PRAGMATIC LIARS FOR MCCAIN vs. REPUBLICAN VOTERS ASSERTING TRUTHS

A great idea here is to go read the Comments Section at this link -- and to follow all the links IN those comments in that Section (I've taken the liberty of including most of those suggested links at the bottom of this Post) -- and THEN read the ridiculous screed from the likes of Michael Medved as he despicably lies for McCain and tries to call Republican opinion about McCain as "lies".

Medved's terrible article is classic propoganda. It's the "because your opinions are lies, I am here with a fruit basket for you if you'll just signup here" kind of brutality-with-words.

No amount of lies from Medved will ever change the reality of McCain's rejectable political legacy: read Medved's article after reading the comments, then assume the opposite conclusions of everything Medved alleges to be 'truth' countering "lies" -- Medved is a talented liar telling lies and trying to sell a fruit basket of deceit.

Note that Michael Medved was among the McCain expressers in the past years who has promoted Amnesty for illegal aliens by various manipulations and memes (and which he continues to do) (as is McCain, also).

READING:

Michelle Malkin:
Geraldo Rivera Republicans -- Americans should remember John McCain's open-borders demagoguery.

...For all his supposed new-found enlightenment about what most Americans want — protection against invasion, commitment to the rule of law, meaningful employer sanctions, an end to sanctuary cities, enforcement-by-attrition plus deportation reform, and an end to special illegal-alien benefits that invite more law-breaking — the Maverick remains a Geraldo Rivera Republican. Like the ethnocentric cable TV host who can’t string a sentence about immigration together without drowning in demagoguery, McCain naturally resorts to open-borders platitudes when pressed for enforcement specifics.

Instead of emphasizing the need for local and state cooperation with federal immigration authorities to prevent the release of illegal-alien criminals, or discussing wholly preventable crimes by illegal-alien thugs who should never have been on American soil in the first place, McCain harps on open-borders sob stories. Several times over the past year, in response to citizen questioners who have expressed frustration with the lack of accountability for immigration law-breakers, McCain has responded: “I am not going to call up a soldier and tell him I am deporting his mother. . . . I’m not going to do it. You can do it.”

But what if that mother had stolen an American citizen’s Social Security number to work here illegally? What if she had been previously deported, re-entered illegally, and had been convicted of previous crimes? What if she were part of a human-smuggling ring? What if she had been working in a sensitive area -- airport security, a military base, a port? Would he still refuse to abide by his constitutional obligation to provide for the common defense and secure the blessings of liberty for law-abiding Americans?

If McCain refuses to enforce immigration law against illegal-alien parents of soldiers, what about illegal-alien soldiers who used stolen or fake identification to get into the military? And why only illegal-alien parents of soldiers? Why not illegal-alien parents of police officers, teachers, doctors, and store owners? McCain’s selective enforcement policy is the exact recipe for the immigration anarchy that we have today...

The hothead has succeeded in intimidating voters and eluding tough questions from the press by playing his rhetorical violin. There is a reason so many liberals in the media and the Democratic party want John McCain to be the GOP presidential nominee. He gives them cover to continue smearing grassroots conservatives...

Comments To Counter Medved's McCain Lies (but read them all):

crescen7 writes: Wednesday, January, 23, 2008 8:00 AM
Embarrassing

This is almost as embarrassing as it is verbose. It takes lots of BS to twist McCains positions into this warped analysis.

1. Oppossed tax cuts, supports Global Warming Totalitarianism, routinely teams with the left, told Cornyn to F**K OFF about border security, undermined Rumsfeld, says the US tortures as policy, wants Gitmo prisoners to have rights. - Loyal to what?

2. Endorsements don't change fact. Senators ALWAYS endorse senators. Each of the facts in point one are antithetical to the Reagan coalition.

3. The Gang of 14 was organized to STOP Republicans from changing Senate rules to disallow fillabuster of nominations. This was Constitutionally sound. The fillabuster was the only way Dems could block judges - McCains manuvre preserved that power for Dems. - This fact supports that 1 & 3 are truth not lies.

