Hey… wasn’t that the nail in the political coffin for Bush Sr.?

No new taxes is an easy pledge. McCain will NEED ROMNEY FOR VP IF HE WANTS TO FIX THE ECONOMY. http://www.unitethegop.com

So did “Bush the 1st” I am having Dejavu. I just figured dejavu would be closer to this current year. Not a complete Blast from the FAR past!….Is McCain a Bush Clone like in that movie “Invasion”…we need to check this one out folks.

McCain has experience compared to Obama and Clinton.

Has anyone noticed that Obama has kind of a greenish tint to his complexion? I’m serious… at first I thought it was my TV but everybody else looks normal. It’s just him. Is he originally from Roswell? Or could it be that since he is getting everybody else to settle for “change” as in not cash but change maybe the thought of getting all their cash is affecting his pigmentation.

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Can’t the Republicans say anything new???????

CAN WE NOT HAVE A PRESIDENT===ALL THE CHOICES WE HAVE ARE A PIECE OF DOG CRAP, ALL 3 WANT TO GIVE AMERICA TO MEXICO, HILLARY HAS TO PROMISE BILL WONT MOLEST INTERNS AGAIN,ALL ARE BABY KILLERS–OBAMA IS DRUG USER LIKE BILL CLINTON WAS

With all due respect to Chris Wallace, who I like a lot, that is a question aimed at painting a president into a corner. Who among us would want a president to develop a bunker mentality on anything… different times, changing conditions, and a completely intransigent, inflexible, and insane democratic Congress could force a president to adapt.

He’s made it clear, his background has made it clear. No new taxes, no earmarks, no spending beyond absolute need. Sounds kind of refreshing to me.

The democratic mantra of tax and spend is a failed economic policy. Supply side economics is taught in every Economics 101 class in America, while Keynesian theories are presented as the failed tendencies of the left in this country. And this is being taught at every liberal university in America… go figure!

McCain is moderate on some issues, and very conservative on others. Frankly, a man who’s time has come. Can you imagine a Rush Limbaugh clone having to work with Pelosi and Reid? Talk about gridlock in Washington.

Finally mcCain has seen the light. Yes he has flipped flopped as long as he does it in the right direction. mcCian/Romney 08

HUckabee get a life! (yes he has flipped flopped also)

The momentum is shifting (down only 4 percent in latest WIS polls). Mike Huckabee continues to surprise and will gain momentum from Wisconsin. I am glad the voters in Wisconsin are voting for what they believe instead of what talking heads and moderate republicans are telling them.

Dates N/Pop Huckabee McCain Paul Undecided
American Research Group 2/15-16/08 600 LV 42 46 4 7

Matt writes…

The momentum is shifting (down only 4 percent in latest WIS polls). Mike Huckabee continues to surprise and will gain momentum from Wisconsin. I am glad the voters in Wisconsin are voting for what they believe instead of what talking heads and moderate republicans are telling them.<<<

What poll are you looking at? Hillary is down 4% to Obama in Wisconsin. Huckabee is down about 17%.

McCain’s pledge of “no new taxes,” with no explanation of how he would do this and make any real attempt to balance the budget, simply reinforces the problem the Republican party has that they are the more fiscally responsible party.

The budget deficit, national debt, weakening dollar, and inflation all create national security issues, and are rapidly becoming a mainstreet issues. We don’t need “no new taxes” rhetoric; we need real solutions.

I hope that includes that 50ct a gallon gasoline tax he was talking about!

I am an independent and as Neil Boortz would describe me a “REPUBLICRAT’. I cannot at this early date say how I will vote in November but I assure you, it will not be for another Clinton.

Scott 919

Here you go. ARG had the correct winner in Tennessee one day before voting.

http://americanresearchgroup.com/

Matt writes…

Here you go. ARG had the correct winner in Tennessee one day before voting.<<<

Ah! Thanks. One of the ones they were correct about. Unfortunately ARG is one of the least reliable pollsters around with an average error margin of 13.4%. Survey USA by comparison has an error margin of 4.31%, Quinnipiac 4.5%, Insider Advantage 5.83%, and Strategic Vision 6.25%. Even CNN has been more accurate at 12.27%. I wouldn’t put a great deal of stock in what ARG reports, unfortunately.

A Republican debate was scheduled to take place on February 28th, 2008. It was to be sponsored by the Ohio Republican Party. This debate has since been mysteriously cancelled. A rush to judgment has ensued following the Super Tuesday elections on February 5th in which more than 21 states held primaries or caucuses. Sen. John McCain gained an enormous advantage and squeezed out Gov. Mitt Romney. Gov. Mike Huckabee was left standing as the Party’s only other viable candidate.

We believe:
1) Sen. McCain should earn the respect of the Republican base by debating Mike Huckabee in one or more formal Lincoln-Douglas style debates.
2) that failure to publicly engage Gov. Huckabee in debate before March 4th should be considered a gross attempt to grab the nomination without properly demonstrating a viable candidacy.

Thus, we hereby petition Sen. McCain to accept an invitation to debate Mike Huckabee with all due haste and prove or disprove his worthiness.

To Sign this petition go to:

http://www.petitiononline.com/jkb1961/petition.html

I see Fox news and the rest are building their case for Hillary now. Better ratings for a closer race and show down with McCain in November.
Something for all you to think about. George W. Bush (YALE) Bill Clinton (YALE) George Jr. Bush (YALE) Hillary Cilton (YALE) 20 years running with eight more to go. Nice.

If the truth comes out about Senator McCain’s past, he will have to withdraw from the Presidential race. Stay with it.

