Compare and contrast

Jennifer Locke, was on assignment with a camera crew to cover the entertainment angle of the event. When Sen. John McCain walked by, the assistant said, “I voted for you in the primary, you’re going to win.”

McCain was overheard saying to her, “You’re not supposed to reveal that.” Locke apparently continued to explain that she is the daughter of a Vietnam veteran.

Insiders who were at the event were surprised and shocked to hear the disclosure, which was recorded on videotape. A Fox News insider called it “journalistically unacceptable.” An FNC spokesperson would not comment on the personnel matter but did confirm Locke is no longer with the company, where she’d worked for a couple of years.

This is a quote from the link above, in case you didn’t notice.

From Cynics Party

A commenter at media bistro calls Fox “biased” for firing this young lady. How you can compare Chris Matthews KEEPING HIS JOB after talking about how he got hot in his nether regions over Obama and kept his job, and Fox firing the young lady for having a dad who’s a Vietnam Veteran, I’ll never know.

The flap is about McCain’s wimpy campaign complaining about North Carolina’s ad, above.

John Hawkins:

Sure, he may try to rip the jugular vein out of any Republican who crosses him, but when he goes up against a Democrat, he turns into a Care Bear. I’m not happy about that, but I’ve made peace with it. It’s his style, it seems to work pretty well for him, and he isn’t going to change it at this point anyway. So be it.

However, I’m not happy to see that the RNC is actually complaining because Jeremiah Wright’s own words are being used in an ad.

I’m not sure how you can exactly ‘make peace’ with McCain preferring to work with democrats rather than republicans; it’s what makes the majority of Republicans disgusted that we have no representation in this presidential election.

Michelle Malkin on this here and here.

It’s so hypocritical for McCain to take that stand, but it’s a warning for what the future holds if he should be elected President…

Reuters report here lies about the ad being pulled - they are asking for donations to keep it running. (SG)

Found this at Van Helsing’s….and it is as I’ve been complaining about…there is no substantive difference now between the Republicans and the Democrats and our election is merely political theater for us to place a George Soros lacky into the Presidential office so that we can institute more big government, as is proposed here by Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi.

Van Helsing:

The cowardly and perfidious willingness of Republicans like Gingrich and McMaverick to play along with this farce is pushing us ever closer toward the European system of a single party with two different names, whereby no matter how an election turns out, the government wins, and the public loses.

Amen.

As has been documented elsewhere, we are in the middle of a cold snap - not a warming period, but fluctuations in temperature have happened since the beginning of time, and will continue to do so. Climate is controlled naturally without any help from us - to imagine that we can have any impact on it whatsoever is delusional thinking.

Thanks to Rurik for the link.

Hey. I like this guy. And since the three ‘victims’ won’t get my vote, it might as well be someone I can vote for…and the next day, look myself in the mirror and smile, with a clear conscience.

I will have Frances Rice on the show with me. She is the Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, a lawyer, and former Lt. Colonel (ret) for the Army.

The segment url is here, it’s at 3:00 CST for one hour. She’ll be talking about why black people vote democrat, and there will be discussion about Barak Obama, as well.

She has written the democratic party, setting the record straight about race, pointing out among other things, that the KKK was the terrorist arm of the democratic party, and demanding an apology for their hijacking the civil rights movement after they fought AGAINST it for so long. I can’t wait to hear what she has to say!

Frances Rice did not join us, but Larry Sinclair did.

It’s interesting to me what people are saying about John McCain…as though ‘he’s not all that bad’.

They say of course, that he’s not a traditional conservative, but he’s strong on the WoT, he has a pro life record, and he’s a “fiscal conservative”.

Yet, the Club For Growth recently published a report on McCain’s record, in pdf format, the third in a series.

While Senator McCain’s economic record contains a number of pro-growth positions, such as his support for school choice and free trade, and his steadfast opposition to wasteful government spending, his overall record is tainted by a marked antipathy towards the free market and individual freedom.

This antipathy is evidenced by the Senator’s vocal and class-warfare-laced opposition to the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts; his occasional but eager support for increased government regulation; his support for raising Social Security taxes; and his persistent attacks on political free speech in the form of the McCain-Feingold Act.

