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Issue 103 - March 12, 2008
Editor: I just finished reading your latest column asking whether conservatives should support McCain. You are right. His speech at the CPAC was a good one but it does not line up against the mission statement of his Reform Institute. I remember telling folks back in ’99 that George Bush would be the GOP nominee but the country would be getting someone more like Richard Nixon than Ronald Reagan. They did not believe me then and now we are dealing with the aftermath. Once again I fear our prospects for retaining the White House rests more on the high negatives of the opposition than on what we will have to offer. Dennis Whitfield
Editor: Based on your "Support McCain" article, I don't see how any professed conservative could support Senator McCain. While you delineate some of his questionable actions via the Reform Institute his constant 'marriage' with a plethora of ultra liberal Democrats (Feingold, Kennedy, Lieberman, etc.) is sufficient for me to eliminate him from any consideration. Today, because his handlers tell him he can't win without the conservative vote, he has had an epiphany. Now he sees the logic and correctness to conservative positions. Just vote for me and trust me to do the 'right' thing once I am in the White House. Sure, and that response belongs with all the other great lies mouthed by politicians through the years. I think we all remember "read my lips" and what came of that oath. From a conservative position, the White House is already lost. We have 3 shades of the same political stripe and it matters not who is elected in November. They will all stay in Iraq, nominate socialist/globalist judges, raises taxes, and grant amnesty to the illegals. America will continue to slide left and in 20 or 30 years it will become a shadow of what it once was, modeled on the EU. Regards, Robert Zanetti, College Point, NY
Editor: "Support McCain?" is wrong. To suggest loosing is better than winning is lunacy. For those who can't see the difference perhaps you will take the time to explain to me how Justice Ginsburg is no different than Justice Roberts? Good luck. Robert E. Solum
Editor: Good points in your “Support McCain?” that many fail to remember as far as McCain's voting record is concerned. As a Reagan Conservative who has met John McCain (in Las Vegas), along with my late husband, who even had dinner alone with just John McCain and his wife Cindy (The Prime Restaurant, Bellagio Hotel), I am very concerned that he apparently is going to be our Candidate for President! My husband, who never would talk politics with McCain, would roll over in his grave! However, I shall vote for him! We have no other choice! Cobina Cooley Bastone (Cobey Lou Bastone)
Editor: Regarding your “Support McCain?” the Republican conservatives better support McCain or they will find out what a real liberal is with Obama or Hillary. McCain is a fine man who canrun the country. If Limbaugh is what a conservative is, I don’t want the same label. I don’t agree with the gripes. No one is 100 percent. Judy M. Bowers-longtime Republican activist
Editor: “Support McCain?” No. Gary Grover
Editor: McCain isn't perfect like some conservatives I can name. Actually, I can't name one--who is the perfect conservative?--but McCain:
1) has never had an earmark
2) used to publish his own Senate porker of the month
3) is totally prepared to be commander in chief
4) will not allow military humiliation in the Middle East or anywhere else
5) has said, "No new taxes"
6) has said he will close the southern border
7) has an 83% ACU rating, not an A but a B
8) is a stark contrast to Obama/Clinton's 19th C. socialism and post WW I pacifism and totalitarian dictatorial promises
The alternative is 8 years of Democrats. I'll take McCain over the above any day. The right has to fight with what it has. If McCain is it, then McCain is the deal. Let's go forward and stop beating ourselves up. It only benefits the enemy. Renny Hartmann
Editor: Regarding “Support McCain?” I cannot possibly vote for McCain; He is a loose cannonball. I would like to see a campaign started to elect Huckabee with write-in votes in the election in November. I think there are enough God fearing Christians out there to put him in office. Obama is a jerk. Clinton is power hungry. What choice do we have? Carl
Editor: Do you really want Hillary or Obama as President????? I think not!!!! McCain may not be perfect, but he is an infinitely better choice than either Democratic candidates. It is time we realize that the only way we can keep the White House and other Congressional offices from going to the Democrat party is to stand together and fight to WIN as a united Republican party. IF we don't the liberal laws that will get passed will destroy any possibility that conservatives will have ANY voice in the USA! It is time to wake up to the new reality! David A. Christensen
Editor: Regarding your editorial “Support McCain?” I do not trust him for a N.Y. minute. Please keep after him to keep him honest. I get sick when I think of him in the White House. One more thought. How about a Conservative Party? Could this be the answer? In my view, at this time the existing one is pretty bad. I'm ashamed to say that I am a part of it. Your other article by J.B Williams is right—-concentrate on the Senate. Sincerely, George Peros
Editor: Finally Rush and a few others have gotten around to calling John McCain what he really is: Liberal Republican instead of Moderate Republican. He was never a Moderate. He is a Democrat that ran as a Republican because that was the only way he could get elected. Applies to all the RHINO's. Call them by their true name. LIBERAL REPUBLICAN. Add George W. Bush to that list also. Why do we have to cave in and accept McCain when we have Newt standing in the wings? PLEASE START A DRAFT NEWT MOVEMENT right now. The public wants change. Newt is the one with the right change for this country. We need him now! Billie Stroud, San Antonio, Texas
