It's nice to see Feingold be honest here.
Most liberals are trying to paint McCain as a hard core conservative who is just going to continue the Bush White House. After anyone with a clue is done laughing, they think about the countless number of issues McCain takes the position that is unpopular to conservatives.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
You can't call him a hard core conservative while the hard core conservatives call him a liberal.
He falls very close to liberals on environmental issues except the one that will cause you to lose your ass in the fall and that is drilling for oil.
He spoke out against the Bush tax cuts
He criticized Bush on the way he handled the war
He spoke out against Bush's immigration policy
Leans toward liberals on health care (not all the way, but a bit)
and on and on...
So Obama supporters, instead of memorizing your bumper sticker lines like sheep, why don't you try and be intellectually honest for once.
I was talking to a friend of mine at the bar, he started spewing off the memorized lines about Bush and conservatives, and I was happy to see about 5 guys start speaking intelligently with thought and facts...the liberal friend gave up pretty quick.
Now back to the show...
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Feingold remains a McCain admirer
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none of us thinks of bush as a conservative. we think of him as an incompetent cheney puppet. we don't think of sidney mccain as conservative either, so your argument does not hold water.
he spoke out against the bush tax cuts and now he thinks they're great. go figure.
He spoke out against the bush immigration policy? the bush immigration policy is the same as the bill sidney was pushing before the wingers shot it down.
He spoke out against the Bush tax cuts
Which he now fully endorses.
He spoke out against Bush's immigration policy
And changed his mind when Republicans complained.
Leans toward liberals on health care (not all the way, but a bit)
By proposing almost exactly the plan that Bush proposed a couple or years ago--so very liberal!
He criticized Bush on the way he handled the war
I saved this for last, because it may be McCain's most successful jiu-jitsu move yet. Every step of the way, McCain has supported Bush. Some choice quotes (note the dates):
“But I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators.” [NBC, 3/20/03]
“It’s clear that the end is very much in sight.” [ABC, 4/9/03]
“There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shiahs. So I think they can probably get along.” [MSNBC, 4/23/03]
“This is a mission accomplished. They know how much influence Saddam Hussein had on the Iraqi people, how much more difficult it made to get their cooperation.” [This Week, ABC, 12/14/03]
“I’m confident we’re on the right course.” [ABC News, 3/7/04]
“I think the initial phases of it were so spectacularly successful that it took us all by surprise.” [CBS, 10/31/04]
“I do think that progress is being made in a lot of Iraq. Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course. If I thought we weren’t making progress, I’d be despondent.” [The Hill, 12/8/05]
Does that sound like a critic of Bush or of the war? McCain has been saying for the last couple of years that he opposed Bush (even trying to claim that Bush opposed the surge, which McCain claims now was his idea), opposed the conduct of the war, and so on--all statements made after the war became truly unpopular. But at the time, he was as big an advocate for invasion and Bush's conduct of the war as you can find.
Damn, imagine that, a sitting US senator supporting the Commander and Chief during a time of war, the gall.
The fact that he wanted to escalate our presence, the very same argument used by so many on the right (if your going to do it do it all out!) is a negative in your view?
Come on Mr. Jay, perhaps he should’ve stuck his hinney in the air and declared defeat so early on…then you could praise him…except for the fact he’s of the R party, and you’d do no such-a-thing regardless of his position.
Gotta love the liberal doublethink.
Yes you do gotta love it. After all where would they be without covering all bases?
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