American and Proud

I was going through my morning reading and came across this at RCP: Fred Thompson to pick McCain’s Judges. Things like THIS go a long way toward getting me excited about McCain because Fred has the legal knowledge and background to know what would make a good, qualified judge–and he’s conservative.  Please, before you think I’m living in the land of non-reality and can’t get over Fred not being the nominee, let me explain.Just when we think we can understand McCain (granted, we may not like a lot of what he does, but I really don’t see the flip flops–I do see straight talk and sticking to his guns, even when he’s wrong) he pulls a liberal idiocy.  Something like this shows he acknowledges, he KNOWS he has some problems in the conservative areas and while he may not make a big fanfare of them, he is thinking of those areas and how to deal with them properly.  Having Fred help choose the judges shows McCain is thinking and starting to show who he would surround himself with advisor-wise. It shows wisdom in surrounding himself with good conservatives who can keep him on track with conservatives.  Fred is also known as a straight-talker himself, not much given to prevarication.Judges are a SERIOUS issue in this election and McCain shows wisdom.  If he were to show MORE wisdom along these lines, he would make significant inroads with conservatives–I think, anyway.I become disgusted with McCain with his immigration stands, his “green” sell-out and things like this.  He needs to quit trying to buy into the current nonsense and stick to American principles–he needs to reach across the aisle less and stand on the conservative foundation more.Just my two cents worth.

Just out of curiosity, why do my comments always get mashed together?  It’s like there’s no formatting going on.

@cary – Botan Ichihara: Amen Cary and MOST real conservatives are not in the least bit excited about McCain being POTUS, they will vote for him because he’s not Obama but the difference is really not that great.

@cary – Botan Ichihara: This is on the list to repair Cary, I have been looking into it. I added the comment tools a while ago and ever since they were added we have had the issue, I had been trying to make it work but I think 2.5.1 wordpress is being a pain in the but with the plugin.

Pick Colin PowellEtch in stone and sign in blood he will get rid of the illegals, and get our border patrol released from prison …..wouldn’t really excite me but it would get him my vote.

The only way I could get excited about McCain is that he nominate a good conservative VP and then declare that he will resign the day of the Republican Convention…not going to happen, but that is what it would take.

ROTFL Ranando!Let me clarify, y’all–I am NOT excited about McCain in the least–especially here in Arizona. I too will hold my nose and vote for him (our morning radio talk show host, Jon Justice, says it best “Suck it up in 08″) but only because there IS no alternative!I’m excited by who it appears he’s surrounding himself with (I’ll admit I was totally pro-Fred).  I’m thoroughly disgusted  with McCain’s border stance and his “giving in” to the green nonsense–among other things.  At times I’ve wondered (from some of his bizarre stands) if he doesn’t suffer from a type of lingering Stockholm Syndrome from his pow days.Please–McCain himself doesn’t excite me–advisers like Fred DO. ;)

If he were Mel Gibson, I could get excited (oh, sorry, wrong kind of excitement)…Nope.. nothing to get me excited about McCain….  I’m thinking about writing in Glenn Beck……

@cary – Botan Ichihara: LMAO circles… Oh man.

Yeah, circles.

But, they’re disappointed when they realize their cadence of “Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left” keeps turning the troops to the right…

Looks like it did fix. Good on ya!

The only thing McAmnesty could do to get me excited would be to stand up at the convention and say “I was only joking! I am withdrawing from the contest.”

@cary – Botan Ichihara: I figured it out Cary, LMAO that was hilarious

@Sam Pierce: Yeah Sam that would work too.

Cindy is basically HOT!!

I’m not excited, but BFHD. We gets two choices this fall. Count ‘em, two. Been down that road in Ohio with the last goobernatorial election. The GOP had the perfect candidate, and he got slaughtered. Make it one-sided for too long and you won’t even get candidates showing up to run at all, like here in Cleveland.

@Gawfer: AGREED GAWFER! Now that would do it too.

@Miss Beth: Yeah Jenn has a way with words and I think a lot of folks are filling up that square as well.

Damn…Gawfer said it 10000000 x better than I ever could !

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@Kate: Unfortunately Kate that’s exactly the problem. NO sane person of any color wants the kind of “Change” a B. Husein Obama brings to the White House. BUT why are we settling for a “Slightly Right” version of him?

The only real differences I see are in Troop support, and health care. Everything else they discuss they are virtually spining the same BS.

McCain feels supporting the troops means allowing them to finish the job. WITHOUT a timetable.
Obama Feels the war in Iraq is done and he will put out a TIMETABLE for a phased withdrawal…..
The difference in this issue is “TIMETABLE or not… McCain will be phasing a withdrawal without tipping his hand, Obama is dumb enough to announce it.

I agree with some of what McCain does and none of Obama so it comes down to voting for someone who has some of my convictions as opposed to someone who has none.
Excited? I think not. McCain is as exciting as a bowl of beets but he will be somewhat better for us than Obambi.
I would like to see him consider Michael Steele as VP.