4. I f you routinely vote against tax cuts - you are against tax cuts. That means you are for higher taxes.

5. Please. The McCain Kennedy bill was a defacto amnesty bill. I hated it and I like Mexicans. To assert that he's a strong border guy after he told my Senator to F**k Off and ram this bill down our throats without debate is to be willfully stupid.

6. To begin with the stipulation that McCain / Fiengold was misguided and useless - and then assert that it's harmless is a self defeating argument. It imposes Federal Law against politcal speech. It's bad, bad, bad - did I say bad. Unless one thinks Feds need to approve political debate...

Mark R. Levin
The Real McCain Record

There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.

The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:

McCain-Feingold -- the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

McCain-Kennedy -- the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

McCain-Lieberman -- the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry -- through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases -- in American history.

McCain-Kennedy-Edwards -- the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.

McCain-Reimportation of Drugs -- a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).

And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric -- tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.

McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.

And then there’s the McCain defense record.

• His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?


• Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How does McCain fare in that regard?


• McCain-ACLU -- the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).


• McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.


• While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war -- when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration and McCain’s friend, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen? Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? Also, McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.

AUDIO: Laura Ingraham Slams McCain on Wisconsin Right-To-Life Case

And, although some on the internet (I suspect mostly McCain supporters and other Liberals) ridicule Hugh Hewitt for consistently and persistently identifying and confronting the many inconsistencies present in McCain's politics, as also McCain's consistent betrayals of many hopes and goals held by Republican, Conservative voters, there is this excellent column from Hewitt:

Hugh Hewitt
Senator Santorum and Michael Gerson On John McCain (Bumped)

Saturday, January 12, 2008
UPDATE

I will leave this post at the top today because conservatives have to know that Senator McCain is the anti-conservative, and Rick Santorum's warning should be read by every Republican in every state yet to vote, and not just for the discussion of the McCain-Kennedy immigration fiasco highlighted below. I hope one or more of the FoxNews panel uses many of Senator Santorum's quotes in tonight's debate to put the issue of John McCain's anti-conservatism center on the table.

When Santorum says that "we’re looking at the media trying to make Barack Obama the president, and make John McCain the shill for him," and "I think they know that John McCain can’t win this election," he is exactly on target.

When Santorum says of McCain that on "the environment, he’s absolutely terrible. He buys into the complete left wing environmentalist movement in this country," he is speaking from Republican Caucus experience.

When Santorum says that about the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill that "John McCain was the guy who was working with Ted Kennedy to drive it down our throats, and lectured us repeatedly about how xenophobic we were, lectured us, us being the Republican conference, about how wrong we were on this, how we were on the wrong side of history," he was there, heard those lectures.

When Michael Gerson says that "I think the main policy problem John McCain has is that I don’t think there’s much evidence that he’s a convert on the pro-growth economic philosophy," and adds that "[w]hen he opposed the Bush tax cuts, it wasn’t just that there was not offsets, and not sufficient cuts," remember that Gerson was at George W. Bush's side through those battles. Gerson remembers that McCain "used our class warfare arguments, 'It’ll only benefit the top 1%' and other things," and concluded "I don’t think he buys the kind of supply side ideology that has really determined American economic policies the last 25 years, particularly under both Reagan and the current President Bush."

When you consider McCain, keep in mind Santorum's warning:

John McCain looks at things through the eyes, on these kind of domestic policy issues, looks at it through the eyes of the New York Times' editorial board, and accepts that predisposition that if you are not, if you stand for conservative principles, there’s some genetic defect.

ORIGINAL POST

Rick Santorum worked alongside John McCain for a dozen years in the Senate. Michael Gerson was at George W. Bush's side as the president worked Congress to pass tax cuts. I interviewed both today. The Santorum transcript is here; the Gerson transcript here.

Key excerpts from the Santorum interview on McCain's immigration views......read the whole thing...