The Republican Party is about to give us absolute proof that their critics were right

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

And Dr. Sowell echoes my "missing strawberries" posts of the past, Gawd-only knows, how many years...

Confronted with his lie on Wednesday night's debate, McCain blustered and filibustered in a manner reminiscent of Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny," when he was caught in a lie during a navy inquiry.

When confronted with any of his misdeeds, Senator McCain tends to fall back on his record as a war hero in Vietnam.

Let's talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that did not exempt him from condemnation for his later betrayal.

Being a war hero is not a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. And becoming President of the United States is not a matter of rewarding an individual for past services.

The Presidency is a heavy responsibility for the future of the nation, including generations yet unborn. Character and integrity are major qualifications.

The passing years and a friendly media have allowed Senator McCain's shortcomings in the character and integrity department to fade into the background.

McCain was one of "the Keating five" -- Senators who used their influence to try to protect a failing savings & loan company, which also became the subject of a corruption investigation.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/02/01/mccains_straight_lies



I'll be voting Libertarian and hoping the Democrats take it all in order to save the Republicans from themselves...



Nombre Commentario.

 

[Ishmael]

And Dr. Sowell echoes my "missing strawberries" posts of the past, Gawd-only knows, how many years...


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/02/01/mccains_straight_lies



I'll be voting Libertarian and hoping the Democrats take it all in order to save the Republicans from themselves...



Nombre Commentario.

I honestly don't see anyother way unless Romney squeaks through. The 'Country Clubbers' are back in charge and they've written the conservatives off. Most likely because they think, in the end, we'll turn to, grit our teeth, and pull the lever for their boy rather than Hillary or Obama. They can't quite seem to accept that there are other options and that we just might prefer to see Hillary or Obama in charge than to put up with their arrogance and bullshit.

Ishmael

 

[Byron In Exile]

Nulla sententia.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Boy, are they going to be proved worng...





I just posted an interesting article from the lying American Thinker as part of my coverage of the mythical Islamic Euro-conversion.




As, I've been saying for a while now, it's about time the critics were re-reminded of the damage the alternative can wreak when given the power to go social crusading.

 

[firespin]

I'll be voting Libertarian and hoping the Democrats take it all in order to save the Republicans from themselves...

That should work well.

Somebody will have to explain to me sometime this idea of helping someone they agree with 20% of the time, rather than someone they agree with 70% of the time, just because the latter figure is not 100%.

But its not just you guys...its Ann Coulter, too.

Whatever did happen to Barry Goldwater, anyway?

 

[Byron In Exile]

Whatever did happen to Barry Goldwater, anyway?

He died.

 

[firespin]

He died.

A true conservative would vote for a dead guy with principles over some sellout so-called pragmatist RINO tho.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

That should work well.

Somebody will have to explain to me sometime this idea of helping someone they agree with 20% of the time, rather than someone they agree with 70% of the time, just because the latter figure is not 100%.

But its not just you guys...its Ann Coulter, too.

Whatever did happen to Barry Goldwater, anyway?

I'm not a Republican. But if McCain is elected, then the Republican Party will end up back in permanent minority status, which the blue-bloods have just signaled, we don't care, as long as we're in charge. We worked with the majority in the past, we had a very cozy relationship with them, we golfed with Tip O'Neil, and we dined off the scraps from their table as a reward. Meanwhile, the very people whom can save us are being told to fuck off.

I think you should read this, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/why_american_evangelicals_are.html , before telling us that voting Republican is what we should do in order to defeat Hillary.

That's why I'm still going to vote for Mike on Tuesday. Like Bush, I know where Mike stands, and unlike Hillary, I have no idea when Cap'n Queeg will pull the rug out from under my feet. Better the devil we know than the devil we don't understand. Better to fight Hillary's attempts at health care, amnesty, and tax increases than to swallow our bile and accept them from McCain because "He's the Republican."

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

While there are those of other ideological stripes who are conscious of the danger we are in -- Christopher Hitchens being one of them -- the energy and electoral impetus to battle the resurgent Islam comes largely from evangelical Christians. Should they withdraw from the political realm, the rest would not be able to come together in sufficiently high numbers to exert the political clout necessary to continue the struggle. There are simply not enough Hitchenses around to carry on the fight. Without the evangelicals, America's will to fight would collapse.


All those who care about this civilization should realize that if the evangelicals lose politically in the US, there will not be enough will left anywhere in the West to fight for it.


To put it simply: As it goes with American evangelicals, so it will go with western civilization.

Firespin,

Why a Republican vote for McCain is a vote for bin Laden...

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Whoops, forgot the disclaimer...





I AM AN ATHIEST!

 

[firespin]

Well, yes, but like Bush, Mike is consistently a knucklehead. Bush, the blue-blood choice, brought us the TSA, the prescription drug program, no child left behind, and tried to bring us Harriet Myers. He built up a lot of goodwill (and helped the economy) with the tax cuts, but then squandered it as the biggest big-government president since Johnson.

I skimmed over that article, but I didn't understand it in the context of what you usually talk about. I tend to agree that Islamic fanatics are a threat, though I don't see the Iraq war as uniformly helping us defeat them, vs. (say) pursuit of Al Quaeda leaders or confronting Iran / Hamas / Hezbollah. But if you were trying to identify who is most likely to take on Islamic fanatics, you'd have to say its Republicans first, Democrats second, and Libertarians a distant third.

