Uh Oh Canada's Health Care Monopoly

Canadian gub'mint healthcare: precarious...

The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.

Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country - who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting - recognize that changes must be made.

"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize," Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

Now, the Canadian doctors aren't calling for an end to their "universal" - but not readily available and crumbling - health care system, but the changes proposed bring them closer to our way. We should take note of that. One other thing, BigDog (blogging at RightWingSparkle) warns us not to get complacent just because it seems we've won a couple of victories in this fight against statism.

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Obama: Straining, Stressing, & Piercing

Obama turns out to be brilliant at becoming, not being, president

If he wins it, will be a victory not worth having. It will have cost too much. It has lessened the thing an admired president must have from the people, and that is trust. [...]

The president seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics—the swift rise, the astute reading of a varied electorate—who is finding out day by day that he isn't actually all that good at it. In this sense he does seem reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, who was brilliant at becoming president but not being president. (Actually a lot of them are like that these days.)

Also, something odd. When Mr. Obama stays above the fray, above the nitty-gritty of specifics, when he confines his comments on health care to broad terms, he more and more seems . . . pretty slippery. In the town hall he seemed aware of this, and he tried to be very specific about the need for this aspect of a plan, and the history behind that proposal. And yet he seemed even more slippery. When he took refuge in the small pieces of his argument, he lost the major threads; when he addressed the major threads, he seemed almost to be conceding that the specifics don't hold.

When you seem slippery both in the abstract and the particular, you are in trouble.

Good column by Peggy Noonan. It would be better if she hadn't spent so much time beguiled with Obama during the campaign, but I guess she called it as she saw it. At least she's admitting it ain't panning out.

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Politics Often Requires Stitches...

Remember people - if Obama or ACORN does it then it's a sedate "community organized" meeting. If a conservative or conservative group does it... IT'S A MOB! RUN! RUN!

Mob Rule or Democracy in Action? Health Care Debate Focuses on Opponents Over Substance

Democrats are stepping up their campaign against opponents of health care reforms, depicting town hall audiences protesting a Democratic-sponsored bill as angry mobs duped into hostile actions by special interest groups.

The Democratic National Committee released a Web video and e-mail on Wednesday blasting opponents of the 10-year, $1 trillion plan.

Titled "Enough of the Mob," the ad warns that the "right wing extremist base" is back after losing the presidential election, a series of legislative battles and the confidence of Americans. [...]

Republicans have seized on the charges.

"Instead of acknowledging the widespread anger millions of Americans are feeling this summer toward Democrat-controlled Washington, Washington Democrats are trying to dismiss it as a fabrication," House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement. "That isn't likely to sit well with Americans outside of Washington who are struggling and wondering when their elected leaders are going to wake up and change course."

The Republican National Committee fired back with an e-mail titled "THE MOB? Hey Democrats, They're Called The American People." The e-mail goes on to list a series of links to stories and polls revealing growing doubts about Obama's top domestic priority and his economic policies.

And the Libertarian Party said Obama, a former community organizer, should think twice before approving a campaign that attacks communities for organizing, even if it's against him.

"Libertarians find it ironic a community organizer is now using the government to try and stop people from organizing their communities," Libertarian National Committee spokesman Donny Ferguson said in a statement.

"Instead of using official edicts to smear, slander and intimidate everyday Americans into silence, Democrats should listen to the majority of Americans and drop their plans for a radical government takeover of their health care."

My opinion? If these are organized groups getting out to protest this health care scam - it's about damn time! that conservatives & libertarians got their act together. How long have Democrats used Unions as a personal "flash mob"? Decades? A century? Not to mention ACT, Moveon.org, the Kossacks, and other Soros funded armies. Politics is rough and tumble - and filled with dead smelly fish as Rahm hath shown us - so if Dems can't stand the sight of needles and scalpels... and blood... maybe they should get out of the operating room.

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Nasty Liberals Are Frightened Liberals

Don't let things like this: Letterman’s ‘Top Ten’ Riffs on Palin’s ‘Slutty Flight Attendant’ Look, or this: Comedian on 'Today' Show Trashes Sarah Palin - She's 'Very Much Like Herpes' upset you. Just sit back, smile, and realize that they only attack with such venom when they sense a threat.

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Your Weekly Reagan

Remember Who We Are

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Your Weekly Reagan

Excerpt from A Time for Choosing: Address on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964:

There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in doing so lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well, I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.

Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down--up to a man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

Read the whole thing, better yet listen to it. The names of the enemies of which Reagan spoke and the names of those who would have us give over the planning of our lives to an intrusive government have changed, but his call to action remains relevant to meeting the challenges we face today.

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America Has Spoken

[Note: This post contains elements from several comments I've left in various places over the past two days as well as parts from previous posts ... I wanted to put all my thoughts together in one piece. ~ KevinQC]

I sincerely wish Mr. Obama well. I strongly disagree with him politically but he is the President and he has my support. Support, but not blind devotion. Mr. Obama won. Now he has to lead. We’ll see how he does at that considering he never has before. I believe he will lead us in the wrong direction, and since I do care about my country I’ll be there every step of the way to tell him when he’s wrong and tell him if he’s right. A robust Loyal Opposition.

I hope the conservative movement - which is still alive and well - doesn’t take the low road that the unhinged left have been on for the last 8 years. For us it should not be about politics and power; but about love for our country and respect for the principles of freedom and liberty it was founded on.

As for McCain, I warned you when I decided to make a go of supporting him that I would say "I told you so." Well, I told you so. His political sun should be allowed to set. I lay the lion’s share of the blame for this loss on our choice of the wrong candidate. They say you have to dance with the one what brung ya… unfortunately our date had two left feet.

The conservative movement can learn from this defeat. Compromising our principles means loss. Watering down our message to appeal to “moderates” and “independents” is a recipe for failure. It’s time for those like McCain, Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonan, John Boehner, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney and other Republican politicians and pundits who believe the party’s future lies in that watered down version of conservatism to step aside. They’ve proven they can’t lead.

It’s time to shed the dead weight and focus on our future and the leaders who can bring us back to our foundation and principles. Though this isn’t an exhaustive list, the ones that spring to mind are Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Sarah Palin of Alaska, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan. They are the future.

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Solidarity... It Defeated Communism Once Already...

Via Iowahawk: I hope you will join me in expressing a simple bit of solidarity with this guy, Spartacus style. I AM JOE. I am a Wal Mart schlub in flyover country who changes my own oil and unclogs drains without a license. I smoke and drink beer and toss the football in the front yard with my kid, and I figure I can fend my way without handouts from some Magic Messiah's candy bags. Most everyone in my family and most everyone I grew up with is another Joe, and if you screw with them, you screw with me.

Are you a Joe? Say it proud. Leave it on every goddamn newspaper comment section and online forum. Let these pressroom and online thugs know you won't stay silent when they try to destroy the life of a private citizen for speaking his mind -- because for every one of them, there are a million Joe Wurzelbachers. And for that we should all be thankful.

Although we don't share all the same pastimes and preferences - I'll take Target over Walmart for instance - I agree with the sentiments. I am Joe.

ht: Tammy Bruce

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It's Time To Drill

VERSE

Everyday the media's telling me
How bad it is in the economy.
Or Hollywood talking about Global Warming-
Tryng to make us feel stupid, and guilty.
They insist that green technology
will reduce foreign oil dependency,
but they just said that we have a weak
econmomy.
Which means it will lack affordability.

There's something that we've got to do before we do that.
Something that will get our money back on track.
You want to go green? It's going to take green,
so get the black gold. Everybody sing.

CHORUS

DRILL!

You got us drilling holes in our pockets.

DRILL!

Instead of drilling holes in the ground.

DRILL!

You can see inflation sky rocket.

DRILL!

We can fix it if we drill here right now.

DRILL!

The more you buy into the ones who stop it.

DRILL!

The more money that you're going to bleed out.

DRILL!

It's time to get the keys, and unlock it.

DRILL!

We can fix it if we drill here right now.

They say it's going to take 10 years well,
They said that 10 years ago so,
Had we done it then we'd have the oil now,
litigation is the time they'll drag out.

Everyday I here this was a war for oil,
though we have our own underneathe American soil.

If that were really true, then why didn't you prevent the
war by stepping aside so we could get our own crude?

The only bloody hands would belong to the left.

Aptly named sinister, and taxin' us to death,

The ministers of victemization, who keep us in
a state of a dependency nation.

REPEAT CHORUS

Music lyrics, and performed by
Alfonzo Rachel

A MACHO SAUCE PRODUCTION

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Just A Thought...

I'm starting to think that it might be worth voting for Palin just to see the loony left melt down like Chernobyl if she wins.

