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Republican Kool-Aid. Drink Up Suckers!!!

Jim Pence May 9th, 2008

2008 Presidential Campaign , Cindy McCain , Jim Pence , John McCain
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12 Responses to “Republican Kool-Aid. Drink Up Suckers!!!”

# Charleson 09 May 2008 at 8:08 am

All I can say is that at least Jim Pence has the guts to tell the truth. Why would anyone vote for McCain? McCain will do two things: 1) Continue the unnecessary United States involvement in conflicts in the middle east (no, I am not a Holy Roller). 2) The systematic and complete deportation of the United States economy. Words like “spreading freedom”, “creating trading partners”, and “creating gloabal stability” are used to bait the United States citizenry. So far many have swallowed the bait in this country, have been deceived, and are now losing all that they have worked for. It’s time to wake up and vote for someone who will put the United States first and formost. Red China has been a “potiental market” for United States produced goods for the last 40 years. At present countries like Communist China and India buy a few raw materials at that is it. When an over populated third world country “develops” because the government of the United States has knifed its citizens in the back by rewarding the exportation of manufacturing, we pay more for everything. This is because a country that does not produce anything is becoming a third world country. Just look at the value of the United States dollar. We need a President who is committed to the Citizens of the United states. McCain just does not fit this bill.
# kilowaton 09 May 2008 at 12:24 pm

usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm
# Herodotuson 09 May 2008 at 3:30 pm

So Obama will do 3 things…
1) Pull the troops out early and create a safe-haven for terrorists and end any fear terrorist have of American Military might
2) Talk to our enemies (hell he even thinks FDR talked to Hitler)
3) Install the same communist tactics Hugo Chavez has used to steal control of Oil companies in Venez. to solidify one party rule.

Damn, I must be tired…I didn’t even get to work in how Obama refused to vote to make carrying a gun to school a felony in Illinois (one of 2 State Senators who opposed that sane bill). Now why would he take such a stand with people who carry guns to school?
# kilowaton 09 May 2008 at 4:20 pm

what McSame/McNasty going to do another keating 5, 3.5 billion cost to the tax payers,not counting the 4 planes he crashed before they gave him his captain stripes. at least Cindy can pay for all the beer this time,we can even have a truck at every stop along the campaign trail!!McCain has so much baggage it will never stop!!!
# Jimon 10 May 2008 at 1:23 am

To Herodotus Says:
Get a grip, do you want to know who the real terrorist are? Click the link below and get educated “My friend”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EXKLVgEx0
# kilowaton 10 May 2008 at 8:45 am

.youtube.com/watch?v=_7PfSEtiXPw
# W. A. Weldonon 10 May 2008 at 2:03 pm

Relax, folks……you make this too complicated. Surge McBomb will not be elected Prez…….the Smirking Chimp Bush has destroyed the Republican Party.
The real problem here in KY is that McConnell is in the US Senate. He has stalled and stalled and obstructed, time after time, to keep the unnecessary war of choice in Iraq going.
This from a man who could not even make it through boot camp. Flush this turkey McConnell.
# Herodotuson 12 May 2008 at 12:29 pm

Republicans lucked into the one candidate who the Dem’s can’t paint as a Bush-clone. The one candidate who has an ACTUAL RECORD of bi-partisanship. The one candidate who actually rises above the partisan bickering and same old political B.S.
The best part is that the Dem’s nasty campaign tactics will make him realize how much they used him whenever there was a bi-partisan effort to be championed then called him an extremist. McCain doesn’t strike me as the type to forget being stabbed in the back…
# Charleson 12 May 2008 at 3:51 pm

I used to be a Republican until the 1980s came along. Oh yes Reagan was elected and the hostages came home from Iran. The trouble is that Mr. Reagan forgot to tell the American people that the Iranians were bribed with the sale of weapons. And then there was the savings and loan crisis of the early 1990s. Once again we see just how the “build it and they will come” policies of the late 1980s failed and put and strain on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The Heritage Foundation dictated our ethics and foreign policies in the 1980s - That’s right an organization founded by a beer brewery. Now we export the economy of the United States and are told that foreign outsourcing is a form of trade. Trade is trade only when it goes both ways. And what about the non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, however Sadam Hussein did threaten George Bush’s father and the excuse of weapons of mass destruction was justified. McCain wants to bomb Iran. Iran has done nothing to the United States in the last 20 years and poses no direct threat to the United States. McCain seemed to have trouble remembering that he had a wife in the late 1970’s and Mr. McCain was just endorsed by a Holy Roller in San Antonio, Texas (a big minus as far as I am concerned). We have a piece of trash for President who does not understand the duties of a President and how they differ from the duties of a “decider”. In Kentucky we have a Senator who in 2000 voted to extend most favored nation trading status to Communist China and in 2001 voted to normalize relations with Communist Vietnam. We need a loyal American for a United States Senator and a United States President. What do you think about the bailout of Bear Stearns? That’s right Bernanke is printing more money to bail out an investment bank making every dollar in your pocket worth less. I have yet to find where the United States is the “policeman of the world” in our Constitution, but Republicans seen to think that we can no longer follow our Constitution. The Communist Chinese just murder several people in Tibet the United States should be arming the Tibetans and furnishing them Intelligence. I’ll bet that there is one Senator here in Kentucky that would be very much opposed to this. People wonder why I left the Republican Party.
# Herodotuson 13 May 2008 at 9:36 am

