1 "This is one time that I agree with the city of Berkeley, but for a different reason. The Marines should leave because the city isn't worthy of protection. But, I'm sure that the city makes liberals proud, because you won't hear any Democratic or liberal leaders condemning these actions." Yeah, and there being no difference between perfidious Democrats and Republican apostates(aka forward looking people), I guess McCain won't be against this Berkeley garbage either. No wonder that some are saying they will NEVER vote for McCain. Heretic !! Who can blame them? Everybody being the same and all. Why until he was handed his head today(not that he really needs it for his everyday work), the resident loon at National Review(and he has oodles of competition there these days, by the by), was saying that somebody should start discussing how McCain finished almost last in his Navy Class and lost 5 planes during his flight career. None while in prison though, so I guess every cloud does have a silver lining. As famous people have said ---- be careful what you wish for. You just might get it. ps--- Nomination race over by Tuesday is the answer to the question.

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I don't know Doug, I like McCain's stance on the war, I don't like his stance on much of everything else.  Would he be a democrat lite?  Why not vote for the real thing then. 

On the other hand, either four or eight years of Hillary scares the crap out of me and I"d vote for almost anyone before I'd vote for her. 

Difficult choices, I'm not a McCain fan, don't like his comments to well meaning even if confused Americans during the tax battles and during the immigration debacle.  He is an ass for that in my book, but better than Hillary... Just don't know at this stage of the game.  On the other hand, Hillary and John may not get the nomination.  I'm praying for a brokered convention.  LOL

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Hi GM.

I do appreciate your problem here. I don't have the philosophical difficulties you have with McCain but I do wonder about his 'temperament' and his ability to rise above the 'petty'. Those character issues seem to me to be entirely valid. His performance last night was terrible. I hope someone took him aside and slapped him silly after that. He deserved it.

But the whole 'liberal - conservative' dooey leave me cold. I am neither. I just want someone, ANYONE to do the things that need to be done and to do them effectively. I don't care how that happens or why that happens as long as it happens.

For example :

Win the damn WAR.

Build nuclear power plants as if they were mushrooms and in less than a 20 year approval process.

Wean America off all foreign OIL in a goal driven manner. By whatever means necessary without driving a big stake thru the economy while you are doing it.

Cut Government spending and veto virtually everything that Congress submits unless it is fiscally prudent. Balance the damn budget.

Declare defeat VICTORY in the 'War On Drugs' and re-deploy all forces to Okinawa.

Get judges out of the business of deciding policy and keep them out.

Keep the Government out of the Nation's bedrooms and their living rooms for that matter.

Develop some form of 'Industrial Policy' to adjust the vast American Middle Class to the growing effects of globalization. I don't think that the 'market' will do this very pleasantly and as in the long run we are all dead, I think some form of intelligent State guidance or direction setting might be very useful.

Deal with the Entitlement Programs which are a timebomb.

Deal with the Border AND establish some form of guest worker program. Make it too expensive to hire illegals and find some way to deal with those already in the USA. Romney's pandering proposal to round them all up and ship them back is just so ridiculous as not even to merit commentary. That is incidentally the prime reason I can't abide him. He's an a** covering 'manager' with the base principles of a pomegranate. I think that is why he drives McCain to extremes as well. McCain believes he lacks 'honor' and that simply pushes all the buttons. I think McCain is right. I just wish he would not do anything about it.

And so on and so on. These issues and most others are not ideological issues. They are problems to be solved. The talk should be of the cost/benefit analysis involved in dealing with them, not of whether a particular proposal is 'conservative' or liberal'. If an idea will 'work' then what differnec does it matter that it might not be 'conservative' or 'liberal'. Whatever those terms mean at this point.

That is what is really annoying me about 'conservative' attacks on McCain and 'progressive' attacks on a guy like Joe Lieberman. They are basically the same attack but Lieberman is a hero to the  'conservatives' for being opposed by the 'progressives'. Pot meet kettle. It's just so silly.

This is not a recipe for social success.

What the great mass of the 'middle' needs to is become far more extreme in their 'middleness' and cast the two extremes out of the process. It's unfortunate that the guy who is doing that NOW is Obama whose foreign policy is totally clueless, but who if nominated will  win very easily in November. Now that would really be something for people like Hannity and Limbaugh to cry about.

For many many many years. Decades even.

4 Dougf for president!

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Dougf for president!!  Good enough for me! You spelled it wrong GM! It's GM for president!  Even better! NOW to get the states to allow write in candidates!

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