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05 Jul 23 : 39 | re: Jesse Helms He was one of the very early on the air hard talkers, as per M. Stanton Evans - and a lot followed in his train. Think about this: Iraq is no longer a minus with the voting public, if the economy were not flat pancaking because of Mr. Andrea and oil prices compounding the problem, the hard... Source : The Plank - All Comments 5 hours ago |
04 Jul 22 : 01 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain also hildner; if you is still about I have just read Posner's judgment denying Conrad Black et al their appeal and am 4/5ths of the way through his book on Public Intellectuals. Did he ever teach you? If so, I need to get your impressions of him, and in fulsome detail. Source : The Plank - All Comments 30 hours ago |
04 Jul 20 : 58 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters kyoung: Your position is pretty much that held by most of the women I know. I think it's the keystone of the "legal, safe and rare" formulation. Source : The Plank - All Comments 31 hours ago |
04 Jul 18 : 36 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters hemslock, thanks for making my point (in your first post) more concisely than I did. Good job. I must also say I am a little pleasantly surprised at how civil all of the responses here have been, threads like this are one of the reasons why TNR is so great. Source : The Plank - All Comments 34 hours ago |
04 Jul 18 : 27 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain Hildner: And this: www.realclearpolitics.com/.../a_man_of_seasonal_principles.html and check out his first column linked to in this one. I agree with him by and large and if you are interested will have at it with you once my dust settles over the substance of his 2 columns. Lemme know. I'd be... Source : The Plank - All Comments 34 hours ago |
04 Jul 18 : 18 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain Also--still running--: 1. AIPAC speech walked back from; 2. His ad now saying he fronted welfare reform which he argued against in Illinois when Clinton pushing ot ahead (at least according to Dick Morris). Source : The Plank - All Comments 34 hours ago |
04 Jul 15 : 18 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters Is it possible to be against abortion, but also not want to send anybody to jail who performs or has an abortion? I would never have an abortion myself, and I can't imagine the circumstances where I would ever encourage my daughter to have an abortion; however, I do not think those women who do have... Source : The Plank - All Comments 37 hours ago |
05 Jul 21 : 20 | re: The American President Americans Have Been Waiting For ironyroad, Yes, Obama has changing views, he changes them evry hour. iowahawk.typepad.com/.../a-clarification.html Let me be crystal clear: if elected president, my first act will be to call for the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq. I have always been consistent and... Source : The Plank - All Comments 7 hours ago |
04 Jul 14 : 01 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters Hemlock nails it with "the fact that it's been fought out with so much mutual suspicion and even contempt by parties on both sides has had costly consequences for everyone," Bill Clinton formulation that abortions should accessible, safe and rare is the most sensible think said about abortion in... Source : The Plank - All Comments 38 hours ago |
05 Jul 20 : 02 | re: The American President Americans Have Been Waiting For fseidle said, "The voters know this John Mc Cain is not the John McCain who ran in 2000" The voters know this Obama is not the Obama who ran an hour ago. His Iraqi "views" are so complicated that he can't explain them without "clarifying" them every hour. Source : The Plank - All Comments 8 hours ago |
05 Jul 19 : 57 | re: The American President Americans Have Been Waiting For Wow, GSpinks, According to Obama cultists saying that American hero, McCain is not a patriot, is not bitter vitriolic. Mentioning friends and associates of Obama is bitter vitriolic. It's not my fault that Obama has such friends. It's his fault. Source : The Plank - All Comments 8 hours ago |
03 Jul 23 : 12 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain How is it an argument that McCain is worse? Source : The Plank - All Comments |
04 Jul 04 : 43 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters nbarry, Actually, the Catholic Church has one of the most (if not the most) conservative position on pro-life issues out there and it often encourages the kind of social policies that would help sustain life after birth. So Frank's slogan is unfair. I'm strongly pro-choice myself. But I wish the... Source : The Plank - All Comments 48 hours ago |
03 Jul 22 : 26 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain Basman: Your examples, while numerous, are pretty thin. They pale in comparison to McCain's recent abandonment of just about every previous position which characterized him as a moderate and a maverick. He hasn't changed positions on a policy detail or two, or made a policy compromise or two... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
04 Jul 04 : 07 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters "Conservatives believe that the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth." - Barney Frank Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 21 : 44 | re: Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? Great posts JSmith - and you're right about Susan Kennedy Barnacle. She's amazing. If McCain started sounding anything like Arnie, his already dwindling funds would dry up overnight. Besides, Arnie's Caifornia platform and political world in general make Obama look like Attila the Hun. There... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
