Posted on 06/16/2008 8:07:28 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
Newt Gingrich was on Face the Nation yesterday, where he discussed the general election. Newt contends that McCain and the Republicans will not win if they run on an anti-Obama message. What I found more interesting, though, is when he spoke about the recent Supreme Court decision conferring Constitutional rights on detainees, saying it may "cost us a city..."
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The American people have apparently forgotten 9/11 and will have to suffer another attack before they wake up from their sleep. Tragic and treasonous what Liberal and RINO politicians have done to America.
1) "This is what we get for invading Iraq!! Seee?? We made them madder!!
2) "This is what we get for supporting Israel!"
3) "This is what we get for being oil dependent and not switching to windmills!!"
4) "It all goes back to the Crusades!!"
They will NEVER waste time trying to figure out how to beat the enemy. Only how to appease the enemy. It's their nature.
I can say this for Newtie: he knows arrogance when he sees it.
>>>Terrorists could take out Philly and you KNOW the liberal response:
Whoa, WHOA! Let’s make that....San Francisco, okay???
I imagine that for CAIR ESL, but that should be ‘dominant’.
Sadly you make some good points. I have to wonder if half of Americans don’t already think we deserved the 9/11/01 attacks, or that we were responsible for it. And that’s not including the conspiracy nuts who think Bush engineered the whole thing.
I thought the same thing when I heard these false reports yesterday that Bush ordered a stronger effort to capture bin laden before he leaves office. It would do him no good if that happened. You just know the first thing the media and the elites would say is that the whole thing was a set up. They had him all along, etc etc. Then of course bin laden could count of a load of sympathy from the left, and from soft headed Americans who think Bush ruined the world.
If it was San FranFreako, THEN and only THEN would liberals be willing to fight.
I actually heard another teacher at my school claim that if the exist polls even suggested Kerry was winning, this would happen. I said, "I bet you 20 bucks Bush does no such thing." He wavered. I dropped it to $5, then to 50 cents. Finally he shook on it.
The next day I said, "You owe me 50 cents" and he would NOT pay. He claimed that many voters were "disenfranchised" and that was "essentially the same..."
Liberals have no honor.
As a lot of people have more eloquently stated , it will take a nuclear conflagration to exonerate the action of President Bush and to vilify the ineptness of the Supreme Court.
Thoughts on McCain v Obama ...
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/06/nevada_poll_mccain_42_obama_44.php
McCain is leading Obama 44-42, despite this being a ‘nomination victory bump’ time for Obama. Bumps over it seems.
The “undecided” count is huge because there are moderate Democrats and conservative independents puzzling over the dilemma: Obama is a leftist, the most liberal senator in the US Senate, with almost no accomplishments nor experience that would justify his becoming President. McCain is a moderate who may be more appealing to centrist Democrats than a typical Republican, and he’s annoyed conservatives enough with his various bipartisan bills that many of them are on the fence. Vote for the RINO ‘maverick’ to stop the leftist Obama or go 3rd party as a statement against “McAmnesty” McCain?
Back in 1988 at this phase in the cycle, Dukakis was up 17 points over GHWBush. Likewise Carter was up huge in 1976 in the summer (30 points?). Obama’s campaign is most like Carter’s and the dynamic is otherwise a bit like 1988. Yet Obama, despite huge ‘generic’ ballot favorables for Dems, doesnt have their big leads. Even more troubling is how other polls are so good for Democrats - it is proving that Obama’s lack of experience, his extremist pastor and other associates, are weighing on him. He’s a weak candidate, quite possibly the weakest candidate the Democrats put forward in decades.
This looks like a jump-ball race, but the dynamics of those undecideds are lining up where they will fall on McCain’s side once voters sort through who really is a better candidate for them. Unless there is a 10% 3rd party vote, those conservatives will be going heavily for McCain.
Those “undecided” conservatives forced to choose between a moderate and leftist will not be giving many votes to Obama, that’s for sure. The number of bamboozled Republicans and conservative independents who ‘like’ Obama but are unaware of his capital gains tax hike, his extremist pro-abortion position, his proposed “UN global tax’ or his troubling history of associating with leftist radicals (http://no-bama.blogspot.com) will dwindle.
The coup de grace will ironically be Iraq, when people wake up an realize that the troops will not come home any sooner with Obama. McCain’s call to bring the troops home with honor not dishonor will resonate. Obama’s ‘change’ ‘hope’ and “McSame” attacks are shallow and wear thin. All style and no substance can only get you so far.
Result: McCain will win huge. Congrats Dems, this was your race to lose and you just may well do that!
Posted by Obama’s Racist Pastor | June 16, 2008 2:08 PM
“1. Presidential “Temperament and Composer”.”
off teleprompter, Obama is uninformed and shallow.
Obama has shown himslef to have very poor judgement, given the number of associates he has thrown under the bus, including Mr Johnson, and Trinity Church.
“2. Little Washington “insider Versus outsider” experience.”
Obama has no experience outside of politics. He’s devoted his life to leftwing community activism and politics. He doesnt have that many accomplishments to show for it except his ability to get elected in Illinois. McCain at least has executive leadership experience, when he led the largest Navy squadron. And McCain’s 5 years as a POW was pretty far removed from Washington DC.
3. “Vision and mission” for our nation future rather than past.”
Obama’s vision as expressed in his campaign speeches is vague plagiarized (from Deval Patrick campaign) platitudes. His real agenda seem fairly leftist, given his voting record and his radical associations and friends (Ayers, Wright, etc.), and his used of leftwing activist slogans and themes to motivate people.
McCain’s vision at least is more concrete as expressed in his bipartisan bills, his engagement on foreign affairs, and his legislative record. it’s a center-right vision, anti-pork, against excessive spending, against special interest favoritism, and for a strong US foreign policy.
McCain is a modern day Teddy Roosevelt.
“4. American policies, “ first U.S.A Centric” than any other country [ ies ] centric.”
He is running for US President, not UN Secty general. Obama has already misstated/misunderstood history (JFK era) to justify his naive and dangerous suggestion to meet our enemies without preconditions. Obama is wrong on foreign policy in many ways. McCain will keep America safer. There is nothing wrong with that.
Another Teddy Roosevelt beats another Jimmy Carter hands down.
You bring up some good points, the one about this being early but especially Iraq. What if things are going so well, that Bush announces a reduction in the tour of duty for US troops and brings say maybe 5000 home? Will the public realize we can win in Iraq?
Still, I dunno, seems like McCain rather lose than play hardball.
For all of Roosevelt's "progressivism" and "trustbusting" he never proposed turning over the electorate to socialist foreigners the way McCain is determined to do with McAmnesty.
McCain is actually far more conservative than Teddy Roosevelt, who proposed reining in business via the ‘new nationalism’.
Roosevelt did not support giving citizenship and the vote to that portion of Latin America that cares to make the trip north. That act totally negates any conservative tendencies may exist in John McCain’s breast. What sort of government and Supreme Court do yo suppose we will get after there are 40 million new Democrats in the system? The only benefit of McCain over Hussein is that McC being in office will put off some of the worst effects until he leaves office. Apres lui le deluge mais certainment!
-PJ
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