“The Bush tax cuts were a driving force behind the economic prosperity of the last couple of years and a cornerstone of a pro-growth philosophy,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “Not only did Senator McCain oppose these cuts, he aligned himself with the likes of Ted Kennedy in his rhetorical attacks in 2001 and 2003. Four years later, American taxpayers still have not heard the Senator disavow his misguided statements and votes.”

“There are certainly aspects of McCain’s economic record that are praiseworthy,” Mr. Toomey continued, “but the question facing American taxpayers is whether they can sufficiently trust a McCain administration to produce consistently strong economic policies. Unfortunately, both his rhetoric and record suggest that the answer is no.”

I’m no fan of any of the big George Soros candidates; and McCain is in that category, along with Clinton and Obama.

Old War Dogs

Veteran-American Voices

The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

POW Network

US Veteran Dispatch

Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain

Republican Tea Party same site as GOP Tea Party

Vietnam Vote

They might also want to see this book

An Enormous Crime by Bill Hendon & Elizabeth Stewart

And of course, all are welcome to come listen to the Veteran-American Voices at http://veteranamerican.info/

McCain:

~Ignored pleas of POW/MIA Family Members for his political influence in the overall POW/MIA Issue as well as with their individual cases

~Verbally abused POW/MIA Family Members in public and private

~Attempted to negatively influence those who testified before the 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs

~Diminished legislation that gave oversight and protection to the families

~Dismantled protection to any future servicemen that go missing.

See

Pensito Review Vietnam POW Activists call Mccain Songbird and Manchurian Candidate

POW Warrior: – the Measure of the Man: Why John McCain Doesn’t Measure Up

And this is one of Rurik’s funniest on the subject-The McCain Mutiny

My show on Sunday will be with Rurik from Veteran-American Voices; the subject is John McCain. Tune in if you’re interested…it is not my intention to make it a John McCain bashing session, but pointing things out that should be a serious to concern to all of us should not be called ‘bashing’.

Here is the link where you can listen.

Sign up for an account on blogtalk radio - to be a listener. It’s free, and you don’t have to have a show to have an account.

The call in number is (347) 326-9917
The show is at 3:00 CST on Sunday.

The Merida Initiative: heard of it?

A “wave of hate?” Sure, but it’s not who you think it is!

100% Preventable! Two illegal alien criminals — 39 crimes! When will the madness end!

From Freedom Folks here.

Read the whole article-click on the picture above.

What I feel is the most important excerpt from it is here:

Toward the end of his speech, after promising to prevent Iran from possessing, “…the weapons to advance their malevolent ambitions,” McCain promised to remain the maverick he has always been. He said:

“We have had a few disagreements, and none of us will pretend that we won’t continue to have a few. But even in disagreement, especially in disagreement, I will seek the counsel of my fellow conservatives. If I am convinced my judgment is in error, I will correct it. And if I stand by my position, even after benefit of your counsel, I hope you will not lose sight of the far more numerous occasions when we are in complete accord.”

This is vintage McCain. He promises to hear, not to listen. He promises to seek counsel, but not to respect it.

To be fair to McCain, there are times, in war, when a president has to make decisions based on facts the public does not and cannot know. But those decisions aren’t the ones Mr. McCain has made on many domestic issues conservatives care most about.

He pledged to protect the lives of the unborn, to protect the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment, but he did not — as Gov. Romney did earlier that day — support a constitutional amendment to prevent gay marriage. And what he promises is that he will give conservatives a fair hearing.

That is less than we require of our leaders. We require them to adhere to our basic principles, and that those principles be the basis for their decisions.

I also received an email from Richard A. Viguerie at ConservativeHQ.com, showing some very interesting poll results from CPAC.

(Manassas, VA, February 9) Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, today released the results of a true random poll of 1,000 conservative activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.

CPAC is the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservatives, and was chosen by former Gov. Mitt Romney as the place where he announced his withdrawal from the GOP presidential race on Thursday.

The questions posed and the results recorded are as follows.

“In your opinion, is Senator John McCain a true conservative?”

“If Senator John McCain is the Republican nominee, I will…”

From these results, it is clear that Senator McCain has a challenge in gaining the conservative support he needs in order to win the general election,” says David Franke of ConservativeHQ.com.

