It is no surprise that I am a conservative saying this. It’s sad actually.
The first and primary reason that the Republican has lost my vote is because I am a conservative. John McCain is front and center on this assault against conservative values. Exhibit A is this week’s article in Newsweek with the headline McCain: The New ‘Captain Climate’?.
Liberals are salivating over McCain’s stance on global warming and with good reason.
John McCain’s global warming journey started back in 2000, when a strange apparition named “Captain Climate” began to turn up at Presidential campaign events. Captain Climate was Dartmouth grad Matthew Stembridge, who wore red tights over orange long johns, a red knit stocking cap, yellow-painted galoshes, and a red cape. “What’s your position on climate?” Stembridge would yell at event after event.
McCain was intrigued. The Arizona senator called up Captain Climate for a chat. After he lost his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination to George W. Bush, McCain probed further. He held hearings. He talked to scientists. And in a stark break with the Bush Administration, which quickly joined the ranks of climate-change deniers, McCain began to call for action. With his friend and fellow Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), he even drafted the pioneering McCain-Lieberman climate bill, which would have put caps on the emissions of global-warming-causing greenhouse gases in the U.S.
Now the likely Republican nominee for President, McCain is using his bona fide climate credentials to help set himself up as a viable choice for independents—and Republicans—who want a change from the Bush years. In a May 12 speech at a wind power plant in Portland, Ore., McCain called climate “surely the most serious of all…environmental dangers.… The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington.”
First of all, as a parent of school aged children I have to fight the substandard educators on this topic on a daily basis. The last thing I need is some vote pandering ass from the Republican party making this job worse.
John Carey, the the dumbshit Newsweek journalist that penned the Captain Climate article is a prime example of this sort of idiocy. Conservatives don’t deny climate change; they recognize that the climate changes on a daily basis. They also recognize that the industrialist history of man is very short in the grand scheme of things and that politically expedient propaganda does not correlate to good science. Anyone that has an IQ above 20 could recognize the fact that the facts don’t sustain the left’s theory. Scientists that once fretted over global warming are now back tracking on that stance due to new computer models that show quite the opposite.
Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a “lull” for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. - British Telegraph
But that is neither here nor there. John McCain is problem number 1. He expects me to vote for him with his Captain Climate credentials? I think not. I have a message for the next wannabe traitor in chief. Eat me; I’m sick of your crap.
Of course John McCain is only the cherry topping on the current Republican leadership. When it comes to inept these guys have the market cornered. Losing Hastert’s seat in Illinois was just a small indicator that trouble was still amiss after the piss poor performance in 2006. Hastert himself had brought much of the party’s fate down on his old Illinois seat. On key issues with earmarks and the Jefferson Davis search issue Hastert decided to act like a politician instead of an advocate for the people. He took the easy way out and resigned.
When it came time to fill the seat vacated by Hastert the morons in the Republican party put a many times over loser in the shoot with Jim Oberweis. They then underfunded the campaign and eventually got beat by an unheard of liberal who beat Oberweis on a mix of liberalism, anti-illegal immigration and anti-China sentiment. That’s right, you heard it here. The dirty little secret in the Oberweis debacle is that Bill Foster beat him with commercials that highlighted Oberweis’s foreign investment in China and the red herring issue of having been caught with illegal immigrants working for him on one if his farms. Yup, he ran as a liberal, used a mix of conservative issues against the Republican nominee and he doesn’t even have a record of accomplishment. But look at the stances he ran on.
For American families, the health care crisis is fundamentally an affordability crisis. If they are not covered by their employer or a government program, they face tremendous health insurance costs. If families are covered by their employers, they face ever-mounting co-payments and benefit reductions. And for American business, the cost or providing coverage to their employees is putting tremendous pressure on their ability to compete with foreign competitors. - Bill Foster on Health Care
Uncontrolled Immigration: Immigration was the fuel that built this nation, but we must remain a nation of laws. It is unfair to ask businesses that are playing by the rules to compete against companies that employ workers who are here illegally. Fence or no fence, immigrants will continue to flood our borders as long as there are jobs being illegally offered to them. - Bill Foster on Immigration
You hearing this? The left and their mainstream media cohorts have been quick to frame the Hastert loss quite differently than what it really is and the Republican party has been silent.
I’ll be damned if I am going to vote for a party that won’t fight for me. That is how disgustingly stupid and ineffective the Republican national party is. They don’t deserve my money, support or vote. (and I’m just getting started, check back soon for the rest)
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