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Thank You Rush!

Hey McCain, write this down: ...if you’re not being called a mean-spirited has-been, who’s in it for the money, engages in personal attacks, gets his facts wrong and plainly is “no Edward R. Murrow”–you ’re not doing it right. ~ Ann Coulter

AND!

Rush, thanks for 20 years of excellence! You'll never know how important you were in helping me realize that it was okay for me to be a conservative even when everyone else was telling me I was off my rocker!

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Give McCain Hell, Ann!

McCain: Pump This!

Well, I guess we're all pretty relieved we didn't drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back in 2002. What a disaster that would have been.

The vote on ANWR was almost entirely along partisan lines, with all Republicans, except a handful of "moderates," voting for drilling, and all Democrats, except a handful of sane Democrats like Zell Miller, voting against drilling.

John McCain opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because he polled soccer moms and found out they were against drilling. They thought it sounded too much like going to the dentist. McCain wanted to ensure that he remained beloved by the two pillars of his base: "centrists" and New York Times reporters.

Even Sen. Chuck Hagel voted for drilling in ANWR. But John McCain, "our" candidate, voted against it.

I guess we're beginning to see the problem of basing a political platform on the passing fancies of "centrists." These are people who have no opinions because they know nothing about national issues. They're the ones who check the "not sure/no opinion" box on polls regarding the legalization of cannibalism.

You can't blame them: They're not being paid to know something about national issues. Those people we call "senators" and "representatives."

You go gurl! Ann goes on to point out McCain's chief weakness: "...that's the downside of having chosen all your political positions by polling centrists: The moment they acquire any knowledge, they'll realize you're an idiot." Amen.

P.S. Get Drunk And Vote 4 McCain is a real website! One commenter there suggests having a Screw Driver. I agree since "screwed" is what we are no matter who wins.

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A Conservative Argument For Same Gender Marriage

From Diogenes Borealis: A Conservative Argues For Same-sex Marriage

An op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Terry J. Garlock argues "Conservatives wrong to fight gay marriage". An excerpt:

I've given this a lot of thought, and I think my prior stand against same-sex marriage was based on my personal thoughts about homosexuality rather than individual liberty. Those are two separate issues. My uneasiness may never go away, no matter how many names the enlightened ones call me, but the freedom of same-sex couples does not depend on my endorsement of their lifestyle.

As a conservative, I believe the state should stay out of the business of judging which unrelated adults may and may not make a marriage commitment to each other, that when a same-sex couple chooses to marry, we conservatives should value their liberty far more than any personal or religious disagreement with homosexuality. Conservatives should welcome the contribution of same-sex marriage to the virtues of commitment and family stability we hold so dear.

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Italy To Use Military To Bolster Police

Italy Defends Move To Patrol Streets With Soldiers

The Italian government has defended its decision to use soldiers to patrol cities in an effort to curb crime, rejecting criticism that it will "militarise" the streets.

"There is a strong call from citizens for better control of the streets, for improved safety," Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa told Sky Italia television.

"My hope is that particularly in the evening, in the cities, these troops can ensure greater safety." [...]

Italy's main trade unions said rather than using soldiers the government should make better use of 25,000 police who are doing desk work, and the mayor of Turin said the move was "populist demagoguery" that would hurt tourism and Italy's image abroad.

This sounds like a good idea to me, and far from making me feel uncomfortable as tourist it would make me feel safer! Italy just went to the top of my travel list in Europe. Especially given how dangerous it's become in the Netherlands and northern Europe because of Muslim aggression. And yes, I know there are Muslims committing violence in Italy, but it's all in how you deal with the problem.

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What Get's The GOP Going This Election Year?

Here's a hint, if you're a conservative it isn't you. Via Rush Limbaugh:

RUSH: Yesterday morning on WLS in Chicago, the Don Wade & Roma Morning Show, our 50,000-watt blowtorch affiliate in Chicagoland, they talked to the chairman of the Republican National Committee Mike Duncan. And Don Wade said, "So, here we have the Rush Limbaugh problem. How are you going to get Rush Limbaugh on the Republican team?"