04 Jul 03 : 20 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters AlanSP, Yes, I see I messed up my response to your first point. (Sorry; I am always in too much of a rush.) I actually did mean to challenge your original point and "miswrote" my first sentence; but now I see your point is at least partly right. If the source of stem cells is fetuses that were going... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 21 : 12 | re: Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? Thanks, Barnacle, I'd forgotten about Susan Kennedy. Yeah, clearly Arnold took steps that McCain just doesn't have available to him even if he wanted to copy the Schwarzenegger strategy, which I'm guessing he doesn't anyway. This new role for Schmidt might help McCain, but if so it won't be by... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
04 Jul 02 : 32 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters hemlock, to clarify, my point wasn't that embryonic stem cell research doesn't require the destruction of embryos; it does. My point was that you don't have to *create* embryos specifically for that purpose. It's possible to use embryos that would otherwise be destroyed anyway. I have no... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
04 Jul 02 : 08 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters blackton, One problem with attaching a moral absolute to a particular biological detail (e.g. life is always inviolable and it begins when an egg is fertilized) is that it can lead to some extreme policy conclusions that many pro-lifers would not embrace. For example, some research suggests that... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
04 Jul 01 : 43 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters AlanSP, I think stem cell research (beyond the use of existing stem cell lines, which Bush actually supports) does require the destruction of embryos. Your murder analogy doesn't apply here because the excess embryos from fertility clinics aren't necessarily going to die or be killed anyway. Strict... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 19 : 04 | re: Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? If McCain could "take the Schwarzenegger route" he would have done it by now, right? Instead he's been doing the reverse, hardening his commitment to right-wing orthodoxy on most issues. Are we supposed to believe that's just because this Schmidt guy hasn't been running his campaign? And now they're... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 18 : 34 | re: Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? Arnold and Bloomberg represent the future of the GOP-- sane, flexible, willing to expand government where necessary but fundamentally opposed to statism and identity-group pandering. McCain's campaign will either accelerate this shift back to Your Father's GOP (Eisenhower, Rockefeller, Bill... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
04 Jul 00 : 37 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters blackton, stem cell research does not necessarily require the unnatural creation of embryos for that purpose. Plenty of embryos are destroyed for other reasons, many of which could be used for research instead of simply being disposed of, which is the status quo. I understand that you believe... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 18 : 21 | Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? Chait and Kaus both say there's still plenty of time for McCain Campaign 4.0 to be unveiled, with Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 17 : 54 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain Just after spending a few minutes looking around, and just to show (and with much plagiarizing), he’s another mug, albeit a good mug at that 1. Special interests In January, 2007 the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwars as special interest... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 17 : 48 | re: Comment of the Day: McCain's War-Hero Liability White House press conference, autumn 2011: President McCain: Let's start with Jill. Reporter: Mr. President, some say that your request to nationalize the Girl Scouts for deployment to Iraq is evidence that we just don't have the troops to sustain the mission any further -- Prez: Five years of... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 23 : 54 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters drdanny, I am not so sure of that, not all right to lifers are unyielding and inflexible. I am not a right to lifer per se because I don't believe society has a right to compel a woman to give birth to a baby, putting her own life at risk, however I am not averse to speaking in terms of moral (but... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 23 : 34 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters If I were you, Eric, I wouldn't. I don't think prolonged exposure is likely to yield a more nuanced view. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 23 : 18 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain p.s. on Iraq consider this: www.commentarymagazine.com/.../re-rethinking-iraq-br%E2%80%94-obama-s-war-11263 Sorry gotta' run to a meeting. I'll try to respond in more detail later perhaps and I appreciate your rejoinder. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 16 : 54 | re: Comment of the Day: McCain's War-Hero Liability yard, ooh ooh I know, I know. Is it James Kirchick? I absolutely agree with Rhub. I love McCain but thought his overreaction to Clark's statement foretells a very wearying campaign from him. We must all genuflect again in McCain's direction because of his service. Like I want to hear that for the... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 23 : 06 | re: Meet McCain's Tepid Supporters I wonder how many of these people support the death penalty. