Posted by
The Ice Princess on Monday, May 12, 2008 2:29:20 PM
Every president in history has spoken somewhere or to someone that shocks us all. We don't know why they do it. Maybe some campaign manager was misguided and thinks it's a good idea? Every president has done something that would make us sick, EVEN Reagan. Many of Reagan’s mistakes, like immigration, are the same mistakes McCain has made. McCain is still a war hero and basically he does things with a conscience. Reagan left the economy a mess, due to things like the star wars program. You never hear about that. The reason you don't is likely because he was charismatic, just like Bill Clinton and the left never comments on Clinton's mistakes.
What scares me and makes me want to cry is that most of the GOP is just trading McCain insults in groups like this and NOT writing these things to him, with a warning that what is happening now is almost identical to what happened to Bush 1, when Clinton won. McCain is a good person and will do his best to please the right, if a large majority bothers to let him know directly what makes them unhappy.
In the Bush1 generation, the right became too righteous and jumped on the Perot or Robertson bandwagon, in lieu of Newt's complaints, totally ignoring what good Bush did: fixing the economic crisis DESPITE the Democrat majority in the houses (Clinton jumped in and milked our military for money. Then took credit for balancing the budget); Bush ended the cold war; Facilitated the fall of the Berlin wall (Reagan got credit for both. He started the ball rolling, but a Democrat would have popped it); Bush liberated Kuwait from Iraq, with nearly no casualties, etc... The same is happening with McCain right now. That 1992 mistake predisposed us to 9/11, because our military was virtually non-existent and Clinton let Osama go.
McCain is being ripped to shreds, just like Bush 1 was and many of the things he is being bullied for are things that Reagan did too. He has powerful people beating him to death and quite honestly I think he's the ONLY one of the presidential candidates that had even a modicum of a chance of a large enough majority to beat the Democrats in 2008.
Think back! We are on the same road. As a matter of fact, right now with Bush's low approval rating, THE ONLY way of winning this is by winning the fence sitters, Reagan Democrats and getting near 100% of the GOP vote. We have multitudes of new voters being wooed by the left successfully.
No matter what McCain does or has done it will not even be close to what we will have in store for us if we get the Muslim or the wicked witch.
PLEASE- Good or Bad, disconcerted or enchanted, no matter how you feel about McCain, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE come together, fight for him and spread the positive, unless you really truly think we can make it through 4 years of a Democrat. THAT IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN if the negative keeps spreading. Also, pray for our GOP daily. If enough people bother, it will help.
God Bless!
If you do better with analogies: I was not a big fan of Bush 1, but I saw it as somebody I could tolerate. He wasn’t terrible, just not perfect. I looked at him as if a relative I was close to was dating somebody who wasn’t good enough for them and I knew they’d eventually break up and meet a better, more suited person to date. You know that when somebody you care about is dating somebody you aren’t fond of, it doesn’t help matters to belittle them, especially making them sound worse than they are. It definitely doesn’t help to have an entire family of self-righteous people, whose decisions are likely no better than the person they are cutting down, belittling them terribly. That person may just surprise you, if you don’t build them as a tyrant in your mind and belittle them to a point of no return. The results of that are typically causing unnecessary problems and often that relative will rebel and end up in a long term relationship with a very bad person. Our favorite relative: Lady Liberty has 3 potential suitors and our negativity can make the best possibility into an impossibility. With a long term relationship with one of the other two, Lady Liberty may just fall apart and never end up in a good relationship. Encourage her best suitor to be a better person and he may just surprise you and be the best one ever.