If it swims like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it might just be a duck.
Thursday's editorial "McCain's momentum" sure sounded like an endorsement in spite of the one sentence that said it wasn't. Conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh are accused of temper tantrums for refusing to be steamrolled by Sen. Lindsey Graham and other liberal Republicans trying to push Sen. John McCain on us.
For the past 25 years America has been sliding into a country that looks more like socialist Western Europe than the America we grew up in. Moderate Republicans are as much to blame as any Democrat. At least Democrats are honest about their vision. Some of us will no longer be a part of this. The heat has been turned up slowly on the frog that is American values.
Your editoral makes the case that McCain would still be a little better than any of the Democratic candidates. You assume he will select traditional judges. Where is the evidence?
And so we slip a little more. Maybe America needs the heat to be turned up full blast to see what is happening here. As painful as that would be, it might still be better than continuing on the current course. Remember, Jimmy Carter got us Ronald Reagan.
I could understand a little better your "non-endorsement" of McCain if the editorial had appeared after Super Tuesday. Right now there are still other Republicans in the race, so the timing seems odd to me. In any case, voting for the lesser of two evils just isn't that attractive to some of us anymore. That's a duck that won't float.
Pat VanHooser, North Augusta, S.C.
Comments
You're right Pat. Unfortunately, most voters, even Republicans, are poll driven headline readers and will follow their own particular crowd. The MSM has chosen Hillary and McCain for this election and are doing all they can to see it goes that way. Let's hope the reaction will be as good as it was to Carter. I'm worried about the damage though. With either candidate in the White House I foresee more Souter-like judges on the supreme court.
Way to call the Chronicle on its "non-endorsement". I thought they were affiliated with the no spin zone. If you put all their editors together you'd have the I.Q. of a frog. You can't build a great paper with pathetic resources.
Well said Biz, I was unaware that they were even trying to build a great paper. They seem quite satisfied with it. Folks who don't get to sample other cities papers don't realize just how poor it is, not just the editorials but the story selection too.
Why do so many conservatives base their beliefs on a comedian: Rush Limbaugh??? And you call liberals gullible!
Patricia, I have also noticed the sad tendency of many of my friends and acquaintances to want to vote for a "winner," so they wait till the last minute to make up their minds. They ask all sorts of people who they support and they read the polls like tea leaves. So sad. Most people wouldn't know a principle if it bit them.
Rush Limbaugh is comedic! He goes over the top exagerrating and spinning. He reminds me of Cain-just the antithesis.
"For the past 25 years America has been sliding into a country that looks more like socialist Western Europe than the America we grew up in." and for only eight years of the past 25 has a Democrat been in office.
I'm going to vote for Huckabee right now. See ya'll later.
But it is Congress not the President who is most accountable. The President has more influence over foreign policy that home. Which I think they need to add Congressional approval. The presidents do more to mold foreign affairs than domestic. I don't like the path we are going in that department.
For the last seven years there has been a faux-conservative in the White House but no one started kvetching about it until recently. Gimme a break. So-called conservatives put the current big spender in place -- twice. No one to blame but themselves. McCain is just carrying the torch.
Patricia, what do you mean MSM? Men Who Have Sex With Men?Those down-low dogs!!! LOL
bizarro, i guess that boil on his butt that kept him out of vietnam is bothering him. i'm sure another trip to the dominican republic to solicit some little boys is all he needs.those republicans sure are some freaky folks.
Sometimes you have to settle for second best or even last as in the quality of this paper. Hee, hee.
Yippee! Let's all get ready to celebrate the electoral triumph of...New York City! Yes, ladies and gentlemen! You, too, can help redefine the terms of political debate, as per your instructions from CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC. Don't forget, now: a conservative is someone who thinks that we should only offer free healthcare to people who make UNDER $50k/year; it's those nasty liberals who think it ought to be universal. And conservatives think that we can best address global warming by just taxing carbon-based energy (e.g. all energy); it's those socialists who want to trash the whole economy to do it. Democrats want the Fairness Doctrine to apply everywhere and at all times; REAL conservatives only favor stifling political speech just before an election. "But, daddy, what's the word for people who think the government should stick to its enumerated powers, who believe the majority of climatologists and astrophysicists when they say that the sun's cycles are what change climate, and who think the First Amendment should be respected all the time?" "Why, Johnny, we call them 'crazy people.' Yes, Johnny, those are the insane; practical people know you have to settle."
Patricia kept calling Ron Paul a frindge candidate and justifying him not being included in a debate. The media decided he was not good enough and you agreed. Now you criticize the media for telling us who they want as the party favorites? That does not make logical sense.
Bizarro:
If memory serves me correctly, didn't we have a dialogue a few months ago about mercury/Thimerosal and vaccines in which you cited a bunch of sources and provided a few links? If that was you, do you think you could hook a brother up with that information and send it to lee@leebenedict.com? I'm doing my big big paper for a big degree and that information will be quite helpful. Thanks!
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