Indicators that John McCain has never been a Conservative

A LIST OF REASONS WHY CONSERVATIVES SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO JOHN S McCAIN and why the Media loves him so much.



January 11, 2008, 0:00 p.m.



The Real McCain Record

Obstacles in the way of conservative support.



By Mark R. Levin




The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:



McCain-Feingold ‐ the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.



McCain-Kennedy ‐ the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.



McCain-Lieberman ‐ the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry ‐ through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases ‐ in American history.



McCain-Kennedy-Edwards ‐ the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.



McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs ‐ a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).



And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric ‐ tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.



As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.



McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.



And then there’s the McCain defense record.



His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?



Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How does McCain fare in that regard?



McCain-ACLU ‐ the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).



McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons ‐ despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.



While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war ‐ when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration and McCain’s friend, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen? Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? Also, McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.



My fingers are crossed that at the next debate, either Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney will find a way to address McCain’s record. (Mike Huckabee won’t, as he is apparently in the tank for him.)



‐ Mark R. Levin served as chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese in the Reagan administration, and he is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host.


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Obama, QUIT Blaming Bush for DEMOCRAT Mistakes

Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Democrats of financial and housing crisis; meltdown. THE BLAME FALLS AT THE FEET OF THE DEMOCRATS!!!

Rise Up For America, Senator McCain

Slow Down, Ya Move Too Fast & Ya Get Burned

Sent to Senators McConnell, Kyle, Chambliss, Isakson and Representatives Boehner, Cantor and Deal.

I have a huge problem, sir. The Current President 'warned that the financial crisis will turn into "a catastrophe" if the [Stimulus] bill isn't passed quickly.' WHY? What's his reasoning? What "catastrophe?" It needs to be elucidated so that Congress and the Voters know exactly what he's talking about. I disagree with his statement.

I don't think The Current President even knows what he's suggesting. There won't be a "financial catastrophe" if Congress slows down and studies each line of the so called, Stimulus Bill. The Bill by any other name is a huge Porkulus Bill. And I hear that some Republicans have tried to get their Pork added to the original Bill. And I hear that Sen Bi-Partisan McCain has been recruited by The Current President to try to "twist a few Republican arms" to go along with this hurried-up Bill.

You are old enough to know that there is a reason behind every "hurry up and do this" Legislation. And that reason usually benefits the author of the Bill or the person demanding that everyone else "hurry up." Let's look at this more closely. Who benefits from the "hurry up?" Why is there so much Pork in this Stimulus Bill. It goes way beyond most Pork-filled Bills. AND because the Pork is so predominant and noticeable, I contend that the Pork has been included in an effort to disguise the real purpose of the Bill.

Look a little deeper into this Bill. Read it all. Read every line. Cross out the Pork and then look at what's left. Who benefits the most? Is there lobbying involved and will they benefit from the Bill? There's something going on here that makes me very suspicious. I hope my letter has helped make you suspicious of the motives behind this "Stimulus Bill" too.

It's The Democrat's Fault We're In This Financial Mess!

How Obama Got Elected

Interviews on 4 November 2008 with Obama voters.



Part Deux.

Zogby Poll

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet.....

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

DEMOCRATS Caused Economic Crisis -- Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, OBAMA, and others

I Am Joe the Plumber, too!

http://www.jeffhead.com/joeplumber.htm

Hizbollah Wants Obama to Win to Make American Weaker

Why Senator McCain Is a Little Miffed at Obama

February 6, 2006

The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
SH-713
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Obama:

I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were personally committed to achieving a result that would reflect credit on the entire Senate and offer the country a better example of political leadership, I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable. Thank you for disabusing me of such notions with your letter to me dated February 2, 2006, which explained your decision to withdraw from our bipartisan discussions. I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble. Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won’t make the same mistake again.



As you know, the Majority Leader has asked Chairman Collins to hold hearings and mark up a bill for floor consideration in early March. I fully support such timely action and I am confident that, together with Senator Lieberman, the Committee on Governmental Affairs will report out a meaningful, bipartisan bill.



You commented in your letter about my “interest in creating a task force to further study” this issue, as if to suggest I support delaying the consideration of much-needed reforms rather than allowing the committees of jurisdiction to hold hearings on the matter. Nothing could be further from the truth. The timely findings of a bipartisan working group could be very helpful to the committee in formulating legislation that will be reported to the full Senate. Since you are new to the Senate, you may not be aware of the fact that I have always supported fully the regular committee and legislative process in the Senate, and routinely urge Committee Chairmen to hold hearings on important issues. In fact, I urged Senator Collins to schedule a hearing upon the Senate’s return in January.



