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Given that one man with courage makes a majority as God spews the lukewarm out of his mouth, how was this rooster so blind to his maverick kinsman standing there all along?
How could I lean to an upstart Mitt, take the late Fred train only to lean to Mitt once more (lukewarms all), when a perfectly hot war hawk/cold on spending John McCain was at all times available?
I suspect this former Democrat for 18 years, won over to the GOP in 2000 based on the conservative principles best embodied by Ronald Reagan, felt entitled to have him (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) delivered up to facilitate my repentance for lacking the courage and wisdom to embrace the real thing when he walked the Earth.
Reality intervened with a conservative epiphany after a nose-holding vote for Gore, but after the post-Super Tuesday reality check the moment Mitt Romney suspended his campaign, I will breathe freely and happily when proudly casting my vote for the senior senator from Arizona for President of the United States on Election Day 2008.
The moment Mitt resigned I was relieved as the scales fell from my eyes and I saw my man McCain in full for the first time, after only having glimpses before.
The glimpses were when the maverick would stand up to the MSM on THE issue.
The War.
After all, while I revere President George W. Bush for his character, tax cuts and judges, it is his steel spine on the war that elevates him in my mind to heroic status.
John McCain, already a hero since his POW years in Vietnam, also has a steel war spine.
You say you want CHANGE? How about a war hawk with attitude instead of the “new tone” usually of silence we have endured the past seven years.
John McCain will be anything but silent. Rather, his old tone many of us resented at times when directed at us, will very soon and for his entire presidency, be directed at the MSM sycophants that are turning on their cable and network co-star as we speak.
It is going to be sweet to watch as McCain becomes the vessel for liberal attacks on conservatism. We will bond to him as he is unjustly attacked due to his age. The man we have so often seen as a jerk will now be our jerk.
And we will love him for it.
This country desperately needs to re-learn what patriotism is.
John McCain embodies patriotism. His mere presence demands respect. Enemies of the United States that pray for a weak democrat will not be tempted to test our champion.
Yes, we have our policy differences with McCain, but McCain has been making some promises with regard to many of those issues.
And John McCain keeps his promises.
After a bitter fight with then Governor Bush in South Carolina in 2000, he campaigned tirelessly for his election and re-election. McCain promises to secure the border first. He will fight to make tax cuts he originally opposed permanent.
We should not require an “uncle” from our nominee. We already have Uncle Sam, and whenever our common uncle wanted John McCain, he answered the call.
From now till Election Day, our love for America must equal that of John’s, which will require that we not only vote with a hands free nose but also give our full-throated support before we pull that polling booth curtain.
On issues with which we disagree, we can fight him and Congress through the courts (McCain-Feingold) or via Rush Limbaugh and our conservative brigades (global warming/amnesty). But let us now and forever disabuse ourselves of the notion that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between McCain and either Hillary or Obama. Let us eschew the notion that we could win (for the conservative of republican cause) by losing.
Poppycock to all that!
He is ready to mop the floor with either Nurse Ratched or the Obamanation, and is ready to protect this country on Day One.
There are two kinds of change to choose from. We can become the children of a Europe-like nanny state writ large with no America to protect us from ourselves or we can embrace a change that seeks to reduce government and embrace America exceptionalism.
Just as in 1981, in Reagan’s words, we are the change.
The Rooster is crowing as he eyes a new dawn of patriotism led by a true American hero.
So get your hands off your noses and/or beaks and proudly cast your vote for a great man.
Where have you been John McCain?
Just under Gamecock’s beak. I see clearly now.
Feels right!
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I believe John McCain is going to be the Reagan of the era, in terms of the way he is going to end the GWOT. We are going to come out of this in eight years, and we are going to be triumphant. We will vanquish our enemies and the idea that we are a paper tiger will be finished, because our President has shown he has fangs on the war. I am proud to cast my vote for John McCain in November, provided of course that the Slick Huckster has no part of his ticket. I'm ready to win the war, I 'm ready to roll with the Mac
"Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will."-John McCain
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.
