Comments on: McCain Over My Cold Conservative Heart #9 http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/ A Stream of Consciousness by Andy Aplikowski on His Life, His Politics, His Dogs, His Truck, and Whatever Pleases His Fancy Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:17:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sam http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40979 Sam Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:43:52 +0000 http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40979 Oh, well. You could still vote for Bacon. I still stand by these statements on Romney - He was very pro-abortion (and proud of it), appointed planned parenthood members to his health board, passed a government run healthcare plan that paid for cheap $50 abortions. He now say he is pro-life. He backed the brady bill and the assault weapons ban and has been pro gun control. He now say he will not go after your secondment rights. And the latest, he is an outsider, will not be influenced by Washington lobbyiest. This is funny - both at his getting caught in a lie, then continuing to make the same statement as if he did not get caught. The reporter I thought was a little harsh, but the reaction is funny - a "What is the meaning of 'is'" moment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhRyo6rn1hs (Warning, Clips starts with Keith Olbermann) Oh, well.
You could still vote for Bacon.

I still stand by these statements on Romney -
He was very pro-abortion (and proud of it), appointed planned parenthood members to his health board, passed a government run healthcare plan that paid for cheap $50 abortions.
He now say he is pro-life.

He backed the brady bill and the assault weapons ban and has been pro gun control.
He now say he will not go after your secondment rights.

And the latest, he is an outsider, will not be influenced by Washington lobbyiest.
This is funny - both at his getting caught in a lie, then continuing to make the same statement as if he did not get caught.

The reporter I thought was a little harsh, but the reaction is funny - a “What is the meaning of ‘is’” moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhRyo6rn1hs

(Warning, Clips starts with Keith Olbermann)

]]> By: Andy http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40975 Andy Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:09:47 +0000 http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40975 You should consider doing the same on Romney, since you have taken him out of context/mischaracterized his stances a time or 2. And well, Huckabee has flipped around a few times so there is alwaysgoing to be an explanation or 2 to CYA. He has said populist things like the "arrogant" line, and retreated away or blamed his "co-author" when the heat came. His Foreign policy is a loser for me, or let's just say he will never win me on it, it is his Record as a Government Executive that mostly disqualifies him. As far as my 2012, it can't be now, I will not be 34(5? always get that goofed up) by January 20 2009. I will be forced, by the Constitution to wait until 2012. :D You should consider doing the same on Romney, since you have taken him out of context/mischaracterized his stances a time or 2. And well, Huckabee has flipped around a few times so there is alwaysgoing to be an explanation or 2 to CYA. He has said populist things like the “arrogant” line, and retreated away or blamed his “co-author” when the heat came. His Foreign policy is a loser for me, or let’s just say he will never win me on it, it is his Record as a Government Executive that mostly disqualifies him.

As far as my 2012, it can’t be now, I will not be 34(5? always get that goofed up) by January 20 2009. I will be forced, by the Constitution to wait until 2012. :D

]]> By: Sam http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40972 Sam Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:53 +0000 http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40972 Also, I may just have to announce my 2012 AAA 4 Prez Exploratory Committee now. Why wait - You still have time If you really feel strongly about this, why not do something Tuesday. Can we write in for Straw Poll? I think so? If so, since for the most part MN is a "beauty contest" if you got lots of folks who agree with you to write in "bacon" might that send the message you are wishing the state and party (and candidates) to get. Also, I may just have to announce my 2012 AAA 4 Prez Exploratory Committee now.

Why wait - You still have time

If you really feel strongly about this, why not do something Tuesday.

Can we write in for Straw Poll? I think so?

If so, since for the most part MN is a “beauty contest” if you got lots of folks who agree with you to write in “bacon” might that send the message you are wishing the state and party (and candidates) to get.

