When even McCain starts to fear the right-wingnuts…
- posted by demo kid
Apparently, McCain is getting to the point where the wacky right is getting too much for even him. It stands in stark contrast to the official statements from his campaign, of course, but I’m beginning to believe that McCain is getting more disillusioned with his Pyrrhic campaign by the day.
(Watching that video, though, I can’t help but think about the end of Return of the Jedi, where Darth Vader finally realizes the horrible weight of what he has done, and decides to make the right choice in the end.)
This wingnuttery from Republicans is certainly not confined to campaign stops, though…
If you want to see Obama sitting in the Oval Office with his finger on the nuke trigger, if you want to see him sign ever scheme that George Soros and the democratic congress come up with, if you want to see domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers running the country, then sit back and relax. Take some time to enjoy the last few warm days in this area, and watch some TV.
(Of course, if you’re going to watch TV, watch that episode of 24 where McCain had a cameo…)
The people that now own the democrat party are George Soros and Billy ‘the bomber” Ayers….so we have a financial terrorist and a domestic terrorist and their weak mindless puppet Barack Obama….who just wants power making that power grab with the help of “people” like Barney Frank and all the other incredibly dishonest and self serving congressmen and senators from the new democratic party.
(I’d be very interested in hearing how Bill Ayers “owns” the Demcratic Party… but I’d suppose that I’d get a stream of crazy if I asked.)
On one hand we have the McCain/Palin ticket who lean towards conserving our nations traditionally free way of government and on the other hand we have the Obama/Biden ticket, who with Democratic Party support, are planning big changes in our nation. If we elect Barrack Obama we are electing to transform our nation to a socialist nation. Time to ask yourself if that is really the kind of change you are looking for in our nation.
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But where is the harm in Senator Obama’s socialist design for our nation? Well, there is the cost; several trillion dollars as reported by the CATO Institute, however the real harmful cost of socialism is the harmful cost to the human spirit. That cost may not be easy to describe in dollars, but it is easily comprehended by looking at the refugees from any socialist nation in history.
(Man… all those illegal Swedish immigrants taking the jobs of hard-working Americans! What the hell?)
Comments in this “Sound” Politics post from “The Pirate”:
Obama, Ayers, Wright, ACORN, et al., are, and have been, engaged in espionage and low intensity guerilla warfare against the United States and are de facto illegal combatants, i.e., Outlaws, under the Law of Armed Conflict. As Outlaws they have no Constitutional rights and fall under the jurisdiction of military tribunals, e.g., at Gitmo. Traditionally, Outlaws have been sentenced to indeterminate prison sentences or death.
Obama and his insurgents are grave threats to our national security, and they must be stopped.
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scott…what you say is true. My #5 is informational to those who will be enforcing existing law prior to any hypothetical overthrow of the government by Obama, and to those who will be engaged in corrective action should an overthrow occur. There are millions in law enforcement, the military, and intelligence who will oppose any overthrow by stealth by such insurgents as ACORNholes, CPUSA, Hugo Chavez, La Raza, jihadists, the yellow stream media, and the highly active Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies. There are also millions of good, patriotic veterans and other American citizens who would gladly shed blood to nourish the tree of liberty. It’s a target-rich environment. I expect the gang of enemies will detonate a nuke to confuse and paralyze opposition and justify dictatorship. We would just have to fight through it. There is no acceptable option.
(Shades of Red Dawn with that one, eh? Maybe he’s the one writing the remake?)
So here’s where I actually have to step back and say, I don’t hate McCain. I really don’t. I may have been swept up in the moment a few times, feeding into the frenzy of an election season, but that doesn’t change the facts. I strongly disagree with his positions of course, and I’ve been pissed off that he’s stoked the flames of right-wing crazy over these past few weeks, but if McCain had won in 2000 I doubt that we’d be in the state we’re in today. Bush got into office by convincing people that he would be a “uniter”, but McCain seriously does have the cred to back that up. (McCain-Kennedy should be enough proof for the left of that… it earned him the enmity of many a ultra-conservative blogger!)
