Hm...
This I love:
"his merry band of supporters too kooky to brush aside."
But anyway, about McCain:
He was my second choice after Giuliani. I share your admiration of him as a veteran and I especially admire the stance he's taken on waterboarding as torture. It's a very convincing one.
I just posted something on the Republican debate that you might like if you're following this sort of thing...
Hi Ruthie
Good to hear from you again. How are things? I was sorry to hear about James and the Crushed debacle. I'll check out your post.
I didn't realise that you'd resumed blogging. It seems like a very fair assessment of McCain.
Ross
Will be posting some stuff here, but more at the ALS.
I enjoyed reading that thoughtful analysis but I'm afraid I'm in the Ann Coulter camp on this one. I'd sooner see Hillary than McCain.
I'd vote for Ron Paul in the primaries, but faced with a choice between McCain (who really does seem sincere enough) and the shrieking harridan Clinton or the oleagenous racist Obama Bin Laden, there's no way I'd vote for anybody other than McCain in the proper elections. That Romney seems well dodgy as well.
Hi mate
Good assessment. I'd vote for McCain too if I were a US citizen.
Steyn, Coulter, Limbaugh are acting like total retards about this.
Yeh not a fan of McCain. He's a warmonger and a statist from way back. Personally I'm backing Obama from here on in.
He's hinted at decriminalizing pot and seems relatively harmless on the economy (for a dem).
Besides which the Republicans should have earned a bench seat for the next term of office. Maybe that time will allow them to get back to their roots a bit.
New grunts in Nam were very grateful for air support... until they came to the village strewn with charred and broken bodies of old men, women and children; that's when they became old grunts, seeing pilots as the mincing princes and callous, oblivious appendages of the war machine that they were.
Now maybe it was brave for McCain to climb into a plane and risk the slight odds of getting shot down, I'm not privy to the fears he may have had to overcome, but it was no more brave than the agorophobe who goes out to get his mail. However, being a tool in the fight in support of a corrupt government, the vestiges of colonialism, and the pulled-from-the-ass domino theory - and never realizing it - makes one a fool just as cheering the invasion and occupation of a nation which had done nothing against the U.S., in contravention of both the Nurnberg Protocols and the U.N. Charter, makes one a criminal. I, for one, have had enough of fools and criminals in the executive.
ps- A U.S. president has no power to overturn court decisions, even ones like Roe v Wade. All he can do is appoint judges, if there are vacancies, who might decide in such a manner, something, btw, which he has hinted he would do, though I suspect this just an appeal to the snake handler faction of the Bush-poisoned GOP.
"Ron Paul should be the obvious candidate but his history is too murky too ignore, his character questionable and his merry band of supporters too kooky to brush aside."
This is a very disappointing and petty dismissal. Pon Paul is not perfect but none of the other candidates can hold a light to his consistency and intelligence on policy. On what do you base your 'questionable character' assesment? Association? Let's see if Hillary or Obama can pass your test. It's a shame Guiliani has gone as he was a real principled fellow too eh?
You bag Bill Gates for his economic illiteracy yet you would vote for economic ignoramus and inveterate warrior McCain. The US is bankrupt and it will take nothing short of a miracle to get the country and the $US back on track. Continued government largesse, military adventurism and international meddling financed by inflation (and loans from China etc.) will destroy the $US and further drag the whole western world into recession.
Mencken said; "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." And so they will. McCain cannot beat either of the Democrat candidates, but then again I'm told those voting machines are a bit unreliable. God bless the USSA or will it be EUSA?
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