Just when my blood pressure starts to subside and my thoughts turn away from the 2008 Election and the self-presumptive GOP nominee (Senator McAmnesty)…. I see YET another article like this:
In earlier years, Mr. McCain publicly trumpeted the eclecticism of his foreign policy views. As a candidate in the Republican presidential primary contest in 2000, the senator was asked what he would do first if elected.
“The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track,'” Mr. McCain told the Detroit News.
Are you frikkin kidding me? Maybe McCain has been suffering secretly from Bush Derangement Syndrome since 2000?
By the way, I can’t think of two more scary concepts put together: John Kerry and The State Department.
Super Tuesday Republican Voters…. do America a favor and vote for Mitt Romney tomorrow. It is time for John McCain to retire to Arizona.
Dan, I’m sorry it is too late to change your mind! 🙂
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
COMMENT FROM DAN: Bruce, recall he said this in 2000, before 9/11. Had he said anything similar during this campaign, I would regret my vote. By and large, at least since the advent of W’s second term, he has run to the President’s right on many foreign policy issues, including a more aggressive stance in Iraq.
It’s fair to criticize that as Washington buddy talk.
It’s nothing more.
Even your local mayor talks that way about opponents.
I’d go for Biden as SecState…see if he can deliver the walk after all the brave talk over the years.
Geena-
Well, I’m tired of the Washington buddy circuit!
Well, wait, McCain said that he’d call in John Kerry, not make him SecState. If I was President, I’d be calling in Madeline Albright, not because I think she’s at all competent or successful as a diplomat, but because of her experience. McCain might of course be calling in John Kerry to instruct him on foreign policy, but there are other possibilities. I think McCain is certainly knowledgeable about foreign affairs himself, if not always correct on their interpretations.
Well, that was in 2000. Surely McCain has learned something since 9/11 (I’m hopeful).
John Bolton would make a good Sec-State (not hopeful).
I think you can just look back over her tenure to figure out what NOT to do. You don’t have to actually meet with her.
I bemoaned here a month ago the front loaded primary schedule. Most conservatives held back hoping for a real conservative to emerge. None did. Mitt has got johnny come lately problems with the conservative cause. Fred 08 really didn’t work for it. Rudy was a security guy, but I guess not much more. So we stayed on the sidelines way too long. And the McCain train got rolling. Now we can’t stop it apparently. My main goal is to eliminate the Clintons from the national scene. So in the April Pennsylvania primary I can switch to the Dems, vote Barack to hurt Hillarys chances. Isn’t it amazing that their race could now go on to late April? Who knew. All the McCain endorsements now from established Republicans, are nothing more than job seekers, attention seekers. Creeps.
No, DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE DDBMSM! Vote tomorrow! VOTE FOR ROMNEY wherever you are. By giving in, we ensure a loss by huge margins in November. Hell, the Dems can nominate the dog catcher and McCain would still lose big. At least with Romney he will be able to breathe some life into the moribund Republican party and much needed cash. Did you see the numbers for Obama in January? $32 MILLION dollars. For McCain? $7 million. Who do you think will have more cash and can air commercials in EVERY state? McCain?! HA! He won’t even come back here to California after Romney hands him his shirt tomorrow. COME HOME fellow conservative Republicans. We have the candidate and it is MITT ROMNEY. I’ll let McCain have his silly, Rudy drop out wins in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But, mark my words, Romney will come out OK tomorrow at this time. BUT WE HAVE TO VOTE, stop whinning! GOTV-GET OUT THE VOTE! VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY FELLOW CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS!
Oh. The President should seek the views of an experienced, incompetent, and unsuccessful Secretary of State from the other party. And this would not be a colossal waste of time because……..?
heliotrope: It would make the Democrats happy and feel valued, even if they are worthless, thereby building up political capital across the aisle, as well as possibly give insight into world leader’s/dictator’s personalities, as she was chummy with Kim Jong Il, among others.
