Maverick McCain no longer exists
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Michael Ruley
Published: October 5, 2008
As a political independent, well-educated, active duty military officer with service both in the U.S. Army (enlisted) and the U.S. Coast Guard totaling 20 years, I honor and respect Senator McCain for the
sacrifices he has made throughout military and political life. However, the buck stops there!
His choice for vice president was a poor one; Romney and Huckabee would also have been unacceptable! McCain is/was a political moderate until he started allowing the extremist faction of the GOP
run his campaign.
McCain not only does a disservice to himself but to the entire nation, especially to the military and veterans, by moving so far to the right on most issues for which he took a sensible stance before — in
other words, he is a big flip-flopper. He has surrendered his principals for political expedience. He took the easy way out to satisfy a vocal, unreasonable, irresponsible, and fanatical minority — that is the
extremist, religious right wing of the Republican Party.
These people do not respect a woman’s right to privacy, oppose separation of church and state and wish to impart their misguided, hate-filled and bigoted religious morality on everyone else. John
McCain has lost my vote with his pick for vice president. If he had chosen Lieberman or someone like Colin Powell he would have had my support! I supported him through the primaries, but no more! The
maverick, John McCain, has ceased to exist, now he is just another run-of-the-mill, rubber-stamp Republican! What a shame!
MICHAEL RULEY
Dale City
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Posted by ( jVA ) on October 07, 2008 at 11:48 am
“It would have been more painful but only for a short period of time instead of the temporary bailout relief before things go worse soon. “
Scorpio, I kind of agree with you about the bailout being lame. There’s no guarantee that its going to solve anything, and its more likely that $700 billion is not even enough money to patch things up.
However, I’m not sure how you can say the consequences of not doing anything would have been painful for only a short period of time. You think we can allow a chain reaction of banks failing around the world, and the economy will get back to normal in six months or so?
Again, I don’t completely disagree with you. You might be right that the only way out of this is to just let things run their natural course. I just think this mess will take years to recover from.
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Posted by ( scorpio ) on October 07, 2008 at 11:16 am
The crisis was created by greedy people who are equally republicans and democrats, so stop whining about whose fault it is. It was best to just play shock therapy and let the stock market and the economy go naturally where they would go instead of lame bailouts but it is too late now… It would have been more painful but only for a short period of time instead of the temporary bailout relief before things go worse soon.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on October 07, 2008 at 6:11 am
Pwanon, I read your post again and the only point I see you trying to make is a lame attempt to shift the blame for the financial meltdown from the Bush-McCain Administration - somehow - to the Democratic Party. Nice try, and I’m sure we’ll see many, many, many more attempts to build a smoke screen in front of the voting public, but the facts remain the collapse occured on the Bush Administration watch, with a Republican majority for 6 of the 8 years, and a presidential veto wielded the other 2 years.
Oh, I understand where you are coming from. If I supported John McCain, I would not want his long association of supporting the Bush Administration policies to be known either. But we are not the ignorant sheep you are used to preaching to. We can clearly see the policies of the Bush Administration have not worked, and that McCain has supported these policies 95% of the time and continues to campaign on tax cuts for the rich and tax breaks for Big Oil. If it looks like a Bush, walks like a Bush, quacks like a Bush, McCain must be a Bush.
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Posted by ( gwenandgary ) on October 06, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Both sides are just as guilty of this type of behavior. Why single out Mr. McCain for a drubbing?
Mr. McCain cannot turn things around for this country using his plans and promises. Mr. Obama, well intentioned as he is, is likely not equal to the task, either.
A large part of the situation we find ourselves in today as a nation happened on the watch of a Republican presidential administration and a Democrat-controlled Congress. Presumably a solution lies with their combined effort, also.
Stop looking for a savior in either one of these candidates. Dragging down the one does not make the other look any better, nor does it help solve the problem. I blame both sides.
It took bipartisan action (or inaction, if you prefer) to put us where we are today. It’s going to take bipartisan effort to get us on the road to recovery, whatever that may consist of.
