Dear John McCain,
Let me begin by saying that on election Tuesday, I will absolutely be voting for you. You are an American hero, and an inspiration to everything that is decent and right in this world.
My worry is that my support might not be enough. I have donated money and time, and truly believe that you have the potential to be a truly great President.
If you win, I will plead with you to spend time governing as the winner of the election. You are under no obligation to govern from the center. I know that you received plenty of adulation from the left when you criticized the right, but the left turned on you as conservatives knew they would. You cannot win everybody, but you can lose everybody.
Do not spend one minute of a McCain Presidency worrying about people who will despise you no matter what you do. You come from the political lineage of Barry Goldwater. Yes times are tough in 2008, but that does not change the fact that conservative policies from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush over the last quarter of a century have worked. The people who dispute this simply despise conservatives.
You have promised that if you are elected you will lower taxes, including capital gains taxes. You will pursue free trade agreements. You will pursue a muscular foreign policy that is not afraid to handle the hard power of the military. You will stand strong with Israel and make sure that Iran will never ever get the bomb. You will drill baby drill. You must keep these promises. We all know you are a man of honor and rock solid integrity. This is one time when doing what is right will perfectly correlate with what is politically sound strategy.
I will plead with you not to even consider any more campaign finance reform. Barack Obama is not a better man than you. He just has more money. You agreed to limit your expenditures and he did as well. You kept your word and he broke his. Your intentions were noble, but…naive. That is normally a word I ascribe to Mr. Obama on everything else, but on this issue, you acted unilaterally out of hope. He is naive on foreign and domestic policy, but you were naive on politics, and the depths the left will go to in order to win.
McCain-Feingold is why Obama is saturating the airwaves while you cannot. Yes I know you want to win with honor, but this is not Vietnam. It is a political disagreement, and I still believe you are wrong regarding money and politics.
Nevertheless, even on the issues I disagree with you on, I am prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt because I have an enormous amount of respect for you.
I know you will not lie to me. I just hope that you do not put the desire to be liked by those who have never truly liked you over what is best in terms of policy and politics.
George W. Bush is intensely disliked by the left. That does not make him wrong. Based on the poison of the left, it makes him even more right.
Speaking of President Bush, conservatives do not hate him. We believe he has done many things right. He has kept us safe. Do not triangulate. Al Gore ran away from Bill Clinton, and look where it got him. Rather than demoralize the right and embolden the left, if you win, offer a full throttled endorsement of conservatism. Remember, if the left cannot win this election, they cannot win anything. They will rip each other apart trying to figure out why they keep losing. Do not offer them a lifeline. If the voters reject them, do not offer them cabinet positions, ambassadorships, or anything else. You can offer something to a conservative democrat, but nothing to a liberal, especially if they spent the last several months castigating you at every turn.
Again sir, I truly believe you will make a great President if you win. I also think Sarah Palin will make a spectacular Vice President. That is a big if.
I hope you can do it. America will be much better off with your service as Commander in Chief.
There are a million things I want to tell you sir, but for now, I just wish you good luck.
God Bless you sir. I appreciate your service to America, and hope that my fellow Americans agree that you should be promoted one more time.
Respectfully,
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
“He is naive on foreign and domestic policy, but you were naive on politics, and the depths the left will go to in order to win.”
His integrity is what may well cost us/him this elesction.
Its sad when a man who plays more by the rules than his opponent has could stand to lose only because he actually kept his word, when isnt that the one quality we’re looking for here ?
My wifes girlfriend and another co worker are for Obama. Her, her friends husband and co workers have said that Obama is the s**t.
Yesterday they all said they wont be voting, its too inconvenient.
Earlier in the year I told my wife, whos not as politically inclined as I am, that libs have a nasty habit of not making it to the polls, she disagreed saying her friends are passionate about Obama.
I find amusing that even the libs that are closest to me are going to carry out the liberal legacy of taking things for grantite.
“Sarah Palin would make a spetacular Vice Preisident”????…. You are obviously not paying attention to anything she has said lately.
I am going to be so busy all day, you all have a good one. I want to wish John McCain and Sarah Palin all the best.
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-will-stand-up-to-bullies.html
Jafman, thats the problem.
Everyone is just paying attention to what she has said “lately”, you know, sounbites and little gaffes.
Do some actual research on the woman, shes quite accomplished and obviously intelligent no matter what shes been portrayed as.
“Yes times are tough in 2008, but that does not change the fact that conservative policies from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush over the last quarter of a century have worked. The people who dispute this simply despise conservatives.”
Can anyone here name me what exactly has “worked?”
JMJ
Jersey, even with your rabid partisanship I’ll bet you could find something that worked.
Give it up.
As much as I despise Carter I could be honest enough to point out some things that worked for him.
I’ll start with simply saying that he has kept the American people safe from another attack on our soil.
Which is his first and foremost obligation.
Reagan defeated our greatest enemy in his time also.
And please, spare the deflection crap to all the other reasons the soviets failed, I know, but Reagan still pulled off the checkmate that no one else could.
This is funny and so true.
This is a pretty funny cartoon, and speaks to how I feel about this election…note to the Major Political Partys don’t do this again.
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/11/longest-presidential-campaign-in.html
J.B. White Wraps it up for you Florida is a battle ground state and J.B., thinks Florida is going McCain/Palin.
http://rattlergator.typepad.com/rattlergator/2008/11/food-for-thought-last-day-of-october-2008.html
“I’ll start with simply saying that he has kept the American people safe from another attack on our soil.”