I seriously do NOT see how the GWoT can be won in 8 years, but there is no doubt in my mind that President McCain will be a step toward victory, while a President Obama/Clinton will be a return to capitulation.
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But the fact that terrorists and Al Qaeda specifically have pushed all in in Iraq and are severely crippled right now, lets me have great faith that while we may not be able to have a victory march declaring victory in the sense that this is a new style of warfare, and a constant war, I believe that we will have dealt the enemy serious death blows.
"Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will."-John McCain
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.
With Iran surrounded by two free states and Iran populated by so many yearning to breathe free.
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...he won't be mine.
What a load of horse crap. Pity the unsuspecting who do as I did and waste time reading your nonsense.
what's your beef?
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That was uncalled for. Don't do it again.
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He will capitulate on that one of that there is no doubt. I worry about his judges and tax position as well. But I will vote for him.
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I seem to remember reading diaries from you that said Huckabee wouldn't make it past South Carolina. In fact I think you predicted Thompson would carry the day and so forth.
So...for the sake of the party you might not want to jinx John with your prediction. :-)
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Never said Fred would carry the day. Try to let your next post be substantive and accurate! I have enough groupies, I mean clients.
smile
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I'm not a groupie I just remember what I read. Didn't you say that neither Huck nor Mac could win SC at one time? Then you hedged because of the large field.
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It seems in the first comment someone asks you to bet about SC and McCain losing it. You then respond never denying that you had predicted McCain couldn't win SC.
You said....
"This well could be the year that SC does not pick the nominee given the crowded field, and my predictions that Huck nor McCain could win SC may also be wrong, again, given the crowded field, Mitt's weakness, and Fred's late entry. The odds are against Fred, or are they..."
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complete body of work and report back by 2010 with a summary of same including the first three chapters of a non-fiction book on the rise of gamecock's writing career from The (Decatur, Ga.) Champion, Meck Times, and arrival at the pinnacle in the dead tree MSM largest newspaper in the Carolinas, Charlotte Observer, as well as the prospects for DeVine's upcoming book on his career in the dem party and the reasons for his conservative epiphany. You may refer to any rare missed predictions in footnotes.
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You simply made a wrong prediction. Doesn't make you any different than anyone else.
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face him across a defense table and you might discover hostile -- online he is a pussycat.
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prognostications? (read accurate!)
Gamecock - a man in the arena and also subject to Staunch cat calls from the mob in the peanut gallery.
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& I'm certainly hoping I can support McCain for the November election with a clear heart. As I've posted before, either he or the democrat nominee will be president, & McCain is much better for the job (by a long shot) than either of "them dems!"
Just like with W, I'm not going to "shut up" & roll over on issues where I feel McCain's wrong. Amnesty for illegal aliens is a complete & total non-starter in a bi-partisan way, & if it's brought back up it will be smacked down again. Kotowning to global warming cultists will be pointed out & discouraged.
nominee however until then I reserve my accolades and paeons until I hear some declaratve sentences from him concerning his past actions and statements before it looked like he might win.
I see no need to profess my undying love or feel any tingling down my leg until I've received a few tangible proofs of his for me. Otherwise it'll be heartbreak hotel time.
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their new found object of worship as if they were just being silly gooses for believing in anyone else who were not worthy to lick his boots. Talk about making a virtue of necessity. Please. How about some of you quit overselling what is an obvious poor deal? Most of those doing the selling have the holes from their Mitt or Fred or Rudy buttons still showing in their shirts.
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from my point of view. I've been a McCain supporter for about 10 years. After 2 years of being unable to say anything good about McCain on Redstate without being dogpiled, I'm really enjoying our new place in the sun. And frankly, it heightens my enjoyment to watch people like you become unhinged, so keep it up, and thanks very much.
"If all men were just, there would be no need of valor."
- Agesilaus
before this election is over. 2009 could be a very, very lucrative year for psychotherapy.
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and I'm unhinged?
Seems that those who eagerly declare their willingness to offer themselves on the altar of political expedience are the ones who are unhinged.
