How McCain could have won hands down.

McCain has proven to be the worst kind of politician ever. What is it that has made him so unable to close the deal when he is running against a "empty suit" who has no experience, who has the worst type of associations , Ayers, Acorn, Rezko, Jeremiah Wright. And has never stood for anything and the only reason he is even the democratic nominee is because of the color of his skin.
Look back at the primaries - he won most of the caucuses because people were afraid not to support him openly incase of being called "racist". when the primary was a secret ballot he usually lost to Hillary. McCain is running against the most inexperienced and most radical person in the history of the US of A and yet he cannot close the deal. Why ?

Here is my analysis as to why.....

What is the republican party's main strength "National Security" and "Low taxes" . McCain has believed the press and the "talking heads " and concluded that he needs to distance himself from President Bush who in my opinion the best President this nation has had since Abraham Lincoln. All he needed to say was " I have broken with the Pesident on his signing the huge spending bills his own party sent him but on keeping this country safe and keeping taxes low I will strive to do even better. HE has kept us safe after 9/11 and I do not not want to go back to the Clinton years where every two years americans were killed

• 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, which killed 6 and injured 1,000
• 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 5 US military personnel
• 1996 al-Khobar towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 US military personnel
• 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa, which killed 257 and injured 5,000
• 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 3 US sailors

and the Clinton Admin was impotent did nothing and that lead to 3000 deaths. I will be like President Bush tough on terrorists, I will go after them with everything I have. I will furthur the work of the Intelligence dept. I will keep you safe and keep taxes low. Remember the job of the President is to keep you safe above all and I will do so. Elect me do not elect a person who wants to negotiate with crazy regimes we will have another Jimmy Carter if you do"

There -- had he given this speech, honored President Bush and kept true to the facts rather than the polls he would have been leading by 4- 5 points now. But honor and gratitude are not McCain's strengths , it may have been 25 years ago but now he is just a politician who wants to win. and Alas that may be his undoing unless americans wake up and realize how dangerous Obama is.
I have little hope that Obama can be stopped but who can tell......

Open Letter from my husband and myself to the McCain campaign.

We saw your representative Rick Davis on Fox News Sunday. His criticism of the President is disgusting to me and my wife. He refers to him as "George Bush"- without even the iota of respect. The only reason we would even support him is because the only other choice will be disastrous to this country. However, compared to President Bush, whom we consider one of the all-time great Presidents- right up there with Presidents Lincoln and Roosevelt- Sen. McCain is a Liliputian, a pygmy. ( As are all the rest of the republicans) - the only reason to vote for this set of tiny men with tiny tiny characters is because the other side are on a negative scale and bordering on enemies of the US of A. Just look for a terrorist of any kind and you will find a democrat supporting the terrorist. So we poor folks a left with no option but to vote for the republicans who are not fit to clean the shoes of President Bush.

The reasons why we would vote for Sen. McCain are primarily because of his stance on life his support of the troops, and his military service. He has absolutely no executive experience, and he may think he was "right about the surge", but "a surge" is not a strategy. What was presented to the President was a strategy that **needed** the surge- viz., the clear and hold strategy.

So, for him to go around preening himself on "opposing the administration", etc., is simply idiotic. I tell you, there are a silent majority of people like us who truly admire this great president. Sen. McCain and his reps can go around dissing the President at his own risk.

We contributed quite a bit of money to President Bush's re-election campaign, but we aren't going to send money to Sen. McCain's campaign, though we will vote for him. As I said the other choice is disastrous for the country.

Regards,
Isaac and Pamela

Democrats - Shocked that there is media bias!!

I have not had as much fun as I have in the in the last few months. It is a scream to watch the headless democrats running around being shocked, SHOCKED that there is media bias in the main stream media.
As a Bush-supporter and admirer I have watched the last 7 years, with complete disgust, the treatment of the press towards this great President. Every issue has been twisted and reported with such dishonesty it has repeatedly taken my breath away.

Yes, the bias screamers are mostly on Hill-Billy side of the aisle but it is better than nothing. the obama-empty heads are getting the benefit of the bias so they are lying low right now.

I nearly fell of my chair laughing when Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe came on Foxnews and declared "this is the only network that has been fair and balanced " he is of course a hill-billy kool aid drinker so the bias is hitting him where it hurts! Well, too bad he never brought it up when the republicans where being slammed unfairly by the left leaning media. Maybe, just maybe he may have had some credibility now, but now he is being dismissed as "bad loser" .

See how funny all this is turning out to be.

Right Wing Elites - ingrates

Carefully contructed to deconstruct Eliitist Peggy Noonan' s article in the WSJ.....by my husband


Ms Noonan writes:

George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.

Last I checked, this is a free country and Ms. Noonan is entitled to her opinion and to voice her "declarations", however misguided, ill-informed, pandering to the conservative elite, and removed from reality it is.

Let me see if I can try and analyze her profound declarations for which we wait with bated breath every week.

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He sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other.

