She was just interviewed on Cavuto and finished with, Mccain is suppose to be tough on terror yet he has a problem when we drop water down terrorists noses.
HAHAHAHAHA!
I used to think the same thing when he was whining about waterboarding a year or so back.
tim314… I have no idea why. They’re ass-aching like anything about mccain and as far as I’m concerned, they’re just throwing a collective tantrum because they really romney to win, apparently. I had no idea until this afternoon that they preferred romney.
And what are they gonna do about it. vote for hillary for real? no way. They’re just bluffing.
That’s definitely part of it, for a certain crowd. There is a distinct “nativist” strain of late, but its just one of many sub-sets that have made up the Pubbie coalition. I think a broader group dislike McCain for a perceived disloyalty, he ran against Bush and dared to suggest that he Emperor was not as well dressed as he made out to be.
But they’ll come around if, as it appears likely, they are stuck with him. Previous statements will be explained away, clarified into oblivion. Guys like Rush will simply pretend they never said anything of the sort, thank you very much. When they own their own private microphone, no one can force them to confront anything unpleasant.
There’s some kinda irony here - McCain has survived torture, and he’s being denounced by Coulter, who I would only watch under the threat of torture.
Eh?
We are allied with McCain against Eastasia. We have always been allied with McCain against Eastasia.
Those are just what I remember off of the top of my head. I don’t wish to debate any of those issues in this thread, but none of them strike me as “conservative”…
Would you watch her if she were doing the Scylla test?
BTW, jtgain, ISTM that the attempt to end judicial filibusters was a somewhat radical action.
I dispute that cutting taxes is always a “conservative” position. Many self-identified conservatives are fiscal conservatives as distinct from free-marketeers or small-government conservatives – IOW, their first priority is to avoid deficit spending, even if that requires high taxes – as it always would, in wartime.
Maybe it’s because he’s had to live through it in the past. Seems to me he’d be the reigning expert on torture among this group of candidates.
Clinton or Coulter?
Good question. And how dessicated is any corpse likely to get bobbing about in the briny?
I hear these offenses are all legally considered treason in Oklahoma.
I’ve heard people making noises about how they’ll vote for McCain/3rd party/flee the country if Obama/Clinton wins the Democratic primary. But for the most part these are either lone voices on the Internet or folks on the fringes.
Coulter’s a loony, but she’s more mainstream and more influential to the Republicans than anyone I’ve heard on the Democratic side. I wonder what’s gonna happen if McCain wins.
A lot of conservatives are still too much in love with Reagan. And not the real Ronald Reagan. They’re pining for the Reagan of their rosy-colored memories. Nobody can compete with that.
I think a lot of this current talk among conservative pundits is bluff. McCain did waver at one point and tried to suck up to the conservative establishment. But he then decided to follow a more moderate campaign. Now it’s working and he’s the Republican front runner.
So the conservative pundits are trying to bring him back to the Dark Side. They’re threatening to speak out against him in hopes that he will submit. They want him to rejoin their movement and publically show he respects their wisdom. If McCain does back down and seeks their blessing, they win regardless of whether or not McCain wins - they’ll have shown that a Republican nominee needs conservative approval.
The next big gamble will be what will they do if McCain defies them? Will the conservative pundits back down instead and support McCain so they can at least claim they were a part of the winning side if he gets elected? Or will they openly break with McCain and hope he loses, thereby showing future Republican candidates that they need conservative backing? Because the worst-case scenario for the conservative media is if they break with McCain and he wins anyway. If that happens, the conservative media will have shown it’s no longer a major power in American politics.
One wonders if the folks screaming now that there’s no way they’d vote for Hillary, will feel the same way come election day if she get’s the nom and not Obama.
As for conservatism being dead politically, well, truthfully, we haven’t had a conservative President in ages. We’ve had Presidents who’ve called themselves conservative, but, in fact, have been everything but conservative. 'Tis a shame, too, as a real conservative President wouldn’t have done the kind of damage to this country that the supposed conservative ones have done.