Furthermore, I have consistently maintained that any lobbying reform proposal be bipartisan. The bill Senators Joe Lieberman and Bill Nelson and I have introduced is evidence of that commitment as is my insistence that members of both parties be included in meetings to develop the legislation that will ultimately be considered on the Senate floor. As I explained in a recent letter to Senator Reid, and have publicly said many times, the American people do not see this as just a Republican problem or just a Democratic problem. They see it as yet another run-of-the-mill Washington scandal, and they expect it will generate just another round of partisan gamesmanship and posturing. Senator Lieberman and I, and many other members of this body, hope to exceed the public’s low expectations. We view this as an opportunity to bring transparency and accountability to the Congress, and, most importantly, to show the public that both parties will work together to address our failings.



As I noted, I initially believed you shared that goal. But I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness. Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us. Good luck to you, Senator.



Sincerely,



John McCain
United States Senate



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Michelle Obama Endorses McCain/Palin

Vouching for your friends

Hey everyone, this is what I was saying about Obama.....where are the friends of neighbors, ex-girlfriends, teachers or even one person that he helped on the Southside as a Community Organizer? Where are they? NO ONE, BUT NO ONE HAS STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE TO VOUCH FOR HIM.




Hillary had college friends and Lynn Rothschild, McCain had other vets that were POW's with him - not to mention many in the congress and senate and past presidents etc. Where are the folks that have a history of Obama.....not folks like John Kerry or Claire McCaskill who have barely known Obama and are vying for "cabinet positions" Where are they?

ENTER GOVERNOR PALIN


Palin: Yes, she's 100 percent Ivy-free.


Posted: 3:26 am
September 20, 2008

I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife. Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska , but we grew up with her - in the small-town America despised by the leftwing elite.


One gal-pal classmate of my wife's has even traveled from New York 's Finger Lakes to Alaska to hunt moose with her husband. (Got one, too.) And no, Ms. Streisand, she isn't a redneck missing half her teeth - she's a lawyer.




The sneering elites and their mediacrat fellow travelers just don't get it: How on earth could anyone vote for someone who didn't attend an Ivy League school? And having more than 1.7 children marks any woman as a rube. (If Palin had any taste, her teenage daughter would've had a quiet abortion in a discreet facility.
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And what kind of retro-Barbie would stay happily married to her high-school sweetheart? Ugh. She even kills animals and eats them. (The meat and fish served in the upscale bistros patronized by Obama supporters appears by magic - it didn't really come from living things. . .
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Palin has that hick accent, too. And that busy-mom beehive 'do. Double ugh! Bet she hasn't even read Ian McEwan's latest novel and can't explain Frank Gehry's vision for a new architecture. She and her blue-collar (triple ugh!) husband don't even own a McMansion, let alone an inherited family compound on the Cape .


And she wants to be vice president?

The opinion-maker elites see Sarah Palin clearly every time they look up from another sneering article in The New Yorker: She's a country-bumpkin chumpette from a hick state with low latte availability. She's not one of them and never will be. That's the real disqualifier in this race.




Now let me tell you what those postmodern bigots with their multiple vacation homes and their disappointing trust-fund kids don't see:

Sarah Palin's one of us. She actually represents the American people.


When The New York Times, CNN, the NBC basket of basket cases and all the barking blog dogs insult Palin, they're insulting us. When they smear her, they're smearing every American who actually works for a living, who doesn't expect a handout, who doesn't have a full-time accountant to parse the family taxes, who believes in the Pledge of Allegiance and who thinks a church is more than just a tedious stop on daughter Emily's 100K wedding day.


Go ahead, faux feminists and Hollywood deep thinkers: Snicker at Sarah America's degree from the University of Idaho, but remember that most Americans didn't attend Harvard or Princeton as a legacy after daddy donated enough to buy his kid's way in.


Go ahead, campaign strategists: Mock Americans who go to church and actually pray. But you might want to run the Census numbers first.

And go right ahead: Dismiss all of us who remember how, on the first day of deer season, our high school classrooms were half empty (not a problem at Andover or Exeter ).


That rube accent of Palin's? It's a howler. But she sounds a lot more like the rest of us than a Harvard man or a Smithie ever will.

Why does Sarah Palin energize all of us who don't belong to the gilded leftwing circle? Because she's us. We sat beside her in class. We hung out after school (might've even shared a backseat combat zone on prom night). And now she lives next door, raising her kids.




For the first time since Ronald Reagan, our last great president, we, the people, see a chance that one of us might have a voice in governing our country.


Speaking of Reagan ( Eureka College , Illinois ), every chief executive we've had since the Gipper snapped his final salute as president has had the imprimatur of an Ivy League university.
And we've gone from bad to worse:

* George Herbert Walker Bush: Yale.