Where do you draw the line? when McCain actions are 50% liberal or just 45%.
I'm just saying that he isn't the nominee and so I'll wait for that to make up my mind but here that amounts to being unhinged.
You're projecting.
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The great thing about this ride is you don't have to agree with the conductor on everything, just on where the tracks are headed.
"If all men were just, there would be no need of valor."
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awhile back and this is a HELL BOUND TRAIN!
Instead of intentions doing the paving they've laid the ties, spiked the rail and stoked the boiler so get ready for a wild but unenjoyable ride.
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Because there's victory in the Lord I say....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gybGXnciig
FredHeads for Fred!
the metaphor so much let's try another:
Big Bad John!
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Does the Witherspoon challenge to Graham stand a chance?
loathe to fail to re-elect US senators. See Hollings and Thurmond's longevity.
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Graham's fav/unfav are better than DeMint among SC GOPers. This is a similar phenomenon with GOV Schwarzenegger, GOV Crist, and a host of other not-perfectly-conservative GOPers who have very high ratings among their core constituency.
The only R this cycle with low fav/unfav among Rs in his state is Sen. Hagel. And of course, he just quit.
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I'm gonna vote for McCain but I'm not for a minute going to gloss over the fact that the distrust and dislike that MANY of us conservative republicans have for the man is whole heartedly
on his shoulders. The man has, over his career and again and again, gone out of his way to poke many republicans in the eye.
His disagreements with his party are always out in the public and never behind closed doors. Over and over he pairs up with democrats on legislation that hurts our cause and aids the Dems.
There's no way any republican can logically say he was blinded by such and such and he now sees that he was wrong and McCain is the best man for the job. He is NOT the best man for the job but in the here and now he is all we have. His actions leave me to not trust him on immigration, not to trust him on judges and not to trust him on taxes. The only reason I will vote for him is that I am a vet. I lost so many brothers in Vietnam for what became no reason. I do not want to have those brothers and sisters in Iraq to have made the sacrifices they have made for nothing also. Now that we have been having success after success in Iraq I can see the Dems yanking us out, leaving 10's of thousands to be slaughtered in the civil conflict to follow. We would TRULY never be trusted again in the middle east. And those soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice of their lives, and those who have sacrificed their time and families, should not have it all be for naught by running away.
I do believe that McCain won't do that to them. It's the ONLY reason I will vote for him for he is sorely lacking in most other areas. Of course that is just my humble opinion.
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Corps!
Oooh Rah!
FredHeads for Fred!
Isn't it too bad that we're stuck with this guy?
He's going to lose. When the base hates you, no one works for you, and you lose. It's that simple. He will lose.
A self-destructive 'conservative' fringe hates him, but if they sit this one out then they won't be allowed near the levers of power for a while, so counting them as the base really doesn't make sense.
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Though I would argue that Hate is the wrong adjective I defiantly fall under the "conservative" umbrella. But Neil...
self-destructive? You'll have to explain that a bit further. I mean I have come to the decision that I will vote for him, as much as I dislike the idea.
But to call my fellow conservatives self-destructive because they refuse to vote for the scoundrel is not fair. I don't see any self being destroyed because they are holding tight to principles they believe in. The damage, if any, would be to McCain s campaign and possibly to party cohesion. I would have to argue though about the Republican Party's so-called togetherness. One of the main reasons for the failure of our party to make any headway while they had all 3 branches was that once they had the control they all split up into bickering groups who couldn't seem to work together to solve hardly anything.
One last minor rant is that given the LARGE group of Republicans, not all just self-destructive conservatives, that
are not happy with McPain, I'd say calling us a fringe group is a bit off base. If we are a fringe group than that fringe is long and deep.
FredHeads for Fred!
Conservatives NOT for McPain!
They call me a conservative like it's a nasty word!
Am I a conservative because I say nay to the electric chair
And Yea to electric bleachers?
Or is it because John Birch sits to my left?
Who knows..who dares to know?
