Conservatives Boo McCain!
HP-After facing whithering attacks from conservatives, presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain addressed party activists on Thursday at CPAC (after Mitt Romney dropped out). The question remained: How would he be greeted? Conference organizers warned not to boo McCain — and what happened? There was booing.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Many CPAC Conservatives Not Sold On McCain
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
February 07, 2008
Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - Scores of conservatives sporting candidate buttons and hats gathered Thursday for the start of the 35th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at the start of the conference, with the crowd rising to its feet to support Cheney’s remarks about Bush’s successes fighting the war on terror and the debt Americans owe to the men and women who are on the frontline of that battle.
GOP frontrunner John McCain also spoke at Thursday’s event. Cybercast News Service asked some of the attendees whether they think McCain is a conservative.
Nanette Everson, director of the Heritage Foundation job bank, said she was speaking as an individual and not as a foundation spokeswoman. Everson said she thought McCain was conservative on matters of national security and “stacked up acceptably” on social issues. Listen to Audio
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February 7th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Interesting the conference organizers tried to pre-warn the attendees not to boo at McCain. Pray tell, how is one supposed to receive a TRAITOR?!
February 7th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
When did the boo’s come. I watched for a while when he started speaking and didn’t hear them. Was it later in the speech?
I watched the link you provided and that wasn’t even close to really booing. It was more like, “you are right, we won’t let you forget but there was no long lasting booing and instead it sounded like they appreciated the “humor” of his saying what he did and admitting he wasn’t going to please them on this.
Yes, they disagree and so do many of us, but that wasn’t anything close to really “booing.”
So, was there some later, not in that video?
February 7th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
The GOP’s designated loser may not even know he is being led to slaughter. Or, if he does, and he is willingly doing so, then maybe he can at least say, “I was a contender” in his autobiography.
Or, do you think he can win in Nov? What if we have a terrorist attack before then?
February 7th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
“Secure the borders first” is simply a talking point for the “McCandidate”. That one has been around for probably over a year among the Republican “grassroots”. As Hugh would say he’s an “open borders enthusiast”. I don’t give a damn about how “Numbers U.S.A.” grades him on this. That’s just based on campaign promises. What a joke. The elephant never forgets.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Yeah, McCain is about as sharp as a tack.
I watched one of his townhall meetings and just about shit myself. When asked a question about the economy he called on the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard (Carly Fiorina) to answer the question (and it was a simple question about banking finance).
This is NOT the guy we need to help the economy. Hell, at this point his track record indicates that the only thing he knows about the economy is how to screw it up.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:33 am
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February 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am
The only people clapping for McCain were the ones who showed up before he came in and didn’t pay to be there. McCain/Kennedy was not about securing our borders first - it was about letting illegals stay in the country and be allowed to apply for citizenship someday - BOOOO!
February 8th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Mona Charen adds her voice to the anti-McCain movement — http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2008/02/08/why_they_cant_vote_for_mccain
Excerpt — “There is a strutting self-righteousness about McCain that goes hand in hand with a nitroglycerin temper. He flatters himself that his colleagues in the Senate dislike him because he stands up for principle whereas they sell their souls for pork. Not exactly. He is disliked because on many, many occasions, he has been disrespectful, belligerent and vulgar to those who differ with him.”
February 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Agreed Bart.
The GOP has no intention of winning in the fall. Let the Democrats have the Presidency, and a filibuster proof Congress.
I believe Romney dropped out because of what he is seeing in the economy and that even if we have a mild recession, it will only be due to massive deficit spending and new debt with the consumer.
When he said the economy was in a “long slide” and that we were headed for a “France” style nation and 2nd tier status, he set the stage for a “comeback” in 2012 after the crisis gets really bad and the Democrats have been blamed for it.
I have seen more than one article that McCain is the “designated loser” for this fall. Why be in office and in power when the voters are going to blame them for what happens.
Romney’s comments were very carefully chosen and calculated to be “remembered.” He will be able to play the video tapes of those comments in four years and say, “I warned you.”
February 8th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Ann Coulter summarizes the presidential race quite well:
“If Hillary is elected president, we’ll have a four-year disaster, with Republicans ferociously opposing her, followed by Republicans zooming back into power, as we did in 1980, 1994 and 2000.
If McCain is elected president, we’ll have a four-year disaster, with the Republicans in Congress co-opted by “our” president, followed by 30 years of Democratic rule.
There’s your choice, America.”
February 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
quote:
Defenseless and Stupid
by J. R. Nyquist
Weekly Column Published: 02.08.2008
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A recent Pravda headline stated, “USA absolutely defenseless against possible attack from Russia or China.” Of course, this headline seems ludicrous to most Americans. But there is nothing ludicrous about it. In 1998 a leading Russian military defector told me that Russia and China could combine to defeat the United States in a future war. Yes, such a war is possible, even if the Americans think it’s some kind of joke. According to Pravda, “No matter how mighty it may seem, the United States of America is defenseless in the face of an external enemy. Neither the U.S. Army nor the National Guard will be able to rebuff a sudden attack due to the lack of military training and equipment.”
