Posted on 06/10/2010 6:41:33 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Editor:
It's time to retire Senator John McCain, 73, who's been in office 24 years.
Contrary to how he depicts himself, McCain has been a big government globalist during his entire senatorial career. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which is dedicated to one-world government and the relinquishment of all national sovereignties.
McCain is a RINO (Republican In Name Only), a closet Democrat. Suddenly running scared, and with a $5 million campaign war chest to spend, McCain is blitzing TV with ads in support of securing the border: a 360-degree turnaround. If you're wondering why McCain hasn't supported border security before, there's a simple answer. He's been too busy allied with Democrat Ted Kennedy writing an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants.
McCain's radical left-wing positions are not in doubt. They're on the record. McCain
* supported amnesty for illegal immigrants
* spearheaded a limit on free speech: the campaign finance law
* supported legislation by the gun control lobby that would shut down gun shows
* supports the International Criminal Court, which could try U.S. citizens, and which is a surrender of U.S. sovereignty
* supported the precursor to the merging of Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into the North American Union, which would end our sovereignty and independence
* introduced S.3002, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, which is not about safety, but is about government control of the vitamin industry
* introduced S.3081, which would permit the federal government to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial
* in person is not the soft-speaking man you see on TV. In his Camp Verde appearance, he was rude, irritable, and arrogant.
McCain is mailing letters to Republicans urging hem to vote when early balloting begins in Arizona: July 29. He doesn't want his opponent, J.D. Hayworth, to have time to raise money or time to expose him. You can help cut McCain off at the pass by sending a donation to J.D. Hayworth U.S. Senate, P.O. Box 28604, Scottsdale, AZ 85255, and by not submitting your ballot until J.D. has rebutted McCain thoroughly.
Tom Tancredo, U.S. Congressman, l999-2009, says, "John McCain doesn't believe in enforcing our border laws--and instead of deporting illegal aliens, he wants to reward them with amnesty and government hand-outs.... We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to replace one of the worst pro-amnesty, open borders politicians in Washington with a consistent, strong-border, conservative patriot {J.D. Hayworth}."
Don't give McCain six more years to pursue pro-illegal immigration and to surrender our sovereignty. Defeat him now. Vote for J.D. Hayworth.
Arden Druce
Camp Verde
The headline says it all. BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
It really hurts me that McCain is fighting harder to retain the AZ people’s senate seat than he did to defeat “the one”..
Was the election Tuesday?
Who won?
Bad politicians seem to go away only when they die.
sigh.
AMEN. Sorry to say a lot of our current problems with the regime are a direct result of McLame’s lackluster campaign.
No, the time to retire was in Jan. 2008.
How about also retiring Mike Castle (R?) DE. He is a much bigger liberal than McCain and he has been growing government and wasting tax payer money for forty years.
Support a real conservative:
End this RINOs career tonight and help out with Christine' money bomb. Tonight!
Excuse the little pet peeve from the writing police:
The expression is a “180-degree turn.” If you turn around 360 degrees, you haven’t changed your bearing at all.
The primary is August 24, 2010.
Turn the worn-out old horse out to pasture.
Correct. But in this case I believe that McCain has been around the compass rose a few times. It depends at which point one begins observing him.
Old Manchurian Candidates don’t retire...
they just slowly fade away
(unfortunately)
I noticed this too, evidently Jason Kidd is their mathematician.
Don’t waste the grass! Send him & Carter to the peanut farm & let them shell peanuts. They can still do something useful. Calling him a horse is a real insult to horses too, by the way!
I went to their site, found email addresses for the publisher and editor, and sent the below letter.
RE: Time for McCain to Retire
No conservative, and especially not the NRA or Sarah Palin, should ever support John McCain. Besides his problems of granting amnesty to illegal aliens and restricting freedom of speech, he is severely deficient in the areas of national security and integrity.
John McCain lacks leadership for the War on Terror. His leadership codified the Army interrogation manual making terrorists legal combatants. His leadership granted terrorists American citizenship rights under Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. He thereby ensures information vital to defeat terrorists remains sacred and unobtainable. Terrorists are unresponsive to direct questioning and psychological gambits. Therefore, interrogators need all stress and coercion techniques our military encounters in survival schools. McCain embraces liberal orthodoxy considering those methods torture, but his searing experiences call forth contrary insights he must suppress.