“Only 3 in 10 conservative activists strongly support him. Even if you add in the people who will limit their activity to voting for him, and all of the undecided conservatives (not likely), he will have only 83.5% of the conservative vote. Historically, the Republican presidential candidate needs more than 80% of the conservative vote in order to win. The poll results show he can possibly reach that level of conservative support, but it will be dauntingly hard.”

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You can watch it here.

She was down the hall since she wasn’t ‘invited’ to CPAC. This is her Young America’s Foundation CPAC speech to about 500 1000 people. It’s about an hour in length.

I’ve been in some interesting conversations lately, regarding McCain. My husband actually voted for Hillary instead of McCain, and -although I didn’t do that-I can understand exactly how he feels.

To me, it’s completely about compromising with evil. And it’s about people selling us ‘the lesser of two evils’ as though it’s something worthy of doing.

IT IS NOT.

It’s not biblical, and it’s not something I can do and look myself in the mirror.

Pray that you will not compromise with temptation. It’s in the Bible, Matthew 26:41, TLB. “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

Don’t even start down an evil path. It’s in the Bible, Proverbs 4:14-15, TLB. “Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.”

Don’t let sinners influence you. It’s in the Bible, Proverbs 1:10, TLB. “My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.”

The man who walks righteously does not compromise. It’s in the Bible, Isaiah 33:15-16, TLB. “He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil—this is the man who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and water will not fail him.”

You don’t have to give in to compromise. It’s in the Bible, I Corinthians 10:13, TLB. “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”

Don’t give the devil a chance. It’s in the Bible, Ephesians 4:27, TLB. “And do not give the devil a foothold.”

There can be no compromise when it comes to the devil, we are either for Christ or Satan. It’s in the Bible, Matthew 12:30, NIV. “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.”

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The Bible is where it’s at, and it’s what is directing my decisionmaking.

Nobody else can or will do that.

This means that if there is no representation, I will not compromise with a candidate who doesn’t represent me.

I’ve had enough!

It’s time to join a third party!

Michelle has a few details, she was sitting in the back of the room. WOW…I wish I was there.

Romney has dropped out and is endorsing McCain. It may not be official, but that’s the rumor…

There is a huge contingent of anti-McCain republicans out there. It will only grow as time wears on.

This is pukeworthy to me….

Particularly since CPAC told the attendees NOT TO BOO John McCain.

Personally, I’m pleased as punch that the older generation has turned out in large numbers and have shown up at CPAC to show their disdain for this despicable example of leftist values parading under the GOP banner.

I’m receiving emails from McCain’s people, too. Not that it makes any difference. There is no way in hell I’m going to back any guy who doesn’t favor capitalism…EVER.

From Seeing Red AZ

Somewhere in someone’s comments section I saw a great long list of betrayals and problems with McCain’s record. If I come across it again, I’ll make sure to post it.

From McCain: A conservative nightmare?

McCain:

1. supports amnesty for illegal aliens (McCain Kennedy Amnesty)

2. was behind the Gang of 14

3. is a gun grabber

4. opposed the Bush tax cuts

5. ran roughshod over the Constitution with McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform

6. opposes a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage

7. was rumored to be considering switching parties multiple times

8. talked with John Kerry about being his Vice-President

9. Teamed up with John Kerry to bury the POW/MIA issue and normalize relations with communist Vietnam

10. lines up with the global warming alarmists

11. wants to close Gitmo

12. demonizes Big Pharma — i.e., the private pharmaceutical companies that create, develop, and manufacture the drugs that all these socialized health-care systems in every corner of the planet are utterly dependent on.

13. He voted for Sarbanes-Oxley, a quintessential congressional overreaction (to Enron) that buries American companies in wasteful paperwork and hands huge advantages to stock exchanges in London, Hong Kong, and elsewhere…

14. McCain has an almost Edwardsian contempt for capitalism, for the people whose wit and innovation generate the revenue that pay for your average small-state senator’s retinue of staffers worthy of a Persian Gulf emir.”

