RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events McCain in 08?

I post my opinion on things when I want to. Its just more fun to make you halo82.

seriously snarf, if you ever want to get some pussy you'll have to quit acting like one...

so you're going to be a whiney chickenshit.

um, you're the one who's whining about my posts. And being a tard. And wants to be recruited by the insurgency.

what does that prove? seriously. do you think you actually proved me wrong or won some argument? you posted a graemlin.
another whiney chickenshit contributing nothing.

you could try for the next 10 years and not even phase me, let alone "break" me. there're posters here who could break me, drive me off the boards, and you're not one of them.
now, do you have something of substance to add to this thread? or are you going to call me an insurgent for the 1000th time hoping that this time it'll hurt my feelings?

says the guy whose posts are at least one third eye-rolling graemlins. what is it that you 'contribute' here? audiovisual feces nobody wants to watch? your opinions? moonbat columnists' opinions? these boards are a blank slate on which everyone is free to express themselves. your olbermann youtubes are just one can of the spraypaint you use to graffiti them up. are you hoping to vent your bitterness toward conservatives - especially evangelical ones? or are you just that much of an attention whore? because either way, you're just the whiny, angry teenage kid with the can of spraypaint in his hand.

that's not breaking someone. that's being an asshole and making someone hate you. breaking someone is driving them to the point where they can't bring themselves to post anymore because they can't take you anymore.

Ray, spending this much time and effort on rex isn't healthy. And, yes, the hippies broke rex years ago. It's why he always feels nauseous whenever he smells granola.

I broke you once you admitted that I annoy you.

no, you can make people hate you by being a sockfucking cunt. it's not a sign of making them your bitch, it's a sign of you being an unlikable person.
you didn't have to force me to hate you, rex. it came naturally by you just being you.

but by that logic hippies broke you. and you've called me a hippie. so by your logic i broke you.

Rex, you annoy everyone. We all admit that. You'll need to have more definitive criteria for "breaking".

unadulterated

snarf no!

oh, phil. i can't stay mad at you.


and is a valid response. it was established when Al Gore invented the interweb.

but seriously, you may not like my opinions and views but they are what they are. if i remember right, you're christian. i find religious belief to be kind of silly. i imagine your response to that statement is the same as mine to you calling me a moonbat.
the reason i post with so many conservatives is because i believe it's good to have your views challenge[d], it's good to have these kinds of debates. no one may change their mind but when we really get into it and defend our views and express them to people who are on the far opposite end of the spectrum, it helps clarify our own beliefs by forcing us to define them and write them out.

Many political campaigns run against the wrong candidate. The opportunity to pick on a vulnerable target is so tempting that they are lured into attacking someone who isn't running.

In 1992, the Republicans unleashed their convention barrage at Hillary Clinton and left Bill unscathed. In 1996, Dole still ran against Clinton the liberal and ignored the changes in his political positioning. Campaigns go after the flaming red cape, so glittering a target, and leave the matador alone.

That's what the Democratic convention has been doing in Denver. They are so anxious to run against Bush, their animosity is so pent up, that they persist in running against a man who is not seeking a third term. In speech after speech, the Democrats knock the Bush record and then add, lamely, that GOP candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) is the same as Bush. Or they call the McCain candidacy Bush's third term. It was no accident �" or Freudian slip �" when vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) spoke of John Bush instead of George in his litany of attacks.

This pattern of shooting at the decoy, not the duck, gives McCain a bold strategic opportunity. He can nullify the impact of the entire Democratic convention simply by distancing himself from Bush.

The truth is, of course, that McCain is the most unlike Bush of any of the Republican senators. (When Obama's people claim that Bush and McCain voted the same 94 percent of the time, they forget that most of the votes in the Senate are unanimous.) The fact that McCain backs commending a basketball team on its victory doesn't mean that he is in lockstep ideologically with the president.

The issues on which McCain and Bush differ are legion:

• McCain fought for campaign finance reform �" McCain-Feingold �" that Bush fought and ultimately signed because he had no choice.

• McCain led the battle to restrict interrogation techniques of terror suspects and to ban torture.

• McCain went with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a tough measure to curb climate change, something Bush denies is going on.

• McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts when they passed.

• McCain urged the Iraq surge, a posture Bush rejected for years before conceding its wisdom.

• McCain favors FDA regulation of tobacco and sponsored legislation to that effect, a position all but a handful of Republican Senators oppose.

• McCain's energy bill, also with Lieberman, is a virtual blueprint for energy independence and development of alternate sources.

• After the Enron scandal, McCain introduced sweeping reforms in corporate governance and legislation to guarantee pensions and prohibit golden parachutes for executives. Bush opposed McCain's changes and the watered-down Sarbanes-Oxley bill eventuated.

• McCain has been harshly critical of congressional overspending, particularly of budgetary earmarks, a position Bush only lately adopted (after the Democrats took over Congress).

Remember that McCain ran against Bush in 2000. McCain's Republican advisers need to realize that they won the primary and that they do not need to cotton to the delegates at their convention or to appease the Bush White House. The more they respond to Obama's and Biden's attacks on Bush by saying "It ain't me, babe," the more he will moot the entire purpose of the Democratic convention. It is a rare opportunity to nullify the entire Democratic line of attack and McCain should seize on it.

... i'm not arguing whether bush is mccain... i'm not arguing whether he is the same as bush or not...

...Mccain voting with bush 90% is troubling.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential pick eight years ago, on Tuesday criticized Barack Obama's national security record and hailed Republican candidate John McCain's, a clear boost to the GOP.

Playing his former party's spoiler, Lieberman called McCain — not the Democratic nominee Obama — the best choice to lead the country forward. The Democrat-turned-Independent said that while Sen. Obama was voting to cut off funds for troops in Iraq, McCain took the unpopular position to support a surge in troops.

"Because of that, today, our troops are at last beginning to come home, not in failure, but in honor," Lieberman says in excerpts that were released in advance of his speech Tuesday to the Republican National Convention.

Lieberman was scheduled to address the second night of the Republican meeting just eight years after he stood before a cheering throng at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and accepted the nomination as Al Gore's running mate.

These days, he often calls himself an independent. But in excerpts released ahead of his address to the GOP crowd, he referred to himself as a Democrat who's opted to put politics aside during wartime.

"I'm here tonight because John McCain is the best choice to bring our country together and lead our country forward. I'm here because John McCain's whole life testifies to a great truth: being a Democrat or a Republican is important. But it is not more important than being an American," he said.

Lieberman also sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, but lost badly to John Kerry. Two years later, he lost a Democratic nomination for another term in Connecticut in 2006, then recovered quickly to win re-election as an independent.

Although his vote in the Senate gives the Democrats a narrow majority, he has riled former party members again this year by criticizing Obama and endorsing his longtime friend McCain.

Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean said Lieberman's speech would be the most interesting of the night, and shows tremendous courage.

"He's going to be punished by the Democratic Party and he knows it. But he wants to do it because he thinks he's the best candidate for president," Kean said.

Lieberman was also believed to be among those on McCain's vice presidential shortlist before the candidate selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last week. Bedrock Republicans reacted strongly against the political moderate.

His address was originally scheduled for opening night, but was cut along with most of the program when McCain opted to dramatically scale back the convention because of Hurricane Gustav.