Editor: John McCain is not perfect but, he will not surrender in our war on terror and he will not lead this country into Socialism. We have had enough of the Clintons and Obama scares me he will bankrupt this county. J. Easling
Editor: I am a conservative Republican. I am so upset at John McCain and I will never vote for him. He slammed Willie Cunningham in Cincinnati and I do not think John McCain knows how popular and what a strong conservative Republican Cunningham is. It was Barak's parents who gave him the middle name Hussein. Barak also attends a church that is racist and against whites. How stupid to slam someone who is going to get votes for you in the Cincinnati area. John McCain is an absolute wimp - he will let terrorists into our country with his weak immigration stance and his view of water boarding is silly. If he had a family member being held by a terrorist ready to slice a head off, I would certainly want someone with information water boarded to get valuable information. I just may vote for the Muslim and let him take this country right down the tubes. I will never vote for McCain or donate any money to his campaign - what an absolutely stupid man and a gutless, spineless man. He flaps in the wind and buddies up with the liberals. I gave Bush $1000 for his campaign, McCain isn’t getting anything except a no vote. Michael Toms
Editor: Support McCain? Never! He can say all he wishes now about what he would or would not do as president but his voting record speaks for itself. They say sooner or later you get what you deserve. Does this nation deserve the choices for president we are faced with in 2008? Two Communist/Socialist Democrats and a Republican who dresses in sheep's clothing but is in actuality a wolf, siding with the opposition to conquer and destroy. Conservatives have NO choice in this presidential election. Voting for the lesser evil is not an option for me. Maybe Americans will finally wake up and realize we did get what we deserve.
It could be this democratic republic's end is on the horizon because of the apathy and complacency as well as the greed and ignorance of the American electorate. Living under tyranny is the same whether the tyrant calls himself Democrat or Republican. Elaine Biggerstaff, Bonney Lake, WA
Editor: Regarding “Support McCain?” it was a mistake for Romney to suspend his race for the White House. He should have stayed in until the convention. In fact, it would nice if he reentered the race now. Perhaps then the candidate might be selected at the convention and it might not be John McCain. Likewise, the Democrats might make their selection at the convention and it might not be Clinton or Obama. Remember Garfield. Jack Buzbee
Editor: John McCain is reeling from his clever success in the "front-loaded" early Republican primaries with "Independent" and registered "Democratic" voters. These phony trials were allowed to produce a "Non-Republican" Primary-election outcome! This is a sure prescription for failure in the fall General election!! These individuals, even if supportive of McCain’s vision of values will abandon him for the "purer" versions of the Liberals! McCain already is showing signs of weakness by attacking and disavowing a personal campaign leader on the grounds he used "Obamas" full name!! That action is unconscionably defensive and shows a fundamental character flaw, an unwillingness of John McCain to confront liberalism! He must always be seen as "Politically Correct"! This is not a candidate who can be trusted to see conservatism prosper. Yes! John McCain has strengths, but he is so philosophically flawed and lacking in his "Executive" capacity that it will take a miracle, not just conservative support, to assure his election! We conservatives would be better served to try to gain solid control of the Senate and thus protect against the liberal legislative onslaught and the aging Supreme court "retirements", then the "Hold our Noses" and support McCain. We can start by getting Jeff Sessions re-elected!! Bob Langelius, White Plains, NY
Editor: I would suggest that any political movement or ideology that can't evolve or change will die. The Conservative mantra from the past that tax cuts are always good has been shown to be patently absurd over the last 7 years. The cry of smaller government has been thrown into the ditch. A party that presents a candidate to its members and the independents it needs to win that has just finished giving them and the majority of the country the proverbial finger over illegal immigration, trade policies and freedom of speech is highly unlikely to prosper. In other words ladies and gentlemen a Conservative party and its members that don't follow Conservative principals of lower taxes for all, smaller but effective government, business and trade policies that benefit the Nation as a whole rather than a narrow wedge group, are no longer Conservatives. If it doesn't quack like a duck, you can be fairly certain it’s not a Duck. Kind Regards, Joe Mahoney
Editor: Why should I support McCain? He is not REPEAT IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. He in essence is a Naturalized citizen. George Proctor
Editor: “Support McCain?” sounds like what you think rather than what the people think. I will tell you as I have relayed to others who condemn McCain for his actions, his beliefs and his reactions there is a reason that they call him a maverick. He is not a hand puppet and he is his own man with his own thoughts and his own ideas. Unlike Obama who is an Oprah Winfrey hand puppet, who has her thoughts and ideas about a presidency parroted everyday through Obama and his wife. I will sleep better at night should McCain become president because I will not be worrying about being attacked by jihad extremists and I know that our country as well as its borders will be secured. If you really want to know who Barack Hussein Obama is you start with his closest allies Jeremiah A Wright his pastor and Robert Malley his foreign affairs advisor and the reverend Al Sharpton his confident and friend. These are the people that are advising him and after you have checked them out and their ties you then decide who is best for this country. Sincerely, Vicki Hampton