15. McCain is no lover of Christians. Recall his comments about key religious leaders in 2000, calling them “agents of intolerance.” And McCain’s vitriolic vilification of Christians was not limited to a single occurrence, for he later said, “I must not and will not retract anything that I said in that speech at Virginia Beach. It was carefully crafted, it was carefully thought out.” (Hardball, 3/1/00). More recently, however, McCain, positioning himself for 2008, has repackaged himself as pro-Christian, lauding key religious leaders and duping the devout. (Is this not as reptilian as Bill Clinton’s waffling?)

16. In 2005, McCain opposed a federal gay-marriage ban (Los Angeles Times, 1/25/ and 3/8). Now, however, likely realizing that most Americans think otherwise, McCain says he supports a gay-marriage ban (Meet the Press, 4/2/06). Which is it? Given his penchant for progressive politics, we can only assume the former.

17. Regarding abortion, McCain most certainly is pro-choice. In the San Francisco Chronicle (8/20/99) McCain sided with the pro-abortion camp, suggesting that overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to illegal abortions. Realizing, however, that he could not inveigle the GOP nomination with such views, McCain more recently has resold himself as pro-life, even saying he would support the South Dakota ban on abortions. What are Americans to believe? He either is pro-choice or lacks any real conviction on the subject.

18. Is the Manchurian Candidate

McCain: A Liberal In Disguise

McCain’s liberal laundry list goes on and on. Senator Lindsey Graham, another liberal in disguise, comments correctly that the present is a defining moment for the Republican Party, although his underlying analysis is wrong. The choice is between a party of McCain’s vision, a party indistinguishable from the Democratic Party, or a party that at least maintains a modicum of conservatism. If McCain loses, hopefully he will depart for the Democratic Party (where he belongs); but if he wins, expect to see a mass exodus of conservative voters from the GOP, probably over to a third party.

Through email from Russ, posted also at Old War Dogs.

I am troubled by tonight’s primary results, especially troubled by the prospect that I may be forced to vote for an unprincipled political chameleon like McCain in order to save our country from two politicians, Bill and Hillary Clinton, who are even more unprincipled, even to the point of felonious criminality. I wrote this piece this morning and tonight stand by it even more. Hillary just slapped my face and that of many other honorable veterans with her sneering, gratuitous reference to swift boating in her gloating victory speech. It just demonstrates how twisted their leftist thinking is when they use this term of honor as a pejorative.

I will follow the dictates of my old regimental motto: Honor and Country,

Russ Vaughn

Entertaining Considerations

I was afraid this was going to happen when McCain started coming on stronger in the primaries. To an even greater extent than John Kerry, John McCain possesses the ability to politically divide American veterans more than any other presidential candidate. With Kerry, a key determinant of which way veterans’ loyalties fell was party affiliation. I’m sure there were many liberal Democrat veterans, particularly Vietnam veterans, who held their noses and supported a man they viscerally disliked because he was their party’s candidate and represented their overall liberal positions. It was easy for those of us who were politically conservative Vietnam vets to take a hard, unrelenting stand against the man we knew had smeared us because he was the candidate of the party whose positions we opposed.

Today, this division among veterans in general and Vietnam veterans in particular has been turned by McCain’s candidacy into a family fight among Republican veterans that threatens our already diminished prospects for victory in November. While virtually all of us admire and respect McCain’s military service and POW sacrifice, there are millions of us who feel that is simply not enough for him to be able to command our political loyalties four decades later. Setting aside the fact that McCain sided with John Kerry in 2004 and denounced those of us who dared to question Kerry’s very questionable war record, there are many reasons why we do not see John McCain as being someone we can trust to represent the mainstream views of the Republican party. I will spare you a Sean Hannity, rapid-fire recitation of the litany of McCain’s transgressions against his own party because I think there is a single issue far more compelling.

