He is a liar, no honor in that.
Rascal
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Tom Byrne
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 8:38 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: Made in China
The man is more honorable than anyone running this time around.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Barnes" <rascal@scrtc.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:05 PM
Subject: RE: DML: Made in China
>
> Well I am generally conservative, but will be voting Libertarian once
> again.
> Would not ever vote for McCain, that lying bastard.
>
> Rascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of
> jon@dakota-truck.net
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 5:47 PM
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Made in China
>
>
> "Tom Byrne" <kerib@ptd.net> wrote:
>> McCain will have an easier time beating her than Obama. All McCain needs
> to
>> do is to pick a conservative VP and he will win both the middle and the
>> right. Most of the country is in the center to, may, slightly right,
> McCain
>> wins. The Dems should have rolled given Bush's historically-low approval
>> ratings, but the Democratic Congress has earned even lower approval
> ratings
>> than Bush. One has to try very hard to earn lower approval ratings than
>> Bush, but Congress accomplished the task.
>
>
> I am hearing a lot of talk from conservatives who basically plan to
> sit this one out rather than vote for McCain. The usual theory which
> is advanced is that if the country is going to go to the crapper, why
> not let the Democrat party get the credit? (The reasons given for
> this opposition is if you look at his history and policies, McCain is
> extremely liberal and even his so called strength of national security
> is an illusion when you start looking into it and seeing how he has
> handled illegal immigration and his desire to treat enemy combatants
> as criminals and handle them via the court system rather than the
> military.)
>
> As much as I would not want to see the country take a step
> backwards, I can't say that I disagree with this theory. Its a lot
> easier for a conservative congress to fight against a liberal
> president when that president is in the other party. (compare the
> relative success of Newt and the '94 congress against Clinton for
> example, as opposed to that same basic congress with Bush - who is not
> a conservative - at the helm.) Its a shame, but party lines seem to
> override principles.
>
> As far as advancing conservatism goes, I think a conservative
> Republican congress with a liberal Democrat president would fare
> better than that same conservative Republican congress and a liberal
> Republican president, even if that Republican congress happens to be
> in the minority.
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
> .- Jon Steiger -- jon@dakota-truck.net or jon@jonsteiger.com -.
> | '96 Kolb Firefly, '96 Suzuki Intruder, Miscellaneous Mopars |
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