Screw it!

[packinpatland]

Says John McCain.... "What America needs now is someone who will finish the race before starting the victory lap.”


John doing a lap......mind boggling.

[wist43]

In a democracy, no one is safe and everyones property is up for grabs. He who promises the most goodies, usually wins.

Is it any surprise then, that a filthy piece of garbage like Barack Obama can come along and simply spew platitudes from the Communist Manifesto, spit on the Constitution itself, and surf his way to the oval office on a tidal wave of ignorance???

Of course in America, under our Constitution, we are not supposed to be a democracy, and not one syllabal of what either McCain or Obama utters is Constitutional, but what does that matter??? The Constitution was abandoned decades ago.

Does anyone remember that crap about the Constitution being a "living document" being taught in high school??? All that means is that the Constitution as a restrictive document, a document that restricts government, a document that acts as bell weather against the encroachments of government on our freedoms, no longer exists.

The Constitution was designed to restrict government, not people... that principle has been turned on its head by the liberal elite - the liberal elite that direct both parties.

Absent legal restraint, absent understanding on the part of the governed about the proper role of government - governments become nothing more than vast robberies.

Our freedoms will not likely survive another generation here in the U.S... Our founders predicted it all - warning that should we allow ourselves to be deluded into thinking we were a democracy, that we deserve neither freedom nor prosperity.

Debate at this point between socialist party A, and socialist party B, is little more than debate over how to arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. It's just a matter of time.

I had hoped to be able to live out my days w/o seeing our country implode, but at 45, and the prospect of a left wing nut like Obama being elected, the writing is on the wall.

The building blocks of tyranny from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Barack Obama should be easy to see - it's obvious to anyone who is educated about the principles of freedom. Sadly, there are so few of us.

[MJZiggy]

You're only 45?

[texaspackerbacker]

In a democracy, no one is safe and everyones property is up for grabs. He who promises the most goodies, usually wins.

Is it any surprise then, that a filthy piece of garbage like Barack Obama can come along and simply spew platitudes from the Communist Manifesto, spit on the Constitution itself, and surf his way to the oval office on a tidal wave of ignorance???

Of course in America, under our Constitution, we are not supposed to be a democracy, and not one syllabal of what either McCain or Obama utters is Constitutional, but what does that matter??? The Constitution was abandoned decades ago.

Does anyone remember that crap about the Constitution being a "living document" being taught in high school??? All that means is that the Constitution as a restrictive document, a document that restricts government, a document that acts as bell weather against the encroachments of government on our freedoms, no longer exists.

The Constitution was designed to restrict government, not people... that principle has been turned on its head by the liberal elite - the liberal elite that direct both parties.

Absent legal restraint, absent understanding on the part of the governed about the proper role of government - governments become nothing more than vast robberies.

Our freedoms will not likely survive another generation here in the U.S... Our founders predicted it all - warning that should we allow ourselves to be deluded into thinking we were a democracy, that we deserve neither freedom nor prosperity.

Debate at this point between socialist party A, and socialist party B, is little more than debate over how to arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. It's just a matter of time.

I had hoped to be able to live out my days w/o seeing our country implode, but at 45, and the prospect of a left wing nut like Obama being elected, the writing is on the wall.

The building blocks of tyranny from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Barack Obama should be easy to see - it's obvious to anyone who is educated about the principles of freedom. Sadly, there are so few of us.

Good job of telling it like it is, wist. The fact that you made it perfectly clear in an earlier post that you see the filthy piece of garbage as by far, the worst alternative, though, gives you credibility that people intending to waste their vote on Bob Barr just don't have.

Tyrone, your analogy of Obama bin Biden with Reagan/Bush the Elder is wrong. Obama and Biden are extremely like-minded--the first and third worst liberal voting records in the Senate. Bush the Elder was philosopically, a completely different kind of Republican than Reagan.

Aside from the fact that Bush's "conversion" would be much better characterized as "stepping into the light" than "selling his soul", you have the question that nobody can really answer except the man himself: Was Bush the Elder merely recognizing political reality and giving lip service to Reaganomics and other conservative principals? Or was he really won over to the wisdom of that viewpoint by the great success of the Reagan presidency?

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That is a great post Wist! I agree 100% For me, the best government is a small government. McCain seems to support that theory as well. Obama and his banter lead me to believe he does not. Our government is far too bloated.

[wist43]

You're only 45?