As Fred knows me and basically where I come from, I’ll say this about McCain. I am convinced the RNC has given the PUBS what they have determined the PUBS want. The trend has been to the left, even among so called conservatives, who mostly speaking, wouldn’t know a conservative if he smacked them upside the head. By making McCain the sacrificial lamb this cycle, as they did with Dole in ‘96, there is a high probability the next turkey to get the nomination will be even farther left. The elites from both parties are rapidly driving us to the edge of oblivion, as a nation.

Remember, though there may be some good people in the ranks of the PUBS, the Party was conceived in iniquity and fired in the crucible of a murderous war, and seems to have come full circle. As it stands, and I do not think I will change my mind, my days of voting for the Evil of Two Lessors are over. I will write in either Ron Paul or Cornelius Dirt Fudrucker, though I don’t want the job.

@Shooterman: Well I wouldn’t go so far as writing in RP but truthfully I would have voted for him with a little less apprehension than I will have for McCain.

At least RP was a staunch supporter of Border security and THAT is the issue of the greatest importance for me and others.

This is a good question. And I will be honest about this there is nothing that will ever be able to get me excited about McCain.
My number one complaint and it goes downhill from there is how McCain abandoned the POWs/MIAs in Vietnam and he made sure future POWs/MIAs would get the shaft too. He turned his back on fellow Vietnam POWs in 1992.
During the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, he worked hand in hand with his Sen. John Kerry, the panel’s co-chairman, to discredit voluminous evidence indicating that Vietnam was still held a sizeable numbers of U.S. servicemen alive after the prisoner return in 1973.
McCain stood out because he “always showed up for the committee hearings where witnesses were going to talk about specific pieces of evidence. He would belittle and berate these witnesses, questioning their patriotism and otherwise scoffing at their credibility. All of this is on record in the National Archives . . . ”

Then there is a long list of other things I have no respect for him about. He is a rino from head to toe.

OK, so the question is what would it take for me to get excited about McCain. Nothing.
I pray he picks a conservative as his VP, that would help in terms of what the future might hold. But excited would mean I would campagin for him and that I can’t do.
McCain needs to take a conservative stand on drilling NOW that would be a big step for sure.

Thanks for the question, love your blog.

@Wild Thing: Great comment and I honestly didn’t know some of that stuff I will be doing some homework on that for sure.

BTW miss Thing You don’t remember me? we haven’t talked in while but I used visit your site a lot. Thanks for stopping by again.

The site you were used to seeing was a lot different.

You say “ONE is he is not OBAMA, two is HE IS NOT OBAMA!”. That about sums it up.

I cannot get excited about McCain. He and I agree on very little, but look at the alternative.

If he would choose a true Conservative VP, I might lift a finger to support him. There really ARE a lot of good choices. But knowing McCain he WON’T pick one, that might offend his friends across the isle

Debbie Hamilton
Right Truth

Excited Pfffft………
The only half way positive thing is Judicial appointments. Otherwise I could get excited ONLY if McRino jumped into a telephone booth and came out a new Superman with the energy of my 5 year old son and the brain of Fred Thompson……….. Unfortunately we all know how hard it is to find a telephone booth these days.

Tough question. And the answer is that NOTHING can get me excited about McCain, not even if he picks a universally loved VP. However, I’ll vote for him before I’d ever vote for a socialist and liar like Obama. That the American people can’t see through the Obamamessiah really scares me.

@Ogre: Hey Ogre welcome back, I cleaned up a little…..Don’t spill no beer!
Yeah I agree with that assessment. And truthfully that is another advantage McCain has over Obama, al be it a small one, McCain is (well, at least now) supporting the Bush tax cuts. Obama says he’ll cut them for the top earners, that is a flaw in the thinking of Demorats.

Taking money from the richest, costs jobs and drives the economy in the tank, look at what has happened since 2004, and the Demorats only control the houses of congress.

Nagdabit! Here I’m hoping someone will give me a good reason to get excited about McFeingold, and what happens? sigh…

Well, two good points that were brought up…..a good CONSERVATIVE Veep, and the SCOTUS. Oh, and what E said about the energy of his young’un. :)

Well, I can understand why some folks are saying they won’t vote, but throwing away the presidency to that worthless socialist is totally unacceptable.

We’re all still scratching our heads wondering what the heck happened! The NY Slimes picked our nominee. Something just stinks to high heaven here. Or, to quote a line from a movie… “like yesterday dirty diaper”!

@Shooterman: You know, I am not nor have I ever been a fan of Ron Paul, he had some outdated views that were quite frankly rendered mute and it’s not possible to go back in time and make those ideals work in today s world.