Pravda’s assessment of American strategic vulnerability refers to a 400-page study “prepared by the independent committee which the U.S. Congress set up to test the battling capacity of the national Armed Forces.” According to Pravda, “Any unexpected attack against the USA with the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons will become fatal for the [Americans]….”
Whatever your opinion of the War in Iraq, the most strategically significant result of the war has nothing to do with Iraq. Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has admitted that the U.S. military commitment to Iraq and Afghanistan “may have undermined the military’s ability to fight wars against major adversaries….” The U.S. military has changed its focus, losing sight of the real enemy – the most dangerous enemy of all.
Financial Sense
February 8th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Here’s what the “McGlobalist” has for solving our health care issues.
Bill to improve health care…in Mexico!
http://tinyurl.com/2gq8ym
February 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Jan
They also have our money!
February 8th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Bill, in that link they said,
I don’t know. Maybe we’re too stupid to have a democracy.
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Yup. We are also so stupid we did away with a Republic to have a democracy at the national level even though our founders warned us of the danger of one.
John. Most of the world has our currency.
quote:
Russia, China, and India own almost $2 trillion of those dollars. Throw in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan and we rise to $3.1 trillion, or 93% of all dollar reserves in the hands of just six countries.
Source
The problems, however are not with those nations but with voters that don’t know what their demands on government is costing us as a nation.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Comedy : debate between democrat and republican
Sounds more like reality than comedy.
Inflation wars
Return of the Fedi (Jedi)
Others on this link
Financial Sense Follies
We need to “lighten up” and these are good.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
The links on the left column of that site are Jim Puplava doing an imitation of Andy Rooney on financial things like
Credit Meltdown
Humorous.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
What McCain, or Hillary or Obama may be facing
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NEW YORK: U.S. financial markets’ moves over the past year reminds veteran investors of the early days of Japan’s economic bust, but faster responses by the Federal Reserve and U.S. banks should help avert what happened to Japan in the “lost decade.”
Similarities between the problems in the United States now and in Japan nearly 20 years ago cannot be dismissed lightly. In both cases, there are plunging government bond yields, a troubled real estate market and a debt-burdened banking sector.
It is likely that a scenario similar to what happened in Japan will play out in the United States, with economic and asset growth coming to a standstill but for a shorter period of time.
The comparatively fast reactions by the Fed, which has cut benchmark lending rates by 225 basis points since September, and by U.S. banks, which have written off more than $70 billion in bad debt, signal that investors should not fear the type of recession that hit Japan.
Source
If they are wrong and this stimulus package doesn’t work and the rate cuts don’t stem the tide, then whoever wins this fall may face a very disturbing economic problem. Japan has suffered for 17 years under their crisis.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Jan re:
“Bill, in that link they said,
I don’t know. Maybe we’re too stupid to have a democracy.”
I agree with this assessment except for the “we” and the “Democracy”. Because as you know the best way to keep the power in the hands of the people is a Constitutional Republic.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
(As “we” know)
February 8th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
You are right, Bill.
We had “democracy” at the local level the most and it worked because we had the county and state levels acting as checks and then finally the Federal level acting as a check on the states in case “democracy” became “mob rule.”
On the other forum you recently joined we have posted some article on our sovereignty and how we have lost so much through various agreements where we let other organizations dictate what we can and can’t do.
We have an article under Other Foreign News Affecting America
Defenseless and Stupid
by J. R. Nyquist
That you may be interested in concerning Russia and China.
I think Romney was right even though I wasn’t supporting his campaign, when he said we were going to become a 2nd tier power.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
“when he said we were going to become a 2nd tier power.”
Romney is late to the game.
The U.S. is already like that relative that always wants to borrow some money, and then gets pissed when you say “no”.
Plenty of other advanced nations have similar freedoms as we do, and most advanced nations offer the same standards of living. Most investors also have access to global investment markets (regardless of where they live).
It’s time to face up to the fact that the only truly valuable role we (the United States) play these days is as the policeman with a very big gun, and lots of attack dogs.
So, with that, perhaps we should cut all domestic programs and focus 100% of our national resources into global law enforcement and war-making capabilities.
February 9th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
That would mean the end of the loans.
The entire G-7 is in trouble economically. There are several things going on globally that most in our government aren’t prepared for. That is why all the panic right now by not just the Fed, but in other nation’s central banks and nations that are trying very hard to keep the U.S. above water. It is why they are so desperate to get the consumer going again.
They are afraid it won’t be in a few years, but now that their house of cards come tumbling down.
February 9th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
By the way, I don’t believe Romney got out for any “heroic” effort to help McCain win.
He got out because he is afraid the collapse may come before the next President’s term ends. He is a “business man.” He was running based on an assumption this crisis was ending. Now, he doesn’t know. Why be in office and get blamed for something you didn’t cause when you are young enough to run again in 4 or 8 years.
This wasn’t about anybody but Romney. His, “if it was just about me,” is “smoke.” It was about “me.” But, that doesn’t take away from the warning he gave. It is real. That much, at least was true.
In fact, he is counting on it to be true. He is counting on it happening before he runs again so he can run the video of that speech and say, “I told you so.”