And re: McCain as faux democrat, here' s a piece about Clinton as faux republican in 1996...that ended up working out OK for him.

"For decades, die-hard liberal Democrats have invoked Harry Truman's maxim that when voters have a choice between a real Republican or a Democrat posing as a Republican, they will choose a real Republican every time. But this year, with President Bill Clinton careening to the center in his quest for re-election, Truman's folk wisdom could hardly be more wrong. Clinton is leading in the polls in large part because he has been so effective in co-opting key Republican issues like crime, fiscal responsibility, and family values. For legions of disillusioned Democrats, Clinton's bid to burnish his credentials as a fake Republican underscores the vanishing differences between the two major parties. The vote in November, many say, is about nothing at all."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n18_v123/ai_18937951

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Before I answer, did you see the last (second) post?

 

[kbate]

That's why I'm still going to vote for Mike on Tuesday. Like Bush, I know where Mike stands, and unlike Hillary, I have no idea when Cap'n Queeg will pull the rug out from under my feet. Better the devil we know than the devil we don't understand. Better to fight Hillary's attempts at health care, amnesty, and tax increases than to swallow our bile and accept them from McCain because "He's the Republican."

All the candidates remaining are simply various degrees of Soros.

I'll be writing in George Soros and hope to save him the trouble of moving into the Lincoln bedroom, let him have the big bedroom instead.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

All the candidates remaining are simply various degrees of Soros.

I'll be writing in George Soros and hope to save him the trouble of moving into the Lincoln bedroom, let him have the big bedroom instead.

That's good. I wish I had thought of it...

 

[Le Jacquelope]

I honestly don't see anyother way unless Romney squeaks through. The 'Country Clubbers' are back in charge and they've written the conservatives off. Most likely because they think, in the end, we'll turn to, grit our teeth, and pull the lever for their boy rather than Hillary or Obama. They can't quite seem to accept that there are other options and that we just might prefer to see Hillary or Obama in charge than to put up with their arrogance and bullshit.

Ishmael

Mitt "Mandatory health insurance mandate" Romney?

His policies are already a proven failure. If he gets too far along his Massachusetts fuckups will rise up to eat him alive.

 

[Lasher]

I'll be writing in George Soros and hope to save him the trouble of moving into the Lincoln bedroom, let him have the big bedroom instead.

I don't think Soros is technically eligible. Isn't he foreign born? Or did McCain-Insert Democratic Senator Here change that?

 

[Lost Cause]

It's the pendulum's turn to swing to the extreme left- I just hope the Republic survives this debacle~

The misery index is about to skyrocket~ :caning:

 

[unregistered]

 

[breakwall]

I'm with you Cap'n, I won't be voting for McCain. If we have to endure a liberal in the the White House I'd rather support one who has the integrity to admit it.

I've read some deep analysis that says you'll have your wish.

McCain is a Democrats nightmare. He's the one Republican candidate who can sway the undecided voters, something Romney hasn't been able to achieve and something Huckabee is completely incapable of doing.

 

[Moanique]

I have no idea, as of right now, who I'll be voting for...

 

[Saint Boner]

I'm going to love watching the Pubes sell there souls just to vote against a Dem. It will just show they have no convictions except to a failed Party.

 

[kbate]

I don't think Soros is technically eligible. Isn't he foreign born? Or did McCain-Insert Democratic Senator Here change that?

This is where Al Gore comes in and states "No Controlling Legal Authority."

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

I'm with you Cap'n, I won't be voting for McCain. If we have to endure a liberal in the the White House I'd rather support one who has the integrity to admit it.

Yesterday I heard what had to be the most Alice-in-Wonderland segment of talk radio as Hannity had on Coulter and Pat Cadell with Ann insisting that Hillary was more conservative than McCain and Pat having a cow over how Hillary should never be elected because she's too liberal (among things...).


Also, firespin's admonishment as to why you'd reject someone with who you agreed with 70% of the time is sticking in my craw after having so many people tell me, "I like Mike, I love his tax plan, but he's said a couple of stupid things about Mormons, so I could NEVER vote for him..."


Problem is, I agree with John less than 10% of the time and Hillary at least once a week depending upon her stance de jour...

I agree with Obama zero, but I recall that it took Jimmy Carter to give us Reagan and Bill Clinton to give us a Republican Congress, and I am sure that Hillary or Obama are the perfect people to be able to replicate that moral victory for the Democrat Party...

As an added benefit, the press would cut back on the negativity about the war, the economy, and poverty in order to carry the water for the Democrats, just like they did during Bill's whole time in office. I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready for some GOOD news for a change...

 

[Ishmael]

Hillary's a whore. It's only a matter of price. John has ethos. In this case I'd rather deal with what can be bought and sold.

Ishmael

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Hillary's a whore. It's only a matter of price. John has ethos. In this case I'd rather deal with what can be bought and sold.

Ishmael

No good can come of it. John, to "get along," will reach across the aisles and institute a lot of what Hillary will never be able to accomplish because of her triangulation. When the shit hits the fan, the press and the Democrats won't blame their ideas, they'll blame McCain and the Republicans just as they do now...

Fool me once (Bush!), shame on you. Fool me twice, shame, shame, shame on me.

I'm voting Libertarian and if the true Conservatives and Christians were smart, they'd move in, take over the Libertarian party, and use it to turn the Republicans into Whigs.