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Originally Posted by ryberg
Do you think he doesn't love his country enough because he doesn't always wear a flag pin on his lapel?
Do you think the right is pretty much out of ideas as to how to scratch and claw their way into holding onto the White House, much less what to offer up as an alternative to our disastrous economic and foreign policy of the last 7-8 years? Do you think they know how to do much of anything except hack at challengers obviously seen as offering something newer and more appealing?
There is their choice, after all: an aging career politician who has drastically flip-flopped on everything from tax cuts for the wealthy to our approach in Iraq to his very own legislation on immigration, all for political gain...
Steve |
On the first point, I think that wearing or not wearing a flag pin on your lapel is not indicative of anything, if you choose to wear it or not wear it out of conviction. If you choose not to wear it for a good reason, then change your mind for political expediency to wear it, that would concern me, but wouldn't cause to to question someone's patriotism, just their judgment.
As to the "right" offering any particular set of ideas, you are mistaken if you include McCain in that group. As he is not particularly conservative, and only marginally more so then current White House inhabitant, the major ideas of the right have not been voiced for a while. Craven Republican politicians, with few exceptions (tax cuts, for example), have failed to put in action those ideas that could have made a difference. As to the new politician offering something different, I think that the original point by Babaloo shows some people are concerned that the new boss is same as the old boss.
I don't see the utility in calling out McCain for his age (isn't that contrary to good liberal protocol?) but he is one of those craven politicians I was thinking about. I agree he is a terrible choice for president, it now bears watching whether Obama will be the same.