DUNCAN: Well, obviously we hope that everyone joins the team, and what I'm seeing right now is that nine out of ten Republican voters are rallying around John McCain. On the other side we're seeing, depending on the state, but in some states as many as a third of the Democrats say they won't vote for Barack Obama this fall. Overall, it's about 19% nationally. So we're doing a good job of bringing independents and Democrats over to the Republican side, and they're not doing a very good job of bringing Republicans to Barack Obama, because there's such a stark contrast. Do we want to go back to the 1960s failed ideas of higher taxes and bigger government and judges who legislate from the bench and not having a strong defense? I think the answer is no.

RUSH: Mike, Mike -- (laughing) -- would you calm down, Snerdley! Snerdley is blowing a gasket in there. He says here that nine out of ten Republicans are rallying around John McCain. That means, ladies and gentlemen, that I, because I was in the question, that means that I am one out of ten Republicans not joining John McCain so far. And that's okay. Don't need me and don't need those of you who also comprise the one out of ten who may not be enamored of Senator McCain. Then he goes on to talk about how proud they are they're getting Democrats, how excited the Republican National Committee is to be getting Democrat and independent votes, and Senator McCain is out there actively cultivating them, the Republican National Committee is telling us all here, thanks to Don Wade's question on WLS in Chicago, that they're happy to have these Republicans. And then he says at the end, "Do we want to go back to the 1960s failed ideas of higher taxes and bigger government and judges who legislate --" Mike, you're bringing in people that vote that way. (laughing) You're seeking the votes of Democrats who indeed want to go back to the sixties failed ideas of higher taxes.

These people that are joining McCain are not enamored of McCain. They are angry women fed up with the Democrat Party. They're not looking at McCain as their ideal candidate in terms of issues and ideas. They're joining McCain as a slap at the Democrat Party. This is what I feared. This is what I feared way, way back many, many moons ago -- a little Indian lingo there. I told you that the problem the Republican Party faces, if they're going to go out and recruit Democrats, they better recruit them as converted-to-Republican conservatives, as Reagan did. No, we're happy, we're ecstatic, we're going out there recruiting Democrats because the American people do not want higher taxes, bigger government, judges who legislate from the bench. Well, that's exactly whose votes the Republican National Committee seems to be honored to have.

That's right folks, the GOP insiders are EXCITED that Democrats and Independents are rallying around Sen. Juan "F--- You" McCain. They take conservatives completely for granted. It's not like we poor rubes have anywhere else to go right?

Unfortunately (fortunately? who knows these days?) they're correct about one thing, McCain is going to win. But real conservatives will have the last laugh when they GOP completes it's transition to McCainism and those same pundits that are welcoming the Democrats get put out of a job and a party with a maverick's knife in their backs. Hopefully McCainism will be short lived. I doubt it will go much beyond Juan's desire to get back at the party that humiliated him in 2000, and four to eight years of living out his "Teddy Roosevelt" fantasies. Then when it's all over and McCain retires on a Keatingesque pension fund there just may not be a place for the Mike Duncan's of the world in the reclaimed GOP or under the new conservative party's tent.

And I'll be there every step of the way to say "I told you so" and do my little "I was right dance." But I'll always be gracious and I even promise to help you take the knives out of your backs.

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Thrown Under The Straight Talk Express

McCain Denounces Hagee

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) renounced controversial Christian pastor John Hagee today, after learning that Hagee had remarked Nazism constituted an expression of God's will.

The comments, which Hagee made in the late 1990s and were first posted on the website "Talk to Action" on May 15, draw from a biblical verse and imply that Adolf Hitler's actions had helped speed the creation of the state of Israel.

"'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews," Hagee said. "'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust, you can't see that."

Um... that scripture does sound like a description of the Holocaust, does it not? I believe Hagee's point was that Hitler fulfilled a prophecy, not that God wanted the Jews dead. I'm not saying I agree with Hagee's interpretations of scripture, but I don't think the man is an anti-Semite. Oh well, political correctness rules in McCain's non-offensive campaign. Welcome to the underside of the bus, Pastor Hagee. The conservative base has been expecting you.

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Which One Could Help Him Most?

McCain To Meet Possible Running Mates

Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Friday is scheduled to meet with two Republican governors who have been prominently mentioned as potential running mates, according to Republicans familiar with McCain's plan.

The two governors, Charlie Crist, of Florida, and Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana, have both accepted invitations to meet with McCain at his home in Arizona, according to Republican familiars with the decision. One Republican said that Mitt Romney, a former rival of McCain for the presidential nomination was also expected to visit him this weekend. Romney's advisers declined to comment.