* William Jefferson Clinton: Georgetown , Oxford , Yale Law.

* George W. Bush: Yale and Harvard Business School .


The first lacked the sense to finish the job in Desert Storm; the second lacked the guts to go after al Qaeda when it was just a startup - and the third, well, let's just say he disappointed our low expectations.

Now we have the Ivy League elite's "he's not only like us but he's a minority and we're so wonderful to support him" candidate, Sen. Barack Obama ( Columbia and Harvard Law).


Our country can't afford another one of these clowns. Harvard isn't the answer - Harvard's the problem.


So here's the message Palin is sending on behalf of the rest of us (the down-market masses Dems love at election time and ignore once the voting's done): The rule of the snobs is over. It's time to give one of us a chance to lead.


Sen. John McCain's one of us, too. He raised hell at Annapolis (quadruple ugh: military!), and he'll raise the right kind of hell in Washington . McCain's so dumb he really loves his country. Sarah Palin's dumb that way, too.


How terribly unfashionable.

Dear Mr. Obama, Who Are You?

Thanks to weneedmccain at YouTube.

A Word to Obama from a Soldier

Introducing Governor Sarah Palin

I can't begin to say how excited and happy I am that Senator John S McCain chose Governor Sarah Louise Heath Palin as his running mate and future Vice President of the USofA. What an exciting time to be living in! It wasn't the Democrats who chose a woman, it was the Grand Old Party, the Republicans. And when they chose, they chose a woman in the genre of Teddy Roosevelt, but instead of a teddy bear, we might wnt to think of a caribou or a moose. Loads of links to Governor Palin and I'll add some soon, but here are a two YouTube videos I think you'll enjoy.

The Subject of Houses

The Audacity of Truth has additional valuable information.

The Politics of "Gone Hiking" in the Long Hot Summer until November

Between now and my return, please continue to educate yourselves, check out my links, email your Congressperson, stay informed. See you in late August.

The Obama Nation aka Obamastan and much new information can be located at Investors Business Daily Editorials. I encourage you to stay informed whilst I am gone. I'm running away from the computer for approximately three months with only occasional email contact.

John S. McCain is not the perfect or ideal candidate for President of These United States, but he is light years better than either left-wing Hillary R Clinton or left of left-wing Barack H Obama. The future of the USofA is at stake in the November election. Failure to vote is not an option. Bob Barr is muddying the waters as a Libertarian (two years ago he was anathema to Libertarians). Ron Paul is not a viable option as he has few supporters where they're needed . . . in Congress. Continue to educate yourselves about Barack H Obama. He is not the inevitable President. Do not be fooled by his rhetoric. Gear up for a long hot summer of Politics.

When is a "ceasefire" not a cease-fire? When it's a "tahadiya" -- read and learn

In Ceasefires in Islam: Not Always What They Seem to Be by Frank Salvato he writes in part:

To say that we in the West are engaged in a clash of civilizations with the fundamentalist Islamic culture would be a fair statement. Hundreds if not thousands of radical jihadist groups are mounting a violent global offensive against Western Civilization in a third attempt at establishing a global Caliphate. This contention is validated by history and we need only be good students of events passed to understand it.

While many hold the common misconception that the conflict with radical Islam started with the attacks of September 11, 2001, the reality is that radical Islam’s current confrontation with the West started in 1983 with Hezbollah’s bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. Lesser understood is that this conflict is but the third bloody expedition in the quest for a global Caliphate; the first coming in the aftermath of Muhammad’s death in the 7th Century and the second occurring in the 11th Century, spanning the years 1071 to 1683 AD – an aggression that lasted 612 years, almost three times as long as the United States has been a country.

Three aspects of this conflict which we in the West are delinquent in understanding – and there are many others – are in defining the enemy, understanding the culture in which they are generated and familiarizing ourselves with their tools and tactics.

America’s War on Words, Mark Silverberg, Featured Writer states:

The Bush administration has launched a new “outreach” policy reflecting it’s reluctance to discuss jihadism in public. This time, it has targeted language. We are no longer at war with “jihadism”. Rather, we are engaged in a war against “extremism”.

In a document titled: "Words that Work and Words that Don't: A Guide for Counterterrorism Communication” released in March 2008, Federal agencies including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center will now be issued instructions on how not to describe "jihadists”, or the "mujahedeen", or to use any references relating to Islam, Islamic theology or Muslims in the context of our current war. Nor are these the only words to be struck from the government’s political lexicon. Words and phrases like “al Qaeda movement”, “Salafi”, “Wahhabist”, “Sufi”, “ummah” (the Muslim world), “Islamic terrorist”, “Islamist”, “holy warrior” and even “caliphate” are also to be removed from diplomatic discourse.