With a touch of gray

[mraynrand]

Re: Screw it!

But, in your warped rubric..obama's sick grandma is just a clever political gambit...as is his devotion to her.

Now you're just making things up. I never mentioned his Grandmother's illness.

[mraynrand]

Re: Screw it!

Were you as critical of Bush when he sold his soul to be reagan's runningmate?

Funny you should mention this - I was critical of it and wrote an essay on it called "Voodoo politics." I also wrote to Reagan asking how he could have both tax cuts and increased military spending. I got back a policy paper that I still have.

I find it interesting that you come across as an expert on who is selling their soul. Perhaps you have inside information.

[MadScientist]

Re: Screw it!

If you like living like thumb sucking little girls who wet their panties every time someone says boo, keep thinking like this. If you want to live like Americans should, grow a set, or better yet grow a brain and get some perspective.
The last month has proved that a handful of greedy unregulated bankers can do far far far more economic damage than Bin Laden ever could hope to do, and the number he murdered was on par with the two months worth of domestic murders. Simply put, terrorists can't destroy America. The real damage to America from terrorism is from the overraeaction of people like you, and an administration willing to push fear to trash the constitution, and without the constitution, America is nothing.

The real way to stop the terrorists is through competent police/intellegence work and international cooperation. Can there be any doubt whatsoever that Barack Obama will be far better at gettign international cooperation than Bush / McCain?

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!

That's just laughable, MS.

The courageous thing to do is just let terrorism in America happen? You sound just like piece-of-shit Obama.

The WORST thing that can happen from terrorism is having one or several of our cities taken out by nukes--or barring that, areas of them made uninhabitable by dirty bombs. Even just a series of conventional terrorist bombs at malls and sporting events would have a horrendous effect on our way of life and enjoyment of life. And you--and the sick fucks your side puts up as candidates--would just LET IT HAPPEN!

And you actually have the GALL to spout John Kerry's "police approach" to terrorism? Sheesh!

The way to prevent terrorism is exactly the way we have prevented terrorism since 9/11--all the things that left wing America-hating extremists like Obama are against. And if that means depriving terrorists from foreign countries of OUR Constitutional protections that they are NOT entitled to anyway, and which they seek to destroy, then so be it!

There must be something in the Texas water that creates right-wingers who can't comprehend above things beyond "The Pet Goat" level. Al Queda just loves people like you, easily frightened and really stupid. I'll just call you Bin Laden's bitch from now on.

If you want to prevent these pissants from nuking us, secure the goddamn nukes. Fully fund Nunn-Lugar (and it's follow-up Lugar-Obama) instead of cutting it like shit for brains Bush did.

Of course you'd obviously rather tie up intelligence resources listening in to our troops' phone-sex calls home, and pretend it makes us safer.

[MJZiggy]

That is a great post Wist! I agree 100% For me, the best government is a small government. McCain seems to support that theory as well. Obama and his banter lead me to believe he does not. Our government is far too bloated.

Like Bush did, right? Wait, isn't McCain talking about buying back mortgages? Who's going to run that program? He's privatizing it, right? Isn't he talking about sending checks straight to insurance companies? Won't that bloat up HHS? (good for me because the ugliest building ever built that houses that department is but a couple miless from my house, but still) He also wants to continue two wars indefinitely and they aren't being run by private militia.

He's talking about a freeze the above programs prove he can't support without breaking his campaign promise and while Obama may not be declaring smaller government, he also is talking about going through program by program to cut waste. Which is exactly the thing that the state and local governments are having to do now.

[wist43]

That is a great post Wist! I agree 100% For me, the best government is a small government. McCain seems to support that theory as well. Obama and his banter lead me to believe he does not. Our government is far too bloated.

Like Bush did, right? Wait, isn't McCain talking about buying back mortgages? Who's going to run that program? He's privatizing it, right? Isn't he talking about sending checks straight to insurance companies? Won't that bloat up HHS? (good for me because the ugliest building ever built that houses that department is but a couple miless from my house, but still) He also wants to continue two wars indefinitely and they aren't being run by private militia.

He's talking about a freeze the above programs prove he can't support without breaking his campaign promise and while Obama may not be declaring smaller government, he also is talking about going through program by program to cut waste. Which is exactly the thing that the state and local governments are having to do now.