I know which one would get my attention and might even (maybe... possibly... grudgingly...) get something like a positive response out of me. Unfortunately I don't think McCain has the wisdom or political guts to pick that man.

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Party Pooping

Peggy Noonan says the GOP is the party that's in trouble, not the Democrats.

The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born.

The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party.

The headline Wednesday on Drudge, from Politico, said, "Republicans Stunned by Loss in Mississippi." It was about the eight-point drubbing the Democrat gave the Republican in the special House election. My first thought was: You have to be stupid to be stunned by that. Second thought: Most party leaders in Washington are stupid – detached, played out, stuck in the wisdom they learned when they were coming up, in '78 or '82 or '94. Whatever they learned then, they think pertains now. In politics especially, the first lesson sticks. For Richard Nixon, everything came back to Alger Hiss.

They are also – Hill leaders, lobbyists, party speakers – successful, well-connected, busy and rich. They never guessed, back in '86, how government would pay off! They didn't know they'd stay! They came to make a difference and wound up with their butts in the butter. But affluence detaches, and in time skews thinking. It gives you the illusion you're safe, and that everyone else is. A party can lose its gut this way. [...]

"This was a real wakeup call for us," someone named Robert M. Duncan, who is chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the New York Times. This was after Mississippi. "We can't let the Democrats take our issues." And those issues would be? "We can't let them pretend to be conservatives," he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be conservative every day.

I'm coming back to a thought I tossed around when McCain became the "presumptive" nominee. I think we need to lose this election; Congress, the White House, governorships, state houses, the whole shebang. Nothing motivates or gives you perspective like a good ass-kicking.

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Ouchie! The RNCC Get's A Talking To

I don't think this is quite the reaction the National Republican Congressional Committee was hoping for when they posted this little "feel good" agenda ditty:

Republican Solutions and a Positive Agenda

Posted By: Tom Cole, May 16, 2008 - 9:52 AM

Families today face challenges that yesterday's laws simply don't address. We need to fix government, and one solution is to update our laws so they provide America's families with more freedom in their jobs; greater healthcare and retirement security; safer communities; access to quality, affordable education; and the ability for future generations to compete in the global economy.

This week, my colleagues in the Republican Conference announced the American Families Agenda, spearheaded by my colleague, Congresswoman Kay Granger of Texas. This new agenda concentrates on the bread and butter issues facing every American. And it recognizes that today, more and more families struggle with balancing work, children and caring for elderly parents. Over the coming weeks, Republicans will be promoting new ideas that give people more personal freedom and lessen the burden of government.

From young people just starting out and looking for affordable college, to working parents who want more freedom in the workplace, to seniors who would benefit from greater flexibility with their health care and prescription drug benefits, the American Families Agenda provides commonsense solutions that modernize our laws and give people greater liberty.

I look forward to sharing more about Republican solutions and a positive agenda in the weeks to come.

And the voters said:

Republicians think the way to Win is to Out "Liberal" the Liberals! McCain will be defeated by his views and disregard of Values. Obama will win. If we put up with Jimmy Carter for 4 years....Let Obama and the Dem's take all the Credit for DESTRUCTION that will follow.I will either not vote or vote for Ron Paul. NO McCain. ~ Posted: Greatdanes on May 16, 2008 at 1:07 PM

PLEASE....you are kidding??!! John McCain is the republican candidate for President. So, which LIBERAL should I vote for. Let's see OBAMA(Marxist), CLINTON(Marxist), MCCAIN(Open border/amnesty liberal). I have changed my party affiliation to independent. I will not vote for anyone who says one thing during the primary and when they think they have the nomination locked up, tell how they truly feel. John McCain "DIDN'T GET IT" after-all.

So if the RNCC is going to support this liberal RINO, then you and are at odds from here on out. No more money, no more support. ~ Posted: Terry on May 16, 2008 at 1:08 PM

Your message sounds like more big government. I am conservative and want a conservative message. I want to support conservative candidates. The three congressional seats that the democrats just won were won by democrats that had a conservative message. Republicans have lost their way. The party has gone back to the good old boy party of elite country club moderates. That is not the way to win elections or raise money. I will certainly read your e-mails but will not support any candidate that does not espouse a conservtive agenda. I hope the party will adopt that philosophy and then carry through. ~ Posted: Lynda Shackelford on May 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM

What ever happened to "less government and more individual responsibility", Mr. Cole? You sound like a doggone Democrat to me and my family and my friends.

