help it. I know in my heart he hates me, and every conservative.”
FACT.
I’m wondering if this was the same debate I’m thinking of. The candidates were told to stay seated to take and answer their questions. They did...except McCain, who charged to the front of the stage with his decrepit ‘my friends....’ propaganda, hogging the entire debate.
McCain is a bully with a better than thou attitude. And never for good reason.
Quite true. But strange how the left portrayed him as an ultra conservative member of the Christian right.
Nothing worse than old news, especially over a year old.
Oh well, you are just 1yr and l month behind on your reading.
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