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Peggy Noonan Calls John McCain’s ‘Dang Fence’ Commercial ‘Desperate’



May 16, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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  • Phil Byler

    Peggy Noonan swooned over Obama, supporting him for President, and Noonan is now trying to justify herself.

    The polls have always had McCain in the lead in his primary race. Indeed, the last poll I read had John McCain up 26 points on his primary challenger. That’s not a desperate situation for McCain.

    McCain supports the fence because he is a military and natinal security man, and as also an Arizonian, McCain knows that we have a national security crisis on our southern border at a time we are at war with the radical Islamists. Noonan is a New York based journalist. As such, things military are foreign to her, the world is Manhattan, and the word crisis means to her doubt about how the “world” may view herself.

    • http://www.snooperreport.com Mark Harvey

      Not so about McCain being all for illegal immigration. He was FOR the Leftinistra “give the lackies freedom or else” nonsense. His “fix the fence” ordeal does crack me up but he sure isn’t clueless as to a political idea to get him re-elected.

      Noonan? She’s an asshat.

    • Phil Byler

      With all due respect, Mark Harvey, McCain’s position has never been for illegal immigration even when in 2007 he worked for the bipartisan immigration bill. His argument then was that the bill included tough law enforcement provisions, and there were such provisions. The telling objection to that 2007 bill was that the Reagan-era immigration “reform” also had strong law enforcement provisions in it that were not enforced, which is what led to the current immigration problems and which calls at least for a “law enforcement first” position. In response, McCain did go to a “law enforcement first” position in 2008, which is certainly not for illegal immigration but against it. Since then, northern Mexico has degenerated into a staging area for narco-terrorism that has spilled over the border into the United States; and so in 2009, McCain called for the deployment of troops on the southern border.

      I do, though, agree with your assessment of Noonan.

    • TerryTate

      Well Phil,

      As an Arizonan myself, does it make a damn bit of difference what he says, or is it what he has gotten done about the issue?

      He’s had 22 years as a senator, and 5 before that as a congressman to get this done.

      If 27 years isn’t enough then one more term under his leadership isn’t gonna get it done.

      We don’t need more platitudes and empty promises, we need results.

      Saying that he is for law enforcement provisions that he knows won’t be enforced at the federal level is an empty promise. It’s like telling your kids that you’ll go to disneyland on a holiday when you know they’ll be closed. It isn’t gonna happen, but you’ve fooled people into being quiet. In the past that used to be called lying.

      Sorry, but Johnny Mac has needed to go, and it’s been awhile in coming.

    • hooligan1958

      TerryTate is 100% co-rrect. McNuggets is way past due for his new career as a taco vendor in downtown Phoenix. If you believe McCain has anything to offer Arizona I’m afraid you are badly misinformed or lack the knowledge of what’s called reality. Phil Byler, you should work for one of the useless news programs on television. You seem to parrot their drivel with great skill.
      Sure, Noonan is a urban bugwit with no clue as to what is going on in the real world us drones live in…just like “Maverick” McCain.

    • Phil Byler

      If, hooligan1958, you read what I write on this site, you would know that I do not parrot and that the last place I would be allowed is on one of those useless news shows, which I interpret to mean the mainstream media opinion broadcasts that the MSM calls news. The one issue where I end up in disagreement with people here is the subject of John McCain.

    • Phil Byler

      Terry Tate, you are not going to get results with J.D. Hayworth, you may get results with John McCain who with John Kyle are trying to publicize the issue. Also, the current problem of northern Mexican narco-terrorism has not been in existence for 27 years.

      There are also matters of deficit spending, health care, bailouts, appointments and foreign policy.

      John McCain, throughout his career, has been a fiscal conservative who has opposed earmarked and out of control federal spending and who voted against Obama’s deficit spending budgets, denouncing them as “generational theft.” (J.D. had his pork barrel spending moments in the Congress.)

      McCain strenuously opposed and voted against ObamaCare and was accused by the New York Times of throwing bombs on the subject. McCain voted against every Obama bailout bill and even voted against the second release of TARP monies when Bush was still President in late 2008. (J.D. was on the sidelines on these issues because he lost his last race for Congress to a Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican congressional district that should have been a safe seat even in bad year for the GOP.)

      McCain voted against the confirmations of tax cheat Geithner, radical pro-abortion advocate Sibellius, leftist attorney Kagan and transnational advocate Koh to their respective positions in the Obama Administration and voted against the confirmation of Sotomayer to the U.S. Supreme Court.

      Few people have the experience and knowledge concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security that John McCain has. He was right about the Iraq War when even many Republicans went wobbly and fought off Democrat led efforts to cut off funding our troops in the field in Iraq. McCain was right to attack Obama for dithering about committing to General McChrystal’s plan for Afghanistan and for not supporting the Iranian dissidents. McCain could be right because he knows his stuff when it comes to Commander in Chief decisions.

    • IC

      John McCain is a tool of the Establishment (Council on Foreign Relations, Tri-Lateral Commission, Bilderbergers, etc). He is no different than George Bush (either one).

      The policy of the Establishment is open borders and eventual unification of Canada, Mexico, and the US in a North American Union (and a One-World Government).

      John McCain is a supporter of this policy, no matter what words come out of his mouth. I don’t trust him at all, and you shouldn’t either IMO.

  • WestWright

    McCain and Soros sittin’ in a tree…yeah McCain is tough on Border Security that’s why he did that campaign speech for his La Raza buds back when he was losing to the Marxist.
    If I voted in AZ I would vote for JD Hayworth to kick the crap out of doofus McCain!

    • Phil Byler

      See above reply to Terry Tate.

  • vanglock

    Kinda got to agree with ol’ Peggy’s statement there.