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 22 : 34 | re: Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? Fair enough JSmith, I *was* actually thinking more along the lines of the Duke - a perfect July 4th image, right? John Wayne For Real Change. I am a hopeless Democrat and a big supporter of Obama's, but I love Johnnie Mac, warts and all. I want him to get his campaign together and scare me by... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 21 : 59 | re: Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? "He represents change as much as black and white WWII flms." Yes, great line..... Although in fairness, I think "The Green Berets" was in color, wasn't it? Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 20 : 16 | re: Why Does Limbaugh Support McCain? With a new $400 million dollar contract, I don't ever want to hear Rush use the phrase "coastal elite" to disparage someone. How can someone say with a straight face that they are not elitist when they make $50 million a year for talking on the radio? Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 19 : 53 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain Thanks bigfish. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 19 : 41 | re: Does McCain Have One More Campaign Shakeup Left In Him? Well put, JSmith. Schmidt wasn't the one who moved Arnold to the center. Susan Kennedy, a life-long Democrat, was hired as Arnold's chief of staff after the Nov. 2005 ballot initiative debacle. Arnold then moved to the left. He was indistinguishable from the liberal Democrats on several issues.... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 19 : 09 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain basman, your 2 and 8 are the same. ...just so you're aware. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 09 : 21 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain I haven't seen Obama compromise on principle or reverse himself in any but the most technical or trivial way. This is in sharp contrast with McCain who has shifted dramatically on basic policy. This distinction is not coming out in the recent media coverage, which seems determined to tag Obama... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 16 : 30 | re: Why Does Limbaugh Support McCain? alan good points. I have never listened to Rush and my perception is that he only preaches to the choir so I don't particularly care what he says or thinks. The fact that he is getting an astronomical contract even in times when Conservatism is down shows he has a loyal and fanatical base and that... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
05 Jul 17 : 01 | re: The American President Americans Have Been Waiting For fseidle said: "Obama's the patriot. .... McCain is not a patriot" Just to understand your definition of patriotism, are Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Michael Pfleger and William Ayers patriots? Source : The Plank - All Comments 11 hours ago |
03 Jul 14 : 30 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain Kos and Co thought they owned him, signed sealed delivered - unbelievably arrogant, no? Remember JFK's description of the fat left: suicidal bastards. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 04 : 34 | re: Why Does Limbaugh Support McCain? He supports McCain because he views him as the lesser if two evils. He thinks the country would be better off under a President McCain than a President Obama. Not everything that Rush does is motivated by a desire to maximize his own influence. Plus, as numerous people pointed out back when... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 00 : 59 | re: Comment of the Day: McCain's War-Hero Liability And because McCain was shot down way back in the 1960's, this issue also serves to remind voters of just how old he really is. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 00 : 13 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain basman, right on. Honestly, I have been utterly baffled by this. I found much to admire about McCain during the primary season, and I assumed if anything he would even go more leftward. I really think his best chance is to run as a Conservative Democrat, the guy who was considered to be Kerry's VP.... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
02 Jul 22 : 07 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain All I have to say is I liked McCain a lot more when Bush's tax cuts offended his conscience... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
02 Jul 21 : 53 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain ...I think McCain is the first presidential candidate I can remember who has had to pander to his party's base AFTER he has secured the nomination.... They all pander, always, everywhere , to everyone. Politics is a mugs' game. Obama personifies that and he has no great moral standing unless you... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
02 Jul 21 : 24 | re: McCain Responds to Chait, Chait Responds to McCain Of course McCain has moved because of "changed circumstances." In 2004, he was not running for the GOP nomination! I think McCain is the first presidential candidate I can remember who has had to pander to his party's base AFTER he has secured the nomination. Source : The Plank - All Comments |
03 Jul 05 : 43 | re: Comment of the Day: McCain's War-Hero Liability So, as usual, Rhubarbs posts something both reasonable and well-reasoned, complete with evidence that is both new to most of us and relevant to the topic at hand. And his post is without the needless vitriole that turns off intelligent readers. Here's an idea: hire Rhubarbs. In so doing, you'll... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
02 Jul 20 : 13 | re: What Does the Shake-Up in McCain Land Mean? Well it took them long enough. I'm surprised though. They won the primaries solely based on Huckabees appeal and Romney's general unattractiveness, I would have expected them keep running on miracles for a while. It was probably the fund raising that did it. McCain's fund raising has been terrible... Source : The Plank - All Comments |
