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McCain Could Become the Reagan of Fiscal Discipline
Human Events ^ | 2/08/2008 | Deroy Murdock

Posted on 02/09/2008 8:35:27 AM PST by rob777

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To: Perdogg
when people claim that McCain is a Manchurian Candidate or sent to run in the primary for the Clintons, or that McCain leaked classified information without any credible proof, that’s crazy

I have made no such claims and I ignore those over the top arguments and commentators. McCain has made one true statement in his campaign, and that is that he doesn't know much about the economy. This is obvious looking at McCain/Kennedy which would have been an economic disaster and at McCain/Lieberman which would be even more so.

But I don't think for one minute that this mean, nasty, arrogant, duplicitous old man can get elected. He will certainly get no help from me.

61 posted on 02/09/2008 9:11:25 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Perdogg

You forget how much the illegals are going to cost us, not only in brand spanking new taxes, but culturally as well.


62 posted on 02/09/2008 9:11:51 AM PST by MizSterious (If it's Hillary v. McCain, I refuse to vote for EITHER liberal !)
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To: detective

Marxist McCAin has Fiscal Discipline? LOL LOL LOL. This article is a joke.

MaCain is a Marxist who did more damage to freedom of speech with his McCain-Feingold than anyone. This empowered the government to censor even the internet.

For a decade .McCain also has been trying to import 100 million Marxist voters from Mexico and the 3rd world. McCain has worked tirelessly for over a decade to give Amnesty to 30 million illegals and their families back in the 3rd world. This and his other actions not his lies proves McCain is a Marxist.


63 posted on 02/09/2008 9:11:55 AM PST by rurgan (socialism doesn't work. Government is the problem not the solution to our problems.)
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To: rob777

Hmmm. My memory isn’t the best, but as I recall President RR came into office with a 600-700 billion debt and left with a 2-3 trillion debt. We also switched from a creditor to a debtor nation on his watch.

McCain should be able to beat that record.


64 posted on 02/09/2008 9:12:05 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: xjcsa

and who appointed him, McCain, no, it was GHW Bush.


65 posted on 02/09/2008 9:12:41 AM PST by Perdogg (Vice President Richard B Cheney - A National Treasure)
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To: Perdogg

Good advise. Whoever wins the election in November, we need to be prepared for the worst.


66 posted on 02/09/2008 9:13:01 AM PST by DManA
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To: shrinkermd

Trashing Reagan accomplishes nothing.


67 posted on 02/09/2008 9:13:55 AM PST by DManA
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To: rob777

Strangely, you left out the fact that NTU rated Ron Paul even more “tightfisted.”


68 posted on 02/09/2008 9:16:43 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: All

The harder these idiots try to make McCain looks conservative, the angrier and more resistant I become towards McCain.

When they compare him to Reagan, it shows desperation and the willingness to attempt to manipulate and use conservatives.

Warning to GOPbots: Argue about the WOT and make us forget about all of the sticking in the back that McCain has done to conservatives and indeed the GOP.


69 posted on 02/09/2008 9:16:51 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Big Government Evangelicals.....leading conservatives to Landslide 2012)
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To: rbmillerjr

Putting on a Reagan mask is his version of “reaching out” to (in his opinion) idiot conservatives.


70 posted on 02/09/2008 9:19:06 AM PST by DManA
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To: shrinkermd

Government educated people don’t understand how the government works and how we are still a nation of laws.

The only way to reduce government spending and size is to REPEAL all these laws that MANDATE these thousands of government programs and agencies. A President cannot repeal these laws. The liberal media has bashed Reagan and Bush relentlessly using this tactic. People believe that a president makes up the whole budget. No. Most of the budget is mandatory spending like entitlements which the president has no control over. Only congress can repeal these laws and the president can only sign these laws. Bush has kept the small part of the budget that is discretionary domestic spending below the rate of inflation every year. But liberals and the media bash Bush and Reagan when presidents cannot repeal laws. Bush tried to privatize social security and the media, Rinos like Mccain, and the Democrats stopped him.