That being said, I would have voted for Paul over Obama and been much more excited than I am now. I am not sure I can abstain from voting, and I’m damn sure not going to vote for Obama but if McCain wins I’ll be his biggest critic so he better be right in his job performance.. You know how that is going to scare him?????? LMAO

I probably would have voted for Collin Powell too.I had hoped he would run.
( Sooooo, I guess that “clears ” me of being a racist ?? ).
I CAN`T believe the Republicans couldn`t do any better …
GOD Bless America, Y`all. Now more than ever.

Whoa! You mean Colin Powell is black?

Dang! Did anyone tell the other black folk? cuz the way they treated him…. Hmmm..

:)

E, now that was funny, and true.. can’t find a phone booth and if we did it would be full of folks trying to text each other and having no luck. LOL

@cristina: I am in full agreement with you mrs.Cristina.
However what ar willing to lose? FOUR years of McCain (with a few Bush traits) that might appoint a RIGHT leaning SCOTUS Judge, or stand by our principles and either abstain or write in a name which more than likely will seal the job for Obama, WHO WILL tilt the court far left.

There is a serious quandry the fine GOP put the conservative base in.
But wait it gets better. You remember after Clinton, the nation was ready for move Right? well that same feeling is back only opposite, the country appears ready for a left turn and at precisely the wrong time in the world.

The only positive thing about McCain is that he is old enough to die of natural causes in office. Namely, with his temper just about anything could cause a stroke or a heart attack. The correct VP choice is our only hope.

I don’t know if Steele or that LA Governor Jendohal (What ever). Tancredo would go a long way in my book.

We need someone who will solve the Illegal issue and someone who will appoint conservative judges. Past that, we need them to shut up and keep the congress from doing anything at all. We can’t afford anymore democratic legislation. Not even one more tax and grab scheme.

The Drill now attitude has brought him up in favor from zero to 5%. Obama has a negative rating and would destroy this nation given a democratic congress.

I will ultimately be voting against Obama no matter what.

Ablur, that Louisiana Governor is Bobby Jindal, and that guy is the best thing to EVER happen to Louisiana, I hope he stays where he is, but him or Hunter or Tancredo would be about ALL that would get me to vote for McCain, and then it would strictly be in hopes of, as YOU said, stroking out during a temper tantrum…

And a Fred Thompson VP?? Not a chance in hell, then we get old and angry along with old and lazy, Thompson really pissed in a lot of Cheerios…

@Robert. Well, Sir, I am of that old school with those outdated views, as well. There are few of us left.

@Robert. I believe very simply in the following things;

Going to war only when that war is just and we’ve been attacked. That does not include trying to export democracy at the point of a gun and pre-emptive war.

I believe in a strong specie currency; FIAT money will be the doom of us. Central Banks were anathema to all but a few of the Founders. The Central Bank by pumping too much money into the system are the cause of most of our financial woes

I believe in the rights of man above all else. George Mason, who wrote the Bill of Rights was such a strong supporter of the Rights of Man, he would not approve of the Constitution, without a Bill of Rights. I believe they take precedent over all other aspects of government.

I believe ever since the days of Dishonest Abe Lincoln, our country has ran roughshod over mens rights and the Rights of the States ( actually a misnomer, as governments only have powers, not rights )

Our nation has become an empire- it has ceased being a Republic.

That’s a few of my outdated views, Robert.

@Robert. I fully understood and endorsed the war against Afghanistan. Bin Laden ( remember him ) was the financier and instigator of the attack on the WTC. For about three months we were ‘gung ho’ to track the bugger down and make him pay. Whups! Now, it’s Bin Who? Those pushing for the base in the Mid East from which to let democracy be a shining example, could easily have made Afghanistan that base. Saddam was a bad dude, but the only thing holding the Sunnis and Shias at bay. Intel seemed a might shaky at best, eh?

I am glad Mr Bush was not President during the Cold War, as we would all be buried under glass.

Ron Paul may not have been a lot of people’s cup of tea, but let’s face it, during the debates, he got very little air time, as did Tancredo and Hunter. Hard to explain your points when being ignored. Of course the Big Clowns such as Guili Girl, Mitzi, and the clown of all clowns, Uncle Freddy, got a lot of time. McAmnesty was dead in the water a year ago, and suddenly got the money to win the nomination. Okay.

That’s all water under the bridge, now. We’ll continue our headlong rush to the edge of the cliff, whether at 90 mph with the Socialists DIMS or at 85 mph with the Socialist Lite PUBS. Each succeeding cycle will find the candidates moving farther and farther to the left; after all, that is what the sheeple want. Bread and Circuses

@Malagent: That would sure help, and I was an avid supporter of FT’s run, but he didn’t seem like he really wanted it until it was too late.
If F.T decided to be on the ticket it might help.

@Miss Beth: Yeah, we talked about that, do you think McCain will listen to his advisers or will he be the “Decider”?

At least McCain held on to F.T in some capacity it gives us a small glimmer of hope…