Editor: Your idea of supporting McCain because YOU call him a conservative is the most absurd statement of the season! He is no more a Conservative than either of the Democrats! He has supported LIBERAL agendas all through his time as Senator, and has betrayed any conservative support! Your wasting your time and space and I cannot figure out why, unless you are now on his payroll? John Boyle
Editor: Having never been a big fan of McCain, and now that I am stuck with him, I do have a couple of questions for him. Let me just say this, I have sent him many, many emails and have yet to get one response. I also write Obama and have gotten a response everytime. Pretty pathetic if I do say so myself. My first concern is that McCain will pick a rino for vp - which in turn, would be the final nail in the GOP's coffin, hang it up folks, go home, you're working for nothing. McCain needs to pick Romney for VP or hang this election up. I am very upset over this election and if McCain does not start reaching out to conservatives, instead of apologizing to Obama because a talk show host invoked Obama's middle name one too many times. If McCain thinks playing nicey nice in this election process will get him a victory, he is very wrong. The Democratic nominee will never apologize to him for any smearing on their part. Someone shake this man will ya? Sorry about rambling but my blood is boiling. Thanks, Robin
Editor: Regarding “Support McCain?” I say deport him. Richard Keene
Editor: I am a conservative and have voted as a Republican ever since Eisenhower. Remember him?? I am afraid of Obama and/or Hillary. I cannot believe you guys keep hacking away at John McCain.? I miss Newt more than anybody, for sure. But, to withhold support for OUR PARTY'S nominee for President is not to be believed...PLEASE STOP NOW...YOU GIVE AMMO TO OBAMA AND HILLARY. Shame on your continued assault on OUR CANDIDATE....Bill Christie in NJ
Editor: Lisa Fabrizio's “Questions to McCain” deserve honest and straightforward answers that the Senator/Presidential candidate must address before true Conservatives will vote for him, and were some of the same questions that I sent to him. I have never received a response from Senator McCain, probably because I am only one. It is good to know that those in more recognizable positions are also asking, and I hope receiving answers. Another question that I must have answered: Is the Senator going to listen to the majority of American voices that are fed with his Illegal Alien Amnesty legislation? Has he heard us on this issue? And what is he going to do about the illegal aliens living outside of the law in the U.S.? Does he understand that we insist that they be deported and told to sign up for citizenship and await their turn just like our forefathers did? I certainly hope so. I do not relish the idea of having to exist under four years of ultra liberal Democratic rule. I am looking forward to receiving Lisa's next letter to McCain, and learning if she received a reply from the elite President elect. Thank you for your time. Don Lloyd
Editor: J. B. Williams is right-on. We need to concentrate on the Senate seats that are up for re-election. Roxana Muise
Editor: I read J.B. Williams’ article about getting Republican Senators into office and to give up on the Presidential race. I agree with you and at the same time disagree. If you were to go to one of these two sites and read the information that you can gather there it may be an eye opener and maybe you'll include as links to go to for information. (http://an-american-for-sovereignty.com& http://vote-itz-ur-right.com) I agree our nations future is at stake and feel we can not concede yet to just sitting this one out in the Presidential race. I am 100% behind you in getting active both in seating a Congressman and Senator that will preserve our country's sovereignty, Freedoms, Rule of Law and Values. Your kids & mine your grandchildren & mine future is needing our action now. Boyd Lieberman, Shreveport, LA
Editor: Spencer Warren’s “Anti-American Oscars” is a great read. We need more of this type of writing in the mainstream media. I doubt that most Americans even take a second glance at what they are watching or realize what the truth in History really is. Much like the wonderful text books we now have in our middle school and high schools through out America. Thank you for taking the time and doing the research to put forth this information. Sincerely, William H. Freeman, Marion, IL
Editor: Thanks for the wonderfully written commentary of brutally truthful insights in Spencer Warren’s “Anti-American Oscars”. Five Stars from me, JCH, Advance NC
Editor: Is there a email address to email any of the STUPID sounding Hollywood people portrayed in Spencer Warren’s “Anti-American Oscars”? If so I would spend all day doing it--if I could do so in a nice way. Judy Hatton
Editor: Right on for S.T, Karnick’s “Easy on Anti-Jesus Slur.” I also agree with Spencer Warren’s “Anti-American Oscars” which clearly pointed specifically to certain movies from the 60s culture that were nothing but fabricated information and were a large contributing force to the anti-American beliefs portrayed in these movies. One last word. If so many of these people think this is such a horrible and wicked country I would suggest they return to the lands of their forefathers. Given the opportunity they would not in fact leave. Money would not be the controlling factor in their decisions. Thank you for your article. Kathleen Potterfield
Editor: Please keep up the good work such as Roy Innis’ “Government Energy Arsenic.” Help keep USA from expending trillions of unnecessary dollars to fight nature. The zealots pick co2 because if not 'manmade' they will be unable to cripple the capitalist economies with fighting this nonsense. Chuck Higgins
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