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Why McCain Would Make a Better President
Intellectual Conservative ^ | June 7th, 2008 | Aaron Goldstein

Posted on 06/07/2008 6:33:28 AM PDT by K-oneTexas

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To: K-oneTexas

Many see Obama as the Second Coming of JC.

Unfortunately, that is Jimmy Carter.


21 posted on 06/07/2008 7:32:16 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: Just A Nobody
Word of the day/year = frustration.

Word of the day/year = BETRAYAL.

22 posted on 06/07/2008 7:34:01 AM PDT by brushcop (B-Co. 2/69 3rd Infantry Div., "Sledgehammer!" ...and keep hammering 'em!)
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To: K-oneTexas

This won’t be a McCain vs Obama race. It will be R vs D. The GOP needs to advance reasons to vote for Republicans instead of against Democrats. GOP’s ‘we have nothing to offer but fear itself’ is drawing dead.


23 posted on 06/07/2008 7:34:44 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: K-oneTexas
Sorry, I had to stop right here...
McCain knows what government can and cannot do. More importantly, he knows what government should and should not do.

If anyone it's McCain who DOESN'T know "what government should and should not do".

'McCain Says "Clean Government" More Important Than First Amendment'

"He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform.. I know that money corrupts.. I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government."

Next to Rooty, McInsane prolly has the least respect for the Constitution. And Juan McAmnesty ain't that crazy about the 2nd Amendment either.

24 posted on 06/07/2008 7:38:17 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: MikeHu
And some in the GOP have compared McCain to Jesus Christ on the cross.

McCain is the only one of the GOP candidates for whom I cannot hold my nose and vote. How can I vote for anyone who is eager to sell out this country - and that is what his amnesty and open borders plan will do? IMHO, he also has too severe mental problems and signs of a sociopathic personality.

25 posted on 06/07/2008 7:42:56 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: cripplecreek

Not voting for McCain will only help Obama, I would think that the protest votes of 2006 have sunk in by now.

Since I cannot prove McCain is a conservative and he really isn’t, let’s try another approach.

Which of the two is an American Patriot that has served this country all his life ever at the risk of his own life in the hands of our enemies and never lost his love for our nation?

And which one is a child of the world that has been indoctrinated by the very enemies we now face in the ways of their religious goals to destroy us?

Which one thinks our nations is the greatest in the world?

And which one has been told that it is the cause of all the world’s suffering and that it must be changed?

Who thinks of hope as an audacity and who has fought on when hope and a belief in this country was all he had to shield himself from the cruelest of tortures?

Who has served this nation bravely and who wants this nation to serve him?

Instead of allowing the destruction of our country because our Ideas are more important then the nation perhaps we go with a man who has literally endured the worst any American could suffer at the hands of our foes then the one that wants to embrace our foes and kowtow to their needs.

This election will prove to be a pivot point in our history but will conservatives be bold enough to admit if they may be equally guilty of being Republicans In Name Only.


26 posted on 06/07/2008 7:56:31 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: usmcobra

“I don’t like it much either but it is my way of protesting all the hatred aimed at a man who may only serve this country for next Four Years as it’s president after serving it all of his adult life.”

Sen. McCain is a war hero. No one is going to argue with that. However, to state that he has served this country “all his adult life” is an exaggeration.

Sen. McCain serves Sen. McCain. He has sought to capitalize on his war hero status since he first ran for Congress in 1982.


27 posted on 06/07/2008 7:57:56 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: ex-snook
This won’t be a McCain vs Obama race. It will be R vs D. The GOP needs to advance reasons to vote for Republicans instead of against Democrats. GOP’s ‘we have nothing to offer but fear itself’ is drawing dead.

Absolutly spot on. McCain is totally inept at addressing issues at home. The GOP has nothing to offer, but fear. While we need to fight Islamofacism overseas, he fails to address it here at home.

I appreciate his service to this country, but that is not going to beat Barry.

McCain will be unable to beat Barry because he shares Democrat policies, but comes off as war like.

Those Democrat votes he wants so much will not be adequate enough to propel him to the WH. Not to mention he is about the worst speaker I have ever tried to listen to. McCain is about to find out his adoration from the media that he has so loved, is about to end.

28 posted on 06/07/2008 8:00:51 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: usmcobra

You would be better off if you left the country than vote for that sorry ass black Muslim bass turd America hater.


29 posted on 06/07/2008 8:03:19 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: usmcobra; K-oneTexas; cripplecreek; Smokin' Joe; Condor51; Dante3
To usmcobra:

We understand perfectly. You are very clear. It could not be clearer.

In your perplexity at the bizarre/suicidal behavior of those on this site who insist on doing their country in, as well as themselves and their loved ones, because of their perceived lack of ideological purity in anyone but themselves...

You will accordingly vote, sir, for someone - Obama - who has declined to place even his hand over his heart during the National Anthem and Pledge.

You will vote for someone who sat approvingly for 20 years in a political hall euphemistically called a church where its leader vilified, slandered, and cursed America - the country defended and made free by millions of patriots with their blood from the American Revolution to the Present Day.

You will vote for someone who, to carry out the aim of his party, will bring about world defeat and derision of the U. S., beginning with Iraq and Afghanistan.

You will vote for someone who will lead his party in a smear campaign for the next four years to formally - through clever “committee findings” - denigrate and slander everything that George Bush and every Republican has ever accomplished.

You will vote for someone who, to carry out the specific wishes of financier, George Soros, will do everything he can to bring about a one-world government and a one-government world.

You will vote for someone who in his (brief) legislative career has demonstrated nothing but virulent animosity toward the Second Amendment.