The government schools have again failed like government has always failed. No one is talking about repealing all these laws that create this huge government and that cripple capitalism.That is what is needed, repeal all the environmental laws, repeal FDR’s socialist New Deal, repeal LBJ’s great society etc.


71 posted on 02/09/2008 9:20:50 AM PST by rurgan (socialism doesn't work. Government is the problem not the solution to our problems.)
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To: Perdogg
and who appointed him, McCain, no, it was GHW Bush.

Yep, a president who listened to Warren Rudman too much.

72 posted on 02/09/2008 9:21:38 AM PST by xjcsa (Limbaugh/Petraeus 2008)
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To: rob777
"McCain Could Become the Reagan of Fiscal Discipline"

Yes, he "could".

And Monkeys "could" also fly out my butt.

And if indeed Winged Primates depart from nether regions sometime before election day "then and only then" will I vote for Johnny.

73 posted on 02/09/2008 9:24:51 AM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: rob777

I can’t tell you how disappointed I am that McCain is going to get the republican nomination. His principles are way out of touch with true conservative ideals. His stance on immigration alone borders on being criminal.

I liken those that blindly support the republican party to the frog that will not get out of the slowly simmering pan of water. In the end the frog dies and the republican backers lose any semblance of what their party was meant to stand for.

I switched to being an independent when the republican party left me a few years ago. I was actually going to vote for Romney if he won the republican nomination. There is no way that myself or a number of people I know are going to vote for McCain.

McCain reaches out to conservatives with his idiotic claim that we would be better off with him rather than Hillary or Barak. What that means is that on the top six issues Hillary is wrong on all six while McCain is “only” wrong on five.


74 posted on 02/09/2008 9:25:07 AM PST by doc
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To: Grunthor

It will hurt as much as it did when Ronald Reagan came back to whip Jimma Cahta’s butt - that is - not at all.

FLushing a RINO is as good as flushing a Dem.

America can survive a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama for four years. It CAN’T survive TWO liberal political parties.


75 posted on 02/09/2008 9:25:09 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: ScratInTheHat

“This rush to support the asshole just makes me sick!!

That’s what so many people don’t understand: When you sell your vote cheap you’re owned.

Staying home isn’t a good idea though, leave the pres. line blank and vote right on the other lines.


76 posted on 02/09/2008 9:25:21 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: rob777

Can you try to be fiscally prudent if you also insist on adding 20 million poor illegal aliens to Medicaid and Social Security?

Answer: only if you are too stupid to understand what you are doing.

I don’t doubt John McCain’s sincerity on illegal alien amnesty, global warming, Guantanamo, etc.

I do think he is stupid.


77 posted on 02/09/2008 9:25:53 AM PST by devere
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To: ARE SOLE

ANWR oil-drilling is overrated. We’d still have to buy from despots. Switchgrass and/or algae biofuel, nuclear energy, clean coal(with algae biomass feeding off and containing the pollutants, whose excess growth can be used for biofuels), canadian tar-sands oil, etc. are the real answer. ANWR is a short-term solution. Will only delay things for at most a few years. A distraction. Let’s deal with the issue forever. And corn biofuels suck.


78 posted on 02/09/2008 9:26:36 AM PST by DrGunsforHands
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To: rob777

Bill to improve health care…in Mexico!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967331/posts

...the senator who introduced the bill, Senator John McCain of Arizona...


79 posted on 02/09/2008 9:32:05 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: rob777

With any luck McCain will pick a conservative running mate, make spending an issue in his first budgets, take some steps to secure the border in anticipation of amenesty, stabilize the government in Iraq, and then face a Republican Congress or Senate after his midterm elections that will limit the damage he can do. Hey, I’m an optimist.


80 posted on 02/09/2008 9:35:22 AM PST by Greg F (A vote for Huckabee is now a pure vote for a contested convention. Think about it.)
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