McCain understands the impossibility of fabricating an association of terrorists with Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions, when they participate in international armed conflict, lack pacific character in regard to hostilities, and do not meet any definition of legitimate armed forces. Instead he understands that Article 13 of the First and Second Geneva Conventions and Article Three of the Fourth Convention must be consulted. McCain knows terrorists are not insurgents or freedom fighters; when captured, certainly not prisoners of war. They are not armed forces, militias, or volunteer corps of any country or authority. These killers are not members of organized resistance movements carrying arms openly. They have no distinctive identifier. Terrorists cannot even qualify as spies or saboteurs destroying infrastructure required to support military operations.
McCain understands Geneva Conventions intended to isolate such forces, provide them few protections, and allow destruction with any overwhelming furies needed to crush their abominations. Knowing these factors he promised to close Guantanamo Bay, inviting terrorists into our legal system. He decided to accommodate their extraordinarily savage behavior within our country, and thereby checkmate national laws intended to manage simple murder and kidnapping, and render Posse Comitatus a crumbling deception.
McCain especially appreciates from our Constitution that laws guaranteeing civil liberties presuppose operation within an invincible society. He understands Alexander Hamilton’s words that the reality of devastating, unforeseeable perils must lead deliberations about national security. The primary responsibility of the Federal government’s three branches is to pursue Hamilton’s admonition that powers exist without limitation; providing capabilities thwarting looming dangers as well as responding to attacks. McCain understands powerful warfare capabilities require potent intelligence acquisition and exploitation before and throughout military campaigns.
The framers of our Constitution and the Geneva Conventions held powerful positions throughout the darkest times of our country and the world. They were our Founding Fathers, and parents and grandparents of the Greatest Generation. Their words expressed durable morality earned in our fight for freedom, and against the ultimate bloody deluges of the 20th century. These first generations expressed principles derived from confronting shattering tragedies, and earning peace through victory.
John McCain’s actions are particularly reprehensible because he turns a blind eye to the council of these people. McCain continually seeks popular advancement on national security issues by placating those coveting luxurious, asymmetrical morality requiring shelter from perilous choices and awareness of danger. His crime is repudiating military and intelligence professionals facing hard choices when confronting shrewd, ruthless enemies obscured behind frightening uncertainties.
McCain displays a boundless absence of integrity as he follows the success of Bill Clinton, who cemented in politics for both parties the idea that character did not matter. There are no principles, but only ideas that secure possession of an office. John McCain is the most prominent Republican example of this new direction towards possession of political power through careful exploitation of perceived expediency.
Politics is the art of compromise and leadership is the art of principle. Abraham Lincoln used superb political skills to implement some of the most cogent and insightful principles to guide this nation. John McCain has used political skills to implement compromises consistent with increasing his personal acclaim among liberal media and politicians. Lincoln is now dead and McCain is alive, but dead to principles unrelated to his immediate personal advancement. He is now using this aspect of his character to proclaim profound revelations concerning the value of conservative principles. The current effort to deceive Arizona voters that he opposes amnesty, while his political history emphasizes the contrary is just a recent example of his habitual, reprehensible behavior.
John McCain succumbed to the terrible addiction of political power. The same addiction expressed itself differently in fellow Navy officer Randy Cunningham, who was the Navy’s first Vietnam ace. Over the decades the honor and moral authority of both were gradually traded away for influence in the political arena. There is a vast, immeasurable gulf separating John McCain from the genuine people who dealt with the issues sponsoring the Geneva Conventions and our Constitution. He much more equates with the parasites now feeding upon the prosperity and security so painfully forged for their benefit. We now suffer imposters like him with such extraordinary mental athletic prowess as to scale unheard of heights of arrogance and studied ignorance and achieve unparalleled duplicity.
To me McCain is like a cadaver prepared for viewing. The removal of blood and organs equates to the trading away of honor and moral authority. The reputation that remains is like the cosmetics applied for viewing a corpse at the funeral. It is easy for anyone to get onto the same sort of gently downward sloping path. The final result is tragic, but we should not suffer such pathetic and contemptible modern day Macbeths or Hamlets as Republicans in the Senate or any other public office.
August 24th
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