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Friday, February 01, 2008

A reflective question

I'd like to posit a question to those who support John McCain.
I'm fairly certain that in the mix of positions of McCain that you have thoughtfully considered perhaps one of them is "He is electable" as President.
My question goes back to a comment by Richard Nixon "You can't win with the conservative vote only. But, you also can't win without them."
So, as you consider voting or supporting for John McCain this Tuesday, be acutely aware that I have never heard so many conservatives so opposed to any Republican as they are to John McCain. Should McCain go on to win the nomination (though if able when I see Mitt Romney tomorrow evening, I'll remind him that the nomination is in St. Paul in September, not this Tuesday in February). A John McCain nomination seriously risks alienating the conservatives to point of voting for someone else, anyone else. Be aware that there is a high likelyhood that McCain will lose a general election bid.
Should Hillary win, I believe, in the military, there will be a repeat of what happened in 1992/1993. I know a high ranking officer who was an Airborne Ranger who retired in 1993 rather than serve under Bill Clinton. His experience and talent was such that the Army bribed him by offering to promote him immediately to general officer status. He turned them down. He told me that a number of officers with his experience also resigned. Just when we need them most, that experienced officer corps may very well resign rather than endure serving under another military hating Clinton. One was quite more than enough.
And how long do you think the left wing lovefest with McCain will last? Do you believe that there are not Keating Five editorials are already written and waiting to be published in the NYT, the LA Times and Prairie Pravda just as soon the gavel comes down on the McCain nomination? The left wing is giddy at the prospect of having John McCain as the Republican nominee.
Actions have consequences.
The Law of Unintended Consequences is in full force with the support of John McCain.

posted by Amendment X at 9:57 AM permalink 3 comments

This just in-

Drudge is reporting that McCain seriously considered leaving the Republican Party. Leaving? Wouldn't that be the same as considering whether or not Tip O'Neill is dead? A more truthful version would be that Senator McCain was seriously considering whether he would join the Republican Party. As I'm writing, Laura Ingraham is reporting that McCain and his people were in deep discussions with John Kerry about running with him. Deep discussions.
Former Senator Ric Santorum has just endorsed Mitt Romney on Laura's show.
And he gave an excoriating review and critique of John McCain as Senator Santorum tried to work with McCain in the Senate.

posted by Amendment X at 8:17 AM permalink 0 comments

McCain, CPAC and Dr. Schoenleben

Dr. Schoenleben was my dentist when I was a boy. The day before an appointment with him, I brushed my teeth until my gums bled. Yup, I was gonna brush away all the effects of Slo Pokes, Jolly Ranchers and a toothbrush gathering dust. Just watch.Brush, brush, brush, brush...
And so John McCain is walking into the lions den by agreeing to go to CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), the conservative epicenter that he snubbed last year. And I believe there's a bit of the old dread of Dr. Schoenleben in the Senator. How he thinks he's going to walk in make nice with the people (and their love of liberty) that he's poked in the eye consistently for years and walk out feeling good is beyond me. This makes as much sense as the abusive husband telling his wife "I've changed. Really. Not like those other times I said I changed and didn't. This time for real!"
I brush and floss regularly now.

posted by Amendment X at 7:54 AM permalink 1 comments

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Remembering what made Regan great.

From reading blogs across the spectrum - this seems to be the item that everyone agrees was the best answer last night.



By the way, my wife has been asking, who is the blond next to the Govinator?

posted by Savage Republican at 10:53 AM permalink 0 comments

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

And from the archives

After I read the NOW-NY screed on Uncle Teddy's betrayal by endorsing Obama, rather than Monica Lewinski's ex-boyfriend's co-habitant, my brother reminded me why I ignore whatever falls out teddy's mouth:

(Click then click again on the image for a larger view).

posted by Amendment X at 4:59 PM permalink 0 comments

Monday, January 28, 2008

Gyno politics and rich irony

Uncle Teddy endorses Obama. And watch the feminists scream!!! This is just too much fun.
Here is the official response from the NY chapter of NOW (from the Times Union blog):

“Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.

“And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one). ‘They’ are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That’s Howard’s brother) who run DFA (that’s the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). They are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women’s money, say they’ll do feminist and women’s rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America’s future or whatever.

“This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights, women’s voices, women’s equality, women’s authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation - to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who ‘know what’s best for us.’”

I've also linked to the comments that are well worth the read. The one that impressed me was the one that took the first sentence of NOW's press release "The ultimate betrayal". The commenter wrote : "Uncle Ted leaving Mary Jo Kopechne in the car was the ultimate betrayal."
Go read the comments. It will be well worth your time.

posted by Amendment X at 4:01 PM permalink 2 comments