]]> By: Sam http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40971 Sam Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:33:24 +0000 http://www.residualforces.com/2008/01/28/mccain-over-my-cold-conservative-heart-9/#comment-40971 Andy, If you don't like Huckabee, at least do it on fact. Mike has address this many times, most recently in response to a letter from Frank Pastore http://www.townhall.com/content/47ed1e3d-48d7-405d-b696-4da94006301a Here is an excerpt - Pastore: 4. You’re accused of being weak on national security and your statement that we have “an arrogant foreign policy” is troubling. We need to hear more clearly why you think that is. Why do you want to close Guantanamo? Do you really want to give “enemy combatants” full access to our court system? This too, is troubling. In spite of this, it sounds like you “get” the global war against radical Islam. Please convince us you’ve got what it takes to go toe to toe with Osama, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jung-il, Putin, Chavez and China. Huckabee: I do not believe that we have an arrogant foreign policy. I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld behaved arrogantly in not listening to the military about how many troops we needed to invade Iraq initially and then in refusing for years to adopt a counterinsurgency strategy. It is the counterinsurgency strategy finally adopted under General Petraeus and Secretary Gates that has been so successful this past year in Iraq. When I said I wanted to close Guantanamo, I wasn’t staking out new ground, I was stating my agreement with President Bush and Secretary Gates on that issue. Since then, Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has come forward to say he favors closing the base. It’s not that I want to give “enemy combatants” access to our court system: the Supreme Court has already held that the prisoners’ rights are not dependent on whether they are at Guantanamo or on the U. S. mainland because Guantanamo is equivalent to U. S. soil. Whatever rights these foreign prisoners have—and we’ll know that better when the Boumediene case, which is pending before the Supreme Court, is decided – our government can’t deprive them of those rights by keeping them at Guantanamo. In Rasul, the Supreme Court held that the Guantanamo prisoners had a statutory right to habeas corpus; Boumediene will tell us if they have a constitutional right. I have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with our enemies because I understand the seriousness of the threats we face. I want to expand and strengthen our military by increasing defense spending from less than 4 percent of our GDP to the 6 percent it was under President Reagan. I know that President Clinton’s “peace dividend” has become our “war deficit.” I want to add the 92,000 to our Army and Marines that President Bush has proposed, but I want to accomplish that sooner. I know that we need to upgrade our intelligence to get information about armed groups who are ideologically opposed to us all over the world—micro groups can cause macro damage in this age of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Andy,
If you don’t like Huckabee, at least do it on fact.
Mike has address this many times, most recently in response to a letter from Frank Pastore

http://www.townhall.com/content/47ed1e3d-48d7-405d-b696-4da94006301a

Here is an excerpt -

Pastore: 4. You’re accused of being weak on national security and your statement that we have “an arrogant foreign policy” is troubling. We need to hear more clearly why you think that is. Why do you want to close Guantanamo? Do you really want to give “enemy combatants” full access to our court system? This too, is troubling. In spite of this, it sounds like you “get” the global war against radical Islam. Please convince us you’ve got what it takes to go toe to toe with Osama, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jung-il, Putin, Chavez and China.

Huckabee:
I do not believe that we have an arrogant foreign policy. I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld behaved arrogantly in not listening to the military about how many troops we needed to invade Iraq initially and then in refusing for years to adopt a counterinsurgency strategy. It is the counterinsurgency strategy finally adopted under General Petraeus and Secretary Gates that has been so successful this past year in Iraq.

When I said I wanted to close Guantanamo, I wasn’t staking out new ground, I was stating my agreement with President Bush and Secretary Gates on that issue. Since then, Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has come forward to say he favors closing the base.

It’s not that I want to give “enemy combatants” access to our court system: the Supreme Court has already held that the prisoners’ rights are not dependent on whether they are at Guantanamo or on the U. S. mainland because Guantanamo is equivalent to U. S. soil. Whatever rights these foreign prisoners have—and we’ll know that better when the Boumediene case, which is pending before the Supreme Court, is decided – our government can’t deprive them of those rights by keeping them at Guantanamo. In Rasul, the Supreme Court held that the Guantanamo prisoners had a statutory right to habeas corpus; Boumediene will tell us if they have a constitutional right.

I have what it takes to go toe-to-toe with our enemies because I understand the seriousness of the threats we face. I want to expand and strengthen our military by increasing defense spending from less than 4 percent of our GDP to the 6 percent it was under President Reagan. I know that President Clinton’s “peace dividend” has become our “war deficit.” I want to add the 92,000 to our Army and Marines that President Bush has proposed, but I want to accomplish that sooner. I know that we need to upgrade our intelligence to get information about armed groups who are ideologically opposed to us all over the world—micro groups can cause macro damage in this age of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

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