John McCain for President 2008
By NightTwister Posted in 2008 — Comments (38) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Because I need to passionately support my candidate.
Because this is the hand I've been dealt.
Because our nation needs a Leader in 2009.
John McCain for President 2008
I will be voting for John McCain for President in November, 2008. I hope you will join me, for the sake of our nation. Here is why I believe you can.
GWOT: John McCain understands the threat we face against global terrorism.
There is a group of people in this world whose only goal is complete world domination. They will use any and every means possible to achieve this goal, including taking the lives of their own men, women, and children in pursuit of their utopia. These people do not live behind defined borders. They live among us and hide in nations without the will, the means, or both to stop them.
John McCain has both the will and the means to find them and destroy their ability to wage war against us. He will relentlessly pursue them for as long as he is able.
Our soldiers deserve a leader that has their best interests at heart. My son will be among their ranks in a couple of years, so this is very personally important for me. John McCain is the right man and will do this without reservation.
Taxes and Spending: John McCain understands the need to reduce taxes and spending by our government.
John McCain supports cutting taxes and spending. This is so important to him that he twice voted against the Bush tax cuts because they did not include spending cuts. He knew that his vote would not stop the bill from being passed. By voting against these bills, he emphasized how important both issues are, and was able to do so without keeping the cuts from going forward.
This is the kind of stalwart thinking we need from our next President who will likely face a hostile congress. John McCain will make the Bush tax cuts permanent, and will cut excessive spending as much as possible. He will veto pork barrel spending, forcing congress to be accountable to us for every dime they spend.
Abortion: John McCain understands how precious every life is.
John McCain has a 100% lifetime rating on his voting history on abortion. He will continue to uphold our values and fight for the unborn. He has the right advisors that will assist him in finding Supreme Court justice nominees that will judge according to originally-intended constitutional principles.
For conservatives, these three issues are the three legs of conservatism, and John McCain is right on the most important current issues we face on each of these legs.
Immigration: John McCain will secure the border.
John McCain has always wanted to secure the border, if not in the way many of us wanted it to be done. He does see the importance of using the technological advances we have at our disposal to do this. A fence alone will not do the job, and McCain is committed to using all means available to secure the border.
Leadership: John McCain will be a true Leader.
John McCain has always marched to his own drummer. It is just this kind of stubborn, independent leadership that our nation needs at this time. Never one to do the politically expedient thing, he has always done what he believed to be right. John McCain will fight for our cause. He will represent our most important issues in the way that we want, and in the way our country needs.
There will be times when we disagree with what McCain wants to do. This would be true of any Presidential candidate. Where we can, we will enlist other branches of the government to help our cause. We will petition him to consider other alternatives, and I believe he will listen to those that put him in office.
The bottom line is, John McCain is the right man at this time to lead our country forward during the very difficult times ahead. Failure will be catastrophic for our nation.
I hope you will join me in supporting John McCain for President of the United States in 2008 with whatever means you have at your disposal.
- Randy Ketner
- Fort Collins, CO
But it is important that we support the guy. He is much better, as it stands today, than his Democrat competitors.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
I'm stating how I believe he will lead.
His maverick tendencies will serve him well in the White House, I believe. He's also more likely to join with the Republicans than Democrats because if he doesn't he won't get what's most important to him accomplished.
"Most likely" is exactly what scares me, we aren't sure what he will do and his history shows that he tends to favor the Democrats "solution" to whatever issue arises.
That is the central question! Will his Maverick tendencies kick in when the conservatives raise a snit? Will he then reach across the aisle to the Democrats to bypass the Republicans? History is not on our conservative side.
if he panders to the democrats. The Republicans in congress will bail on him, and I believe he knows that.
In any case, he'll be significantly better than anyone the other side can come up with.
You would need Republicans to make one of our signature issues an obvious political football. You would also need them to go against a president from their own party on a FP/military matter. I doubt that will fly.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
That's what I would call the immigration and taxes stuff. Neither jives with his previous statements on the issues.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
Taxes and Spending:
1) McCain's opposition to the cuts were two fold -- although he did mention spending cuts his main and most vocal opposition came in the form of class warfare rhetoric -- an important point most seem to gloss over but one that should be acknowledged and credibly repaired by the candidate ASAP!
2) McCain is missing an massively important part of the spending issue and that's Entitlement and excessive Government Program reform. If we ended earmarks tomorrow government spending would still be out of control due to entitlements and bloated government programs and unneeded bureaucracies!
Immigration
1) I seen absolutely zero evidence other than talk that McCain will do anything other than what he has proposed in McCain/Kennedy! Talk is cheep -- At CPAC he said he wants to secure the border (didn't say how or how this would be measured) then continue with McCain/Kennedy not reassuring in the slightest. As a sitting senator he has the means to put his money where his mouth is and prove to the American people he's serious here. I hope he takes full advantage of that opportunity. We'll see!!!
Founder and contributor to The Minority Report and Editor for The Hinzsight Report
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
Than taxes and spending. Regulations can be just as destructive as taxes. That's why McCain on AGW is just as scary as the Huck's comment about banning smoking. We'll have to see more from him on this.
I'm inclined to give him a pass on five-year-old comments about inequitable taxes. It was election year 2000 when our candidate said he wouldn't "balance the budget on the backs of the poor!" At least McCain has changed his tone for this campaign.
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Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
for cap and trade, he'll find a market-based solution like Newt suggested. I'd rather we had nothing, but Newt's idea wouldn't bankrupt us.
