McCain Resists Lauer’s Palin Attacks

January 12th, 2010 (29) Posted By Erik Wong.

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  • serfer62

    This turd wore out his hero creds decades ago. He is a rino, a turd, backstabi ng turd…
    Oh, did I say hes a turd?

    • Phil Byler

      The problem, serfer62, is that you can’t defend your positions in a rational way, so you resort to juvenile ephitets.

      McCain is no RINO. His voting record historically is moderately conservative and this year is very conservative. Indeed, the Washington D.C. press has been writing stories about McCain being one of Obama’s most vocal and visible opponents in Congress.

      I will remind you that McCain led the fight in 2007 succesfully to prevent the Democrats from imposing defeat in Iraq and that McCain constantly visits the troops. McCain is the son and grandson of U.S. Navy Admirals and was a combat naval aviator in the Vietnam War before becoming a P.O.W.; so never doubt his loyalty to the troops. Calling him a turd is stupid.

      McCain has real expertise and expereince in foreign affairs, military matters and national security. That was what made him the vastly superior choice over Obama in 2008 to be Commander in Chief. Mark Steyn rightly noted recently that the American people’s election of Obama in 2008 was a funbdamentally unserious act. Serious people who cared who about the Commander in Chief responsibilities of the Presidency voted for McCain.

    • nospyme

      Remember McCain-Feingold? The incumbent re-election act that was/is unconstitutional? RINO

      He was also for the bailout. He’s a bona-fide hero and friggin’ RINO.

      He also wasn’t all that stand-upish when Palin was getting hammered by the msm, after their failed election attemp.

    • MohammedSucksHogCock

      May everyone here who hates RINOs declare that they’d prefer a fucking Kenyan Muslim communist motherfucker to a RINO raise their goddamned hands right now!

      The “Republican thoroughbred-obsessed” nitwits in this country are the GODDAMNED REASON a commie Muzzie motherfucker is sitting in the White House right now!

      I’ll take a RINO over a commie Al-Qaeda sympathizer any day!!!

      Go drink your Glenn Beck Kool-Aid and STFU!

    • March

      Serfer, meet Dollard nation’s biggest McCain apologist, Byler.

    • B. A.

      I’m with you mohammed.

    • MohammedSucksHogCock

      :arrow: serfer62

      If John McCain (who was never my personal favorite for a candidate) is a “turd,” what is Obama?

      Seriously, who do you want for president? Tom Tancredo? Fred Thompson? Sarah Palin? The fantasy candidate who makes your dick hard, or the Republican who pisses you off on two or three issues, but HAS A REAL CHANCE OF WINNING?

      My personal fantasy candidate is Theodore Roosevelt, so I’m not holding my breath to be very happy with the next election results.

      It doesn’t matter how convinced your favorite person is if they don’t win. This is a democracy. If you don’t win, it doesn’t matter how great you are. The other team takes power and you get to suck on Dhimmicrat dick for four years.

      Or has this escaped you?

    • DTOM

      Voting for RINO’s does not do us any good in the long run.

      We still get bigger government and fewer liberties, just at a slower pace.

      Voting for a RINO rewards negative behavior and makes it IMPOSSIBLE to reduce government spending and increase freedoms, because there are too many “moderates” willing to “compromise” our freedoms and prosperity away.

      Compromise leads to socialism.

      Why is that so hard for people to understand?

    • Phil Byler

      March, I don’t consider myself an apologist for John McCain. I have, however, defended him with facts, not excuses, against what I have argued are misconceived attacks. There is a hostility toward McCain among some conservatives that I think is unjustified and counter-productive.

      To my mind, the most important responsibility of the Presidency is to be Commander in Chief. McCain was supremely qualified to be Commander in Chief; he does know his stuff concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security. In contrast, Obama was simply not qualified to be Commander in Chief; Obama was and is a “know nothing” concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security. I fear that we are going to pay a steep price for what was a mistake by the American people in 2008.

  • Phil Byler

    Good for John McCain. McCain has voted solidly conservative this year (against multi-trilion dollar deficit spending, against Obama bailouts, against ObamaCare, against Sotomayer, against Obama nominees such as Koh and Geithner). McCain has been critical of Obama with respect to foreign policy, particuarly as to Afghanistan and Iran. McCain recently lambasted Obama for running a left wing crusade — something Rush noted. And McCain himself has stood behind Sarah Palin.

    • thrasymakhos

      Thank you Senator McCain. :beer:

    • DTOM

      Too bad he wasn’t conservative when it came to first bail out!

