All About McCain

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

His tax policy is not why I prefer him over the other candidate. Just like someone could prefer McCain even if he doesn't support gay marriage. It takes more than one issue to make a candidate. You have to pick and choose which aspects of a candidate's position are most important to you, or which candidate falls more in line with your position than the other.

You could also call it the "two turds in the bowl" approach, although this year's crop are better candidates than we've been offered in the past.

I didn't mean you specifically......but others here have pointed to his tax cuts as a good reason to vote for him over McCain; if they hope those cuts never go into effect than are they not participating in false advertising?

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Which Republican politician had a "little indiscrection" here.....I thought we were talking about a 17 year old girl who has never run for elected office?

I was speaking in general terms.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

But how is that 'hypocrisy"?

Perhaps not, but it is damned ironic!

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I realize that, ISM. Would it not follow, though, that her family would move to DC with her, making her much closer to her children than Biden was to his? And also there is another parent involved?

I don't see how that is stupid at all.

Well, to be frank, I find it silly to argue she's unattentive to her kids because her hubby didn't do her bidding by quitting his job or because she only took a 3-day maternity leave ... so I guess you and I agree these are non-issues. I just took issue with your particular counter-example because it was ill-chosen.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Perhaps not, but it is damned ironic!

That it is

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

so I guess you and I agree these are non-issues.

Indeed.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I can't help but think that if the Democrats nominated a black woman to be vice president and it turned out her teen daughter was pregnant and the boyfriend was quoted saying the kind of macho things one would expect a black teen to say that there would not be this outpouring of sentiment from the conservative family values crowd.

Try again:

If the Obamas had a 17 year-old daughter who was unmarried and pregnant by a tough-talking black kid, my guess is if that they all appeared onstage at a Democratic convention and the delegates were cheering wildly, a number of conservatives might be discussing the issue of dysfunctional black families.

And THAT is from an editorial at National Review.

[Tenigma]

Lani's final straw: Palin tried to get books banned at the Wasila Public Library when she was mayor. When the librarian refused, Palin tried to get the librarian fired. That didn't work... right away. The librarian was eventually pressured out of her job.

You want the country run by someone like that? She's going to make Bush look like a pansy.

[Morrigoon]

Holy cow, she's like Bush with brains!

(err... the joke is there, it's obvious, I don't need to make it, do I?)

[lashbear]

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