It is kind of funny for me to watch and listen to Republicans get so jazzed up over John McCain’s candidacy during the RNC. Just a few months ago many of these same folks were calling John McCain a liberal and a closet Democrat.
For instance, State Rep. Steve Davis (R-McDonough) in his blog said in the days before the Georgia primary that Senators Chambliss and Isakson were making a mistake by endorsing McCain, “a man that supports amnesty, voted against tax cuts, co-authored the unconstitutional campaign reform bill, is against the permenant repeal of the death tax, and wants to impose energy restrictions and regulations that would cripple the American economy.” Ahh, memories. Davis supported Romney.
What about all those other Georgia Republicans cheering at the convention this week who supported Romney, Huckabee, etc. and drawing the line in the sand before the primary about McCain?
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TR,
I have long criticized the GOP for its problems for years. I hated GW Bush since the day he was selected to be the front-runner in 1999 for the 2000 election.
The sad fact is that as bad, incompetent, destructive, self-serving and corrupt as the Republicans have been, the Democrats are on a whole different level in every regard.
If the Democrats would stop playing games with the courts, I could sit an election out, or even vote for a third party. However, due to the long term destructive influence that partisan hack judges do to the country, there is no option but to fight the Dems tooth and nail every election.
This is one reason that I was so happy McCain picked Palin as VP. I am sick of anyone tied to Washington in any way from either party, and I am sick of the empty suits like Pawlenty or Perdue that occupy most governorships.
But you’re willing to call me an Obama camp prostitute for pointing out the truth about what the GOP has done to itself? Nice.
So are you admitting that you’re now willing to vote for McCain the RINO in the hope that he’ll drop dead on January 21, 2009, so that an avowed feminist can take over? I’ve had a hard time getting most of the kool-aid drinking “conservatives” (LOL) to own up to that.
Taft,
I have no issue with people pointing out the problems in the GOP, I only have a problem when they overlook and give a pass to the problems on the Dem side while criticizing the GOP.
I will attack what looks like hypocricy mercilously. (For example, my disputes with boyreporter, decaturguy, konop, and pd, or on the other side, my disputes with jsm, BG Icarus and some others.)
Indeed. And I will continue to ridicule the ridiculous. If you know what I mean.
I will never “give a pass” to the Dems on anything. I operate on the assumption that everything that party does now borders on having its own listing in DSM III.
I also used to operate on the assumption that the GOP was conservative overall, and that its leadership believed in principles of traditional conservative values that the GOP had held dear for so long.
That is no longer an assumption I operate on. Which is why I support any attempt to bring the GOP back to its roots.
Doug Deal
I do not think boyreporter,decaturguy and PD woulkd put me in their camp.
I just call it like I see it.
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