And ends by stating this fact:

An Administration that continues to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority and billions of petro-dollars to our enemies should be more concerned with legitimizing jihadists by funding them than they are about nomenclature.

In an article on Terrorism, Basic Projects writes:

Many counterterrorism experts, including former CIA Director James Woolsey and founding member of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, Dr. Bruce Tefft, agree, it is not a question of “if” there will be another attack on American soil, it is a question of “when.” The only questions left unanswered about this future attack are how lethal it will be, where it will take place and whether we will have had enough foresight to have acquired the information needed to literally help save our own lives.

The issue of terrorism is a deadly serious one. It directly affects every American – as well as every freedom loving citizen of the world, yet accurate, fact-based, first-source information on the threat of terrorism is not readily accessible. Adequate information about the threat we face is not forthcoming from our government nor are we served by an agenda-driven media. Websites that offer accurate information on the threat of terrorism are routinely removed from private sector Internet search engine indexes for mentioning radical Islam’s use of terrorism in jihad, while those who do attempt to educate the public on the origins and activities of terror groups in the United States are either ignored by the mainstream media or smeared by biased special interest groups.

Contact your Congressional Representatives in the Senate and the House. Contact Senator John Sydney McCain, Senator Ronald Ernest Paul, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Senator Barack Hussein Obama. Do not allow Islam in any of its faces to create its Twelfth Caliphate in the USofA. This is no joke and it's not funny. The borders must be closed to unlawful entry by anyone from any nation. Immigrants must undergo a physical and a background check. Remember what occurred on 09/11/01. It would not have happened if we still used Ellis Island for all immigrant entry into the USofA.

Innundated with Politics and Burned Out

Earlier in a post, I think, maybe I just spoke to friends, but I recall saying that the nomination process was too long. What it's done has totally burned me out.

I'm tired of reading about all of Barack Hussein Obama Junior's "fairy tales" about his life. I'm tired of the empty words and lack of substance in what he says. I'm tired of his condescending manners when speaking of us "white folk" as if we weren't listening, reading or watching him speak. I'm tired of his detached attitude. He is definitely Saul Alinsky's and Jeremiah Wright's and his anthropologist mother's and Arab Muslim father's and step-father's child.

If you have questions, read The Obama File.

I'm tired of reading about all of Hillary Rodham Clinton's exploits and how they make her more qualified to be President than anyone else. I'm tired of her inflating her importance in her speeches. I'm just tired of the Clinton name, we already had it for eight years and that was the maximum anyone should have to put up with them.

For more information check out No Hillary Clinton.

John Sydney McCain is the presumptive Republican Party Nominee.

I hope Bob Barr does not run as a third party candidate.

Ralph Nader is already running on the Green Party ticket.

I have no idea who the Libertarian candidate is.

There may be others.

But right now, I'm burned out over this. I'm going on vacation soon, anyway, so I am going to leave this blog alone for a while and ignore politics (if that's possible) for a while.

There are enough links on this blog to keep the reader busy for longer than I'll be burned out. So please, enjoy.



Later, Much later, Auntie Coosa

PS: Enjoy the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the USofA next week.

Comparing HRC, BHO, and JSMcC

Hillary R Clinton= "I wanna be President; it's my turn now. It's my turn, it's not fair if someone else gets to be President when it's MY turn!"

Barack H Obama= "I said I was going to be President when I was registered at Besuki Primary School, in Jakarta, Indonesia, as Barry Soetoro, Muslim."

John S McCain= "I have an Economic Stimulus plan that will work for the benefit of all Americans; I want to keep taxes low and fair; I represent common sense and fiscal restraint in Federal Government spending; I support Health Care Reform which makes patients the center of care and gives them a larger role in health care decisions; I will nominate judges who understand that their role is to faithfully apply the law as written; after experiencing five years as a POW in Vietnam, I firmly believe in the protection of human dignity; I believe in government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" not governmental handouts to special interest groups; I believe we cannot fail in Iraq, because failure there means failure here in America; I believe in making our borders secure and in immigration reform; I believe in honoring our national commitment to our veterans; I believe in equal opportunity and equal access in educating students; I believe the President's first duty is to "preserve and protect" American citizens and to adapt our nation's defenses to the demands of a changing and dangerous world; I believe in common sense stewardship of our Natural Heritage and I commit myself to to clean air and water, and to conserving open space; I believe that the right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is a fundamental, individual Constitutional right that we have a sacred duty to protect even as we insure that criminals who violate the law are prosecuted to the fullest extent; and I support NASA and the Space Program."