Go ahead and Google “McCain switching parties?” and look at the pages of hits which take you to articles from every sector of the media examining whether or not John McCain was preparing to switch parties as far back as 2001 and continuing into the 2004 campaign. The most chilling of all these reports is one from the Boston Herald in which McCain is quoted as responding to ABC’s Charles Gibson’s question as to whether he would even entertain the idea of running as John Kerry’s VP if Kerry extended such an offer,

“John Kerry is a very close friend of mine. We’ve been friends for years. Obviously I would entertain it.”
Boston Herald

That is a very telling quote. In his own words, to further his political ambitions, John McCain would have considered abandoning his party and his supposedly conservative principles to serve on the ticket with one of the most liberal candidates ever to run as a Democrat presidential candidate. Even worse, reading down, one reads that Kerry now claims it was McCain’s people who initiated such a proposal, not that we’d be inclined to lend too much credibility to that particular source. Some very close friends, huh? No wonder then that McCain was able to denounce his fellow Navy Vietnam veterans as “dishonest and dishonorable” when they dared to attack Kerry’s self-promoting war record. McCain was selfishly attempting to curry favor with the man and the party which could do the most for his personal political future.
McCain on Swift Boats Veterans - Salon

Now I ask you, just who was being dishonest and dishonorable here? Was it the sailors who served in combat with Kerry and raised issues with his war record that Kerry never successfully refuted and refused to release the Navy records which he claimed would do so? Or was it the self-serving maverick politician who was entertaining the possibility of forsaking his Republican party to fill the number two position on the Democrat ticket?

A good friend and fellow Old War Dog, Bill Faith, cites Mitt Romney’s contradictory and self-serving statements about not serving in Vietnam as proving Romney unworthy of his vote. To that I would respond that talking out of both sides of one’s mouth is congenital in politicians and that perhaps Romney might have gone AWOL on the issue. But Romney’s transgression completely pales against John McCain’s admitted willingness to “entertain” the possibility of full-fledged desertion to the enemy in the midst of political combat.

I don’t know about you but I don’t want a commander-in-chief who even entertains such considerations.

Russ Vaughn

2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

Never buy a pig in a poke.

This pisses me off more than you could ever know.

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Mychal Massie at WND:

It seems to matter little where I go or who I am with, the question I am repeatedly asked many times with breathless anticipation is: “What do we do if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency and/or who can beat Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?”

Those of you with whom I correspond already know my feelings, but for those who do not, let me make my position unequivocally clear. I don’t care who wins the Democrat presidential nomination, and I don’t care, as such, if Obama or Clinton win the Holy Grail of politics. I care that the Republican Party doesn’t have a candidate I can support as a true conservative left in the race.

I am a conservative, but I’m not an ideologue – nor is my vote governed by fear. That is to say, I will not vote for a Republican nominee to whose positions I am vehemently opposed and/or whom I do not trust, just to keep Obama or, more likely, Clinton out of the White House.

Fear is a powerful motivator that can be used to coerce well-intentioned persons, groups or even the entire nation into making incredibly poor decisions – and the Republican National Committee is not above using same. The idea that I must abandon my moral compass and vote for a candidate I could not find more objectionable – in order to shut out a liberal candidate who bears little or no substantive difference to the one I voted for – is offensive to me.

Read the rest.

I’ve noticed that I’m not the only one who feels this way…! And that’s a very sad commentary.

On a tip from Kat.

Mychal Massie is chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives-Project 21 – a conservative black think tank located in Washington, D.C. He is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit, columnist and the former host of the widely popular talk show “Straight Talk.” He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. A former self-employed business owner of more than 30 years, he is also a member of the conservative public policy institute National Center for Public Policy Research.

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Recently somebody put up a blog encouraging people to boycott Chuck Norris, the celebrity that endorsed Huckabee, mainly because of Huckabee’s position on separating AIDS patients from others (quoting the government) claiming that AIDS patients aren’t dangerous to people who come into contact with them.

Right. That’s why people who deal with AIDS patients have to wear gloves…and dentists wear gloves. Ever wonder why that is?

The other reason was because he opposes the theory of evolution… I guess this guy never stopped to consider the fact that JUST MAYBE not everyone has been brainwashed sufficiently enough to believe unequivocally in the ‘THEORY’ as FACT.

Now an ethics complaint was filed against Huckabee over private fund donors.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) - An ethics complaint was filed Monday against Mike Huckabee accusing the former Arkansas governor of violating state law by not revealing donors to a private fund used to raise money for his official portrait.

It’s interesting how-Whitewater, illegal Chinese donors, Rezko, the Keating Five, chappaquiddick-and numerous other things don’t seem to phase other politicians…

How much could a portrait have cost, anyway?