So it wasn’t already sufficiently obvious, in the year 2000 before 9-11, that Joe Biden was an empty blowhard, John Kerry a fraudulent blowhard, Zbigniew Brzezinski a loser, and Clinton and Albright the authors of a feckless, incoherent foreign policy?
Well, OK, not all of that was real obvious to me either, in 2000. But then again – I wasn’t the war hero sitting in the U.S. Senate getting all the intelligence reports and who had met these people – was I?
[Fair point, ILC. 🙂 –Dan]
I’m giving serious thought to doing in the primary what Jack M over on Ace of Spades did. I’m not ready to pull the lever for McCain and I can’t do it for Romney. At least I’d get the enjoyment of taking a page from the liberal playbook and trying to screw up the Dems’ primary — along with sticking it to the Hildabeast…
I think that’s what I’m gonna do today, too. Ask for a Dem ballot (as an Independent I could do that), and try to remember that a vote for that big, nothing, empty “O” is a vote for continued Democratic infighting.
The fact Bruce and Dan are taking differing sides int he primary makes this a very interesting blog. I trust this conflict is genuine ;P
ILC: That’s my thinking too. Except for votes for Hillary or the Huckster, I’m not saying anything against anyone voting for somebody else. Well, if you’re a Pauliac I may have to make fun of you though… 😉
It’s unfortunate, but it’s genuine Bla. I myself am probably the most…unhappy of the guest-bloggers here at least. 2008 is shaping up to be an…interesting year in politics, that’s for sure.
Oh btw, I meant unhappy with the political situation not this blog, Dan or Bruce. I wuuuuuuuv these guys! Hehehe. 🙂
Um, boys and girls, we’re being a bit schismatic, aren’t we? Aren’t the enemies Barak Houssein Obama and Billary? If the Republicans (like Ms. Coulter) say that they’d sooner vote for Billary or Hussein than McCain, aren’t we missing the boat? Reagan was not even nearly a strict conservative, yet he was possibly one of the greatest presidents ever, in my humble opinion.
As to Rudy, it’s a crying shame that people don’t realize that to run NYC is like running 5 small countries all at the same time, from economics to security and all contingencies.
What’s wrong with Ms. Rice keeping her job? Kerry and Biden could vaporize tomorrow and the world would be better off: for me, they couldn’t even be considered.
Pull your heads out, boys and girls. Unite behind whoever wins the nomination. For me, being originally from Massachusetts, I don’t ever vote for any politition therefrom. Period.
I just watched one of Ann Coulter’s endorsements of Hillary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erMa0F_DCJE
I think she’s a bomb-throwing attention whore, but man, there are times when her logic is not that easy to dismiss. In essence:
– McCain would be nearly as bad as Hillary, on too many issues.
– With Hillary, Republicans will know who to fight – and Americans will ultimately blame Democrats for the bad things she’s going to do.
– Whereas, with McCain, Republicans won’t know who to fight – and Americans will blame Republicans, for the bad Hillary-like things he’s going to do.
Thoughts? (Particularly from our Coulter fans. What do you guys think of her endorsement?)
[Coulter doesn’t seem to get that the conservative movement is one of ideas not personalities. If McCain wins, Republicans in Congress won’t bow and scrape to his every whim, but will stand up when he betrays those ideas. And recall, that on the big issue of the day, the war on terror, he has been steadfast while she has bent to the caprices of her party’s angry base, changing her position on Iraq more often than she changed hairstyles in the 1990s. –Dan]
Shall I recite the list of conservative ideas that McCain has already betrayed – with the confused support of Republicans in Congress?
Sorry, but with the war in *Iraq*, he’s been steadfast. With the rest of the GWOT, he’s bent to the same caprices she has – at one or two points, practically accusing Bush of being a torturer. If he were a Democrat, we’d rightly call that BDS.
And as regards Iraq: We’ve largely won there. The DNC and MSM just haven’t recognized it yet. If Hillary were elected, they would (albeit finding a way to give her the credit). That could be a good thing. I don’t think Hillary and McCain would really be that different on Iraq, i.e., I don’t think she would throw it away, a la Ted Kennedy – Jimmy Carter.