McCain the "Great Conservative"

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: hellokeith

Originally posted by: bamacre
There's nothing conservative about spending 100 years in Iraq. There was nothing conservative about going there in the first place, and he can't even admit it was a mistake.

There is nothing conservative about the US attacking the Germans in WWII. And many more American lives were lost in Europe.

stop posting.

 

[superstition]

McCain winning back unhappy GOP voters

Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall.

Well, that sure took a long time.

 

[superstition]

I bet he's pleased he didn't have to participate in that ABC "debate".

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: superstition

McCain winning back unhappy GOP voters
Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall.

Well, that sure took a long time.

To get McCain back in the race, all most voters needed was a good look at the Democratic candidates. It never fails; no matter how crappy the nominee of one party, the other finds someone just as crappy to run. Election after election, despite a plethora of highly qualified candidates in most races early on, we end up having to vote the lesser of evils when the general election arrives.

 

[superstition]

So who was your pick? What makes that candidate more qualified?

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: superstition
So who was your pick? What makes that candidate more qualified?

I had never settled into a "pick" this year. By the time the South Carolina primaries came around, the field was already too limited. There was an especially poor crop of candidates from the start; the Republicans presented a very shallow pool, with no obviously competent choice, let alone a good one. Of the Democrats, Senators Dodd and Biden, and Governor Richardson, offered a wealth of the experience Senator Clinton pretends to. All three have their own obvious problems, though none so glaring as those of the remaining two. None have the high negatives of Senator Clinton and not even Senator Biden's nor Governor Richardson's words are so easily twisted into campaign fodder as Senator Obama's (and his pastor's). Senator Biden even presented a reasonably intelligent plan for Iraq, rather than competing in a "who can get the troops out fastest" contest. For those enamored of change for change's sake, Gov. Richardson would have been our first Hispanic president.

 

[Legend]

McCain is not a conservative, unless you consider neo-conservatism part of the conservative family. I don't because of it's the philosophy of morons. The neo-con movement in the Republican party now was just 50 years ago a radical pro-war wing of the Democratic party. But similar ideas have existed for centuries. See Hamilton's political beliefs in the 1790s. He wanted to build up an army with deficit spending and a central bank, and declare war on France without any sort of tangible goal in mind.

 

[superstition]

See Hamilton's political beliefs in the 1790s. He wanted to build up an army with deficit spending and a central bank, and declare war on France without any sort of tangible goal in mind.

You have to note, however, that he is the best-looking guy on our currency.

 

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: Legend
McCain is not a conservative, unless you consider neo-conservatism part of the conservative family. I don't because of it's the philosophy of morons. The neo-con movement in the Republican party now was just 50 years ago a radical pro-war wing of the Democratic party. But similar ideas have existed for centuries. See Hamilton's political beliefs in the 1790s. He wanted to build up an army with deficit spending and a central bank, and declare war on France without any sort of tangible goal in mind.

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What an inane post in my opinion. While I can agree that McCain is not a neocon, he is as conservative as they come in the GOP. You have been evidently been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh to pay any attention to the GOP electorate. As to the fantasy of blaming democrats for neocons, that is only exceeded by dredging up Alexander Hamilton. Maybe you need to go to Princeton, New Jersey so you can visit the Burr plot. Maybe you find enlightenment there.

Meanwhile I have to ask you, is there really a dimes worth of difference between a war with no tangible goal in mind and a war with no tangible justification, or a war with no tangible way to win given the set of monumental blunders McCain endorsed? If you think yes, by all means, vote for the clueless John McCain 100 hundred years in Iraq. Its all really Nero's fault, he fiddled while Rome burned.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Lemon law

Originally posted by: Legend
McCain is not a conservative, unless you consider neo-conservatism part of the conservative family. I don't because of it's the philosophy of morons. The neo-con movement in the Republican party now was just 50 years ago a radical pro-war wing of the Democratic party. But similar ideas have existed for centuries. See Hamilton's political beliefs in the 1790s. He wanted to build up an army with deficit spending and a central bank, and declare war on France without any sort of tangible goal in mind.

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What an inane post in my opinion. While I can agree that McCain is not a neocon, he is as conservative as they come in the GOP.
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Haha, I bet my Dem Congressman (Heath Shuler) is more conservative than McCain. Shuler is fiscally conservative and strong on border control and immigration reform.

I think McCain is a Dem warhawk masquerading as a Repub. I know he's "talking the talk" for the primaries, but he's never 'walked the walk" in (approx) 20 years in Washington DC.

Fern

 

[superstition]

I don't think politicians like McCain and Lieberman represent the core of the Democratic party. That they're not members of the party also is fitting.