      Or the creation of Medicare Part D,

      Or illegal immigration,

      Or McCain-Feingold,

      or…

    • Phil Byler

      DTOM, in retrospect, it was a mistake not to oppose what was the Bush Administration bailout. But McCain flirted with opposing the Bush Administration bailout. McCain did not do so for the same reason VP Dick Cheney went along with supporting the bailout: they were told that without the bailout, the finanical system would collapse; and so they decided to be team players. McCain voted against the second release of TARP monies when GW Bush was still President.

      If you criticize McCain for supporting Medicare Part D, the 2007 illegal immigration bill and McCain-Feingold, then keep in mind that GW Bush signed them all into law and plenty of Republicans voted for them — e.g., Fred Thompson voted for McCain-Feingold.

      McCain-Feingold did not work, but the concern of McCain-Feingold was to reduce the influence of money on political decision-making. After seeing Soros money and all that money that flooded into the 2009 Obama campaign, was the intent of McCain-Feingold so wrong minded?

    • Phil Byler

      Correction on the 2007 immigration bill: GW Bush supported it, but he never signed it because, and only because, the bill did not reach his desk. He would have, though.

    • DTOM

      Phil, your comments about Bush and other Republicans voting for the above bills, proves my point about voting for RINOS (my issue is not with McCain alone).

      It doesn’t help us in the long run.

      The problem is, though, the lack of real conservative candidates.

      We need candidates with a burning desire to defend and peoples rights and follow the Constitution.

      Such a person would have voted against the first bailout, regardless of what he was being told, because he knew it was unconstitutional AND because he knew that he was being fed a line of bullshit.

      Being a “team player” is not a good idea when the team is wrong.

  • Bobby E

    This really burns me up! That liberal fuck-wad Lauer is going to question the vetting of Palin? Who vetted that POS half-breed and his parade of czars? I can only hope that Lauer is tortured beyond belief in the war that surely is to come!

    • DC

      I wouldn’t bother torturing that shitbag. He has no useful information! :cool:

    • Bobby E

      You’re right, of course. But, that condescending, arrogant, smarmy attitude needs adjusting to the point where he finds religion.

  • sudndeth

    I love it when you have a differing intelligent opinion and you get told to STFU. Boy, sounds just like the “Kenyan born Muzzie” when he is telling people that “created the mess” to stop complaining while he cleans it up”. Why would you want to stifle debate? Are you not that secure in your beliefs?

    Fact is that until recently McCain has been a center left politician outside of foreign policy. McCain/Fiengold, his little immigration stunt with Kennedy. His position on the environment. Those are only a few big items. What good are his stances this year? He should have been taking conservative stance before now.

    • nospyme

      yep

    • thrasymakhos

      yep.

    • Sully

      McCain gets told to STFU every time there’s a thread on him here. Gets as bad as anything ever on DailyKos.
      Most times I’d bet from shitheads that didn’t even vote last year… or ever.
      Or Ron Paul supporters.
      Or Prog plants.

  • http://deleted ground wizard

    to: MSHD
    DID YOU FORGET THE PLAN WAS ORIGINALLY MCCAIN/LIEBERMAN, NUFF SAID… I’LL TAKE THE COMMIE FUCK OVER A SLOW BLEED OF A RHINO/SPECTOR/SNOW ANYDAY. IT MAKES IT EASIER TO PIN POINT THE TRUE ENEMY.

    • Phil Byler

      No, there was no plan of McCain/Lieberman. McCain considered Lieberman because he thought he needed soemthing to shake the race up in a year when the polls were favoring the Democrats. The problem was that Lieberman was not (and is not) pro-life, and McCain thought that the GOP needed a VP who was pro-life; that was also a strike against Guiliani.

      Contrary to the suggestion that there was inadequate vetting of VP candidates, it was the vetting that resulted in a carefully considered decision to go with Palin, who was considered as risky but promising the most potential upside and was (and is) pro-life.

  • vincenzo4

    Matt Lauer, a ridiculously well paid lapdog and subject matter expert of zero. The disrespect this former POW receives is a legend to arrogance and excesses of the air we provide these bastards that they actually think its an entitlement. Good democrat that Matt, he eschews and typifies that reprehensible party articulately.

  • Sully

    My Constitution is under DAILY Socialist attack 2009 through and including 2012 or it’s not…. hmmm…. As an actual voter, which one do I pick?

    • vincenzo4

      Be part of the gourmet clique like high school, man. Never do anything real in life just coast on weed, money, conforts, Birkenstocks, good food, free love, wealth, political advantage and always, always always use the civer that you are just trying to help the downtrodden and underdog avoid the harrasment of the man and speaking truth to power, dude. Tnen you’ll be really kewl like The One. Oh let’s not forget the assholian pontificating idiomatic expression of the crowd: “…hate the war but love the warrior…” Probably invented right inside the Kremlin.

    • Sully

      Wow… I coulda had all dat all these years?

  • JayMS

    Kudos for McCain for standing up to this annoying asshat.