He was the last one who could get the votes in 2004 of the social conservatives, the fiscal conservatives (except those heartless brutes whose god is mammon), and the national security conservatives. Compare him with the present crop. No one remotely comes close to coalescing the constituent pieces. In 2004, according to the exit polls- see http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hughes/041105- the following statistics emerge:

• Liberal: Bush 13%
  
• Moderate: Bush 45%
  
• Conservative: Bush 84%
  

Does Ms. Noonan think that Mitt Romney would get 84% of the conservative vote? The one who got as many convenient epiphanies as may be necessary in the course of a given election. From abortion to gay marriage to cutting taxes to state-mandated insurance. And Mitt Romney is the one that Ms. Noonan and her ilk support, as he is the most Reagan-esque perhaps. Maybe he will also get badgered into a tax increase, give actual amnesty, run away from Beirut, let the government coast with a "Morning in America" type of agenda, let his wife run the government, etc., as President Reagan did in his second term.

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He did this on spending, the size of government,

Government Outlay Budget Deficit
A 20.0% 2.6%
B 21.3% 3.1%
C 21.7% 2.7%

I ask Ms. Noonan try matching rows A,B, and C in the table above, with Presidents Carter, Reagan and George W. Bush. The answer is A - Pres. Bush; B - Pres. Reagan; C - Pres. Carter. And I have deliberately put the worst figures of Pres. Bush with the last year's figures of Pres. Carter and Reagan. And neither of these Presidents dealt with crises as big as 9/11 and the stock market crash, etc. Not even close.

And the increase in the Bush presidency (from 18.5% to 20%) has been in the area of defense, homeland security and the war. Otherwise, discretionary spending has decreased every year of his presidency.

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war, the ability to prosecute war,

And perhaps General Noonan can tell us how the war can be prosecuted. No doubt she can draw on her extensive experience and knowledge of fighting an asymmetric war against a group of suicidal maniacs intent on nothing short of subjugation and the annihilation of America. No doubt her speech-writing prowess would have made the Al-Quaida types quake in their sandals. Especially her short sentences, innumerable question marks and the ellipses: they are killers.

Seriously, even the kamikhaze pilots in WW-II were honorable in that they targeted the military not innocent civilians. No president, repeat no president, has had to fight a suicidal enemy willing to harm innocent civilians with no compunction. Not George Washington, Abe Lincoln or Roosevelt/Truman.

And this war has been fought under the glare of 24 x 7 news coverage with an abundance of arm-chair generals with 20/20 hindsight operating in the environment of blame-America-first media. Remember that during WW-II, the media and even Hollywood was patriotic. And the god of the religion of conservatism, Pres. Reagan, is partly to blame for 9/11 when he blinked and pulled out of Beirut. Isn't it true that OBL used this response to tell his followers that America is a "paper tiger"? Don't get me wrong- I love Pres. Reagan and what he did for the country. He made mistakes- after all he was human, except to the high priests of Conservatism. What bothers me- and I suspect a lot of Americans- is that the conservative elites deify Pres. Reagan and have selective and/or convenient amnesia on the same issues where they vilify Pres. Bush.

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immigration

And who, pray, is the savior who will deliver us from the evil of (illegal) immigration? Rep. Tom Tancredo, perhaps? Or Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage or Sean Hannity? These are outstanding individuals with rich executive experience whose actions speak louder than their words. Yeah, right! While the aforementioned elite conservatives are under the stupor of selective amnesia of Pres. Reagan's total amnesty they disparage and rubbish the comprehensive immigration reform of Pres. Bush. Oh! it is a great rallying cry- "We defeated the 'Illegal immigrants' Amnesty Bill". Yes- and that's why Ms. Pelosi is the speaker of the House. (Perhaps, the high priests-Limbaugh, Savage and Hannity- want Hillary to win- how else will they build up their listener base?)

Perhaps, Ms. Noonan would institute the department of Homeland Secret Service on the lines of the KJB of the the Nazi SS. But wait! Will it not increase the size of the government? But it may be worth it! I'm sure it would make America respected around the world to see the ASS (American Secret Service) flush out illegal immigrants with bayonets and load them on buses and planes. How in keeping with American character over the centuries!

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and other issues.

Like the Miers-contra scandal? Or his communication skills or the lack thereof owing to which Pres. Bush is unable to talk for hours without saying anything? Maybe he didn't fire Rumsfeld? Or, he didn't adopt the surge strategy soon enough? Or, he didn't appoint conservative-enough judges in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy?

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President Bush increased the Republican party tally in both houses in 2002 and 2004. If only the cowardly Republicans had stuck with him instead of "distancing themselves" from him, we might not have Speaker Pelosi. And the scandals didn't help. Further, the high priests and the prophets of Conservatism held crusades against the apostasy of the immigration reform bill. And, instead of focusing on the economy and urging for patience and persistence with Iraq, the lily-livered poltroons of the Republican party capitulated to the media onslaught on Iraq and to the right wing crazies on immigration. Largely as a result of these factors, they lost.

Ms. Noonan and the conservative elites deserve a President Clinton. However, as my wife says, it is too much of a price for the country to pay. Hopefully it will teach them a lesson to have a President McCain, who I don't like, but is the better of the 3 front runners, now that Huckabee seems to be out of the running.