It’s a shame we don’t get anything back at all when companies outsource some jobs. I mean, wouldn’t it be great if the company saved money and thus made a competitive product and was able to survive and protect those jobs that aren’t sent overseas as opposed to being priced out of the market and having to go out of business alltogether? And wouldn’t it be nice that the cost of certain goods would go down and that more of our economy would be shifted to higher paying service fields based on what you know instead of what you do (like a repetitive task over and over for 8 hours a day)? Oh wait…

If you think Iran has done nothing to the United States you are an idiot. Seriously, tell that to the families who have lost soldiers in Iraq thanks to weapons made in Iran, sold from Iran to terrorists in Iraq.

Also, if you cared so much about our economic relationship with China you’d be out there campaigning next time for Bunning who voted against it despite pressure from Republicans… but you hate him too.

Your hate (like everyone involved in this page) is a simple hate against one word…. “Republicans.”

You have been programed to think they are your enemy and the reason for your own failings in life. You don’t dare take accountability for your own choices… see, that’s what being a Democrat is about, Government can make all your choices and you won’t have to blame yourself! Just let the Government feed you, clothe you, get your pills (for the psychological problems you’ve invented to explain you’re own deadbeatedness).
# Jim Penceon 13 May 2008 at 9:51 am

To Herodotus,
I don’t hate anyone. I just tell the truth and you seem perceive it as hate.
# MsSwinon 17 May 2008 at 7:46 am

The following quotes of John McCain’s concern me. Maybe even more than McCain’s 5X mistake about ‘Shiite Al Qaeda’ within one month, even though repeatedly corrected.

“And I believe that the success will be fairly easy” and “There’s no doubt in my mind that… we will be welcomed as liberators.” [3/24/03]

“I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past… I don’t believe it’s going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991.” [9/15/02]
“There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along.” [4/23/03]

“Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.” [12/8/05 (Exactly one year before violence in Iraq peaked)]

“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and -women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom.” [05/115/08]

I think John McCain has a serious disconnect with what he wants to believe and the facts on the ground.

While I respect Mr. McCain’s service and what he went through as a POW, I have grave concerns about his actions upon his return. He, with the advantage of having an admiral for a father, was not prosecuted as other returning POW for collaborating with the enemy. Later, Mr. McCain headed the effort the shut down all investigation into remaining POW/MIA in order to open up trade with Vietnam. His father-in-law immediately opened up a multi-billion dollar beer industry there.

http://www.aiipowmia.com/sea/schanberg_mccain.html

I also have concerns about his mental fitness as well, specially since he will not release his old medical records even though the term PSTD was not in use as an official diagnosis when he first returned. The one time he did release these records to a journalist, much was blacked out. He later released them in 1999 to a physician who wrote him a clean bill of health without the benefit of a personal examination but rather on whatever records he was provided.

“Among U.S. servicemen taken captive during the Korean War, as many as nine out of 10 survivors may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders more than 35 years after their release, psychologist Patricia B. Sutker of the New Orleans Veterans Administration Medical Center and her colleagues report in the January AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY.”

‘Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, can result from wartime trauma such as suffering wounds or witnessing others being hurt. Symptoms include irritability or outbursts of anger, sleep difficulties, trouble concentrating, extreme vigilance and an exaggerated startle response.’

http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN17282413

I do not say any of this lightly as I have worked with vets for over thirty years to help them get their benefits for PTSD. My father served in the Army for 33 yrs as as CWO4. All three of my brothers also served, two in Vietnam.
But I have even more concerns about his current voting record towards our young veterans of today. His lack of support for their medical care is appalling.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9559

On a final note, it is worth reading what Col. Hackworth, the most respected officer to ever serve in Vietnam had to say about John McCain:

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_hacker_2.htm

“David H. Hackworth died in June 2005, he was a much-decorated and highly unconventional former career Army officer who became a combat legend in Vietnam. Col. Hackworth received 78 combat awards — including a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and eight Purple Hearts — during his 25-year military career which spanned the Korean and Vietnam wars..”