And how exactly do you know that? Do you have some inside info that you’d like to share with us? How do you know that someone was planning to attack us or not? how do you know whether Al Qaeda had already gotten what they wanted out of 9/11 and therefore didn’t have a reason to attack again? Do you have some parallel universe in which the GWOT was not engaged and another attack then ensued?
I call BS.
And Reagan did not “defeat” the Soviet Union. That’s just silly comic book epistemology in action. The Soviet Union was one big poor country dominatin a bunch of small poor countries with a totalitarian system that failed. Reagan didn’t defeat anyone. The USSR feel under it’s own unsustainable weight.
Again, I call BS.
And be it Dems or Reps in power, these things would have happened anyway. I still can’t think of one uniquely conservative thing that’s “worked.”
Everything you guys believe is a failure.
JMJ
Jersey, spare me your ignorance.
If he hadnt done his job then what ?
The fact of the matter is by looking at history that we have not been attacked since 911.
We were attacked after the first trade tower bombing, right ?
Obviously Clinton was a sleep at the wheel or that would not of happened.
Your weak ass attempt is like saying how do you know the secret service saved Bushs life ?
How do you know the guard at the bank stopped a robbery?
How do you know the safe in the bank prevented a robbery ”
Asinine Jersey , just absolutley totally childishly asinine.
The precense of the deterent is the guarantee that brings the odds down to a point where attacks are far less than they have been on any presidents watch.
Please grow up.
The facts on Reagan speak louder than your opinion.
We were stronger, they were not, thanks to Reagan he employed those strengths better than anyone from Kennedy on up.
Still your ingnorance is astoundingly huge, kinda makes me puke in my mouth a little along with a small dose of pity for anyone who seriously believes half the crap you do.
As I said above, even as much as I think Carter was a flaming looser I could still find some merits to his term.
You on the other hand are just chidishly blind with hate and arrogance.
And your a snake too.
All of a sudden now its not;
“Can anyone here name me what exactly has “worked?”
Its turned into;
” I still can’t think of one uniquely conservative thing that’s “worked.”
Yea, now it has to be uniquely conservative .
Kepp narrowing down the terms huh ?
Like Obama ? 250,00 became 200,00, became 150,000 and now you got Ricardson saying it could go to 120,000.
Besides that, Eric was claiming anything was unique to one party soley and exclusively
Yea, I see how you Obama would get along real well.
Just make up the rules as we go along and you’ll have to have hope for changes as no objective is ever clearly laid out with an intelligent itenerary.
Yes Barack Obama has mastered the art of Lowering Expectations.
When “The Enchanted” don’t get the Change they Hoped for who will they blame for deceiving them Hint It won’t be the person staring back at them from the mirror.
Barack Obama is hyper ambitious pol. People have deluded themselves into thinking he is a messiah. He is no such thing he is a Green Politician with a lot of ambition. Looks like he sold his soul to the devil, to get where he is ACORN and Campaign Finance. Hmmm.. And his Aunty has to go back to Kenya, sorry Aunty so if that is how he treats his family, Imagine how he will care about the folks, who bought his lines hook line and sinker?
Why would anyone idolize a Politician, especially one who hasn’t done anything but flap his lips?
Wow talk about appropriate Temper.
http://standupformccain.com/2008/10/damn-i-love-this-guy.html
Obama Who?
Okay, Micky, fine. Other than Red Baiting and Muslim Baiting (neither of which I would call “worked”), name me anything good that has come from conservatism.
JMJ
Jersey, I already named a couple and I’m not going to lower myself to your stupid asinine childish game.
Both parties have many things to be proud of.
I’m able to pull my head out of my rump and realize that.
What I think is good is irrelevant to you, so why should I mention anything as you already disagree with my first two examples.
Many things have worked in both parties for decades.
Sometiomes they come to point where times change and they dont apply any more so they are viable.
That doesnt mean they are failures.
Our economy bounced back nicely after 911 due to certain measures by Bush. Unfrtunatly the good growth, the success was not monitored and then it turned into a failure due to outside elements that interviened.
Not everything is a failure from start to finish.
Iraq was going wrong in the beggining, now its not.
A year ago you and the rabid left wrote it off.
Well guess what ?
YOU WERE WRONG !
Grow up for crust sake
Thats like asking me to name one good thing your wife has ever done for me.
Ridiculous.
The economy? That’s all you got? The *&^^%$ economy? Are you serious? The *&^%$#!@#$%^*&^%$#@!!@#$%^&* economy? And growth? *&^%$#@!@#$%^&* growth?
Yeah right. Maybe about 5% pf the population has done very well. Maybe another 15% has done better. But I think I can say without any doubt or hesitation that the VAST MAJORITY of Americans have done FAR WORSE under conservative rule – always.
JMJ
Settle down grasshopper.
It was just an example, one out of many.
I told you, I’m not going to play your baby games.
You knwo me, and if it matterd I could bring on a list of all the positive things I think conservatism and republicans have brought to our country.
But when we dont have the same values whats the point ?
If I say we have tons of chocolate ice cream due to conservatism you wont care because you like vanilla. It will not be of value to you.
I value what we are doing in the middle east, so i will see it as a positive.
You think its an abject failure and will make it to be nothing but bad.
GET IT ?
So why should I play the ” my daddy is stronger” game ?
At least I’m willing to give some credit to the left for some of their efforts and achievements.
Its safe to say that you’re ignorant enough to not afford the same level of fairness to the right.
Do the math, the top 5% pays around 60% of all this countrys taxes.
Leave em alone already and find a way to get the money without stealing it.
You’ve proven it by everything you’ve said in this post.
Dude, you’re losing it.
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