John McCain is No Hero
John McCain is a zero, not a hero. His honorable and heroic behavior as a U.S. prisoner of war is trumped by his shameful and disgraceful actions as a U.S. Senator, supposedly representing the Republican Party.
In a column at National Review online Michelle Malkin exposes his crooked and corrupt ways on just the immigration issue – and there are many other issues where McCain is just as pig-headed and wrong.
The hothead has succeeded in intimidating voters and eluding tough questions from the press by playing his rhetorical violin. There is a reason so many liberals in the media and the Democratic party want John McCain to be the GOP presidential nominee.
UPDATED JUNE 26, 2008
I thought of completely removing this post when I saw how people were continuing to access it, but decided to let it stand with some explanation. The post was originally written early on in the primaries when, of all the Republican candidates, McCain was my least favorite and one I thought had no chance of gaining the Republican nomination. Although I remain thoroughly disgusted that he is the Republican nominee, I also have to compare him to the now Democratic party nominee, Barak Obama. As much as I dislike McCain, when compared to Barak Obama, he is like comparing the difference between light and darkness, good and evil, a blessing and a curse. John McCain now has my complete and full support. But after November 4, 2008, I will work hard for reform in the Republican party and for a different and more conservative presidential candidate for 2012.
February 14, 2008 at 9:09 pm
He is a hero to my family- and not for his war record, this was during his time as a senator. Here is my article if you care to read it.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/589345/senator_john_mccain_heroically_grants.html
February 14, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Marissa,
I can understand and appreciate why you would hold McCain in high esteem, but a bad person does not become a good person just because they help a little old lady across the street.
John McCain may have acted honorably many years ago when he was a prisoner of war, but my disgust with McCain is over the shameful way he has time and time again betrayed conservatives in recent years.
To use the list from David Limbaugh, the problem conservatives have with McCain is that he wants to, “suppress political speech, punish producers, oil companies and drug companies, open wider our borders, cater to the whacko environmental movement and its junk-science-driven pseudo-consensus on global warming, nominate judges who don’t “wear their conservatism on their sleeve,” close Gitmo, confer constitutional civil liberties on enemy combatants, end life-saving interrogation techniques, demonize evangelical conservatives, and obstruct efforts of conservative Republican legislators.”
And that list is not even close to being exhaustive of the significant and substantial problems with John McCain!
Mark Levin said, “Mr. McCain has been an obstructionist of the conservative cause throughout his career in the Senate” and Bill Quick wrote, “McCain never met a Republican back – especially a conservative Republican back – he wouldn’t knife in service to his own overweening political ambition.”
The biggest problem conservatives like myself have with John McCain is that he is not conservative.