But regardless of his positions and bipartisanship, this video (and many, many more like it) and these comments are EXACTLY why he needs to be defeated, and even just a little humiliated in the process. Democrats need to stand up and continue to take his campaign on with backbone to discredit and destroy these people in the public sphere, and throw them back into the political wilderness.
Don’t get me wrong… I’m definitely not against bipartisanship. I can see the value of having public debate with people of different ideologies. I want my opinions to be challenged, and I want there to be dynamic tension in the public sphere. I even see the value of traditionally conservative perspectives over liberal ones for certain issues. (Heck, reading those posts above makes me believe all the more in gun rights…)
But saying that you’re afraid of an Obama administration because he’s “an Arab”? Declaring that the US will suddenly become a “socialist” state, when most of these people probably couldn’t tell you what that term means? Yelling for the death of a fellow that could seriously be doing better things with his time if he wasn’t dedicated to the idea of public service? Getting an erection over your apocalyptic fantasies of shooting liberals? Talking about ACORN without any real facts beyond the talking points self-serving Republicans are feeding you?
These are the ideas that liberals (and conservatives) need to stand up and stop. Reactionary, xenophobic bullshit shouldn’t be appeased, shouldn’t be tolerated, shouldn’t be glossed over. Respecting conservative and liberal viewpoints alike shouldn’t entail giving someone that would boo a description of Obama (or McCain, for that matter) as a good family man any respect.
So I’m not rooting for McCain to lose because I want a good public servant to lose. I’m rooting for McCain to lose so that his crazy supporters will lose. I think that Obama will be a great president, but the need to completely rout these wingnuts has definitely added to my resolve to defeat his opponent.
I’m just sorry that McCain’s career will pretty much end with this campaign. It would be perfect in my mind, though, if he were to get a position in Obama’s cabinet. That would be the bipartisanship we would need after this election season…
October 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
If McCain had not morphed into the Grand wizard, I would agree, but the man we see out there today is not the same as he was. Perhaps McCain 2000 would be good in Obama’s cabinet; version 2008 needs to just go away.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Perhaps I’d just like to see the upside of people. When you’re in the campaign bubble, surrounded by staff and isolated from the real world, I can believe that you’d start to justify things to yourself, compromise your ethics, and so on. That goes double given that this is really McCain’s last hurrah.
The true test will come after the election. If McCain really is honorable, he’ll work in a bipartisan way with the Democrats. If not, he’ll try to be as much a thorn in the side of the Obama Administration as possible. Only time will *really* tell.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
When I saw the racist, xenophobic responses at Palin’s and McCain’s campaign speeches, I wondered, “How will Sen. McCain’s base, our elite media, ever salvage this for him?” Today’s huge headlilne in the local paper, “McCain Defends Obama,” answered my question. Poor John McCain could not have predicted his extremist attacks on an African-American would rile his supporters to racist hatred! Nothing in the American right-wing movement of the last twenty years has indicated any nutso hatred extremism on their part, no sir! Their civil acceptance of Bill Clinton and his wife, their measured response to 9/11, and their cool analysis of the current banking crisis all testify to their calm conservatism. Thank God we have our corp- er, liberal media to save John McCain from his own act– supporters!
October 11th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Imagine Bush I or Dole or Ford running in this same context though. I think it is obvious McCain is just completely out of step with the rest of his party at this point. It is the whole reason why he was nominated in a down year. Anti-intellectual partisan conservatives like Palin are the future for the Republicans, once they make their way back out of the political wilderness. McCain is really just a throwback. And funny enough, the wingnuts calling for Obama’s head today were probably calling for McCain’s last year over the issue of immigration reform!
I still want him to lose, but that doesn’t make it any less of a tragic story.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Here’s the latest from “pirate” or whatever name the voices in his head are calling him these days
http://soundpolitics.com/public/2008/10/obama_alinsky_and_gramsci.html
It starts off with the usual wingnut babble and ends with… well, just see for yourself.
How proud the folks at SP must be to count this guy in their ranks.