The spoiled son of military privilege got a free ride throughout his military career despite repeated instances of sex scandals and screw-ups
By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
January 27, 2008
John Sidney McCain III entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1954. Young McCain wanted to become an admiral. He planned to be the “first son and grandson of four star admirals” to achieve such a distinction. But that was not to be. McCain III possessed none of the innate character and discipline traits that helped mold his father and grandfather into great military leaders.

His father, John S. “Junior” McCain, and grandfather, John S. McCain, Sr., were famous four-star Admirals in the U.S. Navy. His father commanded U.S. forces in Europe before becoming commander of American forces fighting in Vietnam. His grandfather commanded naval aviation at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Both men became highly influential in U.S. Navy operations.

At the Academy, aside being known as a “rowdy, raunchy, underachiever” who resented authority, Midshipman McCain became infamous as a leader among his fellow midshipmen for organizing “off-Yard activities” and hard drinking parties. Robert Timberg wrote in his book, The Nightingale’s Song, that “being on liberty with John McCain was like being in a train wreck.”

McCain’s grades were “marginal.” He drew so many demerits for breaking curfew and other discipline issues that he graduated fifth from the bottom of the class of 1958. Despite his low “class standing,” and no doubt because of the influence of his family of famous Admirals, McCain was leap-frogged ahead of more qualified applicants and granted a coveted slot to be trained as a navy pilot.

Good Party Animal - Bad Pilot:

He spent the next two and a half years as a “naval aviator in training” at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida and Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, flying A-1 Skyraiders.

While a pilot trainee, McCain continued to party hard. He drove a Corvette and dated an exotic dancer named “Marie the Flame of Florida.” Timberg wrote that McCain “learned to fly at Pensacola, though his performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn’t love it.”

McCain Lost Five Military Aircraft

McCain, the “below par” pilot, eventually lost 5 military aircraft, the first during a training flight in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while trying to land. The Navy ignored the crash and graduated McCain in 1960.

While deployed in the Mediterranean, the hard partying McCain lost a second aircraft. Timberg described the crash: “Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.”

Unscathed, McCain returned to Pensacola Station where he was promoted to flight instructor for Naval Air Station Meridian in Mississippi. The airfield at Meridian, McCain Field, was named in honor of McCain’s grandfather.

In 1964 McCain became involved with Carol Shepp, a model from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he had met at Annapolis. They were married in Philadelphia on July 3, 1965.

Flight instructor McCain lost a third aircraft while flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg wrote that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain parachuted onto a beach moments before his plane slammed into a clump of trees.

The Navy dismissed the crash as “unavoidable” and assigned McCain to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in December 1966, which was patrolling the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In Spring 1967, the Forrestal was assigned to join the Operation Rolling Thunder bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

McCain lost his fourth plane on board the Forrestal on July 29, 1967 when a rocket inadvertently slammed into his bomb laden jet. McCain escaped, but the explosions that followed killed 134 sailors. McCain was transferred from the badly damaged Forrestal to the USS Oriskany. Shortly afterwards, on Oct. 26, 1967, he was shot down and captured by the Vietnamese.

Post-POW Years: Political Ambition and a New, Young, Rich Wife

Upon his release from North Vietnam and return to the United States in 1973, McCain reunited with his wife, Carol, who had been permanently crippled in a car accident while he was a POW.

Still yearning to become an admiral, McCain enrolled in the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. and underwent physical therapy in order to fly again. The Navy excused his permanent disabilities and reinstated him to flight status, effectively positioning him for promotion.

Timberg described McCain’s advancement: “in the fall of 1974, McCain was transferred to Jacksonville as the executive officer of Replacement Air Group 174, the long-sought flying billet at last a reality. A few months later, he assumed command of the RAG, which trained pilots and crews for carrier deployments. The assignment was controversial, some calling it favoritism, a sop to the famous son of a famous father and grandfather, since he had not first commanded a squadron, the usual career path.”

While Executive Officer and later as Squadron Commander McCain used his authority to arrange frequent flights that allowed him to carouse with subordinates and “engage in extra-marital affairs.”

This was a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice rules against adultery and fraternization with subordinates. But, as with all his other past behaviors, McCain was never penalized; instead he always got away with his transgressions.

Timberg wrote, “Off duty, usually on routine cross-country flights to Yuma and El Centro, John started carousing and running around with women. To make matters worse, some of the women with whom he was linked by rumor were subordinates . . . At the time the rumors were so widespread that, true or not, they became part of McCain’s persona, impossible not to take note of.”

In early 1977, Admiral Jim Holloway, Chief of Naval Operations promoted McCain to captain and transferred him from his command position “to Washington as the number-two man in the Navy’s Senate liaison office. McCain was promptly given total control of the office. It wasn’t long before the “fun loving and irreverent” McCain had turned the liaison office into a “late-afternoon gathering spot where senators and staffers, usually from the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, would drop in for a drink and the chance to unwind.”

In 1979, while attending a military reception in Hawaii, McCain met and fell in love with Cindy Lou Hensley, 17 years his junior, who was the daughter of James W. Hensley, a wealthy Anheuser-Busch distributor from Phoenix, Arizona. McCain filed for and obtained an uncontested divorce from his wife in Florida on April 2, 1980 and promptly married Cindy on May 17, 1980.

He resigned from the Navy in 1981 and went to work for his father-in-law in Phoenix; where he used the opportunity to make powerful and wealthy friends in Arizona including banker Charles Keating and Duke Tully, the editor-in-chief of the Arizona Republic. Keating was later convicted of fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy and Tully was disgraced for concocting a phony military record of combat in Korea and Vietnam including medals for heroism.

McCain ran for Arizona’s First Congressional District in 1982. McCain won the congressional seat. In 1987 McCain was elected to the Senate.

He was born in Panama. How could he be President?

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If Ron Paul was saying that I’d believe it, but McCain… yeah right. hahahaha