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Posted by ( jVA ) on October 06, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Classy, godsaveus.
That’s so typical of Republicans. They always “support the troops” until they don’t like what we have to say.
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Posted by ( Godsaveus ) on October 06, 2008 at 11:40 am
MICHAEL RULEY
For be a “political independent, well-educated, active duty military officer with service both in the U.S. Army (enlisted) and the U.S. Coast Guard totaling 20 years”, you speak as a liberal Obama supporter. You never support McCain before or after his VP pick. You are a phony independent. So please if you want to speak against McCain , be honest like most liberals ., do not come with a phony face < Political independent> act like a soldier.
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Posted by ( jVA ) on October 06, 2008 at 8:26 am
“The financial crisis we’re in is largely a mess created by the Democrats themselves. It was many Democrats in Congress who continually resisted Republican calls to tighten the reins on Fannie and Freddie.“
PWANON, I’d say this is debatable. But either way, the financial crisis is much bigger than just bad mortgages. That bad debt is just what happened to cause the Wall Street pyramid scheme to come undone. Its not the larger problem.
The billions of dollars in the bailout is not being provided to fix the subprime mortgages. Its being used to shore up the unregulated Credit Default Swap market. Wall Street was basically gambling on CDS with billions of dollars that they did not have.
I’m not going to bother pointing fingers on CDS, but I recommend people read about it if you want to really understand the financial crisis.
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Posted by ( pwanon ) on October 06, 2008 at 7:43 am
One issue? I think I highlighted about 5 or 6. But if I was a liberal, I’d keep my head bured where the sun doesn’t shine as well. Not much to be proud of when your party sabotaged the economy for the sake of low-income home ownership and campaign contributions.
And…I might add…what a substance-filled reply to specific criticisms. well done, sir.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on October 06, 2008 at 7:30 am
Oh, the One-Issue Guy again.
Okay, I don’t understand but I’ll try one more time to explain that the REPUBLICANS HAVE HELD A MAJORITY FOR 6 OF THE PAST 8 YEARS - AND THE PRESIDENT WIELDS A VETO PEN. What part of being in control don’t you guys get?
Sure, if my party created the mess, I would toss the blame elsewhere also. But you guys can’t run from George W. Bush and the fact John McCain supported the failed Bush policies -whether or not you want to or not.
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Posted by ( pwanon ) on October 06, 2008 at 6:55 am
True to form, Ray, you’ve outdone yourself with the dishonesty and disillusionment in your morning post.
The financial crisis we’re in is largely a mess created by the Democrats themselves. It was many Democrats in Congress who continually resisted Republican calls to tighten the reins on Fannie and Freddie. But with the kind of money that was flowing into the pockets of men like Chris Dodd and Barack Obama from these two corrupt entities, you can imagine why no “change” came about to bring F & F back to earth. Bill Clinton and the Washington Post said the same last week…I posted both for you.
You ask the question of who John McCain is, and imply that we can’t possibly know because he’s a Republican masquerading as a Democrat, or some such nonsense. The better question is: Who is Barack Obama?
Is he the guy who sat idly by while his “spiritual mentor” railed against white people and America for 20 years, and never said a word? Or is he the guy who doesn’t even oppose the murder of babies when the mother is 4, 5, or even 6 months pregnant. Is he the guy who has accepted more than $126,000 in contributions from Fannie and Freddie? Or is he the guy who didn’t even win the popular vote is his own party’s primary election…only winning by getting Florida and Michigan discounted?
Sure, he’s that guy. He’s also the guy who wants to socialize health care, which will certainly require a tax hike on the middle class. He’s the guy who wants to abandon what our troops have accomplished (despite every interference from liberals) in Iraq.
He is a farce. A proponent of “change” only when its rhetoric. A laughable man with no character, who has hoodwinked liberals into believing he is something new, and “above the politics of division.“ And, when we really get down to it, a man who is where is because of the color of his skin…not in spite of it. Because with the exact same resume, a name like “John Smith” and skin more pale than his own…nobody outside of Chicago would have any idea who he was.
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