Tuesday, February 05, 2008
The thinking conservative's case against John McCain
If you are wondering why conservatives dislike John McCain, this Corner post from Andy McCarthy is a good place to start.
5 Comments:
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:13:00 PM:
Well, you scumbags might need to rethink this scumbaggish slant. It would appear the rest of America--the regular people--do love him. Hell if Hillary's the nominee I'd be more than happy to come back to the McCain fold...
By 
, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:23:00 PM:
I distrust McCain for all the reasons noted by McCarthy. Unfortunately, there is no remaining candidate whom I distrust any less than McCain.
McCain has a bad temper and is given to ad hominem attacks. Sure, but Romney (who equates his sons' efforts to get him nominated with my son's service as a Marine rifleman in Iraq) is clueless, insulting and pompous to a degree that is nothing less than astonishing.
And though most of you wish to forget this, America is still a nation at war. As long as that condition persists, as long as our prestige and credibility among nations -- not to mention the lives of our sons in combat -- is at stake, war is the overridingly important issue. And on that issue, with the possible exception of General Petraeus, John McCain has done more for our country than any other national leader.
And my apologies to McCarthy, Limbaugh, and Coulter, but MDS is real.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:29:00 PM:
This guy Pasquin sounds like a cross between two of George C Scott's best known film characters: "Patton" and "General 'Buck' Turgidson" (from Dr Strangelove...and certainly one of the more clever names in film). Earth to general: our prestige already sucks, and it's because of the this war, not in spite of it. McCain will be the new Ike--as Ike went to Korea to stop that war, and labelled the military-industrial complex for the giant octopus it was. My dream ticket: McCain and Obama. The only people in this race with dreams and grit.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Wed Feb 06, 01:05:00 AM:
It's late I am dreaming of sugar plums and a Barack presidency--preceded by this lovely GOP fratricide. Not even the fatcat/Nazi wing of the party can seem to drag Mitt across the finish line...and Barack's going to raise another $30million from regular folks, not Clintonian criminals, in February.
This nation needs a McCain vs. Obama contest. Finally, two statesmen squaring off, not two ideologues, bought-off in turn by their interest groups.
G'night. Word to Ann Coulter...
By Diane Wilson, at
Wed Feb 06, 10:21:00 AM:
Earth to Chambers....
America's prestige sucks because people know that America will walk away from tough situations when the bloodshed starts on TV. America's prestige sucks because we walk away from our allies. America's prestige sucks because everyone knows that we can't finish what we start.
It started with Viet Nam, and it continued with the Iranian embassy hostages, with the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, with Somalia, and with Desert Storm. Did you know that Black Hawk Down was Saddam's favorite film? He believed it was his blueprint for winning a war with America. That's pretty much what bin Laden thought before 9/11, too.
Put a Democrat in the White House, watch us withdraw from from another set of tough situations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran) without finishing the job, and watch America's prestige fall even further.
By the way, where do you get the idea that Obama is a statesman? Is there any evidence to support that? I fhind him to be charismatic, ambitious, callow, and naive. That's a very dangerous combination to put in the White House.