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"Character is simply doing right when no one is looking."
After viewing his record and looking at his degrading statements about conservatives. I for one can not support John McCain.
Just forget about McCain for now, and work on getting local conservatives elected. We still 9 months before the general. I'm praying John McCain will see the errors of his way. :) It's a slim possibility.
"Where I stand does not depend on where I'm standing." Fred D. Thompson
NEVER, NEVER NEVER NEVER, EVER WILL WE CAST A VOTE FOR ANTI AMERICAN, MEXICO LOVING MCCAIN, PERIOD. WE WILL WI RTE IN A CANDIDATE IF WE MUST, HOPEFULLY ROMNEY/ HUNTER, OR THOMPSON IS STILL ON OUR BALLOTS. NEVER VOTING MCCAIN, WE WON'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS COUNTRY AND ALLOW THEM TO TURN US INTO A THIRD WORLD SANCTUARY NATION, PERIOD. YOU SUPPORT THIS IDIOT. WE REFUSE TO ,
INDEPENDENT TEXAS VOTER, AND WE ALWAYS VOTE
TAKE PRO AMNESTY , MCCAIN AND STICK HIM WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE
Romney / hunter still on ballots, we are voting for Mitt. Even Sen Hatch says Romney is a financial genius, he took the olympics from millions in the hole to millions in surplus. He is the man to fix our economy, and he doesn't need money from Special interests or big business. Romney is our man and we are voting for him. Never ever for anti american Mccain
Yah, but Hatch is a RINO SELLOUT too, so why should we care what he says?
Anyhow, I think lunatics like yourself not supporting him will probably do him good. It'll make him look a lot more reasonable.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
It is a pitiful state of affairs that so many people on a republican/conservative site have to force themselves to vote for a presumptive nominee. Even more pitiful that you have to attack other conservatives because they won't abandon their convictions and vote for a man who doesn't represent their views.
On Tuesday I will vote for Huckabee because he isn't McCain.
In November, for the first time in 35 years, I will vote democrat to tell McCain that he may poke me in the eye, but I won't reward him for it.
McCain is going to get his head handed to him in November because in a 50/50 nation you have no margin for error. I have no idea how many people agree with me, but I suspect it's more than enough to cost him the election. Especially once the media turns on their favorite Republican.
Call us trolls or KOSites or anything you want, but you're lying to yourselves. We're honest conservatives who will compromise on the edges but not about core principles. The party is heading for a trainwreck because the best argument you can make to people who are on your own team is, "well he's better than Hillary or Obama."
No he isn't.
He's a lousy candidate. He doesn't represent the views of a significant portion of the party. And, as far as I can tell, he's a basically diagreeable person. My prediction: run McCain and come November we will be remembering fondly how well Bob Dole did in comparison.
pine for mere McCain eye pokings.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
democrats before and we will again. Do you think you'll hold the White House for all time? You survive by not selling your soul for something just a little bit better.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
you usually have more cogent comments
Do i think losing will hurt badly? Of course. As a matter of fact, in my business it will hurt me personally more than you can imagine. Losing the House and Senate has already done so.
But here's what I fear more:
A liberal leaning republican president who has already shown how eager he is to work with Kennedy and Feingold and the Gang of 14 who is able to cobble to together enough democrats with enough Republican congresspeople to support "moderate" legislation because he's their President, after all. At least all Republicans would unite to stop Obama or Hillary no matter what they proposed. And then we can run a realk conservative in four years.
I think you folks who expect the leopard to change his spots are just whistling past the graveyard. For eight years he has sucked up to Chris Matthews and now that he has his life's desire he's going to worry about what a bunch of unenlightened hicks think? Fuggetaboutit.
He's sold us out before and he'll do it again. Next time you'll have no one to blame.
Many people still walking and breathing after 1979 "survived" Carter, but missed their window of opportunity to maximize their American dream.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
that McCain will actually be better. Frankly I'm with Ann on guessing that Hillary will be almost as strong as McCain on the war.
and I don't think McCain'll win anyway, even if I did vote for him
In my experience, the more positive person with the more populist message tends to win presidential elections. Smarter people than me have more data, but my gut tells me Obama beats McCain hands down. In a run off between the two sourpusses, McCain and Hillary, I dunno, but there seems to be no arguing that dems are more fired up than we are. At least their candidates represent them. (Personally, I can't imagine a more excruciating two hours than McCain debating Hillary with Russert as moderator.)
It's not too late to reject McCain. We can still do it all the way to the convention and maybe beyond. Heck, we can even bring back Romney if we want to, if that's the compromise.
If, like me, you see a brick wall coming at 70 miles an hour, the only smart thing to do is turn. Turn right, of course.
We will never know. So, we'll see who "survives" till 2013.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
Actually I am finding enjoyment in seeing Huckabee winning even though it seems hopeless. It shows the idiotic position that the Republican party has put us in (and yes, I mean moving left to "gain" the independents).
It's also funny to read the same put-downs against Huckabee that many use against those that disdain McCain (hmmm, almost rhymes). He is not worthy of being a Republican candidate and it will continue to show...
Formally known as Deagle... "Golf is a way of life..."
Its more a case that there is a chip on a minority of SoCon's giving us a problem.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
I'm hoping that my fellow Virginians will give McCain another 2x4 upside the head come Tuesday, but that may be too much to hope for.
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Formally known as Deagle... "Golf is a way of life..."
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What we get with McCain is more than we get with the Dem's.
You don't have to love him, just understand how bad things can get.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777