You will vote for someone who will restore, and hugely expand, programs based on “minority rights” - including the abrogation of all judicial decisions forbidding reverse discrimination.

You will vote for someone who in every public vote in his lifetime has voted against any - any - restrictions on abortion including third-trimester abortions and partial-birth abortions.

The fact that this means millions - millions - of unborn children will be slain in the womb before they even see God's beautiful Earth - and the others slain the very moment they emerge upon it - is of no concern to us, is it?

Yes, it has come to this. Orwell knew it was coming: “Big Brother Obama...Big Brother Obama...Big Brother Obama...Take us...Take us...WE ARE YOURS!!!YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

30 posted on 06/07/2008 8:04:31 AM PDT by mtntop3
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To: K-oneTexas
McCain knows what government can and cannot do. More importantly, he knows what government should and should not do.

Obviously a work of fiction. Think I'll stop with this sentence.

31 posted on 06/07/2008 8:06:21 AM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: usmcobra
Not voting for McCain will only help Obama, I would think that the protest votes of 2006 have sunk in by now.

We have no nation without principle, we have no nation without ethics, we have no nation without borders.

I'm not buying the lie about McCain being the security candidate. He doesn't want to protect our borders and wants to bring terrorists here so they have access to taxpayer funded attorneys. His concern for the troops is superficial as well. He opposes the "horror" of waterboarding even if it saves the lives of soldiers. If he cared as much as he claims he would be throwing fits about China selling weapons to Iran who in turn sells them to terrorists to kill our troops.
32 posted on 06/07/2008 8:08:13 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Has he been a senator that long? I’d say that qualifies him as serving the country as one of it’s senators even if you don’t like what he has done he has served.

Obama on the other hand has only served not even a few years in the senate and thinks he is ready for the highest position in the land and those conservatives that will refuse to vote for McCain will give him that office by default.

Think about every agenda and plan that the democrats and Obama could ramrod through the congress and sign in to law and McCain for all his faults becomes an obstacle to their complete and total domination of this country.

To be sure McCain is going to do something we will not like but compared to Obama....... I would rather vote for Bill Clinton then Obama.

At least with Bill you knew what he wanted.


33 posted on 06/07/2008 8:16:24 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: usmcobra

My, my, what a tantrum, if conservatives don’t bow and spread their cheeks for McCain, you are going to drink, smoke, and take you ball and go vote for Obama.

Nice. And you think we are bad.


34 posted on 06/07/2008 8:21:25 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: indylindy

I think the mug collectors need to man up and face their enemy rather than feeding the crocodile.

We already lost and have accepted it. They can call us babies, brats, or whatever, we’re just being honest and accepting the fight we have coming no matter who gets elected.


35 posted on 06/07/2008 8:25:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
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To: K-oneTexas

>>As the candidate who extols the virtue of hope and change and whose audience chants in unison, “Yes we can!,” Obama has set expectations so high that he is bound to fall short of lofty expectations.

Look at Barack Jr., Mass Gov Deval Patrick whose “Together
We Can” slogan was borrowed, slightly altered, by B.O. Recent poll shows huge unfavorables for Patrick. He hasn’t
accomplished the property tax decrease, “more cops on
the street”, etc., he promised. Businesses leave Taxachusetts frequently, and Deval’s constantly on the radio doing ads
to lure businesses—saying how great we are.
From RedMassGroup:

Deval Patrick’s 56% disapproval is his all-time worst showing

(a little schedenfreud for my fellow Red Mass Groupers... - promoted by Cool Cal)

Hey Republicans....

Why is it that up until now, everyone is focusing on Primary polling results????

Deval at 56% DISAPPROVAL is one more reason not to send him any Democrats back to Beacon Hill.

What is worse for him, he has made a 40 point negative swing in only 16 Months.

How about we unite over this?!


Expect the same from a President Obama. Yes! We! Can!
Not.


36 posted on 06/07/2008 8:28:56 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: cripplecreek

What all the knee-jerkers here fail to realize is, there are not enough Republican voters left in this country to get McNutcase elected. Why do you think he is going so far to the Left this early? Or promising his “ability” to “Reach across the isle to his Democrat friends and colleagues”?

Also his ridiculous “Cap and Trade” scam and total belief in Globull Warming.

This one will be worse than ‘06. It will be a Democrat Tsunami in all aspects of Government, so either prepare for that outcome and learn to accept it, or get yourself a Harri-Kari sword.


37 posted on 06/07/2008 8:34:42 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: mtntop3

I only said I would vote for Obama to jab a sharp stick into the eyes of the so called conservative that are willing to allow Obama to win because they cannot stand John McCain.

Politics is a test of flexibility, how far are you willing to bend to achieve your goals.

It is better that we bend on our own to avoid what we fear then be bent over a fence of our own making, and receive what we have allowed to happen.

McCain may shut down Gitmo, But Obama will give it back to the Communists.

McCain may limit political advertising but Obama will use the Fairness doctrine to silence political talk radio.

McCain may think Green but Obama will force green down our throats until this nation collapses.

McCain May stay in Iraq until we are done there, but Obama will surrender to those we have beaten and make deals with them.

I can go on and on but I’d like to leave you all with this one last thought....

“President Obama calls for reparations to be paid.”

It could happen sooner then you think.


38 posted on 06/07/2008 8:38:47 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Your anti McCain speeches are pure unadultraded hate based drivel.

You are like Bill Clinton, a constant spew of lies lies lies.

You are the definition of Bitcon


39 posted on 06/07/2008 8:38:54 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: usmcobra

Amen Bro..... (a little eubonic lingo to get in practice for when Hussein is elected by default)


40 posted on 06/07/2008 8:40:46 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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