John McCain Has Lost My Vote
I am disgusted. WHERE'S THE MAVERICK I'VE HEARD ABOUT? He's certainly not running for President. Instead he's pretending to be something that he's not. Instead he votes for a so-called bailout package while claiming to defend taxpayers from pork! I CALL B-S!! For shame. And you lost my vote.
posted by Pamela Furr at
1:59 PM
10 Comments:
Welcome to the crowd, Pamela.
McCain missed a golden opportunity to say "NO" to big government waste and corruption.
Pamela,
Would you vote for Obama? Well, I hate to say it, but not voting is the same as casting a vote for Obama. Do the math in your head. Now, I am mad as hell too--given his comments today. They really pissed me off at him. I just bite my tongue and say that he probably wont make it through 4 years, and Sarah will be President--that is if she can learn to speak:)
Pamela,
As I recall, you started your show with WVNN shortly after McCain became "last man standing" in the Republican primaries. You pretty much scoffed at those disheartened souls who at the time said that they could not bring themselves to vote for McCain.
Now, it seems, you are one of those disheartened souls. I am sorry that this has been for you such a painful education, but think how much you and I will get schooled with an Obama Presidency!
Guess it is too late for this election cycle, but it looks like those who argued for REAL conservatism back during the primaries get to say, "We told you so."
No, Andrew. I was still right. No one else would be this close in the race. If it were Huckabee, we'd be talking a 30 point spread. Say "I told you so" all you want, but you'd be inaccurate.
Thanks for the response, Pamela.
Just so you and I are clear, I was never interested in Huckabee as a candidate. In fact, I do not consider Huckabee to be an authentic conservative.
Though it is now a moot point, my opinion is that the primary candidate that best articulated conservatism was Fred Thompson. Too bad his method of campaigning did not pan out.
As to whether my previous comments were inaccurate, please consider these quick points:
1) You started a thread with the title, "John McCain has lost my vote," when McCain voted with liberals against the free market.
2) John McCain's greatest surges in the polls came with his moments of strongest apparent conservatism, namely, following his comments at the Saddleback Forum and with his selection of Sarah Palin.
Kindly explain then how my comment about real conservatism being a winning set of ideas is inaccurate.
I'm tired of you going on and on about the bailout. If you had a basic education in economics and KNEW the history of the great depression you'd know the bailout is a necessity. In 1930 the fed didn't bailout banks. That led to a freeze on inter-bank lending. We're at the same position right now and we're acting. It may not seem fair as we didn't create the problem, but if we let it get out of hand it will be our problem like you wouldn't imagine. It would be a VERY serious depression if the money markets and commercial paper froze up and that threat STILL looms. Please please stop assuming you know everything and try to read up on economics and history.
As a fiscal conservative it's a hard pill to swallow, but PLEASE take your pathetic Public School knowledge of economics and keep it to yourself. If you had ANY I mean ANY understanding of the basics that keep our economy going you'd understand the dilemma that McCain and President Bush have had to face in voting this bill through. Again you probably will dismiss what I've said but just wiki search Great depression and money markets...
LOL Public School Education LOL!! Bless your heart. You don't know anything about me. If you did, then you'd know that my education was a private one.
Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched
around?..... think about it.
Would the country's collective point of view be different? Could
racism be the culprit?
Ponder the following:
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage,
including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a
severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his
standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair
while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to
pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?
(The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of
corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the
larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many
occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer
distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected
reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close
as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities
in another when there is a color difference.
Most Republicans hold very little (if any) regard for border security, immigration control, an America-first military policy, and limitations on foreign "aid". John McCain is no different than most Republicans in these regards. Or rather, the only real difference is that he's a little more honest about it than most.
The modern torch-barers of true paleoconservativism - great men like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul - are not only not deprived of having any real clout in the Republican Party, but they are furthermore actively ridiculed and blown off by the likes of Hannity and Rush. Probably 60-85% of Republican voters aggressively and enthusiastically support this party - and then they wonder in dismay why it cranks out hacks like McCain.
If every "conservative" who complained about McCain would have voted for someone like Chuck Baldwin instead - well, maybe Baldwin wouldn't have necessarily won, but it'd still be a huge step in the right direction.
I'm not holding my breath to wait for that sort of thing to happen anytime soon, though. At least, not until talk radio and FOX News gives their listeners permission to do it.
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