The McCain Mutiny: A maverick fights for his political life—and his soul

Newsweek ^ | 2010-04-03 | David Margolick

[rintense]

No, you seems to be a little thick in missing the fact that everyone else gets this. Rush, even JD Hayworth.

But for whatever reason, you can't grasp it, let alone understand that even though we all hate it, this is politics.

As is evident by the list I posted.

[FreeReign]

More Saul Alinsky tactics using insults and baseless accusations in the absence of refuting the fact Palin is supporting McAmnesty over the Conservative candidate.

You're right.

Sarah shouldn't have endorsed McCain.

There's still nobody that you can name who is better than Sarah.

lol.

[SoConPubbie]

Amnesty was Reagns greatest sin and in my mind kept him from being a truly great president. Being of advanced age I remember the debate around amnesty and the final outcome with some sadness. I argued then it would only lead to more illegals and would drive the social services cost through the roof. I was right then I am right now. Reagans amnesty was the sugar the brought the 10’s of millions that are here now. Do it again and the progression will be geometric and it will be the end of the union. Not only will the left end up with an unsurmountable voting majority consisting of a state defendant class Obamas drive to redistribute the wealth will collapse the economy completely and we will all be standing on corners for day jobs. Immigration is the “no forgiveness” issue for me and it should be for all thinking conservatives.

Furthermore, Reagan's Amnesty include very strict provisions for punishing those who aided and abetted future Illegal Aliens but it was never enforced.

Reagan himself admitted to his son Michael, that Amnesty was probably his greatest mistake, because the Democrats and RINOs refused to enforce the punishments included in that legislation.

I agree with your statement concerning it being his greatest sin.

Immigration is the “no forgiveness” issue for me and it should be for all thinking conservatives.

You need to study up more on Palin's positions on this issue, it is not as cut and dried as you have assumed.

She is against Drivers Licenses for Illegals, McCain was not.

She wants to close the border, not technollogically close it, but fence it. McCain does not.

She has stated recently, she is adamantly opposed to Amnesty and if those that are here do not follow the rules, they need to go home.

Finally, Anyone using the "advanced age" argument is an idiot in my book and someone to not be trusted.

[Breto]

Pretty good list. The only one that is new data to me is Mark Levin consistent or inconsistent I dont consider him an faux conservative. The rest pretty much are . In fairness Coulter, Levin are not pols and mccain/palin is an forgivable exception given the alternative. Also I dont thing Cheney is endorsing anyone in the AZ senate race. GWB wasn’t even good enough to be a faux conservative he was a compassionate statist more likely.

Ron Paul doesnt make it on my to be taken seriously list

Of the whole list I think Bachman and Hayworth are the only ones that get passing grades on imigration and Sheriff Joe of course.

[FreeReign]

Paul Ryan

Ryan has sponsored several amnesty bills.

Michelle Bachmann - brains, beauty and a fighter

Bachmann is a big Sarah fan.

[SoConPubbie]

Is she running for office in Arizona?

What a wuss and a coward.

You know exactly why someone asks you that question, because most Palin detractors on FreeRepublic are pulling for someone else for POTUS 2012.

So why don't you be a man, and fess up?

[SoConPubbie]

Wow, that's deep. Good for you Saul!

Still practing the deceit of Extreme Hyperbole!

Well, at least your are consistent in your weak debating skills.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Way to ignore the point. No one cares about Ron Paul.

What many of us care about is McStain:

- Supporting amnesty for illegals
- Opposing Bush’s tax cuts, calling them “tax cuts for the rich” in true leftist fashion
- Participating in the Gang of 14
- Supporting Cap-and-Trade and being an adherent of the GlobalWarmingist cult
- Saying Obama would be a “fine President” and acting all lovey-dovey with every left winger on Capitol Hill from Teddy Kennedy to Hilary Clinton
- Opposing waterboarding
- Engaging in a personal vendetta with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in time of war
- Opposing Bush’s Social Security privatization plan
- Generally mnaking life difficult for any conservatives trying to advance a conservative agenda and being the favorite “go-to” guy for leftwingers in the media looking for a good anti-conservative quote

I appreciate that its easier to talk about a strawman like the terminally irrelevant Ron Paul than to defend the above, but the fact remains that McStain is a Stain on the body politic and on the Republican party.

Hank

[Breto]

My reaction to Palin was a result of a Fox interview last week where she said in simple when asked if she supported McCains immigration plan/proposals she said basically yes. That is not ok by me or she wasn’t thinking. I was hugely disappointed and went into mourning for days.

[Mountain Mary]

I sent money to JD as well. And I worked for John McCain’s campaign. Done with RINOs...