There is no way under the sun that I will vote for Senator McCain regardless of who is put on the ticket with him. No way. Period!

I am disappointed with the TOTAL lack of genuine conservative leadership on the part of you and others heading up the Republican party. I will either stay home, or write in Ron Paul - if that's possible. ~ Posted: Don Hall on May 16, 2008 at 1:25 PM

I think from the mostly hostile comments in this blog, you should get the message of "too little, too late".

I don't know that the GOP "leadership" needs "new" ideas, but just needs to articulate the conservative principles clearly, loudly and often. Tell the american people WHAT we stand for, and WHY. I can't believe that most americans truely want to (for example) pull out of Iraq, if they really knew what would be the likely adverse consequences.

The GOP "leadership" in congress and the white house both have been very poor spokes people for true conservative ideas.

Oh, and you then have to stand up for what you believe and stick to it. ~ Posted: Jim Deiner on May 16, 2008 at 1:40 PM

So let me get this straight - I have a choice between McCain or Hillary or Obama? Did I just say I have a choice? I think I just had a 52 yr-old brain cramp. I do not vote for RINOs. None of these 3 are qualified to run this country. If the Repubs are not different than the Demoncrats then what is the use? We speak with our votes - we vote for someone else. Vote for a spoiler? No, we vote our conscience. If the MSM or the NRCC want to consider them a spoiler - so be it. Get a clue already!. Abandoning conservatism means no money, no support, no vote from me. ~ Posted: PEPPER on May 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM

I'm 90% positive that I will not vote for McCain in November; but, like some others posting here, Bob Barr and the Libertarians are looking better everyday.

The only way to guarantee my vote for a Republican presidential candidate is for you to get McCain off the ticket. Is that even still possible? If not, it's good bye Republican Party, hello Libertarians.

Sure, the Libertarians are a little out there on some issues, but they aren't shy about promoting their principles. But you know, my differences with the Libertarians are more palatable than my differences with McCain. ~ Posted: Greg Surprenant on May 16, 2008 at 2:38 PM

Maverick: An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.

How fitting. ~ Posted: on May 16, 2008 at 7:25 PM

Yoo hoo! Are you listening GOP? Nah, probably not...

via Michelle Malkin

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McCain Is Full Of Shit

I warned you, I warned you, I warned you! Guess what? I was right. McCain delivered a "fuck off and die" speech to conservatives today.

Border state governors have certified and the American people recognize that after tremendous improvements to border security infrastructure and increases in the border patrol, and vigorous prosecution of companies that employ illegal aliens, our southern border is now secure. Illegal immigrants who broke our laws after they came here have been arrested and deported. Illegal immigration has been finally brought under control, and the American people accepted the practical necessity to institute a temporary worker program and deal humanely with the millions of immigrants who have been in this country illegally.

What does that mean folks? It means that he's going to shove his amnesty scheme down your throats and you're damn well gonna swallow it this time.

I am well aware I cannot make any of these changes alone. The powers of the presidency are rightly checked by the other branches of government, and I will not attempt to acquire powers our founders saw fit to grant Congress. I will exercise my veto if I believe legislation passed by Congress is not in the nation's best interests, but I will not subvert the purpose of legislation I have signed by making statements that indicate I will enforce only the parts of it I like. I will respect the responsibilities the Constitution and the American people have granted Congress, and will, as I often have in the past, work with anyone of either party to get things done for our country. [...]

I will seek the counsel of members of Congress from both parties in forming government policy before I ask them to support it. I will ask Democrats to serve in my administration.

And what does that mean? It means he's going to do whatever it takes to get what he wants, even if it means selling out conservatives and conservative principles. If he has to walk, talk, and write legislation like a Democrat to get his way then so be it; and you'll damn well like it and kiss his "maverick" ass for it.

Get it? Senator F. U. doesn't care about you. Never has. The GOP was a means to an end for him to get his way and live out his "Teddy Roosevelt" fantasy. I've told you that McCain would put a knife in our backs and he's moving ahead of schedule. If I were you I wouldn't hold my breath for those Scalia/Thomas/Robertson Supreme Court clones.

Michelle Malkin calls McCain's vision a "fantasyland."

Russ from Winterset over at Ace of Spades asks: Senator McCain, just one question before you go: ARE YOU ON CRACK?

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