I have to say that collectively, those conservatives who refuse to back McCain are self-destructive of their political influence.
Especialy when McCain wins without you, you will have no weight at all within any important political party in America. That's why I say self-destructive.
And I say fringe because McCain's endorsements and victories make it clear that the mainstream of the party, including mainstream conservatives, are ready to back McCain. The stragglers are being demonstrated to be a fringe.
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In realistically comparing McCain to either of the Democrats, there isn't much to find wrong with him. Even on immigration. No, he's not the perfect candidate. But his world view is clearly traditional and Western, rather than that of the Touchy-Feely Inclusive Victims Chosen Reality Kumbaya LaLa Party.
And I don't buy the "instability" tag. McCain's an Alpha Dog.
But the right way to use your vote for ideological purity is in the primaries, even up to the official nomination. And it isn't to do what I've done in the past, delivering a personal attack on someone with whom I had a comparitively mild ideological difference. Keep the disagreements in perspective, and they strengthen rather than weakening.
So even though he was nearly my last choice of the Republicans who ran, he's clearly the best one left, far superior to either of his presumed opponents, and is worth putting in the White House.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
Then read this paeon to John McCain by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF writing for (wait for it) .... The New York Times!
This article reads almost verbatim to many posts and diaries I've read here over the last 2 weeks. (some parts I've even written myself).
"He's a maverick but he's our maverick". (swoon)
NOT!
Beauty is as beauty does and McCain's been ugly to the bone.(I eagerly await his courtship or disdain of an ELECTION-WINNING-NUMBER of us unhinged Conservatives-With-Doubts.
btw gc, I'm don't mean to picking on anyone in particular. I'm just tired of hearing this love fest! Jeesh! Are we jealous of the adulation O's follower's show him so we're going to show the same to ours because he's all we've got? Yecchh!
I might be willing to accept his maverick handle if his pandering was to the liberals but his pandering is actually aimed at the MEDIA! That's who he consistently appeals to. Somewhere he became addicted to media-attention and has assiduously courted their good-opinion of him.
(if you doubt me, there's tons of articles that make that same claim or provide proof of it).
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how tired you are of hearing my message, I don't beleive that you are tired of hearing it, reading it, tasting it and wallowing in it. You want on the McCain train so bad you can't help but come back to the flame over and ober and over.
Let go man. Feel the Maverick!
Or, prove me wrong and wait 36 hours before telling me how you so loathe the message.
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continues, I will state my tiredness of it.
Instead of Odes to John recitations, how about some words of persuasion instead of words of self-destruction?
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or do you need some anger management.
Don't know the background between you and jackee but something is there.
read mo' gc
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exercising our Constitutional right to vote (or not) for someone we agree with, not to take what a party gives us.
McCains Negatives are almost as bad as Hillary's. That fact will not unite this nation. Sure it will bring out the Party Elites (both sides) who want something from the party (like money/support next time) but that is NOT most of the voters. What we want is our country back and we do not see any of these party clowns doing it.
You are very correct when you say McCain will do it without me. He will because I do not WANT anything from the Republican Party except what the Constitution guarantees-period.
Call me what ever names you want but that will not change my vote in November. My state Senator has endorsed McCain and he is up for re-election. I am working FOR his re-election but I will not work for McCain's.
Writing a name in for President in November
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If I may add, not only does Senator McCain want the tax cuts permanent, he demonstrably favored those exact cuts when accompanied by spending cuts, before the vote occured without the spending cuts.
absentee
pledge and call for cuts in corp tax rates, etc.
I'm on board, and quite frankly, I think I had an epiphany re McCain the instant Romney dropped out, similar to the one you had in a McCain rally.
I am more of a loner geek and so more subject to epiphanies in my cave. The only epiphanies I had in younger days in crowds (usually rock concerts in the late 70s and early 80s) related more to limits on alcohol and what wafted in the air!
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I couldn't have said it better myself, though to toot my own horn I've been noseplug free and supporting McCain since 2000. Well...with a few hiccups along the way.
"Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return."-Senator McCain