[tumblindice]

Nice summary. Worth repeating.

“What many of us care about is McStain:

- Supporting amnesty for illegals
- Opposing Bush’s tax cuts, calling them “tax cuts for the rich” in true leftist fashion
- Participating in the Gang of 14
- Supporting Cap-and-Trade and being an adherent of the GlobalWarmingist cult
- Saying Obama would be a “fine President” and acting all lovey-dovey with every left winger on Capitol Hill from Teddy Kennedy to Hilary Clinton
- Opposing waterboarding
- Engaging in a personal vendetta with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in time of war
- Opposing Bush’s Social Security privatization plan
- Generally mnaking life difficult for any conservatives trying to advance a conservative agenda and being the favorite “go-to” guy for leftwingers in the media looking for a good anti-conservative quote”

His FR waterboys don’t know what to say when faced with the facts regarding this liberal GOP country-club POS.
So they call you names. Like Democrats. That’s how you know you’ve won. Juan might as well change parties.

[SoCalPol]

Most of these threads are started by PaulBots.
The same Ron Paul who refused to vote to condemn
the IslamOfascist dictator, Ahmadinejad.
Ron Paul who states Iran and North Korea are not a threat.

If you think the Mexican Border is a problem, you don’t know problems.

Ahmadinejad and Putin who is in Venezuela with the Marxist dictator, Hugo Chavez 9oil rich country)
Iran and Russia are arming and training the Marxists in Venezuela along with Nuclear weapons.

Hugo Chavez is sucking in other South and Latin American Countries and his weapons aimed at America.

Since we receive much of our oil from Mexico and Hugo takes
over an unstable Mexico, this is only a short time away.

[ansel12]

Nothing is obvious, except you liking Mitt Romney.

To: goldstategop
I still think Mitt would be a good President. I work with a moderate lifetime Dem lady who hates Obama. She said she would love to see Mitt run in 2012. She likes Sarah but is not crazy about her. She really likes Mitt as I do. She hated Rudy and now she really likes him after his speech at the convention.
12 posted on Sunday, November 02, 2008 11:50:39 AM by Frantzie

Or Rudy Giuliani

"To: Frantzie
To clarify - watching young Rudy I got sick because he is good man and would have been a pretty good POTUS. My sickness is seing Rudy not POTUS and the POS marxist destroying this country.
17 posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:50:27 PM by Frantzie

[SoConPubbie]

His FR waterboys don’t know what to say when faced with the facts regarding this liberal GOP country-club POS. So they call you names. Like Democrats. That’s how you know you’ve won. Juan might as well change parties.

Care to point out his waterboys for the rest of us?

I know of possibly one poster on FreeRepublic openly in favor of John McCain, maybe as many as 3.

Please provide your list, since you seem to know of so many.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Does he really have that many water-boys here? Other than this guy I really haven't seen too many.

Hey, I voted for this piece of garbage! Had to custom-order an industrial strength clothespin for my nose, but I voted for him. I went from being a Tancredo guy to a Fred Thomspson guy, then - God forbid - a Mitt Romney guy in the hope that one of them could spare us the ignominy of a McStain candidacy.

Then the only consolation I had in Obummer’s election was that maybe, just maybe, McStain go away and I'd never have to hear him talk about how mean real conservatives are again.

But like those monsters in the bad horror movies, he just never seems to go away.

And oh yeah, in my litany against him I forgot that he was THE vote that prevented ANWR drilling....we could be getting millions of barrels from there today if it wasn't for this vile conservative poseur.

BLECCH.

Hank

[Frantzie]

Sarah supports slimy MCCain and is a big supporter. Keep it going then You must be a McCain supporter. Sarah is a stooge for MCCain. Did she support McCain Feingold which gave the Dems Congress in 2006 + 2008 and the White House in 2008? I guess she did cause she is a McCain stooge.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Oh I get it. You’re just going to ignore everything else he’s done to conservatives...just pretend I’m not bringing them up.

ANWR drilling?
Taxes?
Global Warming BS?
Opposing SS privatization?
Gang of 14?
Opposing waterboarding?

And you think illegals aren’t a problem? Is your name Lindsay Graham by any chance?

You sound like a McCainbot to me.

Hank

[Frantzie]

These McCainiacs keep bringing up Ron Paul, Romney. They are idiots. McCain is a Soros stooge.

[mad_as_he$$]

Juan lost his soul years ago.

[presently no screen name]

While there, he cultivated a reputation for rebellion, earning over 100 demerits and the nickname ‘McNasty.’

Interesting! So all these years, it was business as usual. He passed on those McNasty gene's to big mouth. Bye Johnny - you reached your allowed demerits.