I can't remember the last time I voted for a Republican for prez... there's little to seperate them from dems really - at least for those of us who understand how our country and our freedoms are being deliberately and systematically dismantled. The process has been going on for many decades, but Obama is too much.

Welcome to the United Soviet Socialist States of the former America.

All you folks are doing, really, is arguing about what color you should paint a burning house - the end result will be the desired result - a sufficiently weakened United States, paving the way for further empowering the United Nations - global this, global that. Both parties, at least at the top, are completely comitted to globalism. Too bad we lose our sovreignty and freedom in the tradeoff.

That said, the dems, as nasty as they are at their core, have gone beyond the pale. I guess what's got my hackles up more than anything is democratic elected officials using their positions to foster corruption - OH, WI especially.

Here in Wisconsin, the democratic party has a corruption machine that Joseph Stalin would be proud of. I'm just sick of the democratic party, the corruption, and then the media and academia providing cover. Only the weak minded fall for their nonsense, unfortuately, the weak minded make up a majority of our citizenry, and since most of that citizenry erroneously believes we are a democracy, we stand no chance of maintaining our freedoms in the long run. In some ways, ignorance is bliss.

The Republicans aren't much better, but at least there is still a general sense of honesty in the party. Yes there are loathsome characters that can be pointed to as greasy examples, but the rank and file member of the Rebublican party tends to be an honest hard working American... the dems on the other hand, have all but abandoned any pretense of honesty. True to the Leftist axiom, "the end justifies the means".

I never would have considered voting for McCain... he represents the right wing of the socialst two party system here in the U.S., but Obama overtly spouting socialist platitudes, the media is giving him unbelievable cover, and their use of elected offices to protect and foster corrupt enterprises is simply too much.

I will hold my nose and vote for McCain not b/c I support McCain, but b/c Obama and the democrats are a complete disgrace.

[MJZiggy]

Media in Wisconsin? How 'bout media ABOUT Wisconsin. You're gonna love this...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/10/23/VI2008102302925.html?hpid=multimedia1&hpv=local

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That is a great post Wist! I agree 100% For me, the best government is a small government. McCain seems to support that theory as well. Obama and his banter lead me to believe he does not. Our government is far too bloated.

Like Bush did, right? Wait, isn't McCain talking about buying back mortgages? Who's going to run that program? He's privatizing it, right? Isn't he talking about sending checks straight to insurance companies? Won't that bloat up HHS? (good for me because the ugliest building ever built that houses that department is but a couple miless from my house, but still) He also wants to continue two wars indefinitely and they aren't being run by private militia.

He's talking about a freeze the above programs prove he can't support without breaking his campaign promise and while Obama may not be declaring smaller government, he also is talking about going through program by program to cut waste. Which is exactly the thing that the state and local governments are having to do now.

What Democrats say and what they do are two entirely different things. Sure, he'll go through the budget line by line, but does that mean he'll think things that are wasteful are? Don't think for a second this joker doesn't increase spending.

As for the wars, be glad you live in a place like America where you're allowed to say something like that. Sadam would have had you hung for A) being an outspoken woman, B) for being outspoken against the government.

I'm much happier having the war fought on the terrorists turf than having them blowing up schools, school buses, churches, etc in our country. Don't think for a second there won't be a much worse version of 9/11 right around the corner once obama pulls out all the troops and lets his people continue their radical ways.

[MJZiggy]

I am glad I'm living in America which is why I'm here. But it still doesn't mean that you can claim that you're going to make government smaller while you're waging two wars. I'm all for finishing what Bush started in both countries (Afghanistan being more important) but finishing them costs money and necessarily bloats the government so you don't get it both ways claiming you're going to fight two wars and that you're going to freeze spending. It's an impossible claim.

I was working for the Federal government when Clinton came through and believe me they went through every agency. The only fault I saw in his logic is that he left it up to each agency to decide for itself what was necessary and while I left that position before he was finished, I would have liked to see him assign the GAO to review the suggested cuts and changes. He may have done that, I don't know, but what I do know is that it's highly likely that my old position no longer exists and if it does, it should be cut.

[HowardRoark]

This reminds me of when I talk to my wife about how we have to watch our budget more and she tells me that I have to cancel my subscription to National Review right after she goes out and spends $700 on shoes.

As much as we have to get rid of many agencies, it’s the entitlements that will sink the ship.

And the whole Afghanistan thing is nothing but a strawman on the part of the Lefties. It’s B.S.